FREEMAN, S.D. - Dogs bound through the switchgrass, hunters in orange caps advance in a row behind them. The sun shines, and even if there aren't many pheasants to shoot, all is right with the world.

Once you have hunted with a good retriever, you will want one as your own hunting dog. A duck dog lets you hunt places you couldn’t otherwise hunt—and take shots you wouldn’t otherwise take, for fear ...

PRIOR LAKE, Minn. -- A rooster pheasant winged high overhead in the cobalt sky, several blasts from a shotgun interrupted its flight and the bird somersaulted into thick grass. "Back," Libbe Erickson ...

I know standard poodles were bred as water retrieving dogs for duck hunters but assumed any hunting instinct had been bred out of them over the centuries they have been around. Recently, I have been ...