cant decide!!!

[pointshoot]

good thing there are lot's of them cause it allows us to figure out a way to do it. you can in fact get from here to there by a number of means. there are some really critical times that the pup must be paid attention to, most of the time you can let things slide a little. refresher courses are a must but don't have to be all the time in fact you can work a dog to death, or at least bore it to the point it doesn't find training fun. hard work is not the only answer either, try some brains interspersed between the efforts, or at least some thoughts. a high average dog should be able to be turned into a wonderful hunting companion. bells! hell, i can hardly hear the gun go off. electronic gizzmo's, i can barely make my cell phone work. as far as constant training goes, everybody needs a break now and then years ago, one of my best dogs, after a few years would kill every pigeon she could get her mounth on. i would plant them, she would find them, catch them and with them in her mouth would sit and look at me and then crunch them and then spit them out all the while saying to me that every time you make me do this i catch hell over something and i have never seen a pigeon that i liked. game birds are a different thing, no matter what i do with them i get praised so smarten up will ya. jesse had one fault and that was it, she didn't like being told repeatedly to do the same ol' thing and catching hell for it. hunting companions don't have to be fine turned, competition dogs do. big difference. it gotta be fun

cheers

bells hell! i thought it was hell bells :thumbsup:

 

[pointshoot]

hells bells

 

[SetterNut]

A pictures worth a thousand words.
This is what you see every day with a well bred Setter.

 

[mnmthunting]

SetterNut, Great Pics.
I drove through Your area last Sat. Nice country other then dry.
Saw some Quail to. :thumbsup:

 

[massman]

beautiful!!!!!:coolpics:

 

[JeremyS]

Having had both, I can say that you can get what you are looking for in either breed. Both can have dogs at each end of the spectrum as far as trainablility, prey drive and natural retrieve. Do some research on bloodlines and figure out what types of breedings tend to produce the type of dog you are looking for.

You can get nice pictures everyday with well bred and well trained setters and gsps.