Western Wings: California Quail in the Golden State

Editor’s Note: This article was published in the January/February 2022 issue of The Pointing Dog Journal, but under the incorrect byline of Don Thomas. Chasing California quail in California was [...]

“Thank you for posting this information,” Martha commented on Facebook. “Our pointer ‘Liz’ was diagnosed with blastomycosis in the femur through a bone biopsy in 2019. She has been on medication [...]

Features A Higher Standard By Tom Davis How’s Your Bucket List? By Steve Smith The Devil’s Rope By John Shewey Close Your Eyes and Dream… Photo essay The Last Dog By Dennis Manuel Departments [...]

By Bob and Jody Iler Pointing dog owners love their pups and want to develop them into top notch bird dogs. They are eager to learn and try different methods of training. Sometimes, though, this [...]

Something Old, Something New Fans of the traditional side-by-side are an interesting group.  Some are traditionalists to the point that they have both feet planted firmly in pre-World War II [...]

The three Cs of chukar country. By eight years old, Jake had pointed and retrieved about three lifetimes worth of chukars, the beneficiary of boom years and lots of time engaged in the pursuit. [...]

“Load up,” the man asked of the dog as they stood in the garage behind the pickup’s lowered tailgate.  Having anxiously awaited those very words, the rawboned liver-and-white pointer leapt [...]

by Steve Smith We go hunting, many of us, partly to get away from it all. Just us and our dogs and acres and acres of uninhabited prairie or creek bottom or clearcut. Unless we’re, I don’t know, [...]

So, I have had my pup for over a month now; he is a pointer 13 weeks old today. I have been working with him, socializing, he’s learning his name, learning no, taking him into the field. My [...]

My friendship as hunting companions and my professional dealings with Gene Hill over the years were about impossible to tell apart. As his co-author on some things and as his editor at several [...]