The Rated Red Crew picks the top dog breeds for duck hunting. Helen Mirren feels ‘insulted’ by ‘condescending’ comments from ...

In the time and place where I grew up—Sioux City, Iowa, in the 1960s and early ‘70s—hunting dog breeds didn’t live in the house, period. It simply wasn’t done.

Flushing dogs now enjoy a large and enthusiastic following, the Continental breeds are an established force, and the Irishman and the Gordon have made heroic comebacks as grouse hunting dogs.

Let’s say hunting season ends and you kind of let training slide during the off-season. If the dog has the proper foundation, it can be tuned up rather quickly. If you have no foundation whatsoever, ...