I love gun dogs, which means I wouldn’t walk a pheasant or quail field or sit in a blind without one. Dogs make every hunt. On some days they cast perfectly and handle every bird with ease. On others ...

You go out with coon dogs a dozen times, or maybe a hundred times, and the results are just so-so. Sure, you have fun. You strike coons and you chase them. You tree one 10 minutes after you put the ...

This story, “No Way Out,” appeared in the April 2005 issue of Outdoor Life. The regulations it references applied to that time period, and have not been updated. Philip Propst couldn’t see his dogs or ...