The sporting side of the Messer household boasted, to the eternal vexation of the perpetual busybody who insisted on dubbing herself “Caring Karen,” ownership of a veritable bevy of hunting dogs. There were pointers for dealing with quail, a Lab to handle retrieving...

The sound of the small brass bell was his link to three dogs and almost three decades of bird-hunting.

The common link spanning the wide chasm of wealth and status were the dogs.

Troy Galow hadn’t planned to hunt that January day a few years back. But a friend of a friend was looking to shoot a “cull buck”—a nice but non-trophy animal, basically—and Galow, who makes his home in Liberty Hill, Texas, and has a deer lease on a ranch in the South...

Click Here to Listen This week Luke and Larry talk squirrel hunting, skinning and cooking. They also discuss the upcoming white bass creek run, recent deer hunts, venison cooking, wild hogs and more.

Although Mollygrubs Messer grew up in a region of the South not known for abundant populations of quail, during his youth that grand game bird Havilah Babcock once described as “five ounces of feathered dynamite” was still fairly commonplace in agricultural regions...