ORIGINAL: Blueditch42
A "dropper" can be any breed shorthair to britt,britt to setter, britt to pointer. How can you make that assumption that breeding a pointer to a setter will result in a big running dog that cant take training??
Dropper's were origionally called that when pointer's and setter's were intentionally bred, the other's are crossbreeds. If you care to get William Brown's book "field Trials" I believe he makes reference to dropper's in it. Get the book thru American Field Publishing.
The assumption is easy to make. If you breed a hard headed big running pointer to a soft temperment setter some of the offspring can show both traits. Then you could end up with a big running dog that can't take the training. The setter's are generally a soft temperment dog to begin with but also generally a lot more bidable than the pointer's. People that fool around crossing breeds seldom stop to concider what they really might get. They for some reason believe that they should get the best of both worlds. If they do a couple time's then they think they found just the thing. You never convince them it's a fools mission until it fails badly on them. Creating reproducable traits in a dog takes many generations of selective breeding and ruthless culling.