As I slide Pastor Bob Ford a fresh PBR, I notice that his hands look like he’d just wrestled a meat grinder. The day before, Ford had shredded his hands on cactus and barbwire while chasing mountain ...

Oh them doggies. I love them so. The rabbit season is upon us, and beagles are the stars. Beagles with good bloodlines are born to hunt rabbits. “Training a well bred beagle is mostly correcting its ...

I think the rabbit enjoys it too at first. They are seldom running hell-bent-for-leather in front of a beagle, unless it is a very fast beagle, and fast beagles are undesirable. Even amateur rabbit ...

The North Mountain Beagle Club held a Fun Hunt Sept. 9 on a parcel of property along the Cowpasture River outside of Clifton Forge. The club hunts rabbit using beagles which have a natural nose for ...

Rabbit season is in full swing, and there is hardly a season I look more forward to. I cut my teeth as a youngster gunning ...

I don’t like to hunt with a hungry man,” Dungee Taylor says. He’s a bull-sized fellow, bald, with one foot in the briers and a grin on his face, but I can read between the lines. His comment is both a ...

Beagles and bunnies go together; they always have. They also bring families together. Lancaster's John Houser, 46, learned rabbit hunting from his great-grandfather. When Houser described the ...

My hunting buddy’s shouts were measured and rhythmic. He repeated the words over and again, giving emphasis when he stepped in, likely looking for pieces of cover. When he reached something he thought ...

Handler Brad Cameron of Warren, left, and Trumbull County Beagle Club President Michael Fusco, and other dog handlers watch as beagles from left Swirl, Willie and Sandy are let lose to sniff out ...

Was it too nice a day to go rabbit hunting? Fishing and golf weren't options. I mean, a sunny calm day on a foot of snow is just about perfect for so many pursuits.

Because it has big, sad, dark eyes and jowls that form a frowny mouth, the beagle ranks high on the cuteness meter. Its floppy ears, wet nose and jolly temperament contribute to the reasons why ...