Game Bird Heritage Program
2012 Junior Pheasant Hunts

2012 Junior Pheasant Hunt locations and calendar is currently under development and will be published as soon as it's available.

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The Game Bird Heritage Program provides educational hunts with pen raised pheasants that provide beginning hunters with a controlled, educational and safe environment to learn hunting skills and further develop hunter safety and a sense of hunter ethics and wildlife management. Events include gun safety review, easy to hunt topography, a high ratio of volunteers to hunters, with some venues featuring experienced dog handlers and clay shooting among other educational activities.

You can apply for this hunt by printing and filling out this application and mailing it to:

Department of Fish and Game
GBH Special Hunts
1812 9th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814

Or, you can also apply online at: http://www.dfg.ca.gov/hunting. Applications must be received by 5:00 PM on the hunt deadline. 

You may use your Hunter Education Certificate for priority registration.  Applicants with Hunter Education Certificates who apply by the deadline will be automatically placed in a hunt before the random drawing takes place. Simply enter the last five digits of your certificate number.  For example, exclude the “AB” and enter: 38610.