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I wanted to have a back up gun for multi day trips and purchased a Stevens 560 12 gauge to suit that need. I was able to get one out and shoot some skeet with it prior to purchasing it and it is light, sleek, easy to load, easy to unload and shoots straight for me. So I am now an owner and I...

As a historic Lab guy who made the move to a pointing dog, I still hunt with folks who own Labs and one of the guys that I hunt with even has a Golden Retriever. I love Labs as well. I bought a pointer when my lungs and legs wouldn't enable me to keep pace with my Lab!

The way I hunt and how many folks are involved depends on what the cover demands. I go to Oregon with 3 friends. We hunt chukar expansive country that everyone goes their own direction in the morning and we might meet up at lunch.....maybe. We also hunt wooded draws with cattails in the...

I have seen some incredible Lab retrieves that I believe would kill the Griffon that I have now. I once watched my Dad's Lab retrieve a wounded pheasant across the entire width of the Snake River (Swan Falls Idaho) which had to be a mile wide. I also watched the same dog retrieve a duck from...

I always had two chokes in my over under and always pulled the bottom barrel first. I had the bottom barrel with the skeet or improved and the top barrel with a modified or full. I'm not sure it made a difference but it made me feel better.

This post just reinforces how much everyone loves their dogs and the sport of hunting on this site. It is awesome to see all of the passion, mine included from everyone. I have owned and hunted alongside many breeds of dogs, some incredible and some awful. I personally feel that the quality of...

The best part for me is a great point, center punching that bird followed by a great retrieve. Actually, the best part is when I hunt with this particular friend and a bird or birds come up between us and I kill the birds before he does. He is the only one that I do that to and it makes me...

I shoot the same not matter what, Poorly usually. On quail and chukar I am a 25% guy, pointed birds perhaps better and when I'm blocking I really suck at passing shots. I suck shooting behind a lab as I do a Griffon. Pheasants I shoot much better but they are large and slow.

Perhaps you are correct. Perhaps it just makes me feel better being near the action spot.......near the dog.

The issue is that large coveys won't hold for very long, if I'm within 50 yards and the dog goes on point I can close the distance quickly enough before they bust and get a shot which breaks up the covey. A lone dog at 150 yards is the only thing that will see the covey and generally a lone dog...

I might be in the minority here but I will only tolerate my Griffon ranging 50 yards in any direction, no further. I do hunt all wild birds so perhaps that makes a difference. I invited a setter guy hunting quail and pheasants one time and that dog ruined what could have been a great three...

Well, are you doing something wrong??

Thanks LittleBigHorn22. Believe it or not, every time we have the birds in a pile it makes me a little nervous. I also get nervous travelling down the road with an unknown number and species of birds and especially crossing state lines with different limits and different laws generally...

I hunt with 3 other folks for up to a week at a time. During a day we might hunt 3-4 different spots, three or more species of birds, out of 2 vehicles. Once the birds reach the truck they are put in a communal pile. At the end of every day that pile is cleaned and bagged in communal bags...

I have hunted behind several labs, a draathaur, a Griffon and I have even hunted behind a cocker spaniel when I was a kid and my grandpa hunted pheasants behind a rat terrier. Each dog was functional but in my opinion what made a great dog great were the number of bird contacts and retrieves it...

She is 7 or 8 years old now and is much more peppy than my last lab at the same age. I often hunt for three consecutive days (long days) and she hasn't slowed down at all. Additionally, she hunts equally well in sparse cover for chukar and quail and in thick cattail patches for quail and...

I have owned a Draat, several Labs and have enjoyed them all. However, my current dog is a Griffon. I selected the breed because my last Lab wore my ass out. So I googled "slow" "methodical" bird dog breeds and Griffon came up as fitting those traits. She is by far the best dog that I have...

I do like the surprise element for sure.

Actually there are a couple of spots that you can expect to run into all three (chukar, quail and pheasants) during one hunt. A couple of times you get up a covey of birds that have a mix of species in it.