Birds, Turkeys & Waterfowl

Scott Linden and "Buddy" discuss ways to effectively slow down your dog and flush out more birds.

Basic technique and equipment will help you arrow your bird.

If you’ve patterned your shotgun, you know an improved cylinder choke at 30 yards only makes a pattern about three feet in diameter.

The DNR has just released its 2014 catalog of events for the program, which offers a wide range of hands-on learning opportunities for women and their families who want to learn how to hunt, fish or develop other outdoor skills.

The basic concept is that a dog will stop — and stay stopped — when he feels pressure on his flank. The hitch applies it.

Seventy to 100 dogs representing about 40 breeds are expected at the parade that kicks off the National Pheasant Fest & Quail Classic.

The 2014 snow goose hunting season in Vermont will run from March 11 through April 25. The daily bag limit is 15 snow geese, and there is no possession limit.

Alexis Dehner, winner of medals and trophies and a top-ranked bowman whose talent has been described in flowing terms by professional adult archers, is eight years old.

Indiana landowners who want to help boost the state's dwindling quail and pheasant populations can get state reimbursement for their expenses creating habitat for the prized game birds.

The North American Wetlands Conservation Act bill, currently in the U.S. Senate, would increase the price of the federal duck stamp to $25.

A man leaves Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ends up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands thousands of miles away.

The three-day event, which is sponsored by District 9 of the Pennsylvania Trappers Association, was held at the Triton Hose Company and attracted 759 hunters who converged on a seven-county area in the northeast, each hoping to harvest the heaviest coyote.

North Dakota's Game and Fish Department is offering 5,880 wild turkey licenses for the spring hunting season, a decrease of 50 from last year.

In 1965 in the northern Minnesota wilderness, Gordy Olson was shot by another hunter who came to his aid … and then left him for dead. Almost 50 years later, the complete, never-before-told story is just as harrowing as the day it happened.

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department says there are fewer ducks and geese around this winter than in the past few years.

A massive sports and outdoor exhibition, now produced by the National Rifle Association, opened in Harrisburg, one year after a vendor boycott over a restriction on certain gun sales and displays prompted its predecessor to cancel.

Geoff Nemnich heads to north central Kansas and scores big with a coyote triple.