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Not an expert on everything, but I am confident in this: You don't have a jumping problem, you have an obedience problem. Your dog jumps up because at some point it was allowed to jump up, and now thinks that behavior is acceptable. The only way to stop this behavior is to work obedience every...

Hot on Saturday, much cooler on Sunday. Three guys with four Pointing Labs - four roosters and two quail on Sat, four roosters on Sun, hunted by myself on Mon morning and got one more rooster. Missed a few shots all three days as well. Saw plenty of birds, including a few coveys of quail. Most...

It's a little more than you want to spend, but I hear good things about the Olympus Tough TG-4. Takes great photos, and is built like a tank. Small enough to fit in a pocket, or it can be hooked on to your vest with a carabiner. Other options for rugged cameras are the Nikon Coolpix AW130...

I bought a pair of SoundGear in-ear units from a guy here on the UPH forum a while back. They were bundled with a gun package he bought at a banquet but he already had a pair of the pricier ones, so he gave me a pretty good price on them. I think they retail for $399 new. They work great, but...

Two weeks ago after hunting up a bunch planted chukar on a local game preserve, I accidentally left one of them in my vest before tossing everything in my hunting tub in the garage. Quite a nasty surprise when I opened the tub up a week later...Ugh! I never wash my hunting vest, but I made an...

Are you saying you bought a NEW Monte and it didn't come with a case? It should have come with a case, shims for the stock, choke tubes, and a choke tool. If you paid full price for a new gun and didn't get all these things, you might want to make sure the seller didn't "forget" to give you all...

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you too, Shorthair. :cheers: Dave

:10sign: IMO, FF should be part of any bird dog training program. It's not so much about training the dog to bring something back to you - most dogs will do that anyway. It's about training the dog to deal with varying levels of pressure (ear pinch, collar pressure, swat on the butt, whatever)...

That's my girl! :cheers: Dave

I've got an unfinished basement that's just screaming for me to try something like this. :thumbsup: :cheers: Dave

Welcome, Sam! Sent you a PM with some info you might find useful. :cheers: Dave

Brought 5 hunters & 6 pointing labs from Colorado. We hunted N & NE of Colby all day Saturday & Sunday until the dogs let us know it was getting too hot. Saw quite a few birds (probably 30-40), bagged 7, missed a few more, and lost one that hit the ground running in uncut corn. Didn't run into...

Loading up the crew (5 hunters/6 dogs) tomorrow afternoon, and heading to the Colby area. Skipping the Colorado opener this year, hoping for a better chance at seeing birds. I've never hunted in Kansas before (at least on purpose, but that's another story), so it will be a new experience for me...

The cover looks pretty good (much better than the last couple of years). As to whether the birds are there, only time will tell. Might take a couple of years of good weather to get back to healthy numbers. Either way, I'm looking forward to getting out there and looking. Hunting the southern...