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The big news for prairie grouse is the breaking of the drought in the northern Great Plains. The drought resulted in lower populations coming into the spring of 2018, but the weather has been [...]

The bulls-eye of the U.S. Drought Monitor this summer covered some of New Mexico and Arizona’s better scaled, Mearns’, and, Gambel’s quail country. At first glance, it looks like a tough year for [...]

The last three years have collectively provided the best bobwhite quail hunting of a generation in the states that account for the bulk of the wild bobwhite harvest, including Texas, Oklahoma, [...]

The Northeast and parts of the Lake States were hit with the aforementioned major storm this spring, so the woodcock breeding population will likely be similar to 2017. In Maine, nearly two feet [...]

The pheasant picture is one of long-term (CRP decline) and short-term (weather) storylines. The shrinking CRP footprint has been well-documented, perhaps to the point of exhaustion, but the [...]

The buzz in the upland gamebird world is coming out of one of the Lake States, and it has to do with a buzzing insect. Turns out the much-anticipated increase in the ruffed grouse cycle didn’t [...]

by Dave Smith  This update to our 2018 Upland Gamebird Hunting Forecast incorporates the results of late summer upland bird population surveys. This final piece of data measures recruitment of [...]

Features Odd Ducks By E. Donnall Thomas Jr. Rimrock Ghosts By Dave Smith Another Season A Photo Essay The Traveling Wingshooter 2018 Upland Gamebird Forecast By Dave Smith Women Afield: A New [...]

by Jason Smith When Gunner Kennels’ founder Addison Edmunds decided, during a duck hunt, that his buddy Gunner needed a better crate, he didn’t go shopping. He started a company. That simple [...]

by Chris Thenhaus The man reached down and gently, carefully picked up the young puppy. Looking at her small frame, the man knew this female pup was the one. Her deep blue puppy eyes looked [...]