Cooling Your Dog Down During a Hunt
Overheating and Heat Strokes are Silent Killers Protecting your dog from heat stroke and heat related illnesses is easy as long as you pay attention to your dog during that opening day hunt.  It may mean less shooting and socializing, but can mean life or death to your dog. Warning signs of K9 overheating and [...]

Exercise Induced Collapse (EIC) by Dr. Jim Dobies
Dr. Jim Dobies is the owner of South Point Pet Hospital in Belmont, NC, and over the last five years in practice has helped Ryder, Bella, and Hondo through numerous injuries and illnesses as they compete and hunt throughout the country.  I have requested that he write an article on Exercise Induced Collapse (EIC) because [...]

New Puppies and The Equipment You Need For Them
In this article we will discuss the equipment you should have for your new puppy, and we highly recommend that you check out the series of articles written by Jennifer LS Pearsall with George Hickox on starting your new puppy out right. They are the best information on making sure you start and teach your puppy right from the start. The first puppy article in this series is titled Puppies and Imprinting: Fourteen Crucial Weeks and will help you give your pup a good start. So what equipment do you need to help welcome and start your puppy correctly?

Pheasants—From Season Opener to Closer, Part III of III
By Jennifer L.S. Pearsall When I left off in the last installment, I advised hunting the middle of the week when there’s less pressure. Of course, arranging for weekday afternoon hunts is a complicated issue for many. So, say you’re stuck with just Saturday. In general, the afternoons will still be a better choice to [...]

Pheasants—From Season Opener to Closer, Part II of III
By Jennifer L.S Pearsall After the first seven days of any pheasant season have gone by, forget everything you know bout “pinch-and-squeeze,” because the pheasants have instantly gone from grade school to PHD status in hunter education. This is a far different bird than he was a week ago, but a couple different approaches on [...]

Pheasants—From Season Opener to Closer, Part I of III
You don’t hunt deer in January the way you hunt them in October. The same should hold true for your pheasant hunting. By Jennifer L.S. Pearsall The pheasant, while part of the family that has evolved into fast-food nuggets, is no dumb cluck. I don’t think there’s a game bird out there that educates faster [...]

Grouse—The Stealth Approach, Part III
Jennifer L. S. Pearsall guest authors a great group of  articles on the art of Grouse Hunting with our favorite sporting dog breeds. The ruffed grouse is to the forest what pheasants are to the grasslands. But unlike the flashier, bigger plains bird, you can’t bully a grouse around. The “we-got-’em-surrounded” mentality that often works [...]

Hallmark Dummy Launcher Product Review
Hallmark Dummy Launcher – A Must Have Retriever Training Tool The Hallmark Dummy Launcher is a must have tool in your retriever training bag of tricks. It gives you the sound of the shot and the fall of the bird. Pups learn at an early age to focus not only on the flight of the [...]

Grouse—The Stealth Approach, Part II
The ruffed grouse is to the forest what pheasants are to the grasslands. But unlike the flashier, bigger plains bird, you can’t bully a grouse around. The “we-got-’em-surrounded” mentality that often works with pheasants—big crowds pushing a section of real estate to pinch birds and force them to flight—won’t get you anywhere in the grouse woods. No, this is one bird that requires finesse.

Grouse—The Stealth Approach, Part I
Jennifer L. S. Pearsall guest authors a great group of  articles on the art of Grouse Hunting with our favorite sporting dog breeds. The ruffed grouse is to the forest what pheasants are to the grasslands. But unlike the flashier, bigger plains bird, you can’t bully a grouse around. The “we-got-’em-surrounded” mentality that often works [...]