
Derek Beard
Rineyville, KY
Background
Derek is the founder and President of Central Kentucky Hunting Retriever Association, Inc. After seeing a need for improvement of our hunting retriever breeds, he set out to educate the retriever community in Central Kentucky on common health concerns, quality retriever work, and common training practices to improve retrievers. CKHRA was officially formed in the Autumn of 2001 and has been a very successful HRC club. Members range from all over the state of Kentucky and into Ohio, Tennessee, and Indiana.
Why I Use SportDOG Brand
Sometimes, dog-training time can be hard to come by, but SportDOG Brand® products make each and every training session productive. They're affordable and have outstanding features. They're reliable and have the best customer service of any company I've ever dealt with.
Favourite Products
ProHunter 2525
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Nick Gilliland
I'm a North Carolina Licensed Landscape Contractor, from Hendersonville, NC, and I've owned and run me own Landscape Company Nick’s Groundworks for 14 years. I also own and run Nite Life Kennels. I grew up around hounds me whole life. My Grandfather Clint was a traditional raccoon hunter and so...

Jude De’Niese
Jude De'Niese is the owner and head trainer at High Tide Retrievers, Jude has trained and competed with dogs in CKC, AKC, and UKC events, titling dogs for clients in Canada and the US. Jude teaches people how to train and maintain dogs that not only work at a...

Tony Nickerson
Tony's been involved with hunting dogs for the past 28 years. He first got into hounds and retrievers, and in more recent years he's been involved with the versatile hunting breeds, specifically the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon. On average, he goes bird hunting in the area between 30 and...
