In my quest for close hunting “foot dogs”, German Shorthair Pointers keeps coming up. For those of you who have personal experience with GSPs, please give me your experiences and opinions. How do these dogs compare to English Pointers . How do they compare to English Setters? Any and all info welcomed.
It does not matter what breed you come up with, while they are young, you are going to have to handle the dog(s). You can’t just throw them out there and expect immediate success without your coercing. Yes, EPS will run, but will handle also even at a far distance. Like I have said before, the hunting field is still a training field. You can still do both but it takes a lot of effort. You have to decide if you are going to hunt or are you needing to train. The beauty comes when you can go to the field and look to the front and Ol’ Sport is right down the middle where he needs to be. Never, ever quit training! You can go get a truckload of different flavors of dogs, but they all have one thing in common. They all have to be trained. That is an absolute. Training does not end when you get one back from a trainer. It only begins. The trainer has put in the basics for you to build on. Take a look at your approach and determine if you need to hunt or train when you open that tailgate.