by Sporting Classics Daily | Mar 5, 2019
When all the points were tallied and the last dog rounded up at the end of the night following the annual South Carolina Youth Coon Hunting Championship at the S.C. Department of Natural Resources’ James W. Webb Wildlife Center in Hampton County, Jace Shuler of...
by Lee Lee Milner | Feb 11, 2019
Two years ago, I was living in an apartment in the basement of a brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I was working in private practice as a psychiatric nurse practitioner and spending most of my weekends driving two hours both ways to upstate New York to do something...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 21, 2019
On January 10th, 2019, a story by Shawn Wayment DVM concerning canine hip dysplasia (CHD) appeared in Sporting Classics Daily. The article describes a new screening protocol called PennHip. One of our readers asked how she could locate a vet who offers this. Good...
by Shawn Wayment DVM | Jan 11, 2019
Robert G. Wehle wrote something in his excellent book Snakefoot: The Making of a Champion that has really struck me. His idea is that if you breed a dog for athletic function and not for structure (conformation), you are less likely to see orthopedic developmental...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jan 8, 2019
Improving upon our most trusted line of training collars, the X-Series has 21 levels of static correction, giving you even more flexibility and precision when training your sporting dog. In addition to increased levels, all X-Series systems feature tone, vibration,...
by Duncan Grant | Jan 3, 2019
December 17th, 2018 Mrs. William Crawford Grant 102 Gold Street, Cloud City, Heaven Dear Grandmother, I apologize. Yes, I know you said never hunt or fish on Sundays. Yes, ma’am you raised me better than that. But I was thinking that you might make an exception just...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Dec 11, 2018
Weather extremes make it difficult to train and keep your hunting dog sharp during the offseason. Just as you probably don’t want to work in kneedeep snow, heavy rain or brutally hot, humid days, neither does your dog. Professional gun dog trainers Paul McGagh, Clyde...
by Tom Keer | Nov 9, 2018
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...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Oct 24, 2018
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...
by Pat Robertson | Oct 19, 2018
Uno was not JUST a show beagle. When he entered the show ring he was Muhammed Ali in his prime, taking on and vanquishing all comers. He had Ali’s physical attributes – a tremendous athlete – and his winning personality – a beagle “smile” and a happy bark that...
