Recent content by GladHunter

The only real way I can see you "ruining" a dog is to intro gunfire poorly and have a gunshy dog. Just start small and go slow. The biggest thing to help your pup is early exposure to everything experience-wise, water, other people, other dogs, different places. Build their confidence so that...

Absolutely not. If you feel you can still physically hunt without one, it gets easier with one. Have you hunted behind dogs before, or always without one? If not, maybe postpone the pup for a year and try to hunt behind behind as many different dogs as you can. I'll volunteer my Pointing Lab...

I'll try to get something up this weekend.

Beautiful work!

I have a small enclosed trailer I have converted into a small camper. A few off road modifications and different tires and it will go almost anywhere the truck will go. My dogs go where I go. I can also camp where I hunt since most state land and almost all Federal areas that allow hunting allow...

I like that they pushed it later. I wonder if they would get more excitement if the had it in August sometime. I know summer vacations would be wrapping up and all that, but I'm so ready for hunting related activities at that time. I can't be alone in that can I?

Genetically there are only two colors of labs, Black and Chocolate. All of the different "yellow" colors, white through red are a separate masking gene that determines the shade of yellow. Silver labs didn't exist until somebody fudged the paperwork after they introduced the new color gene...

ND land is open for walk-in public hunting unless electronically or physically posted. OnX does a great job of showing what is electronically posted, they do not show what is physically posted. Physically posted ground has to have signs at the corners and at entrances. My experience is that...

I looked into ordering some myself but was disappointed to find the tss content was like 1/8 oz. Anecdotal reports (not mine) are that it doesn't pattern the best with the tss filling the center of the pattern and steel alone does that for a lower price.

I second Innukshuk, the nutrient concentrate has really helped with my picky eater. They both love the taste too. I use the 30/25 mix but will probably switch to 25/16 for this offseason.

I'm not a reloaded but some info you'll need consider or provide so the smart guys here can help you. You don't indicate a payload ie how much weight/volume of shot your loads have and is that the same payload you want to keep? Your final question 8.5 is too small for wild pheasants, unless you...

I have an English setter and a Pointing Lab. They hunt differently and do work together, but I find they each work better alone. I also enjoy it more, less to think about and I can just focus on the dog and how I want to work the field. It's also nice to not have both dogs on different birds and...

No, kinda the opposite. I was just trying to be funny and apparently failed.

They look more like bottom shelves......

I'm not opposed to fat, but the fat I missed on my last bird cleaning made the meat taste nasty. I do go pretty light on seasonings so that may be why I notice the flavor change so strongly.