At its core, pheasant hunting is a simple pursuit. You, plus maybe a couple of buddies, and a dog tromp through the uplands and lowlands flushing roosters. You walk until you shoot your limit and then ...

Pheasant hunting is a long-standing fall tradition across North America and Europe. Hunters live for that heart-pounding moment when a pheasant bursts from the grass. But a good shot isn’t the only ...

From small Munsterlanders to English setters and Labrador retrievers, a veritable kennel’s worth of dogs scampered across southern Minnesota Saturday, the opening day of the state’s pheasant season.

Before you move on to the latest news from the Seahawks, would you be so kind to allow me a couple of minutes to brag about my dog? Sure, everyone is proud of their dogs. Whether the dogs are hunters, ...

Before Isaiah Osborne signed up for the military at age 17, before he went into active duty after graduating from New Ulm Cathedral High School, and before he was a crew chief on a Marine rescue ...

in the field can also get them into trouble. Every season, we handle dog injuries that come from encounters with porcupines, venomous snakes, and barbed wire, to name a few. To keep our bird dogs ...

My four-year-old Labrador had been on dove duty for a full week. Hatchet marked and retrieved mourning doves shot in the decoys, but mostly he was locating birds eager shooters had sailed among the ...

I love gun dogs, which means I wouldn’t walk a pheasant or quail field or sit in a blind without one. Dogs make every hunt. On some days they cast perfectly and handle every bird with ease. On others ...

Pheasants were first released in southern Michigan in 1917 - pen-reared birds of mixed blood known as “ringnecks” which owe their origins to eastern U.S. game farms, which in turn had gotten their ...