When Rick Radtke changed dogs, he didn't know he'd also change his life. Radtke, of Big Lake, Minn., is a longtime pheasant hunter who a few decades back regularly jumped into his truck and tooled ...

Pheasant hunting is a long-standing fall tradition across North America and Europe. Hunters live for that heart-pounding moment when a pheasant bursts from the grass. But a good shot isn’t the only ...

If you want the perfect pheasant dog, you really have only one choice. A reasonable choice. But how about a Vizsla? Kurt Radke is sold on his. Then again, you might want to consider a springer spaniel ...

An overcast sky, a temperature in the low 30s and a week-old snow that was anything other than pristine made for the ideal conditions for an early-winter pheasant hunt. For the two Labrador retrievers ...

Florida's duck-hunting season is winding down, though historically some of the best wingshooting of the year is had in the last two weeks (ending Jan. 27). So it seems appropriate to consider some of ...

When I was a kid, our family had a cocker spaniel we named Elvis, because when he was happy, which was all the time, he wiggled his butt. This was in addition to my dad's hunting dog, a Labrador, and ...