The opening of the pheasant season Saturday brought back a million memories of my English setters, Labrador retrievers and companions in the field – some gone, some who will be behind a good bird dog ...

There are certain telephone lines, especially in small towns and rural communities, that have distinctive sounds. One buzzes like a bumblebee tangled in a clover head. Another makes with a low musical ...

Oh what a fickled fellow fate is. I've been trying to eat enough Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions, to balance pheasant, turkey and deer hunting and perhaps a moment break from such glorious stress, to ...

CASS CITY — We were into birds within minutes after we made our way through the autumn olive thicket on the edge of the field and got into the grass. A hen went up in front of us. Then another. And ...

Last Saturday, our woodcock, grouse and pheasant seasons opened. Sadly, there just aren’t enough wild woodcock and grouse anymore for our large and concentrated hunting population. To the delight of ...

Pa. hunter explains why you should be pheasant hunting in Pennsylvania Chet Spruell of Somerset explains why he enjoys pheasant hunting with dogs like English setters in fields and woodlots across ...

CASS CITY – Rub, my setter, was doing that thing where he points, moves up, points, moves up, points . . . until a cock pheasant rocketed out of the tall grass, about 30 yards away, in front and to my ...

Last year the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources sold 230,000 resident small-game licenses, fewer than 10% of which were issued to women. Only a small minority of Minnesota women chase ducks, ...