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.
ANYONE WHO HAS spent a fair amount of time hunting with gun dogs knows “the look.” It’s a little tough to describe in print, but it’s that immediately recognizable expression on your dog’s face, equal parts disgust and disappointment, that says you just screwed up, big time. In many cases, maybe most, it’s caused by a missed shot, usually a “gimme” that the dog knows you should have made. Of course your miss might be due to some—ahem—extenuating circumstances, but your dog probably isn’t interested in your excuses. To wit: Many years ago I was hunting with Molly, my Irish setter at that time, on the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge near Prairie City, Iowa. Neal Smith NWR is a huge compound, nearly 6,000 acres, on which a lot of…
Together CHLOE (left) and TIMBER (right) were amazing…covering ground, pointing coveys and honoring each other. They were a joy to watch. Sadly Chloe has passed and will be dearly missed this hunting season. — Darin Young, Newcastle, OK This is my 1 1/2-year-old chocolate lab RUGER. Ruger loves dock diving, retrieving birds and spending time with his humans! — Whitnee Bohrn, Houston TX CODI is a Small Munsterlander pointer. He is 6.5 years old, a great hunter and my first hunting dog. — Scott Ludwig, Wheeling IL Training with DUTCHESS, a 3-year-old English springer spaniel of Springer Brook Farm in Stillwater, New Jersey. —Jennifer Harold, via email…
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Forgotten Setter? I HAVE BEEN a subscriber for a few years, ever since my husband and I got our first gun dog. I always enjoy reading the articles every issue, especially those that feature a specific breed of gun dog. The featured breed for your September 2017 issue was the Gordon Setter, a very beautiful and intelligent dog. However, in the first paragraph the author states that there are only three primary setter breeds and this is incorrect.There are actually four primary setter breeds. The breed the author forgot to list is the Irish Red and White Setter. This is a rare gun dog breed; the AKC only recognized the breed in 2009 even though the breed has been around since the 18th century. According to the Irish Red and…
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A NUMBER OF years ago a friend who owned a setter I’d trained was hunting during the early part of the season, when the weather in Montana is typically too hot for comfort by 10:00 in the morning. But this wasn’t a typical day. He arrived in the field with the temperature hovering in the upper 30s, still wet from a snowfall the night before. Here and there, drifts of snow stuck to the shady sides of tufts of grass.Within an hour, the dog was soaked, and it soon began shivering violently.Then it went down. Dogs that are dangerously cold will often stop hunting and try to “burrow,” an instinctive reaction to losing body heat. His setter was curled up in a ball and refused to move.When my friend realized…
