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7 Great E-Collars for 2014
If you have ever felt helpless training a new gun dog, or even a well-conditioned field veteran, welcome to the club. Sometimes a pup with the best bloodlines money can buy will hightail it for no good...
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Beretta A400 Xplor Action 20-Gauge Review
For most of us who bird hunt, lighter is better. If you’ve ever hauled a weighty shotgun on the prairie for a few ringnecks or those public-land walk-ins for mallards, you know what I mean. Beretta’s...
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10 Great Upland Hunting Boots for This Season
Deer hunters sure have it easy. A short walk to a tree stand, a few hours of sitting in a comfortable blind followed by a chip shot at a buck feeding in a bean field. Bird hunters? Not so much....
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13 Great Waterfowl Shotguns for 2014
Our guns have to stand up to the elements and come up shooting when the birds are over the decoys. For the most part, duck and goose hunters are partial to pumps and semi-autos, but there’s plenty of...
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10 Great Dog Crates & Kennels for 2014
Whether you run field tests or hunt hardcore, pup needs a safe place for travel. Today’s options are endless, from small custom crates that fit in the bed of the pickup to giant canine haulers for you...
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Fabarms Elos B & Elos B AL Review
Fabarms’ Elos B and Elos B AL are typical of European over/unders, but far from ordinary. These 28- and 20-gauge stacks exude a level of grace usually reserved for iron at a much higher price point....
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Weatherby SA-08 Review
Weatherby has become well-known of late for its diverse and ever-changing line of shotguns. Gone are the over/under models like the Regency, Orion and the opulent Athena. In their stead are practical...
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Top Waterfowl Clothing and Accessories for This Season
I can remember jump shooting the shallows of the Illinois River as a 10-year-old kid in a grown man’s pair of rain boots. My dad had tree-stump sized legs, so he had to duct-tape his boots around my...
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CZ 612 Wildfowl Magnum Review
Duck hunters ask quite a bit from their shotguns. Give them a bang stick that can take on cold, rainy days, knee-deep mud, and cycle heavy loads when skeins of ducks show, and they’re happy. The new...
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New Loads and Chokes for 2014
The evolution of steel shot has been impressive and today’s offerings are light years beyond those of just a decade ago. Highly specialized shells that are designed for specific situations are the norm...
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GUN DOG Spotlight: SportDOG’s Lance Tracy
SportDOG is well known to the bird-hunting world. Their entrenchment in the market would seem to lend itself to a company that has been around for decades. Interestingly enough, however, this isn’t the...
View ArticleIntroducing the Beretta A400 Xplor Action Left-Handed Shotgun
Left-handed shooters rejoice. For the first time in Beretta’s history the company is offering a left-handed shotgun in the extremely popular A400 Action series of semi-auto shotguns. With a...
View ArticleIntroducing the Weatherby Orion I
For hunters seeking versatility from a sleek over/under shotgun, check out Weatherby’s new Orion I. Designed for performance, the Orion I features a traditional box lock design with high gloss polish...
View ArticleIntroducing the Browning 725 Small Gauge
For 2015, Browning will be offering its popular 725 shotgun in a couple of new options. The 725 Small Gauge adds a 28-gauge and .410 option in both field and sport versions to the 725 line with all...
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GUN DOG Spotlight: Happy Jack
Chances are, if your sporting dog has developed any number of ailments you may have some experience with North Carolina-based Happy Jack. Their line covers everything from flea and tick control to...
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CZ-USA M-920 20-Gauge Review
The versatile semi-automatic is the mainstay of many shotgun shooters. The 12-gauge remains the most popular, but with the high-tech 20 gauges and ammo available today, this delightful medium-bore is...
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GUN DOG Spotlight: Gun Dog Supply’s Steve Snell
In 1997, Steve Snell took over his parents’ Gun Dog Supply Company and introduced what seemed like a good idea. “We would sell dog training gear and canine maintenance products that we personally used...
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Dog Days: Gun Dog Gear Buyer’s Guide
Summer is a critical period for dog trainers. It is the time to reinforce training principles and condition your canine companion for hard hunting, and it’s also the time to start thinking about...
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8 Great New E-Collars for 2015
Like a meteorologist forecasting the weather, my German wirehaired pointer signaled an impending storm. We’d reached the end of a lengthy sliver of cattails, and Remy’s fervent work ended abruptly in a...
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GUN DOG Spotlight: CZ’s Dave Miller
It’s easy to think of big companies as impersonal conglomerates, but in the really good ones the personalities of key team members shine through in their products, service, and corporate culture....
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