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I posted these a while back. but here is my Vizsla named Rosco. Sadly I had to put him down a week ago due to a stroke that he never recovered from. 12 years of loyal service in almost every western and mid-western state.I wished I had taken more/better pic's throughout the years. RIP buddy.

rosco1, I'm taking that advice to heart. The camera comes with me on every hunt now.

This is Sampson. He's a Drahthaar.

waiting his turn for the trip across.

Your pic reminded me of my Brittany, here seen on her last Grouse hunt with our hunting buddy...
She considered herself aristocracy or something, cause every time I killed a rabbit around her she looked at me as if I were the lowest form of trash on the planet...



Ingwe

Clancy tried that " I'm better than this crap" when I first got him.

Then I reminded him that a he was poor mans dog and he best retrieve what I told him to even if he did have several hundred more years of superior breeding than I did.

The upland bird hunting where I live is fairly limited but I just love springers.

Good looking brit.

My boys...







Beat all to hell after a hard day's work...



Trialing...



as pups...



And the pretty boy...

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Mannnnn...I always loved beagles!!!!

Took one Jackrabbit hunting one day, first rabbit got up, dog gave chase, rabbit looked back and put it into "turbo"
The dog literally stopped and looked over his shoulder at me like " you have GOT to be kidding!!!

Cool pics...

But the Aussie is the Brainiac of the bunch, I'll bet...

Ingwe

Just GSP Business, pictures were taken today.

The Aussie is definitely the brains of the group. He's the smartest dog I've ever owned. I noticed he has a ton of meat over his skull; must be evolution's way of providing additional protection for the brain in there.

ingwe, thanks....I need some waterfowl photos now. I like your deer and elk photos

GV...I just saw those pics on the European forum...

Really cool beans man..

I don't think we utilize our gun dogs to their fullest potential here in the states...get too caught up in the dog being a "pheasant" dog, or a "grouse" dog etc...

REALLY liked your older pic of a GSP pointing a hare...

Ingwe

I think the Aussie is the most adaptable... a Border collie has even MORE brains, as far as what it can assimilate..but the Aussies are usually more "free thinkers"...Wicked Smart...

My number one dog, as youve seen...is an AussieX Border Collie, and luckily I got the best of both worlds...I train dogs professionally ( not gun dogs...oddly enough...Service Dogs and Police K9) and my dog was used to teach ME how to train..
If I told you all she was capable of, I'd sound like the Lee24 of the Dog World!!!
Ingwe

We use to hunt most of our small game and birds at a time (yesterday we were hunting pheasant, partridge, hare + possible pigeon, woodcock, rabbit, duck and potentially big game stuck in hays), so we naturally use our dogs, GSP and others, on all of them, and we tend to consider the hare as one of the most valuable ... and tasty.

I always considered rabbit to be every bit as good as our gamebirds, so always took them as targets of opportunity. Here of course we have four species, two types of jackrabbit( a true hare) which are next to inedible...and the Snowshoe Hare...really nice table fare, and large, like your hares, and finally Cottontail Rabbit...excellent eating.
As mentioned, my Brittany would have none of the dealings with them, and my "Hunting" cow dog sticks primarily to large game, though I think I posted a pic of her earlier in the thread with a Snowshoe Hare. I also have, and fish with( no hunting) a Border Collie....kicked up a big jackrabbit one day, and she is the ONLY dog Ive ever seen actually catch one...
Some of our Bird and big game seasons overlap here, and I had a freind whose dog, like mine, would point whitetail deer that were bedded and hoping to remain undetected. So much so, that he started hunting with an O/U combination gun, 12 ga over a 7x65R for just those occasions. Trouble was he was forgetful...would flip the selector switch and end up shooting 7x65R shells at pheasants!!!

Ingwe

Effie and Maxy, both of which hunt for a place to lie down between eating and sleeping. Of course my wife is in the middle.



This is Bosch, my German Wirehair Pointer, a short coat on point-- a Smart bomb on pheasants.

NICE!...

All of it!!!

Ingwe

Here's Ruger's bird from Tues. He's a year and a half and starting to turn it on.

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Here's my Weimaraner in the back. Up front is my blue Great Dane pup. Obviously the Dane's not the hunter haha. But I'm sure we'll take her pheasant hunting with us just so she can get some exercise. And I think it'd be pretty funny to see some kid with a 160lb Great Dane hunting pheasant!

Here are my two GWPs. They are great hunters and good companions. Would never consider hunting birds without a dog.