Bird Dogs

Utilizing our dogs for finding, pointing and/or flushing upland game is now behind us. Big game blood trails are mere memories. We have picked up our decoys, left the duck blinds with our retrievers at heel. The changing of the season brings the closure of our passion for working dogs. Unfortunately it also brings an untimely seasonal depression for hunters...

By now, if you’ve been following the DU podcasts and articles, you’ve probably at least thought about getting a bird dog if you don’t already have one.  If you’ve done any research at all about some of the things you may need to get started, you’re probably extremely overwhelmed.  Trainers, e-collars, bird launchers, training birds, WOAH… the list goes on and on.  ...

Everyone wants that perfect dog.  That dog that listens the first time they’re called.  That dog that sits patiently at the door and waits to be let out.  That dog that doesn’t bolt at the first sign of freedom.  And that dog that is walking nicely on a lead and not dragging the handler around.  Here are some things I do with my dogs to...

It will not be long now until we find ourselves loading up our dogs and gear into our vehicles and setting off into the horizon with our destination being the uplands. Upland hunting experiences begin opening up early as September when the temperature is nearly as high as our eagerness to get back out on the hunt with our dogs. Seasons will...

I’ve been running hounds my whole life, 36 years. I got my first bird dog 9 years ago. If you, or God forbid my wife, made me choose one or the other I would be extremely torn. It’s amazing how different they are but the relationship is still the same. Hounds hunt FOR you while a well-trained bird dog hunts...