Buckeye Retriever Club

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!

09/20/2024

Heads up! I will be at the BRC Buckeye Retriever Club Fall Hunt Test this weekend, September 21-22, 2024. I plan on shooting Junior one day, and Senior the other. 😁

09/10/2024

Timing is everything!

08/30/2024

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.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10123110848551165&type=3

05/13/2024

2 Day Advanced AKC Judges & Handlers Seminar complete, check! We spent half a day in the classroom on Saturday before heading to the field to run some Junior dogs and do some scoring for the remainder of the day. The weather wasn’t the best but we endured. Then today we spent the whole day in the field running Senior and Master dogs and scoring them. We did all set ups as mock hunt tests, with judges, marshals, HT committee members, equipment managers, and bird techs. Everybody did a great job. And AKC rep Trish Jagoda did a great job going over the scoring and performance of each dog that ran with everyone. I think everyone learned a lot, some probably to the point of overload, though I believe everybody enjoyed it.

I give it 2 thumbs up!

05/11/2024

Our Basic AKC Judges & Handlers Seminar was held today. Trish Jagoda from the AKC was the presenter. We had a great turnout, 27 participants, from those that just wanted to learn more about what judges want to see and how that equates to the scores to experienced judges. Hopefully everybody got something out of it. If you attended and have any coments feel free to post them here.

05/06/2024

Here are a few pictures from today’s training taken by Sue Ruess while running a gun station.

Thanks Sue

05/06/2024

Happy Cinco deMayo!
Buckeye Retriever Club held its third training day today at Hambden Hills. The weather forecast wasn’t very promising leading up the training, but we lucked out and got all the dogs run through the setup with only the last dog running in some sprinkles even with the great turnout of dogs and handlers.

Special thanks to Scott Steven’s for the help setting up and moving equipment and Tara Perby for organizing a running order and worker list.

And thanks to all that came out to run their dogs. It was nice to see almost everyone stuck around to help pick up the equipment as well as taking a turn in a gun station.

Here are the members that came out today, some had even had multiple dogs, I believe we had 25 dogs run the setup. Hope I didn’t miss anyone, I apologize if I did. Scott Steven’s, Tara Perby, Ken Edwards, Rex Gary, Bob Samios, Bobbi Hockenberry, Sally Mulherin, Sue Ruess, Nicki Gear, Bruce Smith, Dakota Tomon, Steve Szeredy, Shannon Black, Marilyn Richards, Kathy Gaddis.

I think we had a good day, hope everyone got something out of it!

05/05/2024

Buckeye Retriever Club once again is happy to introduce our newest members. Laurie & Mike Hegduk and Kevin Lightner. Can’t wait to see them on the grounds. Welcome

05/05/2024

Puppy/ Young Dog Training class concluded Saturday, here is a note from Ken Hrabak.

I don’t have everyone’s email but somehow I would like to thank all those who helped me run this training class and all those who who came including today when we did introduction to handling in case they would need it before they did senior tests. We really had a good time as well. Rex and Steve did all the grunt work for me and the handlers really seemed to enjoy their learning. I am looking forward to seeing them earn some titles.
Thanks.
Ken

Thank you Ken for giving your time to lead this group.

04/28/2024

Big shout out to Nicki Gear, and Dakota Tomen for their Junior passes this weekend at Ohio Valley Retriever Club in Coshocton, OH. Dakota is our newest membership applicant and Nicki is our newest Board Member. Dakota and Sadie got their first Junior Leg and Nicki and Brizo picked up their 4 Junior leg earning the JH title. Not only that, they both worked at the BRC Clean Up Day on Saturday.

Congratulations to both of you, and thanks for your involvement with BRC.

04/21/2024

Here is the action from the Puppy / Young Dog class today 4/20 lead by Ken Hrabak. Participants were Rex Gary, Steve Szeredy, Gail Geiger, Julianna Lobosky, Tina Kocab, Tim Guy, and Tori Waxman. It was a cold day but the youngsters didn’t seem to mind.

04/20/2024

Buckeye Retriever Club Annual Clean- Up Day is fast approaching. If you will be coming out, please contact Dave Phillips (440) 840-3285.

Bring your work gloves, and let’s get the grounds ready for a new season.

Tools needed:
Shovels, Rakes, buckets, wheelbarrow, loppers, pole saw,chainsaw, w**d whips, etc.

If there are any members that are willing to bring a tractor, that would be an added bonus!!

There are numerous washout areas that need filled throughout -an extra trailer are helpful for moving the mulch and gravel in buckets or shoveled in. There are areas that need cleaning up for better mowing access too. We also need to trim tree branches and a few downed trees.

Looking forward to a big turnout. Start time is 0900.

The grounds are open for training afterwards.