NORTHWEST OF ISLAND LAKE - Phil Johnson had shot the woodcock over his young Brittany's point, and he had seen the bird go down in the popples up ahead. This was several years ago, when Sophie, the ...

For instance the best dog of my life was an English setter named Tess over whom I shot at least 1,200 birds, including grouse, woodcock, four kinds of quail—bobwhite, Mearns’, Gambel’s and scaled—and ...

Sunday will find the steamy, buggy upland forest in full, dense foliage, ruffed grouse generally still clustered in far-flung family groups and woodcock numbers weeks away from being augmented by ...