Chase grew up in Central Arkansas where he fell in love with duck hunting at the age of six. As a teenager, he saw the importance of a duck dog… though, his parents didn’t necessarily agree with that. After graduating High School, they allowed the first of the dogs, a Boykin named Fillie. While Fillie wasn’t trained, she still got the work done. Two years later another Boykin, Nellie, came about. Nellie was the first true training dog for Chase. She was trained to the Finished Level and thus the love for the game began.

In 2018 Chase went to work for a local pro trainer before relocating to Texas in 2020 to work for a Hall-of-Fame dog trainer. At the end of 2020, Chase moved back home to Central Arkansas and that’s when GCK officially began. Since then, GCK has trained numerous Hunting Retriever Champs, ran thousands of miles in testing, and turned some great dogs into bad to the bone duck retrievers.

When not being the dog guy, you can find Chase duck hunting, planning a duck hunt, talking about hunting, or dragging his wife, Sarah, to Fort Thompson—- to buy hunting gear. He also takes great pride in teaching their two young kids, Luke (5) and Cooper (2) about the value and passion for the outdoors.