Bird Dog and Upland Hunting Ezine

Spring, 2008

Gun Dog Training Supplies including electronic dog collars

Specific Bird Dog Training Lessons
Starting a young bird dog
Introducing your bird dog to the gun
Introducing your bird dog to Birds
Teaching your bird dog the "come" command
Teaching your pointing dog the "whoa" command
Teaching your bird dog the "heel" command
"Playing the Pigeon Wild card" - pigeons as substitutes for wild birds the training program for your pointing dog
Backing for Dummies!
Hunting Dead and Tracking The Trained Retrieve
The ROAD to success-Conditioning your bird dog for the hunting season
A Bird Dog Training Overview
From Top Gun to Top Dog
...it's bird dog training advice from a video rental junky...!!
A blast from the past!!

Other Stuff

  • Why Field Trials and Tests?
  • The Other Woman - a bird dog meets the new wife!! - By Stephanie Weidner
  • AKC Hunting Tests for Pointing Dogs;
    "The Point of the Junior Test"-by Steve Wagle -

  • You might be a bird-dogger if...

  • Tips on Picking a Puppy by Diane Carter-

  • How to Dress a Pheasant by A Duhl Blade -

  • Mr. Itraru Tanaka-Visitor to The Checkcord from Japan

  • Training Birds for Pointing Dogs
    by Steve Horton

  • How to get your dog out of a Conibear Trap

  • and Back by popular demand!!
    Steve's deer hunting stories:

  • My Daughter, the deer hunter (1995)
  • Why I Hunt
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