The wild in the hills must be earned. What then comes to say that the wild must be earned everywhere, but hunting in the hills is a particular hunt. It is the seasons, the wild and the terrain that make the difference. In fact, all these elements manage to carry out a sort of selection that applies to men and dogs.
The hilly pheasant
The pheasant in the hills you never know where you can find it. The hill is not like the plain: here the pheasant has many more possibilities and natural shelters that make the hunter's life really difficult. It moves away with less fear from the areas that in the plains are called safe and the possibility of finding wild pastures almost everywhere makes it really unpredictable. There are blackberries, locusts, snails, worms that lead it to move with a surprising range of radius.
The shelters offered by the hill are an element that should not be underestimated: in this variegated habitat the pheasant can move without having to give up safety: it can fly among the brambles, protect itself in the thickets, and hide among the gorse, just to name a few. All this vegetation offers an important cover for the often daring moves of the bird. Of course we must always take a look at the back of the coin: the vegetation protects the pheasant from the hunter's cane, but certainly not from the cunning of the fox. But anyhow: this is the price that must be paid in the hills.
Furthermore, not all evils come to harm the hunter: it is true that natural coverings protect the game more, but it is also true that they make it safer. This leads him to keep it still for a longer time, a mistake that can prove fatal; the trained hunter, who is in the right place at the right time, has the opportunity to try his hand at a textbook shot. All this is true for the start of the season, then things change already from the second half, but let's talk about this in a moment.