South Dakota rolls out orange carpet for army of pheasant hunters arriving for season opener

Sportsmen likely to bag more than a million phasianidae this season

An army of blaze orange vests will flood South Dakota fields this weekend as another year of world-renowned pheasant hunting is upon us.

Saturday marks the opening day of the 2023 pheasant hunting season in the Mount Rushmore State, a place known by sportsmen across the globe as the premier place to bag ring-necks. So much so that more than 130,000 are e…