Recent content by GladHunter

The most dangerous thing I have encountered (yet) was a creek side coon den. Thankfully my setter only chose to tangle with one of the five that poured out of that hole. Why he decided to jump into the creek instead of fighting on the ground I would love to know.... If you ever doubted that a...

Hopefully a there will be some extra moisture with the La Nina/El Nino transition that's expected. Here in Iowa it's a little dry right now, but the trend the last two years has been good.

Not sure where/why South Dakota came into this. Riverman has great points/baseline. Private access will be much easier after Thanksgiving, and especially after Deer Gun season(after the first three weekends in Dec). North of 80 is better, west of 35 is best. The DNR publishes their roadside...

Thanks McFarmer! I've already hit the worst spot with red scotch bright, but maybe it was just shiny and the bluing is still good. I'll give it a shot. I'm already planning to refinish the wood and restore this since it's a family gun.

Has anyone refinished the metal on an older (50's) shotgun? I didn't care well enough for my grandpa's Marlin Goose Gun and it has some pretty significant surface rust. The rust will come off, but taking it off is going to ruin the metal color/finish. What products or processes have y'all used...

Do y'all keep the whole bird or just process the breasts?

I think I'm gonna try my first one this year. I'm nervited. or would it be excitervous?

I don't have any feedback on the newer ones. I have an Instinct(1) Solar, I got the solar model because I thought it would mean that I wouldn't need to charge it on a hunting/active trip due to being outside so much and it could recharge, it doesn't. I have never seen the projected battery life...

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...