Building monsters in the field with manners around the family.

Gun Dog Training in York County, PA

At Iron Oak Dog Company, our companion gun dog training program is a comprehensive program built for hunters who want a driven, reliable field partner that’s also calm, obedient, and polite in town. You only get so many days in the field, and on the water. You've got to make the most of them. The rest of the year your dog needs to fit seamlessly into everyday life. This isn’t just traditional obedience, retrieving, or upland field work. It’s a complete lifestyle program for gun dogs designed to build harmony between your hunting life and your home life. This isn’t just field work. It’s a complete sporting lifestyle training program.

Our training programs for hunting companions in York and Adams County, PA utilize a flexible framework, expertly curated to the specific needs of you and your dog. We guide you every step of the way no matter what your goals are. Our Companion Gun Dog Training Programs are appropriate for all sporting breeds including retrievers, flushers, pointers, and versatile hunting dogs. We work with you directly to determine appropriate outcomes for your dog based on their genetics and your hunting, testing, and trialing goals. You can have it all, in balance, and on demand.

Our Companion Gun Dog Training Program builds a calm companion around town:

  • Stop undesirable behaviors in public and at home

  • Build handler focus and neutrality toward distractions

  • Enjoy restaurants, parks, and travel with your dog

  • Responsive and responsible behavior in all environments

Our Companion Gun Dog Training Program builds a polished predator on the hunt:

  • Disciplined tracking for big game recovery

  • Non-slip retrieve for upland and waterfowl

  • Bold searching to produce more game for the gun

  • Cooperation and control to hunt with and for you

  • Understanding

    We’ve been there, struggling to make sense of all the conflicting information out there while trying to help our dog. We’ve learned from the best in the business and distill what works down into an easy to follow training program.

  • Real Results

    We use science-backed, results-driven methods tailored to each dog. No cookie-cutter approach and no guesswork. You get a personalized roadmap that creates real results and no fallout. We get it right the first time.

  • Trusted Nationwide

    Dog owners and professional trainers from all over the county attend our seminars, seek our advice on difficult cases, and participate in our online community. Our client reviews speak for themselves.

  • Our Promise

    We guarantee our training works. We work with our clients until we achieve the standards for their training program. You pay for results instead of unfulfilled promises and no accountability.

Training Programs

All of our training programs include:

  • lifestyle training

    • house manners

    • physical handling + grooming

    • socialization + enrichment

  • obedience

    • leash manners

    • coming when called

    • staying put when told

  • gun dog skills

    • drive development

    • yard work

    • field work

  • Our Started program covers three basic obedience commands for home and field, proper remote collar conditioning, and game and gunfire introductions.

    Dogs should be at least four months of age for this program.

    $4500 Six Weeks

  • Our Hunter program leverages the foundation laid in our Started program as we work your dog through the formal trained retrieve. In the field we work to develop staunch pointing or hard flushing for a hunting companion that reliably produces game for the gun. The end result is a well mannered companion, and a useful gun dog before and after the shot

    Dogs should be at least six months old, have completed our Started program, and have at least one season of hunting experience for this program.

    $4500 Six Weeks

  • Our Finished program results in a polished companion gun dog. We focus on proofing and impulse control in this program as we enhanced your dog’s obedience to meet the UKC Socialized Pet Obedience Test standard, and steady them through the shot or fall, depending on your desires.

    Dogs must have completed our Hunter program and have at least one season of hunting experience for this program.

    $4500 Six Weeks

Training Guarantee

  • We know many clients have already invested hundreds or thousands of dollars in training programs with little to nothing to show for it. We back everything we do with a guarantee because we’re confident in the results our services deliver.
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    We keep working with you until you and your dog are able to meet the objective standards for your training program.

    After you successfully complete your program, we’re here for the long haul to answer questions and help you troubleshoot for the life of your dog.

    This protects your investment and recognizes that developing your dog and your relationship with them is an ongoing process.