Gene was a great guy who was a big help to me in the early 80's when we first established the Black Ash Grouse Trial Club. He was one of the first people to step up and judge our shooting dog stakes back when we ran seven one-hour courses per day and the judges had to walk all of them, sometimes for three consecutive days. I will always remember an early fall training session with him at Black Ash when he brought a litter of seven pups and to my surprise ran all of them at the same time. They found multiple broods of young grouse and we had birds flying everywhere, often with four or five pups pointing and backing each other He loved it and we had a blast. The world has lost a good human.

Ted Eriksen