Discussing the best hunting dogs for various game is kind of like arguing whether a Chevy or Ford is better: No one ever changes camps because they’re happy with what they’ve got. Still, we’re going ...

THE SCENT OF SKUNK didn’t come off the bell for days, but that happens when your dog takes two close-range blasts in the face. Sam was wearing the bell on the morning my wife, Pam, first came hunting ...

A young waterfowling friend recently got a German shorthair and asked me what kind of upland shotgun he should buy so he could take his dog hunting. I said, “That’s the wrong question. You’ve already ...

My four-year-old Labrador had been on dove duty for a full week. Hatchet marked and retrieved mourning doves shot in the decoys, but mostly he was locating birds eager shooters had sailed among the ...

CHEYENNE - I had a bird dog for about 24 hours last week. I have wanted to get a German shorthaired pointer, a Labrador retriever or just about any other breed of bird hunting dog for quite a while.