Advanced Gun Dogs

Welcome to the Big Dog side of Dark Timber Kennels
The following are some of the areas in which our Advanced Gun Dogs will have been trained:

• sit
• stay
• heel
• here
• Walk on leash
• Walk ff leash
• collar conditioned 
• load up 
• crate trained 
• retrieve 
  • live birds 
  • dead birds
  • fresh shot birds 
  • cripple birds 
• marking singles 
• taught doubles
• marks out to 150 yards on land (min)
• marks out to 100 yards on water (min)
• marking drills
• force fetch and pressure conditioning
• gun breaking, multiple guns
• 100% steady with and without guns
• no bird training
• dog stand training
• upland quartering drills

What should I expect when I take an Advanced Gun Dog home?

A well polished young dog that has nice polished manners built in, fully steady, fully gun broke. a dog with lots of consistency that is easy to take home and continue their training if you wish or just take them hunting.

Expect to spend at least 2-4 weeks at home, working and bonding with your dog in order to see their full potential. 

A great example of an advanced gun dog is tucker. Tucker was a son of mylie and by december 31, in his first year of hunting, tucker had picked up over 1,000 birds. This is the potential of what our young dogs can do!

You can watch a video Tutorial of what an Advanced Gun Dog does here: 

Advanced Gun Dog Tutorial