KCHRC Membership
Kansas City Hunting Retriever Club Objectives:
Reasons for you to join Kansas City Hunting Retriever Association:
There are plenty of reasons for joining our retriever club. Friendship, love of retrievers, maybe you are a hunter looking for people to hunt with or just looking to improve your days in the field or in the marsh.
CONSERVATION
One of the best reasons is conservation. A well trained retriever is conservation in action. No one likes to waste game, but everyone cripples a bird from time to time. The trained retriever is the best and fastest means of finding downed birds.
TRAINING
The most efficient way to turn your retriever into a well trained conservationist is to join a retriever club. At KCHRC you will meet people of all backgrounds; some will have years of experience while others will be just starting out. Many clubs such as KCHRC have many members who donate their time to help train club member dogs, hence our Saturday Training Days and Fun Test’s.
TESTING
A GREAT reason to join clubs like KCHRC is the opportunity to participate in organized hunt tests and earn ribbons and titles for you and your dog. Hunting tests are great fun for the entire family. You get to see dogs and meet people from around the country. Some of the people you meet will become lifelong friends even though you may only see them at a few tests each year. Meeting a wide range of people provides you with a network of new hunting partners.
WHY SHOULD I JOIN A RETRIEVER CLUB?
Perhaps you already have a retriever and participate in tests but you do not belong to a club. We meet people all the time that say "Why should I join a club? I just want to enter and run my dog." If you live in our region then you should join KCHRC right now. Without clubs like ours, there would be no tests to enter. The clubs put out a great deal of effort to provide us all a venue to run our dogs. The regional clubs are highly vocal and visible to the local conservation officers and managers. Two hundred people or more showing up for a two-day event makes a big impression and economic impact. It helps to preserve your rights to use and hunt public lands. The club works closely with conservation managers to ensure that these areas remain open for you to use.
EXPECTATIONS
KCHRC is a volunteer organization. The club has an outstanding reputation for the quality of the events it sponsors. You are expected to provide some volunteer help to the club as a member. If everyone gives some time, then the total burden does not fall on only a few persons. Be sure to check areas of interest to you on the membership application. We take new members very serious and the information collected is to track member interests and make the club better for all of us.
What can the club do for me?
Only $25.00/year (individual) or $30.00 (family)
gets you dogs you can handle, lots of fun people, plus all this:
Please click the document below for a membership application, or click here for a PDF version.
Kansas City Hunting Retriever Club Objectives:
- KCHRC promotes and educates the use and training of hunting retrievers as a conservation tool for sound management and use of all our upland game and waterfowl.
- Educate handlers, owners and the general public and to encourage field testing of pure-bred hunting retrievers and to do as much as possible to bring their natural abilities to their highest level.
- KCHRC will do all in our power to protect and advance the interest of pure-bred hunting retrievers through education and promote quality in the breeding of hunting retrievers.
- To conduct training sessions and sanctioned and licensed hunting dog tests under the rules of HRC and the AKC.
Reasons for you to join Kansas City Hunting Retriever Association:
There are plenty of reasons for joining our retriever club. Friendship, love of retrievers, maybe you are a hunter looking for people to hunt with or just looking to improve your days in the field or in the marsh.
CONSERVATION
One of the best reasons is conservation. A well trained retriever is conservation in action. No one likes to waste game, but everyone cripples a bird from time to time. The trained retriever is the best and fastest means of finding downed birds.
TRAINING
The most efficient way to turn your retriever into a well trained conservationist is to join a retriever club. At KCHRC you will meet people of all backgrounds; some will have years of experience while others will be just starting out. Many clubs such as KCHRC have many members who donate their time to help train club member dogs, hence our Saturday Training Days and Fun Test’s.
TESTING
A GREAT reason to join clubs like KCHRC is the opportunity to participate in organized hunt tests and earn ribbons and titles for you and your dog. Hunting tests are great fun for the entire family. You get to see dogs and meet people from around the country. Some of the people you meet will become lifelong friends even though you may only see them at a few tests each year. Meeting a wide range of people provides you with a network of new hunting partners.
WHY SHOULD I JOIN A RETRIEVER CLUB?
Perhaps you already have a retriever and participate in tests but you do not belong to a club. We meet people all the time that say "Why should I join a club? I just want to enter and run my dog." If you live in our region then you should join KCHRC right now. Without clubs like ours, there would be no tests to enter. The clubs put out a great deal of effort to provide us all a venue to run our dogs. The regional clubs are highly vocal and visible to the local conservation officers and managers. Two hundred people or more showing up for a two-day event makes a big impression and economic impact. It helps to preserve your rights to use and hunt public lands. The club works closely with conservation managers to ensure that these areas remain open for you to use.
EXPECTATIONS
KCHRC is a volunteer organization. The club has an outstanding reputation for the quality of the events it sponsors. You are expected to provide some volunteer help to the club as a member. If everyone gives some time, then the total burden does not fall on only a few persons. Be sure to check areas of interest to you on the membership application. We take new members very serious and the information collected is to track member interests and make the club better for all of us.
What can the club do for me?
Only $25.00/year (individual) or $30.00 (family)
gets you dogs you can handle, lots of fun people, plus all this:
- Weekend Training Sessions (scheduled throughout the year)
- Training Insights from experienced handlers
- Mock Tests (both waterfowl & upland)
- Fun Tests (both waterfowl & upland)
- Club Meetings & Social Events
- Learn Hunting Techniques & Safety from experiences hunters
- Meet Lots of Retriever Lovers that will help you & your dog grow as a team
Please click the document below for a membership application, or click here for a PDF version.
| kchrc_membership_application.doc |
