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<blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 190577" data-attributes="member: 314">;:;popcorn&nbsp; This debate has been going on since flusher and pointer breeds originated.&nbsp; In my experience it ALL comes down to training and NOT the breed.&nbsp; I've hunted behind the most expensive, best equipped, longest trained, and most colorful barking paper weights ever to pollute the pheasant fields and have hunted behind the free mutt that was worth their weight in GOLD!!!&nbsp; I've seen pointers that wouldn't get beyond 20 yards if the darn bird was walking at 22 yards and I've watched flushers bust an entire quarter of cover in a minute and a half from being let out of the truck.&nbsp; If you spend time with the dog, train them to hunt the way you want them to hunt, and enforce those standards, breed is of lesser importance.&nbsp; I run an English Cocker as that breed normally works closer, slower, is a bit more even keeled so to speak, and is a smaller breed thus more suitable to my house and my style of hunting.And YES, the little fur ball taught me more about hunting pheasants in the past two years than I learned in 35 years of chasing them.&nbsp; Good thing he doesn't know how to gloat.&nbsp; (Grin)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KDM, post: 190577, member: 314"] ;:;popcorn This debate has been going on since flusher and pointer breeds originated. In my experience it ALL comes down to training and NOT the breed. I've hunted behind the most expensive, best equipped, longest trained, and most colorful barking paper weights ever to pollute the pheasant fields and have hunted behind the free mutt that was worth their weight in GOLD!!! I've seen pointers that wouldn't get beyond 20 yards if the darn bird was walking at 22 yards and I've watched flushers bust an entire quarter of cover in a minute and a half from being let out of the truck. If you spend time with the dog, train them to hunt the way you want them to hunt, and enforce those standards, breed is of lesser importance. I run an English Cocker as that breed normally works closer, slower, is a bit more even keeled so to speak, and is a smaller breed thus more suitable to my house and my style of hunting. And YES, the little fur ball taught me more about hunting pheasants in the past two years than I learned in 35 years of chasing them. Good thing he doesn't know how to gloat. (Grin) [/QUOTE]

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