I hunt mainly upland. So the dogs have no choice but to hunt what I hunt. The lab will not point but he will honor a point. The chesapeake does the pointing. Of coarse he will retrieve anything with fur or feathers that will fit in his mouth. He even brought me back a groundhog I shot last summer.
I trained him to follow hand signals instead of sound because I don't want to spook game as much. He was born with one bad eye so his range is only 300 yards or so. The Chessy follows signal commands out to 700 yards or so. When I point down that means follow the chessy, he stay 10 or 15 feet behind her. So he still gets to run and hunt out far, he just has to copy her. I mainly use his clumbsy butt as a brush buster to kick birds up.

I have him run a zig zag pattern to flush rabbits to me. He does not chase them, they just try to slip away from him. I can also send him to the opposite side of the field and bring him back with the command slow to have him walk through the thick and push game out. I use them squirrel hunting as well. When I spot a squirrel I send them out past the tree for distraction and have them roll over. That draws the squirrel's attention from me to get a shot off.
As long as you can make it understand what you want they will do a lot. Just be patient and provide a whole lot of praise. Personally I am a chessy fan since they have all the attributes of a lab and are smarter. On the other hand it takes a very strong willed person to train a chessy. My wife is able to train the lab, she is last in the pecking order in the house but he is eager to do what anybody says. The chessy will come to me when the wife is trying to train it and sit at my feat looking up. I will point to my wife sending the dog to her. The wife will issue a command and the dog looks at me. I snap my fingers and the dog obeys the command my wife gave. The sad part is it's her dog, as is the lab.