Buckeye Retriever Club

07/30/2025

Photos by Amy at Dog Photography are now online for viewing + purchase from all 2025 Buckeye Retriever Club Events!

Below is the latest gallery from the Singles Trial on 7/19!
https://luckydogphotography.pixieset.com/brcsinglestrialsteadysaturday71925/

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Photo collection by Lucky Dog Photography by Amy Ketring

07/30/2025

Here are some pictures Izzy Wencl took at last weekends Unsteady Singles Trial Stake. Enjoy!

06/11/2025

We are still looking for volunteers to help with various tasks at our upcoming BRC Hunt Tests. This commitment does not have to be both days of the weekend and in certain cases a shorter day commitment might be helpful as well. If you are able to help, please reach out to the respective Test Chair.

Spring Test this coming weekend 6/14-6/15 could use a few workers at gun stations and blind planters on Saturday.

Test Chair Nicki Gear 440-773-5310 or [email protected]

Summer Test 6/28-6/29 has various positions still needing to be filled.
Test Chair: Tim Daily 440-796-8182 or [email protected]

We really appreciate the help and cannot run these tests without you!

Nicki

06/10/2025

Exciting news! Amy with Lucky Dog Photography will be capturing all the action this weekend at the Buckeye Retriever Club Spring AKC Hunt Test June 15-16!

The galleries will be posted to the site in the days following the test! https://luckydogphotography.pixieset.com

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Images in a gallery are displayed in the order which they were taken - the same order the dogs actually ran in that series (not necessarily numerical order). This may include test dog + pickup dogs as well. I attempted to show the handler in at least one of the (usually the first) photo of each dog'...

04/27/2025

Yesterday was our last puppy/young dog class, the weather was less than ideal, but Ken and crew soldiered on. We hope that the dogs and handlers that participated over the 3 classes got a taste of what is needed to pursue hunt test titles no matter what your goals are. Thanks to Ken Hrabak and crew for imparting your knowledge, and good luck to everyone in your future pursuits with with your dogs.

04/26/2025

Today’s puppy class is still on as long as there is no lightning.

04/15/2025

Sunday we were at Crooked Creek Conservation Club for our 2nd training day of the year. We had great weather and a good bunch of members. Cyndi Poveda lead the training with help from Nicki Gear, Bob Samios, Tara Perby, and Ken Edwards. These folks deserve our thanks, without people stepping up, we wouldn’t have these opportunities. It was also great to see everybody switching in and out of gun stations to throw birds for fellow members. I think I missed it in the post about the first training day, but we should be very thankful to Crooked Creek Conservation Club for allowing us to use their grounds, they are very generous. So please take care of of their property so we may continue to use it.

We have another training day at Crooked Creek in a couple weeks before we switch back to Hambden Hills.

Hope you’re all. Making progress toward your goals. Tests are fast approaching.

04/14/2025

This past Saturday Ken Hrabak and his trusty crew came out to help members with their puppies. It was another opportunity for the handlers to drink from the fire hose as Ken kept the information flowing. We had new handlers that didn’t come to the fist session two weeks ago, and some of the handlers didn’t show up to this session due to other responsibilities. We had about the same number of handler/dog teams both days. We had some new handlers, that weren’t members come out to participate and apply membership, so that’s another benefit to the club. Thanks to all that helped!

03/31/2025

We rounded out our weekend here at the BRC with our first club training day of the season. Thank you to George Long, Scott Stevens, and Cyndi Poveda for hauling equipment out to Crooked Creek, setup and keeping things running smoothly. The weather (mostly) held out for us and everyone who joined us did greet taking turns in the gun stations. Members, make sure you mark your calendar for our next training day Sunday April 13th at Crooked Creek!

03/30/2025

Well it’s officially time to get out and train. Today started the puppy/ young dog training class with Ken Hrabak and his merry assistants. The turnout was amazing and it was great to see so many young dogs out on the grounds as well as members, old and new, with a few prospective new members. There was a lot of information put out there for the dogs and handlers to try and absorb. I hope everyone is planning to attend the second class in 2 weeks.

12/01/2024

This never gets old. I could watch kids run dogs all day!

05/20/2024

Yesterday we had our flyer day, we had 25 handlers participate, some handling multiple dogs. Handlers brought dogs to the line 71 buffet times. We had a triple with either a senior or master blind. Handlers ran it in multiple variations from singles, double, or triples. Some no off’ed the mark and picked up the blind before picking up the other marks. Some also honored. With all that, it was a pretty long day, but hopefully handles got some good trading in, learned something, and enjoyed the day. And the weather was great.

Here is a link to some pictures that Sara Morrow took during the day. Thanks Sara for sharing.

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