Favourite Upland Dog
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RE: Favourite Upland Dog
by far a lab, where i hunt pointers are good but not great. Labs just push em up where a pointer can have a dozen points before he gets that actual bird.
#12
RE: Favourite Upland Dog
The best pointer i ever had was a german longhair. Also the ugliest. He was a natural. We used to kill over a hundred pheasants over him every year. but he got arthritis really bad, and ended up putting him down.
#13
Join Date: Nov 2003
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RE: Favourite Upland Dog
I've hunted with Weimaraners my whole life and have never found a better upland bird dog. Throughout the years the only breed I've hunting with that could come close, in my opinion, was a German Wirehaired Pointer.
I would put my Weims aganst any Lab in the morning on waterfowl, and run them with any Britt or English Pointer the same afternoon for any upland bird.
I would put my Weims aganst any Lab in the morning on waterfowl, and run them with any Britt or English Pointer the same afternoon for any upland bird.
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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RE: Favourite Upland Dog
benellibirdman:
i would like to see your wiem keep up with a lab doing a blind retrieve, in a freezing cold blind, on a icy pond.....dont think so
I would put my Weims aganst any Lab in the morning on waterfowl
#17
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 24
RE: Favourite Upland Dog
Had Yellow labs, Black Labs and english pointers growing up in Maine. After 12 years in the army and the past three years in Florida I am finally moving back to maine this next spring and am going to be looking for either an English Setter or another Lab type.