Cabela Browning Nitro Boji AKC Reg #:  SR26508410 DOB:  05/31/2005 OFA:  GOOD Eye Cerf:  Normal DRL's Little Miss Cabela - "Cabela" is a one of a kind 65 pound yellow female! She is beautiful, kind, and athletically built. She has part British and American pedigrees. She holds the Rik's Risky Raider line and has a pointing background. She looks a lot like Rik's Risky Raider. Cabela has an excellent temperament, drive, nose, and hunting results. Cabela is a phenomenal family companion and hunting dog - the perfect mix. She works as a South Dakota pheasant guide dog with Chris in the fall and retrieves hundreds of birds each year. This year, while guiding a client from Colorado he shot down 2 birds, one in front of him and the other behind him. Cabela shot over and retrieved the bird in front and brought it to me. She then took off to get the other bird shot behind him. He exclaimed, “Man she’s an awesome dog – that was awesome!” Cabela looks just like her mother who is also a South Dakota Pheasant guide dog. Her father is a beautiful pointing lab. Cabela passed her Junior Hunter title in the summer of 2007 and went 4 for 4, while less than 50% of the other dogs were able to pass the tests.   Click this link to see a video of Cabela running an AKC Hunt Test. Additional video's of her performing in her 2007 Hunt Tests can be requested via e-mail. Cabela had 13 puppies in her 1st litter (9 female and 4 male) and we have received numerous compliments from the new owners about how well their Labs are doing. Cabela’s puppies are good looking, intelligent, well mannered, and live to please their owners, in the field and in the home. Our family is totally in love with Cabela as she is everything we ever wanted for a pet and a hunting companion. Cabela loves adults and children, playing, snuggling, hunting, retrieving, water, training, and automobile and 4-wheeler rides (to name just a few). She gets along magnificently with the other dogs in our family too! AKC Reg #:  SR30060102 DOB:  10/30/2005 OFA:  GOOD Eye Cerf:  Normal Larsons Browning Birdbuster - "Browning" was a Christmas present to me, from my wife and children in 2005. Fortunately, Browning has totally lived up to her name! She earned her AKC Jr. Hunter Title, AKC Sr. Hunter Title, 2nd Place in the 2008 Top Gun Pro Flusher Division of the US Pheasant Championship, top three placements in every Bird Dog Challenge entered (as seen on the Outdoor Channel), a bid to the National Bird Dog Top Gun Challenge (which we missed because it was opening pheasant hunting in SD – clients come first), and most importantly she’s a professional pheasant guide dog and one of the best pheasant hunting labs you’ll ever see. She’s also loves duck hunting and can make 100+ yard blind retrieves. If you’ve never duck hunted with a lab that will take hand signals to ducks they didn’t see fall, or ducks that are wounded and swim to shore, you’re missing out! Browning is a very pretty, athletic, and muscular chocolate lab. She can literally run 30 mph, as I’ve clocked her on my 4-wheeler. She’s also tough as nails. She’s just over 4 years old now and never been hurt hunting or ever shown any sign of health issues (wish I had her genes). Browning’s hunted well over 150 days and when we guide pheasant hunts it’s not uncommon for her to retrieve 100 birds per day in corn, milo, crp, tree’s, wind, rain, and snow. Each day she gives it 100%! She’s really a hunter’s dream come true, and she is totally that for my family and I. She’s also a sweet, loving family lab who loves to give us kisses, have her belly rubbed, and her head and nose scratched, too. She loves to curl up in the front of my pick up, and sleep in the hotel room while on hunting trips. I could put a ‘Big Mac’ 12 inches from her nose and she would not eat it until I would give her permission, she’s a very obedient lab. Browning’s unique in the fact that she’s great at hunt tests, but also an excellent natural hunter with a fantastic nose and desire to search, find, and flush game. She even points later in the season when birds hold tight. Just this fall the wind was blowing heavy at our back as we were walking. She was doing her usual back and forth searching for pheasant. She literally ran a foot past a bird, caught wind of it, stopped on a dime, and crawled in like a mountain lion on a stalk and flushed the pheasant. Down the rooster went, and I couldn’t believe it just because the wind was so strong at our backs and she literally took 1 step downwind of the bird and smelled it while running away from it. People I guide for call her “lightening” because of her quick, athletic speed. She’s a very fun lab to watch hunt and retrieve. Browning is also an excellent marker. What I mean by that is when a bird’s shot, or training dummy is thrown up to 100 yards or greater in distance, she marks the fall, waits until she’s given the ‘ok’ to do the retrieve, and then runs wide open to the fall and brings the game right back to me. She has excellent concentration, confidence, and nose scenting skills. Browning is a hi-powered female and her pups should make excellent family, hunting, hunt test or field trial prospects. Browning is a playful and loving family dog, as well as an excellent hunting dog. AKC Reg #:  SR50849703 DOB:  06/11/2008 Larson’s TNT Nitro Express - “Nitro” is truly living up to his name. When you see Nitro's big body exploding from brush after making a fantastic pheasant retrieve you’ll see why his is name is Nitro. Nitro’s father, Deuce is out of www.BlackJackKennels.com and is a 1.5x Grand Master Pointing Retriever, Master Hunter, and Qualify All Age. Nitro is only a little over 1 year old and has already been through a ‘swim by’ and will be ready for AKC Senior tests next spring. He’s also been guiding this fall on pheasant hunts, and is truly a joy to watch retrieve. Nitro is very lean, tall, extremely muscular, and very fast. He literally blasts off to get a retrieve, and he can jump like a deer. On top of that, he’s extremely good looking and is in the 75 lb range. His head and neck are huge, shoulders broad and muscular, and so are his legs. Nitro’s a great addition to our family, and we look forward to a promising 2010 for him. Nitro will have his AKC Senior Hunter Title this spring, and hips/elbows/eic testing have been submitted. His hips and elbows look great according to the vet, and his parents were EIC clear. Nitro is available for stud service to approved females. Contact Chris for more information about stud fees and breeding requirements. Nitro’s pups should be well bred for pheasant, waterfowl, and family. In Memory Princess Okoboji Larson - "Boji" 10/6/08 was not a good day for us. We were shocked and saddened with the unexpected death of Boji. It was like a perfect weekend for Boji. We went duck hunting and she got to retrieve my sons ducks Saturday morning, and she was SO GOOD and we were SO PROUD. She then went pheasant hunting Saturday with my son and I in SD Youth Opener -- again did great. Then Sunday, it was a day to relax but she did get to retrieve her 1st, and only goose that day with one I shot at our place. Sunday was kind of a misty over cast day. We went to Sunday school and church. We worked inside all day because of the weather. That evening we decided to pick apples from our apple tree to make pies for us, and our neighbors, and apple butter. We let the dogs out as normal when we are outside. They were eating apples off the ground. Boji is an extremely fast, athletic dog and a fast eater. Things were normal Sunday night, and I fed the dogs. Monday morning I got up at 5 am to do my newsletter, and my normal morning dog exercises and get everyone ready for work and school. It was dark out. I walked the dogs out back, and it was raining. I didn't see BOJI, but when I came back near the garage there she was but she acted tired. I took a very soft fleece old baby blanket of 1 of the boys and put it in a porta kennel to let her rest for the morning and I didn't feed here thinking if she was sick I'd just let her rest. Shannon works as a nurse and left before 7am, and I left at 7:30 am. I could tell she did not feel good, and was just sleeping. I figured Shannon would be home at 11am to let her out. Shannon got home, and she got up and headed for a drink of water and was acting like she needed to throw up (and she didn't). She was very stiff in her moving. Shannon called me, and we set a vet appointment for 3:40 (I can still see the ink on my hand). Shannon went back to work preparing the apples we picked the night before. She again check on BOJI, and she was dead. And, all of this with her acting perfectly normally, happy, and healthy all weekend long. We were so sad. Our stomachs ached, and there were tears. Cabela and the other dogs knew something was up. Cabela kept wanting to get by her face and lick her. I came home from work and me and my entire family brought BOJI to the vet to try figure out how a perfectly healthy dog just dies the next day? Upon a mini autopsy, we immediately saw her guts were twisted in her stomach. What we think happened is she ate so many apples Sunday night when we as a family were picking them to can. I don't know how many she ate. But, we believe she ate a lot and she's so fast that she could have then lunged for say an apple off the ground or wrestled or played with another dog and her intestines w/all the food/apple weight swung like a pendulum inside her and twisted her insides (kind of like if you took a long skinny balloon, and twisted it in the middle). Upon the autopsy, you could see it was twisted up close to her heart -- over 75% of her intestines were shot. She never whined, complained, etc on Monday morning. She was just lethargic. The vet said had we brought her in Monday morning he would have had to put her down anyway because there was too much infected intestines. I did some research last night, and this is also a reason they recommend not to feed dogs just 1 time a day or to exercise them after eating. This is such a freak accident; I just really can't believe it. I was so excited for her this fall and she was such a nice, beautiful, kind dog who was always smiling. If you have a pup from this litter, you know what I'm talking about. I loved her demeanor, and she was just a special dog to us all. We then brought her home from the vet, and buried her way in our back yard by the corn field where she loved to play, run, and train. We pointed her head north into the wind like a good, smart bird dog would like to work a field and we put some shotgun shells and her favorite dummy and dog bone in her grave. It was a very sad, and shocking day. I know she just a dog, but you realize after something like this how good your dog can make you feel and how special and rewarding they can be to a human life. If there is a doggie heaven up there, I look forward to the day I can pick her up again and give her one of her favorite belly rubs and retrieves. Our family has always loved our labs, and they do give us pleasure and joy. To see a slide show of BOJI, click here.