Gun Dog Magazine is the best magazine for hunting enthusiasts who are owners of retrieving breeds. Each issue is guaranteed to be filled with useful information devoted to you, your dog and the sport of upland bird and waterfowl hunters.
IN THIS ISSUE we’ve followed the advice often attributed to newspaperman Horace Greeley: “Go west, young man, go west,” with the caveat that not all of our writers are either (a) young, or (b) men. Several features focus on western gamebird species, namely chukars, sage grouse and white-tailed ptarmigan. The last was the quarry sought by Kali Parmley on a recent backpacking hunt in the Colorado Rockies with her Lab, Lincoln. This is the second time Kali, the managing editor of Petersen’s HUNTING and WHEELS AFIELD magazines, has appeared in GUN DOG ; her story on hunting sharptails and pheasants in the North Dakota Badlands ran in our November 2016 issue. Alan Liere has been a GUN DOG contributor for—ahem—quite a few years now, as well as our sister publication,…
It’s time once again to send us photos of your sporting breed puppy for possible use in our spring 2018 issue. Now’s your chance to show off your little pride-and-joy/unholy terror, but hurry—the submission deadline is Friday, December 8. Email your submissions to: joseph.genzel@outdoorsg.com. Minimum size requirements for magazine reproduction are 5x3 at 300 dpi or 1,500 by 900 pixels. Most cell phones and digital cameras now take excellent photos, but please make sure your phone or camera is set on the highest quality resolution available—consult your manual. When you email us your pics—and please, no more than one or two per contributor, as we can’t download and file more than that—be sure to include a brief message with your pup’s name, breed, age and any interesting personality details, plus…
Please send digital images (not print-outs) by e-mail, or online archives, such as dropbox.com or hightail.com; or they may be submitted on disc to: GUN DOG MAGAZINE Attn: Snap Shots 2 News Plaza. 3rd Floor Peoria, IL 61614 • Most modern phones and digital cameras take excellent quality photos, but please make sure your phone or camera is set on the highest quality resolution available—consult your manual. We reserve the right to reject digital images that aren’t high enough in quality to reproduce well in print. • Our minimum size requirements for images are 5" x 3" at 300 dpi, or 1500 pixels by 900 pixels. Again, consult your manual. Submission does not guarantee publication. • And finally...please submit no more than two images, and include your dog’s name, age,…
Apparently there are still some American cocker spaniel folks who believe the breed ought to be able to do what it was intended to do—there are several cockers that are conformation champions with hunt test titles, including Millie, the pretty lady in the attached photo who is a Ch/MH and also has a pile of other titles in obedience, rally and barn hunting (rats). Barn hunting? Yes, it’s actually a sport with titles. The dogs seek out rats held in protective tubes and hidden in barns. Hey, anything that requires dogs to use their noses and hunt something is a positive in my book. Millie’s owner is Jeanne Grimm. Millie is Jeanne’s first hunting dog and Jeanne took her all the way through her MH. Millie truly loves birds and…
1 GOOSE XTREMES An old salt we hunt honkers with swears by a few dozen wooden mega-goose floaters his father’s father must’ve carved. His decoys may be retro, but not his rigging, relying on Rig’Em Right’s Xtreme Texas Rig because of its un-snappable 600-pound mono lines and heavy-duty swivels. Available in lengths from 18” to 66” with three- to 12-ounce weights. $26 (start) rigemright.com 2 BIRD DOG DRIVE It’s hard to find a higher-quality source of protein than salmon, which is why it’s the number-one ingredient in Purina’s new high-energy formula. Pro Plan’s Sport Performance 30/20 protein-to-fat ratio is also chock full of antioxidants, amino acids, and natural sources of glucosamine and omega-3 fatty acids to help support joint health and overall mobility. $47-$55 proplan.com 3 SWEET DEAL Beretta is…
IT TAKES A lot to make me cringe. Not my less than sterling academic career, not some of the things I’ve said after one (or two or three or four) beers on a Friday afternoon (my motto: if you’re buying, I’m drinking); not even my single-digit scores on the skeet range. These, among others, I can shine on. But there is one thing that makes me want to plug my ears and run screaming from the room: when certain people describe how they introduced their dog to an electronic collar.Typically, those conversations go something like this: Me: “How did you collar condition your pup? He seems a little, um, uncomfortable with it.” Them: “I just slapped a collar on old Biscuit Eater and lit him up. Boy, he sure listens…
