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6 Ways To Help Your Bird Dog With Anxious Behavior
There are a number of culprits that can stress a dog out, such as separation, unfamiliar visitors, a change in weather, loud noises or novel sounds. Sporting dogs, in particular, could demonstrate anxious behaviors over a disruption in routine or location, whether it...
Nutrition For Champions, By Champions
For the Pro Plan team, business is personal As outdoorsmen know, there are few experiences as peaceful as walking the uplands with your dogs. Watching the mist rise over the fields at dawn, listening to the birds and wildlife begin to awaken, takes us to a place that...
Gambel’s Quail Call: Hearing Quail Sounds in the Wild
“CHI-QUI-TA!” Edgar Castillo Saguaro cactuses are silently poised with outstretched limbs as the Arizona sun climbs higher. The few shadows that are left are quickly vanishing. Sunlight has brought another day into the desert, bringing forth a wide array of warm...
Best of Wild Game Recipes: Skillet Roasted Woodcock with Maitake Mushrooms, Spinach, Farro, and Parmesan
Wild Food - Gordon Hamersley Last fall my friend Jon and I hunted during the throes of a stormy New England day: 37 degrees, persistent rain, and driving wind. We didn’t love it, but Jon’s springer pup didn’t mind at all. The New Hampshire covert we were hunting was...
Hunting Chukar – Grueling Effort and Great Rewards
Chukar Stuck: A lesson in the judicious application of poor judgment Thomas Reed Does one enjoy getting continually lashed in the face by willow switches in the grouse woods? Perhaps. Is it fun to log countless blistering and fruitless steps on wild prairie dodging...
Strung’s Winter 2022/23 Gear Guide – Hunting and fishing Gear Reviews
Winter is here, and we have the gear for it, including an innovative and functional French Press for travel, a packable jacket, an attractive and durable gun sleeve, and a skinning knife that’s a work of art. Hunting and fishing gear reviews in every issue.Klean Freak...
The Gun I Never Wanted – The Making of a First Deer Rifle
by Michael L. Neiduski My breath wasn’t slowing down any time soon. Not after the 230-yard fast-walk/slow-run I’d just woven around the pecan trees that bordered the field edge, and certainly not with ears and eyes and antlers staring back at me as I steadied myself...
Windshields and Tailgates – The Importance of a Wingshooter’s Hunting Truck
Windshields and Tailgates - The Importance of a Wingshooter's Hunting Truck by Edgar Castillo The traveling wingshooter’s vehicle is his or her mobile office, carrying the hunter across the uplands in search of tailfeathers. For those of us who call ourselves DIY...
Dove and Shoestring Fries -Jenny Nguyen-Wheatley
My first hunt, 10 seasons ago, was a dove hunt. On the invitation of my then-boyfriend, now-husband’s friends, we tagged along to hunt on an Indian reservation in Arizona somewhere on the Colorado River. It was September, and daytime temperatures hit 114 degrees that...
Trout Streams You Can’t Die On – Dave Zoby
Gravel roads spray out from Dubois, Wyoming, in all directions. Follow one of these long enough and cross a wobbly bridge, and sooner or later, you’ll find a trout stream—not one of those famous ones you read about, but the mediocre streams that have framed my life...
Rolling Dark – Andrew McKean
The view from hog country, through the lenses of thermal scopes and the dismal science A good shoot-‘em-up hog hunt is the death of a lot of things, including Adam Smith’s enduring notions of market equity, fair distribution of resources, and restrained...
Hunting Alone – Tom Keer
The Nor’wester that blew through the valley couldn’t silence the bells. The deep clang came from Cider’s sheep bell, and it rang with the certainty of purpose. Rebel’s goat bell gave off a slightly higher timbre, and when they crossed paths it resembled a choir of...
Nootka Wilderness on the Fly
Three years ago I received a call from a friend who detailed a special place in Northwest Canada. A floating barge hidden in a cove just off the Pacific coast called the Nootka Wilderness Lodge. Every year a group of friends assemble at this location for four nights...
The Tungsten Revolution
Ryan Sparks In 1991, the federal government banned lead shot for waterfowl hunting. Initially the ban motivated a transition from lead to steel shot, and steel remained the only option for waterfowl hunters for many years. Though steel shot is certainly less harmful...
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Whence It Came: Rebuilding a Legend
Whence It Came: Rebuilding A Legend by Keith R. Crowley If you press him hard enough, Damian Wilmot might tell you he’s a pretty fair fishing guide on a pretty fair trout stream in northwest Wisconsin. He’ll likely also tell you he’s an itinerant trout bum and bird...
EUKANUBA LAUNCHES PREMIUM PERFORMANCE PUPPY PRO
EUKANUBA™ LAUNCHES PREMIUM PERFORMANCE PUPPY PRO, NUTRITION FORMULATED TO SUPPORT THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT NEEDS OF HIGHLY ACTIVE PUPPIES Eukanuba™ announces the launch of Premium Performance Puppy Pro, a nutritional formula designed specifically for highly active...
No Glory for the Timid
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Lost Bears
Lost Bears Island Park Adventure and Few Unanswered Questions by Dave Zoby, Photos by Natalie Behring In theory, a fishing story can be about a number of things. At least I hope so. I hadn’t been to Idaho in years. The photojournalist Natalie Behring and I had...
Grouse Above the Smoke
Grouse Above the Smoke Wildfires are less familiar than the Grouse By Noah Davis Far below me the Blackfoot flows through the canyon toward Missoula. Smoke drifts above the riffles, and I can’t see the river through the ash of trees that burned days ago—a ghost...