English Pointer Emma

This is Emma, one our few English Pointers in our kennel. She was sired by National Champion Attitudes High Finance. Emma has been such a pleasure to have in our kennel. She is almost completely a finished dog. Here I took a picture of her pointing a Bob White Quail. We are working on her staying steady through distractions,  so I got up real close in her face. She held this point for several minutes while I got to her with the setter in the back ground teaching him to honor. We are just adding some polishing touches on Emma’s training. Some of Emma’s strengths are her natural desire to retrieve and natural bird finding abilities. She has even retrieved to me some shed horns of deer and elk. She is quite in the kennel and on the chain. She also has a real sweet personality. Not real big in size either. Great things do come in small packages and Emma is proof of that!

Luke , Me, Ruby

A few weeks ago my neighbor  invited me to go do some chukar hunting here in Southern Utah. To say I was excited was an understatement. He had found some birds while out scouting for elk and was confident we could find them again. Well as luck would have it we were able to find some birds. After a few hours of hiking I came to an area that had a nice rock ledge with some sun flowers in the bottom of the wash. As I took a breath to look around I saw a chukar bob and weave through the rocks beside me. Turning to get better footing, I could see that Luke was heading my way also, just then the covey erupted! I was able to pick a bird out and landed a nice shot. We watched where the birds landed and were able to regroup the dogs and headed that way. We spent the next few hours shooting some singles and watching as the dogs got an education on wild birds. Ruby had a solid point along a short stretch of  level ground covered with thick grass. As I approached her the bird flew between us. I was able to connect and Ruby retrieved to hand. Those moments stay engraved in your mind forever. The perfect point, the perfect shot, the perfect retrieve.  What a great day of chukar hunting.

Jetta On Point

Over the past several years we have had more inquiries about our solid liver dogs. Not only are they a stunning dog for show they can also hunt real well. Here is a Female GSP named Jetta.  We have had her at our kennel for about 5 months now. She has a very strong German bloodline which you can see in some of her facial features and body structure.The German bred dogs seem easy to recognize with there distinct physical features. Jetta is standing her birds on point. We have taken her through our training program andshe has become accustomed to gun fire and the electronic collar.  Her bird drive and hunting drive increase each time we go the field and train. We are excited to see her progress and hunt wild birds over her this next fall.

Scout Pheasant Hunting

Jared,

I just wanted to drop you a line and tell you how happy I am with my new dog Scout from Best Gun Dogs.  Scout is currently about 9-month-old and has exceeded my expectations (and my skeptical wife).  Already Scout has been an excellent hunting companion, thanks to the great bird training he received earlier this fall.  To date he has successfully hunted pheasants, chukars, hungarian partridge and ducks (all WILD birds I might add).  The GSP is truly the ultimate versatile breed!  I attribute his success to a solid introduction to birds and a natural genetic drive to hunt.  I am excited to see him improve his skills as he matures.  My wife was very apprehensive about getting a typically wild dog to be around the house, but Scout has proven her wrong.  He is a very good dog at home and is well socialized and behaved with all the neighbors pets and little children.   I look forward to him returning to Best Gun Dogs this spring for additional training!

Thanks again,

Rick White

Luci to visit Ben

We have taken one of our finest English Pointers Luci up to Rich Heaton so we can breed her to Idaho’s Lucky Strike Ben. Ben is as nice of an English Pointer in the western United States. Ate age 6, Ben is already a 6 time American Field Champion. Not only can Ben find birds, but he has a great personality. He is a dog that likes to hunt for you and be with you. With Ben’s class and style combined with Luci’s ease of training, natural retrieve, and point were are excited to see how these puppies develop.  We believe we will have the total package for our bird dog clients.  View our planned litter page for greater detail and pedigree’s.

Fritz

For the past 14 years Fritz has been my go to dog! Not only was he the first dog I titled at age 16 he was my best friend. He could find birds like no other dog could. He had a tremendous nose and was so eager to please.  He taught me more about bird dog training than I taught him. I’m sad to see him leave this life. Yet I will remember all the good times we had. Take care my friend. Oh ya  POINT!

We wanted to give a shout out to The Pheasant and Quail Forever Organizations and everything they do to preserve wild bird habitat. Thank you so much.  The Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever Bird Dog Classic for Habitat is a bird hunters united sanctioned event and will include open pointing, open flushing, amateur and youth divisions.

The event is expected to draw over 140 participants. Entry fee is 125 dollars for the open and amateur division, 150 dollars for doubles, and 75 for youth.  Proceeds from the Bird Dog Classic for Habitat will be donated to Pheasants Forever in an effort to improve wildlife habitat and carry on the nation’s upland hunting tradition.

The Pheasant Forever and Quail Forever is the nation’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to upland habitat conservation. More than 130,000 members and 700 local chapters across the U.S. For more info call Lucas Hudson at public affairs 660-541-2634

Best Gun Dogs

Lise Hewitt from Washington purchased a solid liver German Shorthair puppy from us earlier this year. Lise heard about a contest for the front cover of City Dog in Washington state. They decided to enter. Their little pup placed in the top two of forty dogs and was voted to make the  Christmas cover. We are so proud of him. What a great looking dog!

Good Looking Spot

Took our bird dogs Emma and Luke and went out scouting for some new chukar area yesterday. To begin with we gained some really good elevation. I took this shot with my cell phone… not a bad of a picture. We had a good time watching our dogs get out and work the cover. We didn’t find any coveys of chukar, but the weather  was really nice and it felt good to have some sun. It was nice to have the Garmin Astro it kept track of the dogs great. Maybe next week we will get into some birds.  The covey numbers see to be evading our dogs this year.

Chain Gang

At Best Gun Dogs we train all kinds of bird dogs. We focus primarily on the pointing dog breeds. This past year has been so much fun! We have trained almost every breed imaginable, English Pointer, German Shorthair, American Brittany, Vizsla, German Wirehaired Pointer, English Setters, and Griffon just to name a few. We have trained for people all over the west Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Colorado, and Arizona. It has been a pleasure to work with so many people and so many different breeds. We look forward to another great year doing what we love… training hunting dogs. We’re excited for the coming seasons of field trialing and hunting. Let us know about your success stories. I received a phone call just the other day from a client and his exact words were this dog is “brilliant”.  Keep on training, keep on hunting and have a great holiday season.