Michigan Gun Dog

5 Fun Wintertime Activities for You and Your Gun Dog

With most hunting seasons now closed keeping your dog active throughout the winter can be a challenge. Cold, ice, wind, and snow can be a major deterrent for us but rarely is it a turnoff for our furry companions. Perhaps a few of these fun activities will motivate you to spend some more time in…

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Pheasant Hunting

5 Tips for a Successful Pheasant Hunt

There are a lot of things we’ve found that make for a successful pheasant hunt. Here we’ve compiled 5 tips to help you with yours. HUNT NEAR WATER Oredson, the manager of Denman Wildlife Area in southern Oregon, and Holzhauser — whose Siskiyou County, Calif., ranch is rated as one of the best pheasant hunting…

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Gone Hunting

8 Must-Haves While Hunting

8 Must-Haves While Hunting Getting lost in the woods is the last thing that we want to happen, but it is also the first thing we should prepare for. A lot of things can happen in the field that make getting around without help hard, or weather can move in quickly and leave your group…

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Versatile Gun Dogs Hunting Pheasants

Breed Profile-Deutsch Drahthaar

  If you frequent Pine Hill with any regularity you will likely recognize a few of these types of dogs hanging around.  Here is an overview borrowed from the VDD-GNA website describing the breed we produce at Pine Hill.  Hopefully you enjoy! INTRODUCING THE DEUTSCH DRAHTHAAR The Drahthaar is a passionate hunting dog with industry…

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Downtown Chromer

Downtown Steelhead

Landed a nice chromer in the concrete jumgle downtown Grand Rapids.

Fundamentals are Important

Had a great time working with @ajbaudoux and his Drahthaar Evie at Pine Hill.  (@adamdavidphotography_ On the camera capturing this perfectly timed direction change while Adam is quartering his Drahthaar Evie) Even though you think your dog may be solid on a specific training behavior it’s rarely a bad idea to go back to fundamentals…

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Versatile Gun Dog Training

Great Lakes Chaper VDD-GNA VJP Training Day

VJP Training Day at Pine Hill Recently we hosted the Great Lakes Chapter of the VDD-GNA  for a training day at Pine Hill on the Big Prairie Farm.  Although the training days are mostly to help prepare dogs and their handlers for the upcoming tests they often become a FUN social event allowing like minded…

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How to Build Retrieving Confidence

Building Retrieving Confidence Natural retrieving desire can vary a great deal between individual dogs. With a timid or soft dog our enthusiasm for our dog to pick up and retrieve a downed bird can be the very thing that deters the retrieve. Next time your dog goes to pick up a bird instead of looking…

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