Sharptails, Huns, and Prairie Chickens Forecast 2016: The Traveling Wingshooter

The sleepers may be the destinations for prairie grouse and Huns in 2016. That prognosis stems from continued dismal sharp-tailed grouse production in North Dakota, the premier sharptail [...]

The Texas quail explosion is underway! Habitat plus rain equals quail. Four years ago, at the peak of a horrendous drought, Texas hunters experienced the worst quail hunting imaginable and [...]

The business of forecasting woodcock hunting prospects in mid-summer took a turn for the worse this year as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the four Flyways moved regulatory [...]

Ruffed grouse populations in the Lake States appear to be on the long-anticipated rise in their 10-year cycle. Minnesota’s ruffed grouse spring drumming counts were up 18 percent statewide this [...]

As reported in the article, 2015 Pheasants Wrap: Trending Up (June/July 2016), pheasant populations spiked up dramatically across most of the range last year, following a healthy increase in [...]

by Dr. Dave Erlewein If you’ve ever owned a dog with allergy-based itching, your veterinarian may have used one of the cortisones during treatment. Cortisone is another name for cortisol, the [...]

by Dave Erlewein, D.V.M. The flu is certainly in the forefront of the news the past few months, especially the H1N1 virus affecting humans. While human, avian, swine, and equine flu viruses are [...]

POINTING DOG POINTERS March 2016 By Bob and Jody Iler You’re the proud owner of a pointing dog—and you know that one of the great pleasures in life is getting out there with your dog in the [...]

By Chris Preston It has been a tough six months. Kristi was diagnosed with cancer in August of last year, was operated on, and is now in her fourth month of chemo. The holidays have come and gone [...]

by Steve Laney Iowa rooster success! It was late November, near or just after Thanksgiving. My English pointer Koda, some friends, and I had pheasant hunted the previous month with decent [...]