A good gundog is the difference between a frustrating day and a memorable one. Whether you’re starting a puppy from scratch, working through handling problems or trying to close the gap between the training ground and the real thing, the answers matter — and they need to come from people who actually work dogs.
ShootingUK’s gundog pages cover the full range: breed guides, puppy training, obedience and whistle commands, advanced handling, working tests and field trials. Labrador, spaniel, retriever, HPR — whatever you run, the content is written by handlers who train and work their own dogs.
Gear is reviewed practically. Health advice comes from experience in the field as well as the consulting room. And when the hard days come — the ones that have nothing to do with training — we cover those too.
Fitness, feeding around a drive, the first aid kit in the truck, heat on a mild October day, the wet dog on the peg, limber tail and what to do when a dog goes through the ice: the checks to make befo...
We round up five coats that keep working gundogs warm, dry and protected through the shooting season – from towelling drying robes to neoprene vests
If gundogs are your passion, draw on your experience when responding to Defra's game shooting review, urges BASC's Conor O'Gorman – with three owners showing how it is done
Our dogs read every move we make, says gundog trainer Ian Cooper, and too often the handler is the one teaching the habits that later need correcting
'Gamekeeper trained' was once a selling point in the classified columns, and Jeremy Hobson remembers the keepers whose spaniels and labradors earned it
An expert told Richard Donnelly to pray. A year-old labrador that hid under the bed at the sight of a shotgun was retrieving cock pheasants out of the cattails by the winter. His method, set out in Gu...
The free-running pup that looks brilliant in the yard at 10 weeks is the dog squeaking in the beating line at 10 months, argues Ben Randall. Writing in Gundog Journal, the trainer of back-to-back Brit...
A run with a view of the whole garden is a big TV the dog cannot switch off, says Ryan Kay, and Ben Randall keeps his kennels inside a building for that reason and for the weather. Speaking to Gundog...
Jeremy Hobson has walked beagle puppies for years, but six months with Waffle, a future autism assistance dog, is another education altogether
A gundog that will not come back runs into the line of Guns, chases wounded game into unsafe ground and flushes birds out of range, the trainer Ben Randall tells Gundog Journal in a feature on recall....
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