Reed Carlson with his new bird dog Harley. He found Harley at a shelter in Wasilla, Alaska, and the dog was out hunting with him in just a couple month's time. Duck season opened Sept. 1 for Reed ...

How do you choose among so many bird dog breeds? Well, the first step is thinking about your needs. What do you hunt? How often do you hunt? Will you train the dog yourself? Will a new dog be a family ...

Minnesotans chasing a cavalcade of seasonal colors often parade at this time of year from the Twin Cities to Duluth and from there farther north along the Lake Superior shoreline. Alternatively they ...

Winchester and I were working our way through a mile-long stretch of forest of spruce, birch, cottonwood and intermittent patches of alder, hunting grouse. It was early November, a light skiff of snow ...

Grouse hunters are a notoriously opinionated bunch. Put more than two of them in the same room and sure as sunrise they’ll find something to disagree about. More likely, they’ll find lots to disagree ...

Although official dates for Eastern Washington dove and upland bird hunting seasons starting in 2020 won’t be set until spring, here are guidelines for hunt planning based on previous years. Mourning ...

Last year the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources sold 230,000 resident small-game licenses, fewer than 10% of which were issued to women. Only a small minority of Minnesota women chase ducks, ...

This fall, the two best hunting dogs I have known will head into their respective seasons as older dogs. Winchester, a black and white English setter who lives for the mountains and first brought them ...

NORTHWEST OF ISLAND LAKE - Phil Johnson had shot the woodcock over his young Brittany's point, and he had seen the bird go down in the popples up ahead. This was several years ago, when Sophie, the ...

As the morning sun glints through the trees on New Year’s Day, I bundle up, grab my binoculars and take to the road just as the birds are beginning to sing. Little brown jobs flit from shrub to bush ...

A wild grouse, named "Walter" by the Westward family, sits perched on the shoulder of Todd Westward outside their New London, N.H., home. (Mary Beth Westward) NEW LONDON, N.H. — Some people are ...