Agreed, for your first hunting dog I would go with either the Lab or maybe a Golden Reteiver as they are much easier to train than a Chessy plus the Labs/Retreivers make great famly dogs. The Chessies can be quite hard headed sometimes. Personally, I have an English Setter(great family dog too) and she spends more time retreiving waterfowl than she does upland, and she loves doing both. Good luck.

Ron