by Chad Love

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of expending a truly inordinate number of Federal's new Prairie Storm FS Steel shotgun shells during a pheasant hunt at Dakota Hunting Farms in Hecla, South Dakota. The hunt was jointly sponsored by Federal Premium Ammunition, Pheasants Forever and Benelli.

I discovered many new things on this hunt, but these three stand out: the Prairie Storm FS steel loads work very, very well on pheasants and will be an absolute boon to those of us who hunt steel-shot areas, the new 28-gauge Benelli Legacy is sweeter than my grandmother's cinnamon rolls, and when your guide tells you that the dog who just flushed and then retrieved the pheasant you shot isn't a lab, but rather a lab/Dalmatian mix, don't let your jaw hit the ground, 'cause there's stickers down there.