Got out to Delaware this morning for the released pheasants...and as a previous poster told me it would be, it was packed to the gills with people. Met and talked to some cool people, sure, but overall it was a complete shit-show out there. I couldn't walk 100 ft. without running into another person and it sounded like World War III out there. Obviously that is what you get with a public place so it is hard to complain I guess. I missed my alarm this morning somehow so I didn't get out there until about 20 minutes after sunrise, unfortunately, which made all the difference in the world. Got one early and just decided it just wasn't worth wading through the people and the brush for another one so I took off. I'll not be going back there ever again, as that was the most worthless excuse for hunting that I ever saw...thus the parentheses on "hunting" in my title. I kept thinking of the trout farms my father took me to when I was younger, and how that wasn't really fishing...pretty much the same thing here. I guess having lived in North and South Dakota spoiled me, where I could hunt REAL pheasants for hours on huge pieces of land without ever seeing anyone. Oh well...it was interesting to say the least. Not to rag on Ohio, but it's pretty sad that farmers in this state are so completely ignorant, selfish, and greedy that they have destroyed so much habitat that you have to resort to these types of "hunts." Add to the fact that every state wildlife area I've gone to is inundated with trash and sparsely, if even at all, populated with the species I want to hunt (I don't hunt deer), and geez...I might just find a new hobby until we move back west when my wife is done with school. It's not like the fishing is good either since the farmers have F-ed that up too. Not having a good day...time for a beer.