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Everybody at the veterinarian's office -- the receptionist, the vet tech and the doctor herself ? did their absolute best to make eye contact with me during my visit two Sundays ago. I made that impossible for them, however, as I never removed my dark, mirror-lensed sunglasses. I couldn't let...

Hey fellow Californians, Here's a link to find places you can go locally to sign the petitions to give the voters the choice on the anti-gun bills recently passed by the state legislature and signed by Gov. Moonbeam. A lot of signatures need to be gathered in a short amount of time, so please...

I lost my yellow boy Zeke last 4th of July at age 14. My wife was going through some photos the other night and came across this one that I hadn't seen in many years. It's not like I'd forgotten what a physical specimen he was in his prime, but this picture will be a constant reminder. I think...

If I'd been in the market for a house/family dog when I spent $250 to acquire Zeke, I'd have soon considered him a waste of good money that was fairly difficult to come by at the time. But I was after a tough sumbitch that would bust hard-to-find wild pheasants out of nearly impenetrable...

Looks like they're just planning to slap the Browning Buckmark on Winchester products -- and perhaps charge a higher price for them. Whoopteedoo! http://www.theoutdoorwire.com/story/14431245238yhk5thb00y

Could I please get some opinions on the Evan Graham SmartFetch program? Unless somebody or something compels me not to, I'm going to start this with my puppy this spring.

Hardly surprising. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/2/lead-ammunition-ban-passed-after-feds-withheld-key/

My yellow Lab is 13 1/2 years old and seems to be losing some of his marbles. This is the second day in a couple of weeks that it's been cold and rainy here, and instead of lying around in the nice warm dog room that's attached to the house with the pointer and the setter, on both days he's gone...

I hunted for more than 6 hours today to get one shot, but that single opportunity turned the day into a great one. Kota (my pointer) got on a bird that ran her up a small, tule-lined channel, then across a dirt road before making a 90-degree left turn and continuing up a weedy fence line for...

The high temperatures in the valley will not be in the 80s this weekend -- nor even the 70s. I can dig that! Much easier on the dogs (and the people).

My shooting has gradually deteriorated over the past several years. There's a good reason for that -- I hadn't been practicing it at all. Two events occurred almost simultaneously in early 2009: 1) the gun club I was a member of and had easy access to closed its gates due to environmental...

I've got a Lab puppy for the first time in 13 years and I've been boning up on training through various forms of literature. I've got a book called "Retriever Puppy Training: The Right Start for Hunting" by Cherylon Loveland and Clarice Rutherford. It was published in 2010. It seems pretty...

Here's Lucy, my 10-week-old Lab pup, on her first encounter with a wing-clipped pigeon. Beyond thrilled with this initial showing. Can't wait to get her back to her native Montana next October. http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ringneck19/media/Lucy%201st%20Pigeon_zpspbgm71qx.mp4.html

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/shop-by-accessories/cases-and-covers/field-bag/prod131199_010-11962-10.html The zipper on my Tri-Tronics dry bag broke on my trip to Montana and those bags are no longer made, so I ordered the one linked above and it arrived yesterday. I'm really happy with it...

It'd been a full decade since I'd had an honest-to-goodness puppy around the house. I'd pretty much forgotten just how much fun it is! I came back from my Montana trip with this one, which my 5-year-old daughter named Lucy. She's the replacement for my 13-year-old yellow boy, who's newly...

My partner and I spent the first 6 days of the season hunting several pieces of private land within the Fort Peck Reservation. Birds were plentiful, but much spookier from the get-go than in years past, probably due to the warm, dry, windy conditions. Limits were easy some days and not so easy...

The link below goes to a report from Southwick Associates, which is the top survey organization in the industry. The subject is AB711 (the ban on using lead ammunition for hunting). The projected effects are hideous. The price of hunting ammunition isn't much of a factor for me since I fire so...

I finally swapped out the horribly frayed original strap on my Astro DC30 for a DayGlo model. I should've done it a couple years ago when I first found out they were available, as I went through all kinds of aggravation with that woven piece of crap. I tried singeing it, gluing it, duct-taping...

Here's a decent piece about a dog that's passed on. The guy's not a real polished writer, but the sentiments certainly come from the heart...

They could get as much as 3 inches out there overnight and as cold as it is, it's not going to melt right away. I'm not going, though, as much as I love tramping around in the white stuff with the dogs. We're going to get substantially more than that here in Paradise and I need to keep the 4WD...