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Fork Retrievers has been a full service, family-run
training facility for quality hunting retrievers since
1976. Owners John and Beth Ann Amico are nationally
known gun dog trainers and members of the Professional Retriever Trainers
Association,
a select group of the top retriever trainers in the
country. Over the years, our staff at Deep Fork
Retrievers has produced numerous Master and Grand Master
Hunting Retrievers and additional titles on over one
hundred dogs. |
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John and Beth Ann have
presented training demonstrations for national hunting shows, sporting
goods stores and sportsmen’s groups including Bass Pro, Sportsman’s
Warehouse, Academy Sports & Outdoors, G&H Decoys, Ducks Unlimited, U.S.
Fish & Wildlife Service, Step Outside Program, Boy Scouts of America,
National Wild Turkey Federation, Becoming An Outdoors Woman program, and
the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. |
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^ John has annually shared
his duck hunting expertise with outdoor writer Wade
Bourne for Ducks Unlimited Magazine. Deep Fork
Retrievers was also featured in a three-part series on
hunting retriever training in the Daily Oklahoman,
the state’s largest newspaper. Deep Fork Retrievers has
been featured on Outdoors Oklahoma five times due
to the record number of viewer requests for our insight
into training hunting retrievers. We were also
featured in the premier episode of The World of Dogs,
an award-winning television show currently airing on PBS
channels in the U.S. and Europe. This past year,
we arranged a hunting segment for the National Rifle
Association that appeared on The Today Show.
Other television appearances include On The Water In
the Woods with Cody and Cody and WomenHunters
Outdoors on the Sportsman channel.
Radio listeners have enjoyed our expertise
on retriever training on Field and Stream,
ESPN, Advantage Outdoor, and Hunt
Sleep Fish Radio.
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Our dogs have
been featured in two books on training, "Hey
Pup - Fetch It Up" by Bill Tarrant and on
the cover of "Gun Dog" by Richard Wolters,
revised by Charles Journey.
Deep Fork-bred and trained HR Grande's
Rolling Stone Hunter appeared in a
national print ad campaign for Bismuth
Cartridge Co. |
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^ Beth
Ann is a national award-winning outdoor writer and has
been published in numerous publications including
Woman’s Outlook, Women in the Outdoors,
HunTeen, Outdoor Oklahoma, Outdoors
Unlimited, Wheelin’ Sportsmen and the
Labrador Quarterly. She has been named the new gun
dog editor for the Labrador Retriever Club and has just
been published in A Mile In Her Boots, a new
anthology by contemporary women in outdoor professions.
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| She is also an avid hunter and was invited by the Limbsaver/Sims Vibration Laboratory corporate staff to
hunt Alaskan black bear on the Prince of Wales Island.
This successful hunt was filmed for the Limbsaver
Outdoor America television show on the Outdoor
Channel and their DVD series. |
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