Several may disagree but I guess I'm just an old fashionpointin' dog guy. To me these double duty dogs end up being not very good pointers, or retrievers. I think you are better off going with one dog type or the other. I've seen plenty of pointing dogs that will retrieve upland birds very well.

This week-end we were quail hunting along a river. We were hunting a pointer and two GSP. We knocked a bird down in the water and one of theGSP's swam out and got it. It's training and desire. IMO