I don’t know where I made the wrong turn. It was a dark day-scudding clouds, flat-lit, chilly, damp-and there are few ...

How do you choose among so many bird dog breeds? Well, the first step is thinking about your needs. What do you hunt? How often do you hunt? Will you train the dog yourself? Will a new dog be a family ...

Reed Carlson with his new bird dog Harley. He found Harley at a shelter in Wasilla, Alaska, and the dog was out hunting with him in just a couple month's time. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways ...

All gun dogs are special in their own way, but it's usually our first bird dogs that teach us the most important lessons.

That kind of day was the one that a hunter and his dog, Chip, got lost searching for grouse across bog rims and alder ...

Grouse hunters are a notoriously opinionated bunch. Put more than two of them in the same room and sure as sunrise they’ll find something to disagree about. More likely, they’ll find lots to disagree ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- The grouse flushed with a whirr and curled through a stand of head-high Norway pines. Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Landwehr touched off one barrel of his 20-gauge ...

SOUTH OF BALL CLUB, Minn. - In the woods of the Chippewa National Forest, with the late morning sun shining through mostly leafless trees, a beam of light enveloped an English setter named Tyler that ...

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, ...

Minnesota’s ruffed grouse hunting — widely considered the best in the nation — appears to be holding up this fall despite signs of natural population decline for the state’s most popular game bird.

A wild grouse, named "Walter" by the Westward family, sits perched on the shoulder of Todd Westward outside their New London, N.H., home. (Mary Beth Westward) NEW LONDON, N.H. — Some people are ...