DEPARTMENTS ~ 3 ~ Greetings ~ 4 ~ Flushes ~ 6 ~ The Healthy Dog Canine Cushing’s Disease, Back Pain, and Traveling with Your Dog Walt Cottrell, DVM ~ 8 ~ From Our Mailbox ~ 12 ~ Tailgate Review Get Ready... Get Set... The Upland Almanac Staff ~ 16 ~ Lock, Stock & Barrel Chokes and Barrel Regulation Bryan Bilinski ~ 24 ~ For the Birds ~ 32 ~ The Check Cord The Road Paved with Good Intentions Dave Hughes ~ 33 ~ On Being Smarter Than Pup John McGonigle ~ 44 ~ Classic Upland Guns J.P. Clabrough & Bro’s. London Ernie Foster ~ 46 ~ In The Swing Is More Choke Better? Chris Batha ~ 57 ~ Spring Hatch First Bird Dan Small ~ 66 ~ The Upland Kitchen Macadamia-Crusted Grouse with Fruits Nancy Adams ~ 70 ~ Upland Almanac Classified The Source for the Upland Hunter & Dog Handler ~ 80 ~ Tailfeathers Straight Shootin’ Blues Tom Carney

features ~ 20 ~ In a Pheasant State of Mind by John Gosselin ~ 28 ~ Pennsylvania's Capital City Woodcock by Bob D'Angelo ~ 36 ~ Bird Dog Training— Two Trainers with a Common Perspective by Nick Sisley ~ 40 ~ The Upland Almanac’s Season Outlook 2007 by Chuck Johnson, Terry Boyer, Tom Carney and Tim Flanigan ~ 50 ~ Blastomycosis: What You Should Know by Tom Mohrhauser and Walt Cottrell, DVM ~ 54 ~ Finding Your Place in the Field: Visualization of the Upland Experience by Kevin Simpson ~ 58 ~ Playing Guns by William G. Tapply ~ 61 ~ Doubles, Scotch and True by Tom Keer ~ 64 ~ Don’t Fence Me Out by Alan Liere

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