Mar 29, 2021
Congratulations! You just brought home a new bird dog puppy and among the many preparations you made in anticipation of this new family member was building a pigeon loft, stocking it with birds, and training the birds to rehome to their loft. Wait, you didn’t get around to that yet and you are just now searching the...
Mar 25, 2021
The close relationship between dog and hunter is ancient. Even in what is now the United States, squirrel dogs have been helping us fill the game bag for hundreds of years. Having a good dog will assist in locating game when it’s difficult to pinpoint a food source, eliminate large patches of forest as not having game...
Mar 23, 2021
The icy snow crunched with each step that I took. Stalks of milo appeared more like stubble on a beard due to the snow that had fallen overnight. Thick native prairie grass had been blown over with the gusts of wind that were coming in from the north. A cold shiver went down my spine as a whiff of frigid air traveled...
Mar 17, 2021
Boreal forests of Europe are not very fertile places and, until recently, people who settled there found it hard to support themselves with either hunting-gathering or agriculture alone. They learned to combine the two, plowing in the summer and hunting in the winter. Hunting yielded not only meat but furs as well,...
Mar 10, 2021
It’s never too early to start planning for the next hunting season. You’ve heard the old adage that people don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan. So here are a few of the tricks I use to prepare for the next bird season in a strategic and organized manner.