Hunt Test Hobo Podcast

08/25/2025

First Hunt test of the year with Emma! Got her started past of the year as well as made her first paycheck planting blinds all day. She was sprinting every time lol very proud of her. Autumn got her first two season passes and Winter got two more finished passes toward her Hall of Fame title.

08/22/2025

Well, this is always been a life goal. Except it’s a 4x4 truck by the tech pond.

08/21/2025

Hi All!!! if you know of someone looking for a dog I have a good one. Started Male available. Out of NAFC Grady x GRHRCH Sassy QAA. Jimmy is 9 months old through Force Fetch, T and Swim By. Running very basic white pole blinds on land. Not a wash out. I'm just moving a differnent directions and only want females for my breeding program. He still has a lot of puppy but shows promise. Gun conditioned and mostly white coat trained. Must go to a hunt test home or FT home. Message me if interested. Will be selective for the right future for him. Will give discount to proven Hunt Test home. Located in IL

-Chris Rud

08/19/2025

Hi All I just caught the ANNOYING echo in the interview today. I exported a new version with the echo removed (mostly). Sorry about that! I wasn't able to get rid of all of it but got rid of most of it. We had a problem with the recording which cause a lot of little bugs I had to work out. Sorry for those that suffered through that echo.

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08/12/2025

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07/22/2025

Me waiting on these puppies like… 🥴
Shoutout to Bob for perfectly capturing the emotional rollercoaster of puppy anticipation.
📸: Bob Cain, casually training with his amateur group, looking like he just finished reading War and Peace between retrieves.
Meanwhile, I’m at home checking the whelping box every 12 seconds like it’s a popcorn bag in the microwave.

07/07/2025

Who's made this mistake? I've done it a few to many times!

Part 1 with Bill Hillman drops tomorrow!

06/09/2025

Folks must have gotten their Credit Card bills today because everyone is posting and updating their stud dog posters. LOL

Feel free to post them here as well! Want to help in anyway I can. We all can't sleep in the back of our trucks.

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06/02/2025

In tomorrow's podcast Chris and Clark chat about the Grand. One thing we covered was a "strength of schedule" I figured based on the pass rate for each series for each flight. I found this interesting and a good reminder that not everyone goes through the same Grand and thats ok. All dogs that passed deserve the big green ribbon! Dogs that made it through on some of the harder paths really deserve an extra pup cup!

You will see a strength column. The calculation is the average pass rate for the 4 retriever series each flight had. The lower the number the harder set of test that flight ran into. Bottom line if you hit Prefiert and Divebomb you had an unusual tough grand. Having the two toughest sites back to back for A, I J really makes it challenging. A mistake at Preifert made it really challenging running into Divebomb. Both test looked great and this isn't a knock on the test. They were challenging but doable test. -Chris

05/02/2025

Winter had a good day today! QA2! Wahoo

12/23/2024

Bling bling…. Ontario migrator

12/22/2024

Great hunt with Emma. Love watching her get excited as the big groups come in.