Levi

Levi is out of a litter sired by Red. He belongs to Darren Vaughn and is a handful at 5 months. He loves water especially when there is something to retrieve, like a quail killed during training. We've just now started working him on blinds. Levi will be finding dove for his owner in September and ducks in November. His training will continue on after hunting season. Here I've dropped a quail, that he had been retrieving and was now waterlogged, into the duckweed in about 1 foot of water. In the first photo he smells it and the second he is underwater after it. We kill a lot of wood ducks and they are notorious for going under and holding onto roots when pursued by a dog. This teaches the pup to believe in his nose.

07-08 Hunts

Magnun the Lewellyn Setter

While we raise and train pointing labs we are always appreciative of a any bird dog that has that little something that sets them apart from the rest of the pack. We saw this in Mag as a puppy and purchased him to run as part of our crew. He has not disappointed. Mag is a big running dog that can really cover a field, and he will point every bird along the way.

Toby

Black Tobias Highlander aka Toby came to us from owners who got him as a six week old puppy from Brian Kalich in Tomball, Texas. We had bred Red to his female, Gypsy Flash Kalich, who is the granddaughter of Bodacious Bo Denson, who is the black pointing lab that we guided with on the Chocolate Bay Rod and Gun Club. Toby looks and acts a lot like Bo. The owners of Toby could no longer put up with his destructive ways and returned him with papers to Brian in October of 07 and we took possession of him November of 07. This picture was taken in May of 08. Toby not only points but will flush and retrieve the bird after it is shot. At the present time Toby is working on his remote sit to whistle and handling to the downed bird. I have no doubt that he will be a welcomed addition to our hunting team. It just shows you what can be done with a lot of love and a little patience. I hope his previous owners read this blog and will be happy knowing that Toby will reach his full potential and will bring elation to a lot of hunters.

Ed

Ed is a Pointer that came from Top Flight game birds. We got him at 8 months and now half way through his training we can tell he will make someone a good hunting dog. He is not a big running dog preferring to work out to about 50 yards. He is steady to point and will retrieve the bird to hand. Price of Ed is $1500.00. A deposit of $500.00 will hold him until 07/15/08.

Red and Nikki

Red and Nikki grazing in the blackberries. We were trying to pick some for a cobler and jam and the dogs decided they would help. Red would stick his nose deep into the briars and get the juciest berries. The preserve is full of berries this time of year. Not only do we like berries but so do the birds so we encourage their growth.

Red Relaxing After A Hard Days Work

You should never, ever, spoil your hunting dog.

Last Hunt of The Season

These guys wanted to bird hunt, but with it being at the end of season the only birds that would hunt well were cock pheasants, so that is what we hunted. Red did the work on our end and the hunters did a good job shooting on their end. For it being the time of the year, when birds are molting, nesting and fighting, the birds did pretty well. The hunters took 18 pheasants out of 20.

East Texas Bird Hunt

These guys hunted and had a good time, as you can see. They came back with clients and you can see the results of that hunt in Hunters Return.

Decoy Kill

As I was securing my decoys until teal season opens in September I came across this decoy and the memories it invoked. I was hunting with Brian Kalich and we were on a knoll above one of the beaver ponds that I hunt. The ducks would fly over the beaver pond, see the decoys and come in through the trees. We were shooting them as they dropped below the trees on their approach into our decoys. We were waiting on some ducks to swing back when all of sudden one comes in from the other direction and Brian drops him about 6 inches off the water. At his shot one of my new gadwall decoys rocked back from the force of the shot. I swear I saw the shot wad bounce off that decoy. I looked at him and said " you killed one of my new decoys." To which he responded " yeah, but I killed that duck too." And sure enough there was a gadwall floating in the decoys. I thought about using sealant and sealing up the holes but there must be a hundred pellets in it that it would sound like a babies rattle amoung the decoys. Besides I get way too much mileage off from Brian with it.

Red Afield

Red pointing a bird in the brush, waiting on his release command to go in and flush and if the hunter is up on his game, the retrieve.

LPK Upland Hunt

These guys shot quail, pheasants and chukar. Our hunts are walk hunts but they wanted to ride so they brought their utility vehicle. Our dogs will road as well as walk hunt.

Big Beaver Pond

This is a picture of the big beaver pond that I hunt. You have to drive a mile in 4 WD low range, launch the pi rouges and paddle 1/2 mile upstream to get to it. I went into it with Brian Kalick of Brian's Taxidermy in Tomball, Texas and we shot two limits in 30 minutes. It is a great place to hunt but a pain to get into. That is why the ducks like it so. There were ducks on this pond when I took this picture. I didn't want to get closer so as not to spook them before season opened again.

Quail and Pheasants

These gentlemen took a morning off from the drilling rig to hunt for some quail and pheasants over Red and Nikki. A good time was had by all.

Guest Dogs

These guy came over from Nacogdoches to run their dogs on our preserve.

Young Hunters

These youngsters came up to LPK with their uncle to get away from the big city. While here I let them hunt for some birds that had been released the day before. By the time they left they had decided that they liked quail hunting.

Pile of Quail

Some clients worked these quail over good. I don't remember how many quail was in this pile but it was a bunch. We set up hunts the way the client wants and the guys that shot these wanted a lot of quail and that is what they got.

LPK

This is Red pointing a quail in the bushes on the preserve behind the kennels. The quail thought that he was well hidden in the goat weeds but Reds nose found him out.

Bang

This is an English pointer that I trained for a gentleman out of Beaumont. Bang is an excellent example of his breed, his is steady to point and shot. He was forced fetched to retrieve the bird to hand.

Piney Woods Duck Hunt

We took Brian Kalick of Brians Taxidermy in Houston on a duck hunt onto one of the beaver ponds that we hunt. We shot these as the mast from the oaks and pecans were falling into the water around us. These ducks were harvested at the start of the second split.

Hunters Return

This picture is of a client who brought his clients. This was their second trip and it was as successful as their first hunt. Nikki did the duck hunt that morning and the second round on the upland hunt. For persons who have not hunted with LPK, we release half of your birds into our fields, hunt them until the action slows, return to the vehicles and while the hunters are getting more bullets and something to drink we release your other birds into the field and then hunt them down. The ducks are wild and hunted as set forth by USFWS and TPWD.

Gus

Gus resides in Houston with his owners who were at their wits end with his boundless energy and brought him to LPK for training. After three months of training Gus was returned to his owners a totally different dog. This picture is of Gus on his first duck hunt.

Coolidge, Texas

LPK was contacted by Brush Country Retrievers to see if we could run our Labs on a hunt in Coolidge put on by HotGuidedHunts.com. We hunted the gentleman, Rob, and his son, Jordan, who were putting on the hunt. They wanted Red in this picture. The hunt was on Saturday and we returned to LPK on Sunday. Monday morning we received a call from Rob letting us know how much they appreciated the work that we had done and to let me know that Red had made a couple of friends for life and that they were looking forward to making the trip from Waco to East Texas to hunt over Red again. It is for people like that that we do what we do.

Red at Attoyiac Farms

This is a picture of Red pointing a quail in a deer plot at Texas State Banks Attoyiac Farms. Due to a shortage of bird dogs LPK agreed to run our Labs on one of their hunts. After that hunt they asked us back and we did their remaining seven hunts.

First Light on North Toledo Bend

I took this picture on North Toledo Bend WMA. We had pi rouged into this area amoung the cypress trees into a hole that was covered with duck weed. We had several wood ducks into the decoys before shooting time so it was looking good for being a good hunt. Right at shooting time this drake dropped in and I dropped him. Red made the retrieve, it was such a beautiful morning that I decided to try out my new digital camera, and I posed the duck at his feet. I set up to take the picture and just as I was getting ready to take this picture a flight of woodies hit the water about 20 yards out and had Reds undivided attention. I hit the button at the same instant and the flash went off, I wasn't expecting that, Red didn't know what was happening and the ducks weren't hanging around to find out. What happened was to capture a moment in time that is priceless to a duck hunter.