
Next Generation GunDog Training
Southern Minnesota
Background
Andrew Barbouche and business partner Adam Levy own Next Generation GunDog Training in southern Minnesota. Next Generation GunDog Training is a full service retriever training facility focusing on AKC hunt test and gun dog training. We train retrievers for hunt tests, tournament hunting and for high-end gun dogs. Andrew has been an avid outdoorsman since a very young age hunting everything from turkeys in Iowa to waterfowl in Saskatchewan. Adam has been a die-hard hunter his entire adult life hunting big game all over the country and waterfowl anywhere from NY to Canada. Training retrievers to become the best retriever a hunter could ask for or to achieve the coveted Master Hunter title is why we train dog’s day in and day out. Andrews’s first retriever received his master hunter title at 3 years old and qualified for the 2011, 12, 13 and 14 masters national. Next Generation GunDog Training also focuses on breeding healthy and trainability Labrador and Chesapeake Bay Retrievers.
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Shawn Kinkelaar
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Mike Tracy
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Fred Hassen
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