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What To Feed a Sporting Breed Puppy

Sponsored Content from Eukanuba™ The puppy stage is over in what can seem like the blink of an eye. That means you have only a short window to support a puppy’s development. Feeding a puppy food that...

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Gun Dog

by O. Victor Miller I’ve had hunting dogs all my life. English, Llewellin, and Irish setters. Beagles, Weimaraners, Labs, and Boykin spaniels. The best gun dog I ever had was a Boykin named Clyde...

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How Much to Feed a Sporting Breed Puppy

by Eukanuba Staff Puppies are a lot of things. They’re curious, they take a lot of naps, and when they wake up they’ve got a tremendous amount of energy. They’ve got powerful appetites and are always...

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Billy and the Field Trial

This dog was born to hunt, with or without you. by David Gowdey He was born in April in the middle of a high-mountain snow storm. His mother, Annchen, was taking a break from delivering her first and...

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A Grouse Quartet

by Terry Wieland For autumn chorus and string orchestra. I – Wind Section It stirs you more than any love of country, the master wrote, yet it has never been described in print, not adequately, and...

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The Grouse and the Goose

by Dave Zoby Building up the flavors of a long, cold season. The first bird came on a bright October day in North Dakota, near Scranton. My friend and I were walking a huge field of what farmers call...

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First Season Expectations

You’ve built up to your pup’s first hunting season—but what should you expect from your young dog? The experts weigh in. Every sporting dog owner has high expectations for their dog. Social media is...

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Pheasants (Not Quite) Forever

by Terry Wieland One of our purposes here at the Gray’s website is to deliver flash reports from our never-ending adventures afield—Scott Sadil on boats and fish, Brooke Chilvers on art, food, and...

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Dem Gooses

by Terry Wieland For reasons that completely escape me, I have a persistent memory of a cooking show in the 1980s in which a Cajun of indeterminate age—heavy set, moustachioed, slick black hair—gave a...

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In the Home of the Long-Leaf Pine

by Terry Wieland Just back from a few days on a plantation outside Thomasville, Georgia, spiritual and actual home of the modern-day wild bobwhite quail.  Would that I could report great success on my...

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Sweet Georgia Brown

by Terry Wieland It ain’t summertime, and the livin’ ain’t particularly easy, but if you’re a quail hunter, Georgia in the wintertime, when the grass is brown and the air is crisp…well, that gives...

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Shotgun Meanderings

by Terry Wieland In the course of searching for some answers about some arcane aspect of shotguns, I found myself re-reading Bob Brister’s classic Shotgunning – The Art and the Science.  Brister was...

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A Pheasant Surprise

by Terry Wieland Leave us start with a confession:  I was fully prepared to dislike the Chapuis 28-gauge over/under I was sent for testing.  Accompanying it was a 20-gauge side-by-side, and I was...

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Oliver & Gladys

by Terry Wieland It’s time to recommend another book:  Olly, by Rupert Godfrey, is “The life and times of Frederick Oliver Robinson, 2nd Marquis of Ripon,” according to the subtitle, and it is all of...

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Pheasant Phit

by Terry Wieland In most midwestern states, pheasant season will open in about eight weeks (mid-October), which leaves a decent amount of time to do something about the legs that will be carrying you...

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What’s Good for the Goose

by Barbara Sheldon A few weeks ago, Old Bob darkened my doorway just before sunrise, looking a lot unhappy—and with what looked like supper still stuck between the few teeth he had left. Knowing I...

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Dawns & Departures

by Terry Wieland One frosty morning in December of 1998, I was standing on a hillside in Wales with my back to an ancient gate, looking down on a small lake ringed with trees.  A few minutes earlier,...

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