"Whoa there, take it easy, Roscoe," Garry Taylor said to his eager little Brittany spaniel. Roscoe and his partner Elly, a beautiful English setter, had a pheasant pinned down in the brush right in ...

There’s a lot more to game bird hunting than pulling the trigger of a shotgun, as explained by hunter Maka Medeiros. Getting the right dogs and training them makes a big difference. Photo courtesy of ...

From small Munsterlanders to English setters and Labrador retrievers, a veritable kennel’s worth of dogs scampered across southern Minnesota Saturday, the opening day of the state’s pheasant season.