Softening retriever bites
When dealing with a hard-mouthed dog, hunting is pointless if your retriever bites ducks or grouse, making them unfit to eat.
Training dogs with place boards
There’s immense satisfaction in handling a dog with commands and signals on a blind retrieve. An invaluable item used for training a new gun dog is a place board.
Enjoying dogs of questionable lineage
It’s impossible to ignore that many dogs of questionable lineage not only provide game for the table, but make great sport of it to boot.
Ask a CO: Can you train a dog by flushing game during a closed season?
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Considering kennel or couch for your gun dog
There was a time in our collective recent history when the term “house dog” was common.