Who: AZPDC Members, Family and Friends
What: AZPDC Annual Banquet & Awards Ceremony
When: April 16, 2011
Check In: @ 3 PM Dinner @ 5 PM
Where: Tempe American Legion Post 2
2125 S. Industrial Park Avenue
Tempe, AZ 85282.
Dinner price: $15.00/person Kids 12 under free
Dinner tickets purchased day of event will be $20
PLEASE RSVP BY
APRIL 08, 2011
Hello my friends. Time is sure flying, isn’t it? I need to get out more to get some more pictures for these write ups. Running out of photos, good thing the season is starting…
Trial Season
Trial Season is set. Please go to the AZPDC forum at www.azpdc.org/bb and click “field events”. From there you will find the dates, locations and trial chairs. As you know, we can always use help in a number of ways. The most useful way to lend a hand is to volunteer to haul the trailer up or back after a trial. The first event will be in Queen Creek and will be chaired by Tommy Chapa and Brian Smith. The first day of the weekend will be training for dogs, handlers and some judge training (learn how to judge our trials). It is not often we have events this close so be sure to let Brian or Tommy know early that you will be there. That will help us have the adequate amount of birds and supplies to put on a great event.
AKC Judging Seminar
Todd Fielitz has always been there for our club and many of you will never know the extent of what he does for us. This AKC judging seminar is one of many things he has lined up for us. This seminar will be held April 2nd at Marie Callendars at I-17 and Northern Avenue. The presenter will be Bonnie Hidalgo of AKC and the cost to attend is $25 per person. Food and beverages are not included in this price. If you ever wanted to become a judge or would like insight into the judging, here is your chance to learn. Please pass the word. We would like to have a full house on this to cover the expense of the event.
Banquet 2011
It looks as though our Banquet will be held on April 9th. We will need your help to make this a hit again. We need to start selling raffle tickets for those guns!!! Get some tickets and get to selling. If you can dig up fundraising opportunities, now would be the time to start looking into it.
Cabela’s Spring Outdoor Days
Spring Outdoor Day’s at Cabela’s is coming up in a few months. Please let me know if you would be interested. I was thinking we can cook hotdogs for donations and sell raffle tickets. Of course we will have dogs and look for new members.
Arizona Shooting Dog Championships (Kingman, AZ; January 24-28, 2011)
I want to thank Tommy Chapa, Paul Grogger, Steve Johnson, CJ Hamilton and John and Chrissy Crano for all of their help in making this an event that will forever be in our memories. I was glad we had you step up; remember it takes all of us to make it work. Below are the big winners:
Arizona Open Shooting Dog Championship
Winner: Hale’s Cool Hand Luke
Bruce Hale, Owner/Handler
Reg #: 1589257
Eng Pointer Male
Sire: Spectrel’s Born Broke
Dam: Latin Spirit
Ru Ch: Waygoing Hoot
Mike Stephens, Owner/Handler
Reg #: 15564883
Eng Pointer Male
Sire: Canadian Brute
Dam: Windsong’s Silver Charm
Bill West Derby Classic
1st Place: K-Nine Tucaluta Chance
Ed Mayhew, Owner/Handler
Reg #: 1616435
Brittany Male
Sire: Maxwell’s Blew By You
Dam: K Nine’s Peek-a-boo
2nd Place: Cash’n In
Jim Schultz, Owner/Handler
Reg #: 1621604
Eng Pointer Male
Sire: No Limit Rebuy
Dam: No Limit Belle
3rd Place: Sand Creek Holly
Dr. C A Hjerpe, Owner/Handler
Reg #: 1620804
Eng Pointer Female
Sire: Wells Fargo First Dude
Dam: Wells Fargo Mollie
Region 12 Am SD CH
Winner: Hale’s Cool Hand Luke
Bruce Hale, Owner/Handler
Reg #: 1589257
Eng Pointer Male
Sire: Spectrel’s Born Broke
Dam: Latin Spirit
RU Ch: No Limit Rebuy
Jim Schultz Owner/Handler
Reg #: 1610473
Eng Pointer Male
Sire: Rock Acre Duramax
Dam: Rock Acre Dreamgirl
Participation in our club
I wanted to take moment to talk to you about what has made our club such a huge success and to reiterate that we all should do a little bit more. This club was built and designed for pointing dog lovers to train, trial and even prepare those who wanted to go beyond to title dogs or compete. Now, since I have been around, I have truly tried to offer a diverse amount of activities with a heavy family influence. The culture of being family friendly is first on my list because we all have families and families are what our core foundation stands.
Our club hosts training days, non-sanctioned field trials, hunt tests, seminars, American Field events, community outreach events, banquets and youth events. Now most of us have a passion for a particular area and spend most of their time and energy doing that; which is understandable. However, if all of us just focused on our focus point, we couldn’t do all of these things that serve our entire club. So as a reminder, it really takes all us doing more than our one focal point to help our club serve ALL of our members. So when we do events, please lend a hand, even if it is not what you joined the club for. I promise you will be rewarded new friendships, personal gratification and just knowing you did your part.
As always, I miss you all and hope to see you at this month’s meeting. We have many new members, please introduce yourself and help them feel welcome. To our new members, I welcome you and ask that you please call or email me if you ever have any questions on how we operate and how we can serve you.
Arizona Quail 2010
It looks as though the quail season is going to be hit and miss for most hunters. What I mean here is that depending on the species of quail you are targeting will most likely tell you the results. Based on what I have seen and heard, the Gambels are better than average. The scalies are holding steady but not spectacular. The Mearn’s, well those little buggers are just plain tough to find this year.
My suggestion for gambels is to look at traditional covey locations and they will have good numbers of young birds due to the wet winter of 2009. Scalies are doing okay and should be still found in home ranges of past with few young birds. If I was going after Mearn’s I would do one of two things; First, I would look for birds in different and less popular locations, such as different mountain ranges. Second, I would wait for precipitation. The scenting conditions as they are currently are not desirable. It is extremely dry out there making less scented bird even more difficult to locate.
2011 Elk & Antelope Draw Recommendations
Currently, The Arizona Game and Fish Department are holding regional meetings to hear the voices of the hunting community on the current department recommendations for the 2011 season. There are not many meetings left, so if you would like to hear from the department and/or voice your opinion, you should try to make a meeting. The recommendations I have read show overall decreases in both Elk and Antelope tags for the upcoming season. I believe the regulations will be drafted in the next 30 days and published on the web as soon as January 2011. The deadline for applications will be in February 2011. So don’t wait, do you research now and plan for the deadline. Good luck on your draw.
February 2011 Hunt Test with Cochise Bird dog Club
Currently, we have committed to do a double/double hunt test with the Cochise Bird Dog Club in Sanoita, Arizona in February 2011. In order to do this we really need club participation for Secretary, Gun Captain, Gunners, and general helpers. So please check your schedules and consider helping with this very important AKC event. You can contact me or Todd Fielitz to let us know your willingness to help.
AFTCA Region 12 Shooting Dog Championships January 24-28 2011
The AFTCA Region 12 Championships is set to beginning late January 2011. Paul Grogger has graciously stepped up to chair this event. We as a club have committed to assist in the bird planting and bird maintenance for this event. Todd Fielitz and I are planning on being there helping and participating in this prestigious event. We would love to have some more club members there to lend a hand to help this event go successfully. You will see some incredible dogs from the Southwest competing and meet some truly great people. So please try to make it up to Kingman. The event is close to town. There are plenty of hotels, stores and restaurants. Oh yeah and there is cell phone coverage, so you don’t have to be out of touch. You do not necessarily have t be there the whole time. If you could come up for a day or two to help that would be a super help to the team.
AZPDC 2011 Field Trial Season
As of right now, Brian Smith and Todd Fielitz have selected the season locations for the 2011 season This year there will be some new areas that some of you have not seen yet. I have seen the list and all are great locations and will certainly offer the club an exciting year for our trials. Now is the time to voice your opinion to them if you would like to see something different. Better hurry though; we need to get applications in ASAP in order to begin on schedule.
As always, I miss you all and hope to see you at this month’s meeting. Take care and be safe. We have many things to be thankful for especially in light of the current economic conditions. So I pray that you all are safe and that your family is blessed during this wonderful time of the year. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
At the next meeting
Web Parton will be talking about snake avoidance and fielding dog training questions. He will have snakes for a demonstration in the parking lot.
Ed Rucker
AZPDC Club President
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