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Be mindful to keep yourselves and your dogs well hydrated while hunting ND and SD this year. Also, with the drought conditions this year anticipate blue-green algae in about any slough or stock dam you find in the field this fall. Remember your dog will cover twice as much ground as you and...

Be mindful to keep yourselves and your dogs well hydrated while hunting ND and SD this year. Also, with the drought conditions this year anticipate blue-green algae in about any slough or stock dam you find in the field this fall. Some of the guys who have been around awhile will likely recall...

It's pretty much a given that the RR doesn't want anyone on their property because of the legal liability. I too hunted along a section of tracks for years, but I made sure I had permission to hunt the adjacent private land/slough. The easiest was to get to the private land was to walk a few...

Well, you get points right off the bat for hunting with a lab. Shoot me a PM...

Maybe the newer Upland Specials are lighter, every one I ever picked up was a load for it's size, but they were 12 gauge as I recall. One of those reassembly PITAs is keeping the spring steel shell holders in their slots on either side of the receiver while you struggle getting the...

I'm left handed and the BPS has been my go-to shotgun for decades, particularly for waterfowl. I would guess I've owned 8 or so over the years. IMO they are the best LH friendly shotgun, but they are also a very old design and with the bottom eject action, by definition one of the most complex...

Would always like to see more, but it hasn't been terrible. Saw some pheasant chicks late last week by the mailbox and again on the road Sunday evening coming home from Medora. Seeing quite a few from the earliest hatches that are pretty well grown. Those roosters with some color but no long...

And sometimes you just get bad luck. I have a buddy who bought a lab pup from what he described to me as a reputable pro gundog breeder. That pup had one of the worst cases of EIC I ever heard of. It literally couldn't do a couple puppy bumpers in the yard w/o collapsing. It had a 26 month...

As a breed, labs can be genetically disposed towards seizures, the same as EIC. Over the years I've seen several labs have these health issues, and the common thread was they were all backyard breedings by well meaning but limited knowledge amateur owners (not saying Echo is from an amateur...

EMT Gel story from quite a few years back. A guy was hunting down by Valley City ND and his dog ran full on into a bottom strand and cut it's throat. The hunter squeezed an entire tube of EMT Gel into the gaping wound, applied pressure, and like you did with Echo made an emergency run to a...

I live a few miles north of New England and drive 32 miles a day round trip M-F on gravel/scoria roads for work. I leave the house about 0445 hrs so I'm traveling during prime time to see what's out there. The pheasant numbers look to be pretty decent, I would say about the same as last year...

As has been said already, it depends on any number of factors, not least of which is your dog's age, physical condition, as well as conditioning.

I didn't need to see the pic, I knew Echo was a lab after reading your post. I second SJohn's post, and I'll raise a tube of EMT Gel in my shooting vest dog first aid kit. We also carry Gerber Dime multi-tools. They are a small, light weight tool that has both a really nice small needle nose...

Birdhshooter makes some valid points. Shooting too quickly (i.e., before the rooster opens the range a bit) is very apropos, particularly if like me you favor the tight patterning Prairie Storm load. Even with IC over Mod, I found I needed to let them get out a bit or the result would be a...

This sounds like the "he'll grow into it" school of thought that was the norm back in the 60's. To this day I recall the frustration of after "outgrowing" the double barrel 410 I learned to shoot & hunt with, being given a cheap Sears 20 gauge pump by a well meaning uncle. That shotgun's...

The last several years there seems to be a great emphasis on technically correct wing shooting. That's cool & all, but when hunting no two shots are the same so it follows that no technically perfect technique will work for all. I learned to wing shoot back in the early 60's. Essentially...

It's axiomatic that if you are hunting with labs and they get birdy, you get to running...

Not just Stark County, the stuff is used all across western ND. Normal road gravel material isn't found out here so it's expensive. Cities use regular gravel and counties use it on a few heavily traveled roads. The further west you go from the Missouri and the farther from the bigger cities...

I could be wrong but I don't believe it's required to e-post. The blocks I checked did though...

Electronic Posting goes into effect on 08-01-21. Landowners can now post electronically but still have the option to post with no trespassing signs. If land is unposted it's incumbent on the hunter to check if it's e-posted before going on it. The impression I get is that "I didn't see any...