Champion Bird Dogs
subheadlineWell-bred and trained, seasoned pointing, flushing and retrieving dogs are essential for a fantastic and memorable plantation quail hunt. No way around it, everything centers around the gundogs.
Photo: Robb Aaron Gordon for Garden & Gun Magazine
2x National bird dog ChampionOnly Shadow Oak Plantation can rightfully brag of being home to the world’s most famous English setter, Champion Shadow Oak Bo.
Call name “Bo” not only won the title twice for his acclaimed field trial trainer and handler, Robin Gates and his owner, Butch Houston but caused a sensation in the bird dog world by being the first English setter to win the title in 43 long years!
Bo won many other significant field trial championships that qualified him to compete at Ames. In 2011, Bo won silver for his win of the most prestigious wild quail championship, the Continental Open All-Age Championship held on the famous Dixie Plantation in Greenville, Florida just south of nearby Quitman, Georgia.
Every event we host is designed with intention, from the atmosphere we create to the way each session flows.
01
2x National Bird Dog National Champion in 2013 & 2014
English Cockers to flush
a winning legacy02
Featured in Garden & Gun and Field & Stream as “Top Dog”
Lab to retrieve
03
Something about Hall of Fame here…Bo is in the Hall of Fame
Butch is too
Joe Shadow is too
Setters find the quail and point
Pointers