RGS Magazine Archives - Fall 2009

Fall 2009

Heat Stress: Ways to Avoid Overheating in Working Dogs
Reprint from Purina Pro Club Working Group Update
If you've ever seen a dog sprawled out on a tile floor in the middle of a hot day, you've witnessed a dog's instinctive means of cooling down. "Dogs really aren't very efficient at cooling themselves off," says
Purina Nutrition Scientist Arleigh Reynolds...
 


The Return of the American Chestnut
 
Blight-resistant variety is on the horizon
by Jeff Mulhollem, Chuck Gill and Mark Banker
Mature American chestnuts are large, stately trees that dominated the landscape in the Eastern United States until the mid 1900's. Plant explorers inadvertently introduced an Asiatic blight fungus...
 
 
Remington's Premier Over-and-Under
by Nick Sisley
Remington's entry in the made for the Ruffed Grouse Society shotgun is the Premier, a 20-gauge lightweight that swings nearly featherlike and carries similarly. It's an over-and-under with all the embellishments any ruffed grouse and woodcock hunter would demand or want, and underpriced when you compare...

 

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