I get lots of questions about " What do you do in the off season?" My usual response is ... what off season. I train dogs all year long my time schedule just gets moved up a bit. Fortunately I am in the mountains and it is a bit cooler here than at lower elevations. This does not mean it is cool in the afternoons so my training begins very early in the mornings. I need to be done by noon. The afternoons and early evenings are used for hunting big game. The wild hog population has become...

Just about everybody has a chosen sport in which they participate. To name a few: baseball, football, auto racing and so on. Within each of these are sub divisions like major league baseball, A league, college ....you get the picture. Well how about Shooting Sports?
Rifle, handgun, shotgun. Lets look at shotgun sports. Like trap, skeet, sporting clays and my favorite upland tournament hunting. The tournament hunting events combine several other sports like gun dog hunt tests and field trial...

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It has been a while since my last post but with good reason. As the upland tournament season nears its' end and summer weather begins, we are back in California just in time to make another competition. It has been busy to say the least this past month. Guided hunts and the tournament events have left little time to blog.

Competition at this years North American Gun Dog Association national finals in Rocky Ford,Co. began with absolutely perfect weather days before the event was to...

Now that we have come up with a basis for command and control. Our student should come and whoa on command, lets expand a bit. During this phase of the training we will make the fetch game fun always sending the dog a bit further and into a bit tougher conditions each throw. While all of this fun is taking place the trainer should exaggerate his posture and arm movements and add in a short tweet on the whistle. It will not take long and your dog will begin to associate your movements as a directional...