Field Armor: Protect Your Dog

Field Armor: Protect Your Dog

An inevitable part of owning and loving a hunting dog is injury and mitigating how our four-legged best friends could get hurt — it isn’t IF it will happen, it’s when. Our dogs are predisposed to injury given the nature of their work and the environmental factors they...
Why We Hunt With Dogs

Why We Hunt With Dogs

By Andy Duffy I know precisely when I became a hunter who uses dogs. I was just a kid, eight or 10, maybe. We had a neighbor who owned a brace of beagles. He invited my brothers and me along one summer evening while he took them out for a run. He ran the dogs on my...
Greenwing Customs: Built from the ground up

Greenwing Customs: Built from the ground up

By Nick Green The lathe whirled as he pressed his wooden-handled shapers into the block of acrylic. The dull hum of the lathe and rhythmic ‘tap,’ ‘tap,’ ‘tap’ from the acrylic pieces hitting the window above him sounded like a metronome keeping time. Dimly lit, the...
A Late-season Smackdown

A Late-season Smackdown

Nine guys, one cameraman, a snowstorm, 36 mallards, four black ducks, one pintail, 13 geese and one band — Editor Nick Green ended his 2017 waterfowl season with a bang. A flock of 120 ducks wanted to be there: We were on the “X.” They made one j-hook before starting...