It has been a while since my last post but with good reason. As the upland tournament season nears its' end and summer weather begins, we are back in California just in time to make another competition. It has been busy to say the least this past month. Guided hunts and the tournament events have left little time to blog.

Competition at this years North American Gun Dog Association national finals in Rocky Ford,Co. began with absolutely perfect weather days before the event was to...

Now that we have come up with a basis for command and control. Our student should come and whoa on command, lets expand a bit. During this phase of the training we will make the fetch game fun always sending the dog a bit further and into a bit tougher conditions each throw. While all of this fun is taking place the trainer should exaggerate his posture and arm movements and add in a short tweet on the whistle. It will not take long and your dog will begin to associate your movements as a directional...

My friends and I usually try to make a couple of the local hunting and fishing shows throughout the year. Dale, being the elder statesmen of the group had chatted with Troy Spruce of Guaranteed Guide Service at one of the fishing shows in Dallas. I would imagine it was quite a long conversation, as Dale always seems to have lots of questions to ask and lots of information to feed back to folks about hunting and fishing.

The primary topic between Dale and Troy was a guided fishing...

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It’s been a rough hunting season. Our lease is going through its second season of drought. Conditions make it tough for whitetail deer and other animals to get the nutrients they need to maintain a good healthy lifestyle in the wild. As with most in Texas, we use corn as a basic food source and supplement that with protein feed. Others supplement through the use of food plots as well. But protein is the staple whitetails crave and that is what we focus on trying to provide them through our supplemental...