RE: BLK Pointing Lab at Stud
Truth be told....this is Alaska dude, everybody hunts, women can wear fur coats down the street, and you can keep pictures of you with your dead fish and game at your desk and nobdoy cares. I will agree some hunting dog clubs are full of bitty women who don't even hunt but think they know exactly what a hunting dog should do, but up here, it just is not the case
I also do not believe NAVHDA is the end all be all of testing, and their registration is good for well....getting into NAVHDA events. The PL people want a place to test their dogs against other breeds that are versatile, and the JGHV sure as hell is not going to be hosting PL's anytime soon, so NAVHDA seems to be their only logical option right now.
Mite - seems like from your post, you already know the correct direction to take. There was a big bruhaha at the Deutsch Kurzhaar club because some guys wanted to keep breeders from breeding to shorthairs, others wanted to be able to breed their Kurzhaars to the shorthairs and still remain in good standing with the breed club. The mixers lost, let's see what shakes out because of it.