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Weather may give pheasants edge for season’s end

Rich Landers, Outdoors editor for The Spokesman-Review, follows his English setter Scout during a frosty pheasant hunting trip. (Torsten Kjellstrand)
Rich Landers, Outdoors editor for The Spokesman-Review, follows his English setter Scout during a frosty pheasant hunting trip. (Torsten Kjellstrand)

HUNTING -- The Eastern Washington pheasant hunting season closes Sunday.  With the weekend forecast calling for winds gusting to 48 mph, I'm guessing the birds will be running like lighting and flying the speed of sound.

Good luck.

Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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