First-String Dogs
The dogs make the hunt. From working the cover and holding the point to the flush and retrieve, quality dog work shapes the entire experience—the shooting is only one part of it.
About DGC
Built around the dogs, the hunt, and good company.
DGC Quail Hunts is an owner-operated Alabama quail-hunting business shaped by years of hands-on field experience and a simple standard: do the work well and make guests feel at home.
The operation
Personal ownership. A guest-centered hunt.
DGC Quail Hunts is personally owned and operated by Dustin Callis.
Dustin sets the field and hospitality standards and remains directly involved in the operation of each hunt. That hands-on involvement is meant to keep the hunt well cared for: small parties, serious dog work, thoughtful service, and enough room for the experience to unfold naturally.
DGC is a small, independently owned business developed from years of guided quail hunt experience. It is built to offer traditional Southern bobwhite hunting in a way that feels personal without feeling staged.
What defines DGC
The hunt should be remembered for more than the shooting.
Good hunting and good hospitality strengthen one another. DGC is built around three standards that keep both in view.
First-Class Hospitality
If the dogs are expected to be top-notch, the guides should be too. Every guest should receive knowledgeable guidance, thoughtful attention, and genuine Southern hospitality—from their first phone call until they head home.
Damn Good Company
A traditional quail hunt should feel unhurried, memorable, and worth coming back to—for the time in the field and the company that comes with it. We want every guest to feel like they’re hunting with old friends—and we hope that, before long, they will be.
Experience built one hunt at a time
Quail hunting came first.
The experience behind DGC was earned through the practical work required to make a guided quail hunt run well.
Quail hunting was part of Dustin’s life long before DGC came along. For over 10 years, he helped operate a successful quail-hunting business. He began by driving the wagon, assisting hunters, and handling flushing dogs. Over time, that role grew to include dog handling and care, bird release, wagon and field preparation, guest service, and the many details required to carry a hunt from arrival through departure.
That work taught him how the whole day fits together: birds and dogs, land and equipment, timing and safety, and the kind of welcome that makes guests want to return. It also established a conviction that still guides DGC—the human part of a quail hunt matters every bit as much as the shooting.
What DGC means
Three initials. More than one honest explanation.
DGC does not have to be just a set of initials; it can stand for more than one thing. For a hunter looking at it literally, it's easy:
Dogs. Guns. Coveys.
That describes the field. Another meaning describes the experience. A great quail hunt should include first-rate dog work and good shooting, but the hunts remembered best also involve people whose company makes the day better.
First-String Dogs.
First-Class Hospitality.
Damn Good Company.
Where a milder tone suits the occasion, the same letters can become Decidedly Good Company or Distinctly Good Company. The name stays the same while the explanation shifts slightly.
The initials have a story of their own. The same three letters can describe the dogs, the hunt, the hospitality, and the company, each with a knowing wink of its own. Same letters, different wink. And because Wink—the cocker behind the DGC mark—is part of the story, the line works two ways.
What comes first
The business matters. The people matter more.
DGC is built around a straightforward order of priorities: faith, family, friends, and community before business.
That order shapes the way guests are welcomed, the way commitments are handled, and the way everyone who helps make a hunt possible is treated.
Mudslide Kennels
The dog program behind DGC.
The dogs are not decoration around the hunt. They are the reason the hunt works.
Mudslide Kennels is the identity carried by Dustin’s working-dog program and registered kennel history. Wink—his first cocker and the cornerstone of the gun-dog string he has built—became the natural visual centerpiece of DGC.
The connection is practical as much as personal. DGC’s hunts are designed around the sequence that makes Southern quail hunting distinctive: pointers finding and holding birds, flushing dogs completing the work, and hunters moving through the field as part of that partnership.
Visit Mudslide Kennels
DGC stands on its own.
DGC Quail Hunts is a new business, but the experience behind it is not.
Owned and operated by Dustin Callis, DGC brings years of practical field work into an operation with its own identity, dogs, standards, and future. The goal is direct: serious dog work, traditional Southern quail hunting, thoughtful hospitality, and a well-run day that feels personal, memorable, and worth returning to.