The right choke for pheasant hunting will help you put enough pellets ... as a crippled pheasant can elude even the best dogs sometimes. You need a pattern that is broad enough to make it easy ...

Now, instead of shooting ducks at one of the best duck outfits in the country, I was babysitting my bird dog. But that’s the commitment you make in order to train a duck dog during his first few ...

Here are some hunting dog names to get you started. Above all else, says dog trainer and bird hunter Web Parton, naming a hunting dog requires that hunters consider brevity and clarity. “There’s the ...

Iowa’s current 70-plus day long pheasant season, opening on the last Saturday in October through Jan.10 each year, is a long ...