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 ...

This story, “Lingering Greatness,” appeared in the January 1985 issue of Outdoor Life. The last half of December had been much colder than usual, and early January wasn’t much better. After finally ...

The excitement of a child on Christmas morning pales in comparison to the palpable anticipation of a sporting dog during a field trial, even if it’s only for practice. The English setter, Montana’s ...

My first bird dog came with the name Jax. He was a rescue dog, and I readily accepted the shelter's advice to give him a new name. Jax was not even a valid Scrabble word, and a name without a meaning ...

At 5 months old, Ranger hasn’t posed any unreasonable or unexpected costs, although he hasn’t chewed the handle off a fly rod or had his first bad encounter with cheatgrass or barbed-wire fences. Here ...

HARWINTON >> Gregor McCluskey and his Red Setter, Braeval Laddie, emerged the winners of a highly competitive bird dog championship in Illinois earlier this month. McCluskey, owner of Braeval Sporting ...

Another hunter recently asked me, “What is the biggest challenge of having eight hunting dogs besides the feed bill?” I don’t know what most people encounter when they come home. Maybe they open the ...