Gun Dog Forum

I bought a trap from Lions Country and have a barn that I placed the trap in 2 weeks ago. I started with using sweet feed as the food for the center of the trap and seen zero activity. I changed last week to a standard tweety bird bag mix and I am still not seeing any activity. I know the pigeons ar...

I am considering making a quail recall pen (Johnny House) to use. I am wondering my level of success for recall on my property. I have a 40 acre CRP field across the street from my house. I have 5 wooded acres which the quail pen would be built on. It is across the road from the CRP field and the pe...

During a hunt my setter got a cut on her front pad. The laceration was not deep enough to bleed or it did not bleed enough to be noticed. The laceration did not slow her down to much but it did change the way she was running so I stopped the hunt and took her to the truck. I washed out the injury ve...

That is exactly why Al Gore invented the check cord :D Put one on her collar, let her scent the bird, and give a little tug to get her to stop. But keep you mouth shut. Launch the bird, restrain with the check cord - keep your mouth shut here, too - let her watch the bird fly off. Rinse and repeat....

I have a 10 month old setter that I have been training. I am coming into the hunting season and think that I need to see a professional trainer or get some advice. The puppy used to point birds and I was getting to the point where I could walk in front for the flush. Over the last 3 weeks she has st...

I have a 7 month old setter that I want to train myself. I read numerous books and watched DVD's, you tube and even spent time at a few field trials before picking up my puppy so I knew what I was getting myself into. I trained a few labs previously and called it a success by own personal standards....