Congratulations to all the NBHA Dog and Handler of the Year winners. Below is a full list of the dogs and individuals we will be recognizing at our national meeting July 27 at the Bird Dog Museum in Grand Junction, TN. Please come down and join us congratulating these individuals!

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Here is a list of this year's Champions, as well as Futurity and Puppy Classic winners. Congratulations to all and thank you to everyone who entered our stakes and made this a successful year. We will be honoring many of these dogs and handlers at our upcoming national awards banquet, July 27th and the Bird Dog Museum/HOF in Grand Junction, TN!

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HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS: Get your reservations in today, give Christi a call and mention “National Bird Hunters Association”. 15 rooms have been ear marked to hold until 7/12/1013. After this date price subject to change and may not be available.

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We look forward to welcoming all of you to our annual NBHA National Meeting and Awards Banquet. A social gathering will be held for everyone, on Friday evening July 26th at 6 pm in Memphis, TN at the Holiday Inn Wolfchase. The business meeting will be held Saturday, July 27th at the Holiday Inn Wolfchase Meeting Room from 8 am – 3 pm.

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The summer business meeting and awards presentation will be June 8th, 11:00am CST.

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It was another very good year for the National Bird Hunters Association in 2012-13. Despite some very tough spring weather requiring the delay or cancellation of several field trials, the NBHA again had an increase year over year in the number of dogs run in our trials.

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The Dewey Mullins Open Shooting Dog Classic stared April 3rd and concluded on April 5th with the derbies running on Friday and the judging seminar on Friday evening. We thank the Somerset Bird Dog Club for hosting these events and look forward for bigger and better next year. We have a lot of people to thank and I don’t want to miss anyone. These events could not have been possible without the help of Purina, NBHA, Gun Dog Supply, Somerset Bird Dog Club; Waste Connections were a major sponsor in this event. Pam and Buster Tucker were there for us when we needed help. Jim Crouse and Georgie Casey did the judging assignments and handled things top notch. This trial was named for a great KY Sportsman and at the age of 92 Mr. Dewey Mullins watched every dog in every race and had his opinions. We thank Chris Mathan from Strideaway for coming and taking pictures of the grounds and dogs. The judging seminar was a great success with a panel of Jim White, Jim Crouse, Dewey Mullins, John Russell and moderated by Georgie Casey; Job well done by all.

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Independent Field Trial Club - THURSDAY, MAY 16 & FRIDAY, MAY 17, STARTING @ 7:00 AM

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The NBHA Futurity program made two major changes for the 2013 renewal with the appointment of Kevin Western of Queen City, MO as new Futurity Chairman and the relocation of the trial to the Whetstone Quail Demonstration area east of Columbia at Williamsburg, MO. These were major changes and the Futurity Board of Directors thought long and hard about the effects of moving the Futurity from its home at the Percy Priest WMA near Nashville, TN. In the end, the moves were made and a new tradition started at the very nice grounds set up by the Missouri Conservation Board right along Interstate 70 some 80 miles west of St. Louis. Entries at this renewal were reasonable considering the change in venue and distance from its long standing location in Middle Tennessee. New participants from the Midwest attended and stalwarts from previous renewals continued to nominate litters and attended to run their Derbies and puppies. The Futurity paperwork and litter nomination process for the breeders was well managed by Kevin Western and the trial was very well organized under Kevin’s leadership with major assistance from NBHA Vice President Tim Penn. Larry Carpenter, Joe Zimmer and others all pitched in to make sure the trial was run smoothly and everyone had a fair chance and a good time.

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There is a saying in Wisconsin that if you do not like the weather, just wait an hour and it will change. Well, we have been waiting for months and finally got a nice reprieve. The snow and ice stopped, somewhat warmer weather finally came and dried up the grounds, thank you Mother Nature! The 2013 NBHA Northeast Regional Championship was held Aril 4-7th at the Pine Island Wildlife Area near Portage, WI. These are some nice, relatively flat grounds with sufficient water and the opportunity to really show a dog.

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