HISTORIC DUCK HUNTING STORIES THE GOLDEN AGE OF DUCK HUNTING
Most duck hunters want to know what happened in the olden and golden days when the old timers pursued their love of duck hunting, but not everyone has the time nor patience to read through a bunch of books and outdoor journals.
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E74 THE LABRADOR RETRIEVER PART IV (opens the original)
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By the middle of the 19th century, there were only three places where proto-Labradors were being bred and propagated in any kind of organized fashion: at Heron Court, which was the estate of the 2nd Earl of Malmesbury in the south of England, the Scottish estate of the 5th Duke ofBuccleuch and his brother, Lord John Scott, and the Scottishestate of the 10th Earl of Home . For nearly 50 years, the England and Scottish breeding program operated in total isolation, completely unaware that they were
E73 LABRADOR RETRIEVER PART III (opens the original)
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With Episode 73, Part III, we continue to trace the incredible, centuries-old story of how the Labrador Retriever conquered the world to become the world’s most popular dog, from a rugged fisherman’s tool to a historic legacy, wrapped in a loyal companion. The Labrador’s story begins with the St. John’s water dog—an animal born of the wild frontier of Newfoundland. This was a landscape of jagged forests and churning tides, home to one of the most brutal and productive marine ecosystemson earth.
E72 PART II LABRADOR RETRIEVER (opens the original)
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The true story of the world's favorite dog is an international maritime phenomenon. It combines ancient Roman, Visigoth, Moor, Newfoundland, English, and American know-how, three distinct European and English water-working dogs, and a famous pointer landrace that were permanently transformed into the Labrador Retriever: the “KING OF RETRIEVERS.”Like the classic 1966 film titled A Man for All Season , the Lab is a dog of all seasons, a dog for all reasons. Long may the Lab reign. The evolutionary
E71 KING OF THE RETRIEVERS THE LABRADOR (opens the original)
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As a living mosaic of world history, the modern LabradorRetriever possesses a lineage that stretches back millennia through a global tapestry of empires. Before it was America’s cherished companion, this dog was a phantom of the North Atlantic—a rugged worker born from the legendary St. John’s water dog. Tracking the Labrador's history is like sailing through time on a sprawling international voyage. Its bloodline carries the genetic echoes of ancient Rome, the migrations of the Visigoths, a bra
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