Bob during an early February snow squall in the
hills of southern Arizona during a Mearn's quail
hunt with Don Lee, professional hunting guide and
fellow Pittman-Robertson Working Group member. Don's
German shorthaired pointers had just located a scattered
Mearn's covey when the squall shutdown visibility
to just a few feet. Climbing up and down high desert
canyon walls tests eastern hunters, or at least
it did this one.
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Bob Kane lives
on a cattle farm in beautiful, rural Madison County, Virginia.
He's hunted all his adult life and with Brittanies for
30 years. After retiring from a Washington, DC federal
affairs consulting job in 1995, he got involved in protecting
hunting dog owners' rights. Politics, hunting dogs, scuba
diving and his family are his passions. He and his wife
Jean have a grown child on either coast and four grandchildren.
He's
trained his own dogs, for the most part, although they've
occasionally gone to professional trainers and handlers.
He field trials under both AKC and AFTCA rules. Currently
he has a good derby prospect with a Mid-West professional,
an AKC gun dog and a finished male that's more AFTCA shooting
dog, but not quite AKC all-age. He finished one of the
pointing dogs' first Master Hunters and enjoys judging
both field trials and tests.
Field trial campaigning and hunting trips have taken him
over much of rural America. Retirement's given he and
his wife more time to travel, follow the bigger field
trial circuits, hunt birds and train dogs.
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