Tips on finding a bird

[rkhinrichs]

does anyone own/hunt with a pointer and lab together all the time on a trip, and have the pointer and lab work together as a team????? not just bring one out at a time to work one walk, then the next walk take out the pointer????

[gspman]

Different strokes for different folks. Easy on the kennel blindness boys. There are good ones in all breeds. Also what works best for you may not work best for someone else.

[LightningBG]

A pointer wont out flush a lab,

[rkhinrichs]

yea i have only hunted over a couple labs in my life mainely pointers and wondering if they wuld good together, but your right, the pointer would point and the flusher would flush it up!

[pureinsanity]

does anyone own/hunt with a pointer and lab together all the time on a trip, and have the pointer and lab work together as a team????? not just bring one out at a time to work one walk, then the next walk take out the pointer????

My good friend has an English pointer who is a good dog, I have a lab who is a good dog. They work as a team in different ways.

For instance if my dog might miss a bird, his dog might point it. Vice Versa as well. My buddy likes me to come with to put my dog on blind retrieves as he hasn't worked with his dog much on doing so. He also likes having me with because in the dead of winter my dog will go in the water to retrieve a bird, his will look at him like "are you nuts!?!?!!? its flipping cold!"

In all honesty its not as much important as the dog working as a team but more so the people hunting. You have to have a game plan at every spot in my opinion. If you work together as a team, as will your dogs. The biggest thing is who are you hunting with, did they really train their dog well, or do they just talk like the trained it well. You get with a couple people who have taken the time to work with their dogs and continue to do, it will work great. If you get with the guy that just spends the whole time yelling at his dog because he never really took the time to work with the dog. I would think twice about letting that person bring their dog

But that is just my

[MidwestArcher]

haha, yeah except pointer guys stop arguing and just let their dog prove the point, no pun intended..

[pureinsanity]

Who's arguing?

[rkhinrichs]

good point its really you and your buddy, working as a team making a game plan on how to attack the field or swamp, that gives your dog the best adventage to kick up birds!!! A good hunting buddy, is priceless, that you work good with. yea being quiet and not spoken pheasant especially late season is key. i wonder how many pheasant run when someone slams the truck door, or keep yelling out commands to there dog in the field!!!!