I expect that my background with bird dogs is somewhat different than many PDJ subscribers. Although I grew up a small game hunter in Iowa (obviously including pheasants), my father, older [...]
Funny thing happened to me the other day, and oddly enough, it was on a turkey hunt. A turkeyless hunt, actually, as it turned out. I was leaning against a tree, listening to a couple toms gobble [...]
by Tom Davis, Editor-at-Large In A Hunter’s Road, Jim Fergus’s acclaimed chronicle of the 17,000-mile wingshooting odyssey he undertook in 1990-’91, there’s a passage in which he relates a [...]
Of all the important “firsts” that your pointing dog pup will experience, his first season will be the one most profound, the one most instrumental in his development as a bird dog. Here are some [...]
Q: My dog started off well during the season in terms of conditioning, but now, he seems not to be able to go as long during the day when we pheasant hunt. With cooler temperatures, [...]
by Bob and Jody Iler One of the most important commands your pointing dog learns is Come. This is the command that can save his life, teach him to reliably retrieve a bird to hand, and help him [...]
September 2021 By Bob and Jody Iler Our hot Iowa summer limits the opportunities to get our English Setter Bonnie over to our “farm” for a good workout. There, we have pasture acres for her to [...]
Identifying your dog’s gait patterns, and how to spot problems by Jason Smith As is often said about the aging process, it ain’t the years, it’s the mileage. Our dogs are the ultimate in [...]
by Steve Smith There is a subject that all shotgunners are familiar with, maybe even talk about, and yet very, very few of us ever do anything about, and as you can tell from the title, it’s gun [...]
Just as you take your auto to the shop each year to get it checked out, taking the time to do the same with your pointing dog will sharpen, or fine tune, his performance. We like to call this [...]
