New Hampshire

Ruffed grouse is New Hampshire's one genuinely wild upland bird, hunted statewide from October through December with no season limit. The state's own regional survey work, and independent hunting-press sourcing, agree the population runs heaviest in the North Country, Coos County and northern Grafton County, where a set of drumming routes covers what the state's own report calls its premier grouse range; Pittsburg and Clarksville alone account for the large majority of harvest samples submitted statewide. Densities step down through the White Mountains region and further still across the Central, Southwest, and Southeast regions, which consistently run behind the two northern regions in the same survey.

New Hampshire's ring-necked pheasant hunting is entirely put-and-take, built around a state program that releases roughly 10,000 adult birds each fall at 60-plus sites across 40-some towns, mostly on state Wildlife Management Areas and Army Corps of Engineers flood-control land, with the large majority of those sites concentrated in central and southern New Hampshire (the Connecticut River valley, the Merrimack/Contoocook watershed, and the seacoast) and only a handful reaching into the North Country. A youth-only weekend in late September precedes the general season, which runs from October through December. Chukar, gray (Hungarian) partridge, and northern bobwhite quail share that same October-to-December season and bag line, but none has a wild or state-stocked population behind it; birds encountered trace instead to pen-raised releases at scattered private hunting preserves, not a mappable public program.