
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.
Other Senior Prostaff

Baker McCool
Baker comes from a long background of fishing and waterfowl hunting, having grown up in the fly away in West Tennessee. He is a Delta Waterfowl committee member and West Tennessee HRC Vice President, and has competed in Super Retriever Series as an amateur. His dog Stella has qualified in...

Tom Dokken
Dokken brings more than 45 years of retriever-training experience to the SportDOG team. He is well known as the inventor of Dokken’s Deadfowl Trainer, which has become standard equipment for retriever trainers everywhere. He is the owner of Dokken Dog Supply and Dokken’s Oak Ridge Kennels, the largest gun dog...

Ashley Hopkins
Ashley started hunting in his early childhood years with his father and grandfather. At the age of 15 he began competing in the United Kennel Club (UKC) and Professional Kennel Club (PKC) hunting associations. Ashley has accomplished many titles in his hunting career. Included among those are four Final Four...
