Training Sessions

In the 1970's we went and watched our first Field Trial........it was at that time that we decided to start training our chessies for field compeitition. We both had a background of being around dogs...training our parents and friends dogs when we were young.......but we had never competed with any of our dogs before!

Through the years we have had several qualified all-age field trial dogs, dogs with derby points and some with open points, as well. When the Hunting Tests started in this area in the late 1980's we decided to enter our field trial dog ***Nordom's Hurricane Windy WDQ...........Well she loved it and so did we......she became the First Chesapeake MH Bitch on the West Coast.

Not only do we, but our dogs also like training for the Hunting Tests. We still apply our 'field trial' training methods which we have developed through the years........to bring our dogs to the Master Level. Todays Master Tests are not easy..........'A well trained-good runing Master dog' is equivalant to a Qualifying level field trial dog. To this date we have made 10 AKC Master Hunters............our newest is Blaze's Renegade Riverdance MH WDQ - who finshed her MH title at just 27 Months of age, also qualifying the MN at the same time. All of our other MH's have re-qualifed a number of years for the MN. We also have made 3 Canadian Master Hunters, & 2 UKC HRCH's.

When we moved to Stanwood Washington in 1991 we decided we would like to start helping people learn how to train their own dogs for hunting and/or the hunting tests. Training a dog to the master level not only takes a "good dog", but a knowledgable trainer/handler as well. Most people who have the time and dedication can obtain that goal. All the hard work is worth the effort when you and your dog work as a 'team' and achieve the goal that you have set out to do......being it a well trained all around hunting dog or a Master Hunter!

Training for the Hunting Tests are fun..............and set-ups are only limited by your imagination. Since anything goes at the Master level, the more unusual situations you can expose your dog to the better off he will be on the day of competition.

A good training group is made up of people who are not in competition with each other........people who do not have an ego problem.............and people who are willing to do their part to make the session run smoothly. We like to keep our training group small............making corrections when needed, but always ending up with a successful scenerio for the dog. We try to make our sessions as 'real' as possible.......with the use of all the equipment we have available.......from holding blinds, to guns, wingers, max's, bumpers, Dokken's, birds, etc.