RunRoosterRun
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How many people still hunt with Irish Setters? I haven't seen any pictures on the site. I have always thought they are a beautiful dog and was wondering how many people actually still use them for hunting?
If you are looking a good red setter to pure hunting, you should be looking dog north Finland, Sweden or Norway! Here is several very good breeders and they use dogs to all kind bird hunting pheasent, grouse, cabercalie, ect! These dog's are light not like US show dog's, what we have here in Finland also!
These are not same dogs! These are pure hunting dogs!
http://www.kkk-hhs.fi/Irkut/IndexIrkut.htm
http://sisk-setter.se/start.php
http://www.nisk.no
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the red setter is a completely different breed than the irish setter wich for the most part have been destroyed bye the show dog crowd along with the gorden setter, weimereiner red/white setter and they are really trying hard with the brittany. do youre homework and be very careful when going out to buy a hunting dog from thease breeds. the red setter is a smaller blocky built fast paced smart bird finding machine and they can run big or work close, its not uncommon to see the red setter with some white on it, thats cause in oreder to get the hunt back in them they put in some good field setter lines, same goes for the gordon. ive hunted behind a good red setter a few years back and i was super impressed with it.