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The Check Cord - Look Beyond the Ribbons and Trophies
The ability to cooperate with training is, in fact, an inherited trait and one that is tragically missing from a great many breeding programs.
3 min |
Autumn 2024
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Bird Dogs - Health Matters - Canine Heat Stroke
A large, raw-boned, muscular pointer was cruising across a sea of sage in search of the scent of the greater sage grouse with a spectacular view of the Sawtooth Mountains of southern Idaho in the backdrop. The sun was mid-sky, and the dew was dissipating as the pointer cast farther and faster across the landscape.
3 min |
Autumn 2024
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Tailfeathers
The essence of fly fishing, I think I've decided, is time.
3 min |
Summer 2024
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Ten Questions with Tim Flagler, Fly Tyer/Cook Extraordinaire
Culinary Creations from Gordon Hamersley
5 min |
Summer 2024
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GREY on the Wing
Hands clutching the wheel of a large, lumbering vehicle whose vintage and purpose partially prompted the invention of \"powering steering,\" disengaged the clutch and applied the brakes, bringing it to a stop.
9 min |
Summer 2024
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James Purdey & Sons Ltd.One of London's "Best"
At the conclusion of a recent breakfast meeting of the Shrewsbury Men's Club of Massachusetts, I was packing up my show-and-tell aids after giving a presentation.
4 min |
Summer 2024
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WAWAWAI
I don't chase chukars anymore, but from the time I was 16, chukar hunting had been my favorite bird hunting endeavor.
5 min |
Summer 2024
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A FAIR EXCHANGE
Among the concerns faced by many small community gun clubs here in the Northeast is our inability to attract and maintain new and younger shooters.
4 min |
Summer 2024
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Coming to Heel
I'n the world of gun dogs, it's not unusual that retrievers are taught to heel.
3 min |
Summer 2024
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Bird Dogs - Health Matters
Avoiding Medical Mishaps on the Road
4 min |
Summer 2024
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MATT HART
Matt Hart, owner, designer and artist of Hartist Metals, is a highly skilled metal sculptor based in the picturesque Catskill Mountains of New York.
3 min |
Summer 2024
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Luigi Franchi Imperial Monte Carlo Extra: One of Italy's "Best" SxS Doubles
As on London’s gun-maker’s row, Italians had skilled craftsmen who made “Best” guns of superb quality
2 min |
Summer 2023
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An Upland Bird Hunter's Equipment in Need and Equipment Indeed...
From the first year I discovered upland bird hunting in my early teens, my search for the right clothing and equipment began in earnest. All you need to see to support this reality is to look at all the upland clothing and equipment I have stored from ceiling to floor in my garage and sportsman’s closet downstairs
4 min |
Summer 2023
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Day's End - Making memories
Has there ever been a bird dog man or woman with a soul so dead that he or she has not been re-energized by the first cool days of September, by the first forecast of frost, by noting the opening days marked on the calendar so many months before?
3 min |
Summer 2023
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A SIMPLE PLEASURE: THE HUNT LUNCH
In William Harnden Foster’s classic book, New England Grouse Shooting (1942), for which he wrote the text and provided numerous black-and-white sketches, he includes a wide-ranging catch-all chapter called “Grouse Shooting Outfits
7 min |
Summer 2023
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PACKING for Success
I spend a lot of time these days chasing game birds. But it hasn’t always been this way
4 min |
Summer 2023
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Shooting FAST and SLOW
Scientists have recently discovered that human brains operate in two settings – a fast, reactionary “fight or flight” mode (System 1) and a slow, considered, contemplative mode (System 2)
5 min |
Summer 2023
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Private Lands, Public Access
“Just what lies behind that fence?”
1 min |
Summer 2023
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Early Season - GREATER PRAIRIE CHICKEN HUNTING
Greater prairie chickens are tailor-made for early fall gunning. Young birds hatch early enough to be nearly full-grown by September, offering lots of potential targets in good habitat
7 min |
Summer 2023
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QUAIL Struggle to Survive a Multitude of KILLERS
By some estimates, the wild bobwhite population in the U.S. has declined 70 to 80% since the 1960s
7 min |
Summer 2023
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Journeys Shared: A Worcester Letter
Hi Bob, Just finished the sensational roller coaster “memoir-style” essays of man and bird dog(s) that you and Dave Smith assembled and put into print
5 min |
Summer 2023
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Hunting, Fishing and Camping Maine
From LLBean.com: In 1942, with a parade of customers seeking his advice on pursuing big game, waterfowl and fish, L.L. wrote a book to share his nearly 50 years of experience
7 min |
Summer 2023
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Upland Chef
CULINARY CREATIONS FROM GORDON HAMERSLEY
5 min |
Spring 2023
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SEASON'S END: A RETROSPECT AND BENEDICTION
The close of bird season – no matter where it occurs or what species you consider your favorite game or primary wing shooting obsession – always brings a corresponding period of emotional downturn.
6 min |
Spring 2023
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Sixty-some Years Later
I began hunting birds as a sophomore in high school in 1961. I’m still at it, concentrating mostly now on pheasants and quail. A couple years back, I attempted another chukar hunt in the Snake River canyons of Washington State, “for old time’s sake,” but sadly noted afterwards that while stepping on my tongue as I plodded uphill with an arthritic, reconstructed hip was painful, the agony in my knees on the downhill run to my vehicle was worse. The greatest pain came from having to admit that hunting wild chukars was something I would never do again.
3 min |
Spring 2023
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A Good Dog Is Necessary to Hunt Maine Pheasants
Some Are Tame and Some Are Wild
7 min |
Spring 2023
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Along the Trail of the Swamp Fox: Hunting Woodcock in South Carolina
In the movie The Patriot starring Mel Gibson, the lead character retreats to the swamps of South Carolina to avoid the pursuing redcoats. These swamps are a veritable no man’s land full of palmetto, cane and greenbrier that will test any man’s mettle. If someone wanted to elude his adversaries, there’s no better place.
4 min |
Spring 2023
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Birds from a Blind: Another Way to "Hunt"
As a wildlife photographer, I can often get some frame-filling images simply by slowly walking in a wildlife area or even slowly driving the back roads and taking images out of my vehicle, but many times it is better to be in a photo blind in areas I expect the birds to be. Sometimes I will set up my own blind, but in certain areas, you can reserve one from a wildlife organization or state/federal agencies that have set them up on leks.
3 min |
Spring 2023
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Bird Dogs Health Matters
Dr. SHAWN WAYMENT
4 min |
Winter 2022
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Flushes & Noteworthy Points
Pending Legislation Threatens "World-leading and Highly Successful Wildlife Conservation Model"
4 min |