Carolinas Chapter of NAVHDA

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Carolinas Chapter of NAVHDA

NAVHDA is an excellent complement to the activities of sporting dog breed clubs and field trial organizations.
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Our Purpose
The North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association is a legally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering, improving, promoting, and protecting the versatile hunting dog in North America. Underlying these aims is the desire to serve the interests of game conservation, prevention of cruelty to animals, and the gun dog hunter by helping the hunter to train his dog to wor

k before and after the shot, on land and in water. It was created to supplement the activities of those clubs by providing a proven, standard method of evaluating the performance of all versatile hunting dogs, consistent with North American hunting practices, regardless of breed.

07/17/2024

We had another extremely productive training day this past weekend. From first timers, to handlers of Versatile Champions, each hand in the pot makes the community stronger. Teamwork, volunteering, and helping one another accomplish their goals with their dogs is what we do this for. Keep on helping, and keep on training! 46 days out from “hunt em up!”

04/11/2024

Anyone looking for a NAVHDA opening to run your dog? 1 UT/UPT spot and one NA spot open in NC for 4/20/24!

02/25/2024

Kesper and Jesper checking the birds!

02/25/2024

Kesper on point, SC training February 24.

02/18/2024

Exciting and successful weekend at the Southeastern Wildlife Exposition 2024 in Charleston, South Carolina.

The Carolinas Chapter of NAVHDA booth was made possible thanks to The South Carolina Bobwhite Initiative's invitation.

Members played a crucial role in making the event successful by stepping up, helping out, and spreading knowledgeable information.
Chpt President Wesley Everman with his GSP”Gus”,
Joel Pelletier, Joey St Jean with his GSP” Boone”,
Kim Ward with her
GSP”Calla”,
Richard and Barbara Cullerton and their Gsp‘s “Kip and Dot” and
Bill and Jill Krebs with their Spinoni Italiano “Dutton and Gia”.

02/01/2024

Iron sharpens iron! Love seeing our members hone in on their skills with their dogs!

01/29/2024

A few photos from this weekend's training at Mayhaw plantation, it was great to see everyone!

12/10/2023

Here’s some action from this weekends training day! Thanks to those who were able to attend. Members and those interested in future Chapter events please keep an eye on the webpage to stay in the loop for future events.

10/08/2023

One NA spot is available on Oct 15th. Let us know if you want the spot. Test is at the Sandhills Gamelands near Hoffman, NC

08/12/2023

Some shots from todays training day! Thanks to everyone who was able to attend!

06/19/2023

Recap from our June 10th training: We had a great training day this past Saturday at Aurora Hill Farms Nursery in Pinebluff NC. We had a total of 16 dogs training a bunch of different tasks including Puppy swim, NA and UT Field work, Duck Search, Steady by blind retrieve of duck, Double Mark Retrieve, and Blind retrieve. Thanks to all our hard working members and dogs! Train hard, the year is moving fast, and testing and hunting is right around the corner!

06/03/2023

Beautiful South Carolina morning location Mayhaw Plantation with Chapter Member’s training for the Invitational blind work, utility duck search and natural ability puppy swims, great day…
it’s warming up way to fast handlers!!!

05/20/2023

Thanks to all the members we had at our training day a week ago on the 13th! Hard work & teamwork makes this all worth it in the end! Keep up the hard work everyone, good things are coming for y’all! 🦆🐕.

04/12/2023

Check this out! Come one, come all! Fundraising clay shoot in a little over a week!

04/11/2023

Mel and Lee Scripture have always been dog lovers who live in Columbia, North Carolina. Lee works full-time for the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and part-time as a hunting guide to one of the local guide outfitters in Columbia, North Carolina. Lee has always been an avid hunter and has always loved working with dogs. Mel volunteered with a dog rescue and served on the board of the Halifax Dog Squad for several years. Growing up, Mel worked alongside her mother and father as meat cutters who processed meat for the local hunters. However, when Lee and Mel found each other again after 30 years, Mel became interested in learning to hunt and working with versatile dogs.
They are new to the NAVHDA way of life. They joined the Carolinas Chapter in 2021. Neither of them had anticipated on being involved in NAVHDA when they rescued their first German Short-haired pointer (GSP) – Odie from living the remainder of his life in a cage. They later acquired a Friedelsheim puppy – Friedelsheim’s Whiskey River Script. As part of the purchase agreement, Whiskey had to run in the Natural Ability (NA) test.
Lee’s work colleague, Mike Zlotnicki suggested that they come to the training days at the Carolinas Chapter to help get Whiskey ready for the NA test. Mike was gracious enough to explain the NAVDHA ropes and introduce them to Wes Everman, Blake Horst, and Stacy Horst. All of these and other individuals played a part in getting Whiskey ready for the test. At 5 months, Whiskey traveled to the Rappahannock Chapter in Virginia and earned a perfect score in the NA test. This was the beginning of the NAVHDA way of life for Mel and Lee.
Mel and Lee decided that Whiskey needed a mate. They acquired Full Tilt’s Rye Creek Script – call name “Rye”. Rye is handled by Mel, and they are working together to become a strong TEAM. For the past year and a half, Mel and Lee have been actively engaged in the Carolinas Chapter. They attend the monthly training days and volunteer their time to help others in training their dogs. They also volunteer on test days. To them, being a member of the Chapter is so much more than just having a place to train, it is a village that helps raise/train their dogs and handlers to be the best that they can be. Train, Hunt and Test On…Guiding All to be Versatile!

04/10/2023

Happy Monday y’all! Hope y’all had a great Easter weekend! Don’t forget to follow, like, and share & make sure to check our Instagram out if you have one! If you’re a member, send me hunting/training pics & give us the names of you and your dogs so you can be featured! We’d like to tag you if you have an account! Standby for new content 📸 🔥.

04/01/2023

Good morning everyone! Today is going to be the start of a little tradition we’re going to do from time to time, which will be a Member Spotlight. We’d like to introduce some of our very own, speak to their journey in NAVHDA, and talk about their path! Our first member is our very own Kim Ward!

“I was born and raised in the low country of South Carolina, and always had the outdoors in my heart, hunting deer, then later turkey, then acquired a couple of bird dogs and naturally started shooting quail, so the creation of Broomstraw Kennels came about. While looking for a better line of dog , I found Bella, 3/4 German and with a NAVHDA pedigree. Researching the organization certainly was intriguing, so I joined and attended my first meeting in North Carolina. To my surprise, there was a somber announcement that the founding member whom started the Carolina’s Chapter had died in an accident. Sad day indeed. Fast forward, Bella was my 1st NA and UT and later down the road gave me several breeders awards. By now, I have purchased several more bird dogs with her line, primarily Sharpshooter’s, which lead me to more testing Utility dogs, and the opportunity to attend the 2017 NAVHDA Invitational. If it were not for so many gracious members who become such great friends, coming together to help me train and prepare, some inviting me to Maryland, Georgia, and North Carolina to make this happen I would’ve never had the courage or gained the knowledge; it was a humbling honor, and we passed the test. It felt life altering to say the least, humbling. Currently I host and lead chapter training dates once a month on my property, additional training days take place with friends, and training dogs dogs for people who either test or just want a better hunting companion has been a real honor. I now enjoy ND waterfowl and upland hunts with my well trained dogs using the NAVHDA system. “

Thank you so much for sharing Kim! Here’s her awesome hunting companions! Have a great weekend everyone!

03/30/2023

We did a mini scrub of pictures from the 2023 Mock Test, and the Spring 2023 Test for the Carolinas Chapter and here’s some great pics collected from both weekends! There will be more to see soon, and we’ll be starting a weekly member spotlight as well. Standby for more, and reach out for any input, or questions! For those new to the North American Versatile Hunting Dog Association, please follow the links on our page for more information!

03/30/2023

Follow our instagram as we grow our platforms!

03/23/2023

Good afternoon members!

It was great to see you, your dogs, and family at the mock test & test these past two weekends. Much hard work, determination, and poise goes into these things and everyones help is appreciated. To everyone who came out to train, volunteer, judge, or attend, thank YOU! We are doing a shift on our social media platforms to make sure we reflect our hard work, and everyone has the same information at their finger tips. Stand by as we start an Instagram page as well. I will be sending out information as I receive it and work on the page with our leadership. Thanks for your patience, and have a great day! -Julian

P.S. I’ll be adding photos taken both weekends shortly! If anyone has any from Sunday they’d like to include please let me know! Thanks

03/17/2023

Carolinas Chapter has filled the open spot for Saturday, March 18, 2023. Spring test is full.

03/15/2023

Carolinas Test 18 Mar 2023, have opening for 1 UT or 1 NA dog.

03/10/2023

NA spot has been filled for March 19, 2023.

03/10/2023

1 NA opening for March 19, 2023 at the Sandhills Gamelands

02/20/2023

Had 1 NA dog drop. Test us March 19th. If you would like the spot, let me know. I will send information.

NA spot has been filled.

Address

Sweet Caroline
New Zion, SC
29111

Website

https://carolinas-navhda.org/

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