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Off-Season Retriever Training Considerations

Critical advice to get your duck dog ready to max out in the good times ahead.

June 08, 2022 By Scott Haugen

In last September’s issue of WILDFOWL, I wrote a feature titled, “The Underdogs”, about non-traditional retrievers. The story generated the second most responses from readers in the more than 3,000 magazine articles I’ve written for magazines around the world over the past 25 years. Thank you!

Answering the many questions from readers got the wheels turning, and the next thing you know, Skip Knowles and I were hunting together, brainstorming, and, well, here I am writing a column for one of my...

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Off-Season Retriever Training Considerations

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