Assessing and avoiding canine injuries in the field. by Jon Osborn Few situations are more frustrating, emotionally taxing, and downright expensive than injuries to hunting dogs. Depending upon [...]
Successful Season Checklist By Steve Smith GEMS Turns 10 By Terry DeDoes Anti-Aging By Paula Piatt Injured? By Jon Osborn Developing a Stance of Mobility By Chris Ingram Departments Favorite [...]
Bill Romanelli It’s unthinkable for most dog lovers, but traumatic injuries do happen. If anything, our active, bounding Labs are more at risk than their more sedate cousins – whether from a car [...]
From our Friends at the Robert Louis Co… (see ad in upcoming issue) Practice is the final road to excellence. After all the lessons and input and expensive guns have been acquired, it is the [...]
This update to our 2023 Upland Gamebird Hunting Forecast incorporates the results of late summer upland bird population surveys conducted by state fish and wildlife agencies. This data measures [...]
by Dave Smith The upward trajectory of upland gamebird populations in many states may make this a magical season for bird hunters. It was on a splendid autumn day more than 20 years ago, [...]
This update to our 2022 Upland Gamebird Hunting Forecast incorporates the results of late summer upland bird population surveys. This data measures recruitment of birds into the fall population, [...]
What makes a good bird dog trainer? In May, we introduced you to what we call our “Bird Dog Bible” – Wing and Shot, written by Robert G. Wehle and published in 1964. Though our own program of [...]
May 2022 What is the best method to use in developing your pointing dog? It’s often confusing to sort through all the available information out there today. In this age of instant information, [...]
Another key control command to teach your pointing dog – in addition to the whoa and the come – is the heel. The advantages of having your dog heel, both on and off lead, are many: A dog that [...]
