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GUNDOG TRAINING VIDEOS

Access over 300 detailed gun dog training videos covering everything you need to know to train your puppy or retrain an older dog. Follow carefully structured modules that guide you step-by-step, teaching your dog the same proven methods champion trainer Ben Randall uses. Whether you’re starting with basic obedience or advanced retrieving, our video library makes gun dog puppy training and beyond easy and effective.

BG FOUNDATIONS

To build a house you need solid foundations. The same is true for a great gundog.

This chapter covers everything you need to know to teach your dog all the essential life skills it will need:

How to teach your dog to sit/stop
How to use a whistle to train your dog
How to get your dog to walk to heel on and off the lead
Introducing your dog to retrieving
Teaching your dog steadiness
Teaching the ‘leave’ command

BG Foundations: 29 video lessons

✅ REWARD BASED
✅ AS USED BY CHAMPION TRAINER BEN RANDALL
✅ STEP-BY-STEP

DIRECTIONAL WORK

Before moving on to fully blown retrieving, we need to teach our dogs to move in directions you ask them to. As well as being a stimulating and rewarding exercise for your partnership, this key life skill will allow your gundog to be directed by you to a retrieve when out in the field.

Directional Work: 11 video lessons

✅ TRANSITION FROM FOOD TO DUMMIES
✅ CEMENTS YOUR DOG’S UNDERSTANDING OF DIRECTIONAL COMMANDS
✅ LESSONS BROKEN DOWN BASED ON HOW DOGS LEARN

RETRIEVING

Exhaustive section covering the full toolbox you need for retrieving, including:

Memory retrieves
Marking
Hunt whistle
Troubleshooting problems and mistakes

Retrieving: 31 video lessons

✅ PROVEN TECHNIQUES
✅ FULL OVERVIEW AND IN ONE PLACE
✅ COMMON PROBLEMS SOLVED

ADVANCED HANDLING

The final step in preparation before your dog is shoot-ready:

Advancing directional work with distance, and distractions
Jumping obstacles
Advanced spaniel work on dummies
Blind retrieves
Advanced hunt whistle – preparing for the field
Advanced leave
Advanced marking

Advanced Handling: 43 video lessons

✅ TIPS AND TRICKS FROM 3 DECADES OF GUNDOG TRAINING
✅ AVOID FRUSTRATING YOUR DOG BY INTRODUCING MORE COMPLEX TECHNIQUES AT THE RIGHT TIME
✅ COVERS ALL THE SKILLS YOUR DOG NEEDS

INTRO TO SHOT

Every year countless dogs are inadvertently made ‘gun shy’ by being introduced to guns and loud noises incorrectly.

Here we cover the proven process to gently introduce your dog to firearms to prevent them becoming frightened for life and unable to work in the field.

Introduction to Shot: 8 video lessons

✅ STRUCTURED APPROACH
✅ USED SUCCESSFULLY WITH THOUSANDS OF DOGS
✅ COVERS SOUND AND VISUAL CUES

INTRO TO WATER

Gundogs are bred to be able to navigate water obstacles. This module cover the full step by step process to make sure your dog is confident retrieving in or beyond water courses.

Introduction to Water: 10 video lessons

✅ SIMLE EASY TO FOLLOW DRILLS
✅ USED BY BEN FOR HIS OWN AS WELL AS CLIENTS’ DOGS
✅ PROVEN APPROACH

SPANIEL HUNTING

Spaniels are commonly used to flush game in a beating or rough shooting scenario. In this module, Ben covers more advanced techniques that you need to learn to perform these jobs effectively including:

Introducing spaniel hunting
Cover treatment
Sit to flush
Introducing live game

Spaniel Hunting: 26 video lessons

✅ FROM A-PANEL JUDGE AND BACK TO BACK COCKER CHAMPION
✅ FOR BEGINNERS AS WELL AS PART TRAINED DOGS LOOKING TO IMPROVE
✅ SKILLS TO EXCEL IN THE FIELD

ADVANCED RETRIEVER

One of the great advantages of retrievers as a breed is their steadiness and ability to retrieve over vast distances. In this module, Ben teaches how to send your dog on long retrieves past multiple obstacles.

Advanced Retriever: 16 video lessons

✅ LONG RANGE DRONE FOOTAGE
✅ EXPLANATION OF EFFECT OF WIND ON LONG RETREIEVES
✅ HELP YOUR DOG MEET THEIR POTENTIAL

LIVE GAME

Putting it all together. Ben shows:

How to introduce your dog to live game
How your dog should behave in different scenarios from rough shooting to on the peg

Live Game: 17 video lessons

✅ REAL LIFE SHOOTING FOOTAGE
✅ HUNTING, FLUSHING AND RETRIEVING
✅ BLUEPRINT FOR BEST IN CLASS DOG WORK

PICKING UP

Many of our members pick up on commercial shoots. In this module Ben shares how to apply the techniques taught in the app to a picking up and ‘sweeping’ scenario.

Picking up: 1 video lesson

✅ BE PREPARED TO PICK UP ON A SHOOT DAY
✅ BASED ON BEN’S OWN EXPERIENCE ON HUNDREDS OF COMMERCIAL SHOOTS
✅ EASY TO FOLLOW ADVICE

BEN'S TRAINING

BONUS CONTENT

Follow along as champion trainer Ben Randall trains his own dogs at Beggarbush Gundogs HQ.

Ben’s training: regular new content

✅ Different ages
✅ Problem solving
✅ Ben demonstrates how he uses the Gundog App himself

GUNDOG HEALTH

BONUS SECTION

As gundog owners, we care deeply about our dogs’ wellbeing.

In this section we have advice from dog healthcare professionals to help you to put your dog’s health first.

✅ ADVICE FROM QUALIFIED VETS
✅ MOST COMMON HEALTH QUESTIONS COVERED
✅ HANDY REFERENCE TOOL

BG AMBASSADORS

BONUS SECTION

Learn from peers who are also using the app. Our BG Ambassadors have been selected because of their dedication to training their dogs using the positive reward-based techniques taught in Gundog App.

All started their training on the app and have been on the same journey as you. Watch their free videos to see how you can structure your training sessions.