Lone Oak Retrievers

Full-service retriever training for hunting, hunt tests, and field trails.

About Us

Lone Oak Retrievers – Established in 1997 in Dyersburg, Tennessee, by J. Paul Jackson, Lone Oak Retrievers is a full-service retriever training facility. In 2005, Bobby Wills joined the Lone Oak team with Lone Oak Retrievers East in Greenfield, Tennessee. Today, both locations offer retriever training for obedience, waterfowl, upland hunting, and hunt tests (AKC and UKC). Lone Oak Retrievers East also offers extensive training for AKC field trials and Super Retriever Series competitions.

About J. Paul and Melanie

Born in Dyersburg, Tennessee, and living in the nearby community of Roellen, J. Paul and Melanie are natives of Northwest Tennessee. J. Paul graduated from Dyersburg High School in 1982, the University of Missouri in 1990 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Environmental Science, and Dyersburg State Community College in 1997 with an Associate’s of Applied Science in Nursing. Melanie is a 1988 graduate of Dyersburg High and earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 1993.

A lifelong hunter, hunting guide, and outdoorsman, J. Paul began training dogs over thirty years ago after a friend gave him a Lab pup for Christmas. He continued to work with both his dogs and those of friends over the years, and in 1997, while in nursing school, he opened Lone Oak Retrievers, a professional retriever training facility. Melanie began training with him in 2002, and with her support that year, he left his career as a Registered Nurse and began training and competing with his retrievers full-time.


About Bobby Wills

As an outdoorsman since age 8, Bobby Wills has developed a love of the outdoors that soon grew into a career. This career began when he received his first retriever in 1987. Loving the experience and work, Bobby founded Moonshine Kennels in 1989. Bobby is now a Lone Oak Retriever team member, partnering with J. Paul Jackson, turning Moonshine Kennels into Lone Oak Retrievers East.

Today, Bobby runs a very successful kennel in Greenfield, Tennessee, and trains hunting dogs while competing in hunt tests and field trials. He is a competitor in the Super Retriever Series, where he finished in first place at events in Maryland in 2011, Oklahoma in 2012, South Carolina in 2013, and Louisiana in 2014. He also won first place in the American Retriever Classic in the spring and fall of 2009 and the Classic in the spring of 2010. His crowning achievement, however, has been winning the coveted gold medal at the Super Retriever Series Crown Championship in 2010. Along with this top honor, he also won dog of the year at this competition.

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Contact Us

  • (731) 514 – 1964
  • bobbywills1964@gmail.com
  • Monday-Friday: 8 AM – 5 PM, Saturday: 8 AM-12 PM (By appointment only), Sunday: Closed
  • (731) 589 – 0464
  • jpauljackson1@gmail.com
  • Monday-Friday: 8 AM – 5 PM, Saturday: 8 AM-12 PM (By appointment only), Sunday: Closed