“Start your new Puppy in his new Gundog Career at Gold-Plated Gundogs” - Brian Szczech

Retrieving Success Program

Hunter Retriever Champion Sage Duck Hunt Retrieving Success is Gold-Plated Gundogs’ customized training program designed to fit the temperament of each dog. Retrieving Success was created by Brian Szczech to deliver the highest levels of success, even with dogs washed out by other trainers and considered as “too soft”.

Whether hunting Sea Ducks on the shores of Maine or in the potholes of Nebraska, Brian wants to give you and your retriever the biggest advantage possible. With a solid training program, you will have good hunting experiences and a full game bag!

Gentle Methods that Get Solid Results

Some trainers can be hard-handed when it comes to training dogs. They use tough training methods that can take the spirit out of the dog. You can see that in the dog’s reactions and their demeanor. Their personality has changed.

The dogs that I train keep their spirits with tails wagging high. Nothing has changed except they are now obedient and responsive to commands. I give back to the owner the same wonderfully spirited dog they gave me for training.

Grade School

The first level is Grade School. Grade School training teaches proper ground manners that make your dog a good citizen and lays the foundation for retrieving fundamentals needed in the next two levels. Placing the pup in a daily program guarantees these principles will be ingrained, making learning fun without any stress in later levels. Grade School training includes:

No barking
No noise
Understanding the basics–sit, stay and come
Introducing retrieving fundamentals the pup will see and be involved in later in its life

High School

The second level of training at Gold-Plated Gundogs is High School. This level builds on the solid foundation established in Grade School by incorporating everything they might encounter in the field such as boats, blinds, decoys, duck calls, shots overhead, quartering and flushing upland. High School training includes:

Developing advanced retrieve in the field and marsh
Establishing the vital owner-dog relationship
Training the dog for their specific hunting discipline
Teaching the dog to be steady
Getting them ready for a fall hunting season

College

The third level of training is College. College puts the final touches on your dog, making them into Gold-Plated Status. A well-trained Retriever is the best conservation tool we have. College level training will have your dog ready to quarter fields in South Dakota for Ring Neck Pheasants or, hunting flooded timber Mallards in Arkansas. This level of trained bird dog can hunt anywhere in the world. Once you have hunted with this dog, you will want one for yourself. College training includes:

Running blind retrieves
Understanding whistle commands with hand signals taking them directly to the bird dropped by your shot
Quartering (steady to flush and shot)
A steady retriever capable of doing advanced multiple retrieves
Running out of boats, blinds and flooded timber stands.

What Does it Mean to Have a Gold-Plated Gundog?

At Home

Obedience starts at home and in the kennel. My goal is to make the little heathen they drop off become a good citizen–a Gold-Plated Gundog citizen. A Gold-Plated Gundog is a good citizen around the house who you can take anywhere. He is an active part of your life so the dog has to live with you and mind your rules. You don’t live with him in his world.

In the Hunt Field

A Gold-Plated Gundog in the hunt field means filling your game bag faster by finding birds and retrieving birds. Your retriever is the best conservation tool we have. By keeping your retriever well-trained and tuned up, you avoid lost game.

Having a well-trained retriever in the field makes the experience a lot more enjoyable with less work for the duck hunter, the goose hunter and the upland hunter. A Gold-Plated Gundog finds and flushes birds on his own so his owner can spend more time watching for birds, calling ducks and watching for more ducks. Watching the dog work in the field is one of the biggest joys of hunting–for some even the best part of the hunting experience. When the dog is doing his job flushing and retrieving birds, the hunter can do his job better by watching for more game. A lot of people tell me that even if they shoot two ducks all day, watching their companion make a spectacular retrieve makes it all worth it.

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