less than in 1985. However, a quality stake prevailed. Bird contact exceeded all
expectations. The winner, Bernie V, CD, owned and handled by Ben Zamora, pointed
birds eleven times with good manners and his retrieve was awless.
The 1986 Board of Directors approved the Championship committee’s suggestion
that the rotation plan previously set forth be implemented. The ensuing years found
the Gun Dog Nationals being held in Michigan, Kentucky, Nevada, Missouri, Iowa and
Nebraska.
At the 1995 Board of Directors meeting, it was voted to amend the By-Laws to
create a 4th Vice President to be responsible for the ABC Gun Dog Nationals. At the
same time the Board voted to approach the Michigan group for the purpose of making
the Ionia site the permanent home of this event. Both the amendment and request were
approved and in 1996 the Gun Dog Nationals returned to Ionia under the direction of
the new 4th Vice President. The 2000 event was the largest ever held with a record entry
of 104.
At the 2000 Board of Directors meeting, it was voted to split the Gun Dog
Nationals to an Open Gun Dog Championship which would be horseback handled, and
an Amateur Gun Dog Championship which would be foot handled. New quali cations
for the stakes were submitted and approved by AKC. Also approved was the provision
that if a dog was entered in the National Open or Amateur All Age Championship, they
would not be able to compete in either Open or Amateur Gun Dog Championship, and
vice versa. The inaugural running of the National Amateur Gun Dog Championship
occurred the end of April, beginning of May, 2002 with 46 entries in the Open and 36
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entries in the Amateur. your were entered inthe the Open & the Amateur stake.
There have been four two-time winners of the National Gun Dog Championship:
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FC/AFC Jessen’s Lit’l Dab of Dude, FC/AFC Magnum’s Masked Man, DC/AFC Winchester
of Hanging Jaze and FC/AFC JDZ Roc’s Ardent Boomer. In the Amateur, since its
inception in 2002, there is one two-time winner of this event, DC/AFC Calistar del Prado.
A new record was set in 2009 when FC/AFC Peter Gunn won both the National Open
and Amateur Gun Dog Championships.
The Open Championship was moved to October in 2004, and the Amateur
followed in 2006 so that both stakes were again run together, and have been since.
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