NW Iowa traditionally has had the highest numbers. But aside from the odd case of scaring a covey up out of a road side ditch in the summer of ‘20, I haven’t seen any huns in decades of pheasant hunting here. The last time I got any was in the ‘80’s. But then pheasant numbers have greatly declined also. As a former high school acquaintance, now retired from the Mn DNR, has said, NW Iowa is a biological desert.
If you are saying you are coming to Iowa to hunt them, don’t. Just anecdotally, I would say we are very far from any thing resembling a hunt able population. And that’s an understatement. It’s too bad. They are great little birds.
