The problem we always had was we would net all the birds and crate them, the Game Commission would pick them up and drive down to end of our long driveway and they would dump 2 crates out and leave. 50 birds. The birds knew were their food was coming from and would end up back up at the pen and would move into our garden, then we couldn't get them to leave.
We called them ditch chickens because we always saw them in the ditches along the roads. Pen raised birds are half tame.
We wouldn't shoot them on the ground either. Our bird dog would root them out of the grass and make them fly. Some times he would jump and catch them in his mouth when they were taking off and bring them to us. They take off so slow that even a youngster that was new to hunting would hit one once in a while.
They are beautiful birds but not much of a challenge to hunt.
Now Grouse, Woodcock, and Wild Turkey, that's a different story.
You all saw in the video how that Chinese Pheasant took off and flew straight along the ground, our pheasants go straight up, and slow at that, and you almost have to step on them to get them to launch. That puts them really close to you and easy to hit.
That and their beauty was why we always thought they were so popular as a pen raised game bird.
With our background of raising and eating them for all those years, paying to go to a foreign country to hunt Pheasants would be the last thing I would spend money on.