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As dog owners, we often look at our dog’s bowel movements as a messy inconvenience that creates work for us. And while I do not enjoy picking up stools out in the yard any more than the next person, I do take advantage of the wealth of information provided twice daily in those little brown piles. Read more at projectupland.com .

Using a new shotgun is always an exciting feeling but also somewhat unsettling when putting ol’ reliable aside. For over a decade,  I have been chasing chukar with a 12-gauge Benelli M2 semi-auto with a black synthetic stock that has taken a beating over the years. Prior to that, I used a 20-gauge Benelli Nova pump that I won with a few lucky numbers being called out at a Nevada Bighorns Unlimited...

The pointer itself is not coincidental, but rather the result of strategic breeding in an effort to accomplish a particular set of goals: to defeat the English setter in the field trials of America and to create a dog that could effectively cover the wider expanses of terrain and handle all forms of the native birds of the American continent. The earliest importations of pointer blood were not ade...

What do you see when you look into the eyes of a hunting puppy? Aside from the looming weeks of house training, teething, laundry, midnight trips to the yard, chewed shoes, and coming to terms with your own temper . . . there’s also raw potential . There is hope for a decade or more of hunting trips, brag-worthy bird finds, staunch points, and epic retrieves that you’ll remember for a lifetime. Th...

More than 25 years ago, the federal government banned lead shot for waterfowl hunting . In the years and decades that followed, old-timers ranted and raved about “the good old days” when lead was still an option. Knocking down honkers at 50 yards was not a problem, they stated. Steel was the first and seemingly only option for many years. Then, materials like bismuth, iron alloy, and nickel were b...

I have watched double-nosed Spanish pointers hunt quail in the arid hills of Guadalajara, and I’ve seen Old Danish pointers seek partridge under the wind turbines of Jutland. I’ve chased ruffed grouse with Pont-Audemer spaniels in Manitoba and hunted sharp-tailed grouse with a small herd of Large Munsterlanders in Saskatchewan. I saw a Weimaraner kill a roe deer with a single bite on the island of...

Fox’s target market for his guns was the well-to-do and his first guns were based upon a graded system. The company advertised his guns as “the finest guns in the world” and Fox believed it. His company set up booths at the big shooting competitions in hopes of drawing the right customers. Probably the most famous Fox gun was a gift to Teddy Roosevelt after he left office and went on African safar...

Being a novice is tough. Barriers exist for any new hobby, but the barriers to hunting can be extensive for someone looking to try it out for the first time. These hurdles range from access to finances to psychological and philosophical changes. As a newbie myself, I can speak to these challenges very personally. I have narrowed it down to three main obstacles that determine the success of the neo...

I recently came across an article written by Chuck Adams titled Eight Ways to Die in Elk Country . It was his clever spin on the TV series “1000 Ways to Die” which details the strange ways people punch their final time card. Then I got to thinking: I spend all my  time hunting chukar and I’d be lying if I said the thought of dying out there never crossed my mind. My imagination began to whirl as I...

But before anything, cellphones are taken out. Not to take photos, but to check in. Check in? Each hunter accesses the link and enters their iSportsman IDs and password/PIN. Then each selects the “General Area” where they will hunt in a few moments. The type of “Activity” is selected, “ Upland Bird Hunting .” Finally, a notification pops up stating that hunters must check out by a certain time. Th...

If you’re lookin’ for an upland bird vest that could be best described as a “pack mule” and can handle the rigors of hunting in tough environments with the capabilities and ruggedness of carrying enough gear, water, AND birds, then you should definitely consider the L.L. Bean Technical Upland Vest Pack. As wingshooters our vest, besides our bird dogs and shotguns, is one of the most crucial pieces...

As we all do our part to limit the spread of COVID-19 many of us are wondering about the impact of social distancing and stay at home orders on our hunting dogs and the outdoor activities we enjoy sharing with them. In this article I’d like to look at what we can learn from gun dog owners in the past when they too were faced with massive disruptions to their lives. Read more at projectupland.com .

When six-time Champion Hard Driving Bev started missing birds, professional trainer Joe McCarl attributed the changes to an aging dog starting to lose her senses. “She became really unsure around birds,” McCarl recalled. “This was a dog that always just stuck her birds and now she either wasn’t finding birds or was really unsure of where they were when on point.” While McCarl wasn’t going to turn...

Let’s face it, a truck or sport utility vehicle makes for the ideal hunting rig. But let’s consider that for those who own neither, but drive a passenger car or even a van, how does that affect their capability to go bird hunting? Read more at projectupland.com .

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Ben Jones walked to the front of the conference room of the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association’s (NAVHDA) 50th anniversary annual meeting. To my delight, I had the unique opportunity to introduce him. “I believe in Ben Jones.” It’s a sentence I have found myself saying more and more about the new president and CEO of the Ruffed Grouse Society . Believing in the people who steer the s...

There are a few reasons the passenger pigeon was brought to the point of extinction. Market hunting and over-exploitation were the primary culprits. Because their flocks were so gigantic, firearms, nets, clubs, and poles were used to quickly harvest thousands of pigeons at a time. The invention of the telegraph and railroad transportation across the country allowed humans to quickly locate roostin...

In an effort to better understand the development and prevalence of our current achievements in the contemporary world of bird dog breeds , it is imperative that we reach back into the complex history of what is recognized as a foundation breed to our most beloved wingshooting lifestyle and field trial sport. Historians recognize the English setter and English pointer as the most effective points...

Bobwhite quail are just as likely to be out in the middle of a native grassland system or in plum thickets as they are in tree lines along crop rows, thus raising the bar of difficulty and making them harder to find. The challenge for quail hunters is that rather than working “quail-friendly” cover in picture-perfect fence lines along grain fields, you have to walk those larger grass ranges. Read...

“It’s just an old Stevens, nothing special,” I said, when asked about the gun. I have to admit, the metal two-gun Americase I was traveling with was likely worth more than its contents. But then again, humans have a penchant for assigning value to inanimate objects, not based on outright cash price, but rather based on sentiment, history, or perception. I was at Grouse Camp in Minnesota, with folk...