Tom Keer
Background
Tom Keer is an award-winning writer, columnist and blogger who regularly writes for over a dozen outdoor magazines. He owns The Keer Group, a full-service, outdoor marketing company and hunts and fishes with his wife and children. Don't hold it against him, but he's a setter guy. Visit him at www.thekeergroup.com or at www.tomkeer.com.
Articles by Tom Keer
Working with Different Dogs
I’m a setter man. I’ve owned Irish setters and English setters, and some day I’ll probably own a Gordon setter. I like the way they hunt with their heads held high, their energy, and their biddable natures. Setters like people, and even better than that they like having a job...
Handing Over the Reins...or Check Cords
Time marches on, we all know that. A new generation grabbing the reins is exciting and terrifying, all at the same time. There is a bittersweet part of handing over the reins, the transmitters, and the check cords. The bitter part is that it means that we’re getting older. The...
How to Match Your E-Collar to Your Hunting Conditions
One of my dogless hunting buddies lives in the city. He's the guy who has all the new gadgets. I kidded him about all his new toys and he tried to explain it like this; he said he’s an “early technology adaptor.” Say what? In my “bird hunter's English,” I...
Other Senior Prostaff
Clint Johnson
Clint Johnson has professionally trained hundreds of retrievers and titled many champions. With more than 11 years of experience, he has competed in the Super Retriever Series (winner of 2004 SRS in El Campo, TX), World Retriever Championships, AKC trials, UKC Grand, and AKC/UKC hunt tests. Clint Johnson Retrievers Training...
Chace McCaskill
I have been active in competition raccoon hunting for the past nine years. I started when I was 12 years old. Most have a previous family member that hunted before them, I was the first to hunt in my family. All my family members are hunters, but none have taken...
Nick Gilliland
I am a North Carolina Licensed Landscape Contractor, from Hendersonville, NC, and have owned and operated my own Landscape Company Nick’s Groundworks for 14 years. I also own and operate Nite Life Kennels. I grew up around hounds all my life. My Grandfather Clint was a traditional raccoon hunter and so...
