Pointing Lab-English Pointer???
01-02-2007 | 09:52 PM
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Spike
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Pointing Lab-English Pointer???
I currently have a 3 1/2 yr old pointing black lab, I am wanting to get a english pointer also. Do you think the two would hunt well together. My lab has no experience "honoring"point", as I havent hunted her with another pointer yet? Any thoughts would be appreciated..
01-06-2007 | 09:01 PM
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Spike
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RE: Pointing Lab-English Pointer???
What does keeping up with each other have to do with my question, I know my lab or a lab couldnt keep up with a pointer. I could care less if the pointer is still going 100 mph at the end of the day, and my lab is dragging ass....Thats not my question, my question is if you people think that they would hunt well together????
01-06-2007 | 11:30 PM
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Typical Buck
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RE: Pointing Lab-English Pointer???
It is done all the time in the Southeastern US.
The labs ride on the wagon and are sent in to retrieve what the hunters have shot after the pointers or setters have found the birds.
The pointing dogs are sent ahead to find more coveys while the labs do the retrieving.
It's worked very well for many, many years.
The labs ride on the wagon and are sent in to retrieve what the hunters have shot after the pointers or setters have found the birds.
The pointing dogs are sent ahead to find more coveys while the labs do the retrieving.
It's worked very well for many, many years.
01-07-2007 | 04:53 PM
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Giant Nontypical
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RE: Pointing Lab-English Pointer???
most hunting dogsunless they were raised together as puppys,will not hunt together,I MEAN LIKE 5 FT APART ETC..
so, you would have 1 dog going his way other his way.
both will hunt,but not TOGETHER..only what i have seen over 50 years..
so, you would have 1 dog going his way other his way.
both will hunt,but not TOGETHER..only what i have seen over 50 years..
01-07-2007 | 05:16 PM
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RE: Pointing Lab-English Pointer???
sprouI wonder what you have hunted with and seen in 50 years. I'm 53 and have put dogs together of all ages and different breeds at times and if they are well trained they did fine together. I just hunted over some nice pointing Labs in So. Dakota and threw my two year old in the mix that was his second time on wild birds and they worked just fine together. The key is to be able to control your dog. I kept my dog inline with the guides dogs which was about 20yds out and quartering back and fourth.
01-07-2007 | 05:30 PM
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RE: Pointing Lab-English Pointer???
ORIGINAL: woodhorse
sprouI wonder what you have hunted with and seen in 50 years. I'm 53 and have put dogs together of all ages and different breeds at times and if they are well trained they did fine together. I just hunted over some nice pointing Labs in So. Dakota and threw my two year old in the mix that was his second time on wild birds and they worked just fine together. The key is to be able to control your dog. I kept my dog inline with the guides dogs which was about 20yds out and quartering back and fourth.
sprouI wonder what you have hunted with and seen in 50 years. I'm 53 and have put dogs together of all ages and different breeds at times and if they are well trained they did fine together. I just hunted over some nice pointing Labs in So. Dakota and threw my two year old in the mix that was his second time on wild birds and they worked just fine together. The key is to be able to control your dog. I kept my dog inline with the guides dogs which was about 20yds out and quartering back and fourth.
not good situation over years ,but what do i know anyhow..
only what i saw, so, you see different, thats fine..
01-07-2007 | 06:25 PM
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RE: Pointing Lab-English Pointer???
I am sure it happens at timesasI have seen it too. We may havea lot in common as I have and still do raise beagles for over 30 years. I have the old red beagles with copper noses. Hunt cottontail and hare. Have hunted my beagles in most of the states east of the Mississippi and Iowa. Use to trial some in the late 70's early 80's
01-07-2007 | 08:12 PM
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RE: Pointing Lab-English Pointer???
What does keeping up with each other have to do with my question, I know my lab or a lab couldnt keep up with a pointer. I could care less if the pointer is still going 100 mph at the end of the day, and my lab is dragging ass....Thats not my question, my question is if you people think that they would hunt well together????