Blame it on the Doves

by Jennifer L.S. Pearsall on August 26, 2010

          I was out walking this morning, before 7 a.m., and for the first time since I’d left for a weekend of watching preseason football with a friend in Georgia. My, what a weekend can change. School started two days ago, the day I flew back, but I hadn’t noticed until my legs took me up out of my [...]

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Tools of the Trade, July 2010 No. 1

by Jennifer L.S. Pearsall on July 1, 2010

Good stuff for good times in the outdoors Welcome back to another edition of www.HuntingTheTruth.com’s “Tools of the Trade.” Since I’m about to tackle first intro to the gun for puppies still in the imprinting stage, I thought it would be a good idea to give you a few product suggestions that’ll help you both [...]

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Pet Food Recall WARNING!

July 1, 2010

Yesterday, my vet clinic here in San Antonio, Babcock Hills Veterinary Hospital, sent its client list links to two new pet food recalls. The brands include certain Iams cat foods and a particular dog food made by Natural Balance. The link for the dog food is here and the one for kitties here. The short version is that [...]

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You and Me and Hunting

June 30, 2010

          Much of the details from those first months with Fergus are lost to the days that span the thirteen years since I plucked him from the blue crate in Cargo Bay C at Dulles Airport. There were, undoubtedly, the things and events that every new pup brought into a household experiences. There was housebreaking, [...]

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Live Tonight on Backwater Outdoors Radio!

June 24, 2010

          Hey all! Tune in tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern to Backwater Outdoors Radio for the live broadcast on Johnny D’s website. Johnny’s having me back as a featured radio guest right about 8:20 Eastern. He’s been diggin’ the Unleashed side of www.HuntingTheTruth.com, because one of his passions is working gundogs. He’s asked me to [...]

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Terror in the Laundry Room

June 24, 2010

          It was mid-afternoon, when I got to my folks house with Fergus in tow after his pickup from the airport (“New Grandparents“). I often stayed there during the week, especially when I had a league sporting clays shoot or when I rolled from the Friday night shift at Blue Ridge Arsenal to the morning [...]

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Maybe, Potentially, Possibly Hot Deals, June 2010 No. 2

June 23, 2010

          Welcome back to another edition of “MPP Hot Deals.” If you want to understand the full intent and philosophy of this column offering, read the original here, but suffice it to say that the goal here is to pass on information about what might possibly be some good deals for gear, hunts, and other [...]

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Lamb Chops

June 22, 2010

Thinking Out Loud–Periodic Editorial on the State of Hunting and the Hunting Industry Today           Believe it or not, I didn’t get any bashing for the Thinking Out Loud column I posted last Thursday, entitled “Free Speech OK with NRA Some of the Time?” In fact, I got a lot of thumbs up, even if [...]

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Free Speech OK with NRA Some of the Time?

June 17, 2010

Thinking Out Loud–Periodic Editorial on the State of Hunting and the Hunting Industry Today I received an e-mail alert from NRA’s ILA (Institute for Legislative Action) the other day. In its usually formal tone, the missive stated that the NRA had originally objected to the bill known as H.R. 5175. Also known as the DISCLOSE [...]

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Maybe, Possibly, Potentially Hot Deals, June 2010 No. 1

June 16, 2010

          I posted the first of what I had intended to be a fairly regular column entry back on April 14, but as most of you know, life got in the way in the form of a car wreck. While a lot of me is still on injured reserve, my head is better cleared and [...]

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