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This week's featured recipe, "Pheasant and Homemade Noodles", is contributed by Jenny and Rick Wheatley of Food for Hunters. You can check out the recipe using this link : https://gundogcentral.com/recipes/5794/pheasant-and-homemade-noodles

About Food for Hunters : Jenny and Rick Wheatley both grew up in Southern California and connected over a shared love of the outdoors. They started their wild game cooking blog Food for Hunters in 2011, where they share recipes, photos and thoughts on wild food. Today, Jenny and Rick continue to hunt, fish, forage and cook in the Cornhusker State of Nebraska. Their recipes have appeared in numerous publications, including Petersens Hunting, Game and Fish, Nebraskaland and North American Whitetail magazines.

The Nebraska Center for the Book awarded their book Hunting for Food: Guide to Harvesting, Field Dressing and Cooking Wild Game the Wildlife Honor Award in 2016.

I have an outstanding article on Gundog Central this week, on 'How to read your dog' by Tom Keer, with shared advice from Chris Akin, Ken Kalil, Any Weik, Todd Agnew and the late Robert Milner. You can read Tom article using this link : https://gundogcentral.com/articles/5784/read-your-dog

About Tom Keer : Tom Keer owns The Keer Group, an outdoor marketing company which works perfectly with his freelance writing career. He casts his four English setters in Northeast upland coverts and Southern quail fields with fortunate regularity. Hes been lucky to be surrounded by people and dogs that are much smarter than him. Visit him at www.thekeergroup.com or at www.tomkeer.com

This weeks featured article is by Danny Bardwell with artwork contributed by Kate Hall. Danny's short story is called My Invention and you check read it on Gundog Central using this link : https://gundogcentral.com/articles/5775/my-invention

About Danny : Danny Bardwell is a construction superintendent who builds large commercial buildings in the Baton Rouge / New Orleans area. For peace of mind and escape from the stress of building, Danny raises and trains pointers with his thirteen year old grandson, Lane.

Danny is a story teller at heart, and often when relaxing he is inspired by some little event or phrase. Lane appears in most of Danny's stories. His stories have appeared in local publication as well as national circulations such as Sporting Classics Magazine.

About Kate : Kate Hall is an outdoor artist who resides on an Angus cattle farm in Tennessee, where she began hunting at an early age. During her 13 years as a flight attendant, Kate visited 27 countries and all 50 states. She now spends her time traveling across the country in search of rising trout and upland birds with her husband and their English Setter. In his first two seasons they hunted on public lands in MT, KS, SC, AL, NC, KY and TN for quail, ruffed grouse, sharptail grouse, woodcock, pheasant, prairie chickens, and hungarian partridge. Upland hunting has enriched Kate's life and influences much of her colored pencil work.

This weeks featured article on Gundog Central is by Tom Word with artwork contributed by Leah Brigham. The story is called Losing it and you can read it here : https://gundogcentral.com/articles/5754/losing-it

About Tom : Tom Word is a lawyer who represents individuals about managing their assets and for amusement writes fiction and non-fiction about bird dogs and humans obsessed with them. You can purchase some of Tom's books here : https://tomwordbooks.com/

About Leah : After graduating from Millersville University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelors of Science in Art Education, Leah began teaching Art to inner city Middle School students in Houston and later Dallas, TX. Leah has shared with her students her passion for art and nature. This passion has sustained her and continued throughout her life in the form of painting and drawing.

Leah was introduced to American Field Horseback Field Trails and has been able to experience the excitement of seeing her own dog, competing for the National Championship at Ames Plantation in Grand Junction, TN ...standing on point, head and tail held high. This has inspired her to create works of art depicting dogs and the wildlife associated with the sport and hunting.

Congratulations to Michael Beck of Smoking Stump Farm @smokingstump on winning the Gun Dog Chat SportDOG collar contest. Michael was randomly selected a the winner, he walks away with a brand new SportDOG UplandHunter 1875!!!

Two months ago, I won a great book here on this site and recently found a very interesting podcast to give me some more insight to the book. Excellent podcast on Companion Gundog Podcast & a very good field trial history book. Enjoy.

This week's featured article on Gundog Central is less an article and more of a chart. I frequently get asked how much someone should ask for their puppy when listing them on Gundog Central ... So I analyzed all the dogs post on Gundog Central the past year and came up with an average listing price for each breed. You can check out my chart on Gundog Central using this link : https://gundogcentral.com/articles/5748/how-much-to-puppies-sell-for

This week's featured article on Gundog Central is all about Ticks and was written by Tom Keer. You can read Tick Checks on Gundog Central using this link : https://gundogcentral.com/articles/5740/tick-check

About Tom Keer : Tom Keer owns The Keer Group, an outdoor marketing company which works perfectly with his freelance writing career. He casts his four English setters in Northeast upland coverts and Southern quail fields with fortunate regularity. Hes been lucky to be surrounded by people and dogs that are much smarter than him. Visit him at www.thekeergroup.com or at www.tomkeer.com

A few of the youngsters that made the trip to Dakota and Montana 🐾🐾💞

Hope and a young setter in Dakota with a rooster pinned