Just in time for the fall hunting season, a trading post section has been added to the website. Member can log-in and post items to buy, sell, wanted, litter announcements etc

To post log in and go to http://southerntier-navhda.org/forum , click on "Trading Post," then click on Post new forum topic.

Club member Dan Kramers and his Pudlepointer, Max took first prize in a recent Bango competition. Haven't heard of Bango? Neither had Dan prior to entering the competition on Sunday July 20th
at the Pheasant Hollow preserve. Bango is a new shot and retreive
competition that pits both the handlers shooting skills and the dogs
retreiving skills agains numerous targets thrown to simulate hunting
situations. Way to go Max and Dan!

Welcome to the Southern Tier Chapter of NY NAVHDA. Our long established chapter is one of the most highly recognized in all of NAVHDA in regards to quality of training, testing and comradity of members.

The May training day started out with a little rain and then cleared up
to be a perfect day for the black gnats. Actually it was a good day for
the dogs too. Not too hot with a slight breeze. Most of the training
was focused on getting the NA dogs ready for our spring test. All the
dogs did very well even though the birds used in the field (punch drunk
pigeons) didn’t really fly too well, even out of the launchers. Moral
of the story is, bring your own birds to training day if you can get
them. “Most” of the gunners shot well regardless. After stopping at the