Stories

by Ron Zickert As I write this, the watercolor Desert Flush by Eldridge Hardie hangs above my desk for inspiration. Quail hunting in the Arizona desert is one of the most spectacular bird hunting [...]

Transitioning from bird in the yard to thicker cover will help prepare the pup for those first forays in the woods. And one more gun. While I waited for Beverly to return home, I was thinking of [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

By Sarge Collier Fearing the worst, I discussed the matter with Miki. We had three setters but two were very old and probably would soon be gone. When next hunting season arrived, we might have [...]

By Sarge Collier “Come get in the car,” Miki shouted from the garage with an irritating tone in her voice. I sighed as I got out of my chair. I was not looking forward to this trip one bit. It [...]

by Jeff Leggio I brought home a male Brittany pup on June 22, 2016, after picking him out of a litter of a dozen from a breeder in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. Ned was a very bold, [...]

by Arvil Baker, Kentucky Last summer I brought home a seven-week-old chestnut ticked Llewellyn setter. My grandson Finely came to see the new pup.  I said, “Fin, what are we going to name him?”  [...]