Kent Bismuth Waterfowl loads bring your classic shotguns back to the duck blind…with a wallop!
It is always a good sign when ducks are buzzing the decoys before the sun shows up. For my birthday this year, I could not think of a better place to be than hunkered down underneath flooded timber waiting on the birds to arrive. It has been a wet year in Central...
Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge Honors Veterans
RIDGEFIELD, Washington — From an ADA-accessible blind at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Sal Trujillo watched as the first rays of sun peeked above the surrounding hills. Flocks of mallards, pintails and tundra swans soon filled the sky. Trujillo and 10 other...
A Purple Heart Hunt
At first glance, it was a scene no different than one that is repeated many times each year throughout the Midwest: Six or so hunters in line working their way through the corn or milo while other hunters block at the end of the field. The shout of “rooster!” is heard...
Ecollar Ban in the UK: There are no shortcuts for a well-trained dog.
There is a trickling effect of foreign ecollar legislation to American organizations. On August 27, 2018, Michael Gove, the British Environment Secretary, announced the intention to ban electric training collars for dogs in England. Gove follows the lead of other...
Yellowbills at Dawn
When upland bird hunters think of Argentina, they dream of no-limit dove hunts. Waterfowlers on the other hand dream of South American duck and twenty five-bird limits -- limits not seen in the United States since Nash Buckingham was a young man. I’d read Mr. Buck’s...
A Relaxing Weekend at River Bend
Sometimes, you need a "work stoppage." Shut down the damned computer, turn off the phone, and bolt. Spend an afternoon watching dogs hunt 'em up, shooting shotguns at fast flying quail, chukar and pheasant, breathing the cool air of an October afternoon under clear...
Precocious English Setter Puppy Hunts
First appeared on Ron Spomer Outdoors At the risk of sounding too self absorbed, I’d like to share the tale of Covey, my English setter puppy from Beirlsetters.com, hunting for the first time and getting her first bird — at the tender age of 3.5 months. I don’t...
The Stalemate
Ryan Bybee is a tough guy to fish with. Well, for me, anyway. It’s not that we don’t have a good time when we’re fishing together, it’s just that we have different ways of fishing. I like to run and gun. Find the active fish, pick off the biters, move, move, move....
Deadline Approaching for Fundraising Project to Protect Threatened Coastal Birds
Coastal bird populations face multiple threats, including habitat loss and degradation, human disturbance, increased predation and sea level rise, and an innovative public-private partnership needs to raise $1.2 million between now and December 14th in order to take...
