springer spaniels

[upwind]

How many guys hunt ducks with them.This will be my first year to hunt with one.I always had labs but now i live in a smaller place and I'm gone for 2 weeks a month so my wife said no to a lab because she would have to take care of him for two out of every month but said yes to a springer i think he will do alright were i hunt flooded fields small ponds.Just concerned he will get cold.

[AWS]

Your springer will do just fine on ducks,  here on the west side you shouldn't even need a vest.  Late season on the eastside I'd get a vest.  Springers love to retrieve and can do some pretty fancy retrieving, in Englend they use them for nonslip retrievers on driven shoots.  With a little work 100+yrd blinds should be a piece of cake for a springer.

My next dog is going to be an English Cocker and it will be doing alot of duck work.

AWS

[Stilly bay]

springers can do anything a lab can do... except maybe tundra swans, (but they don't know that).

[Hangfire]

The springer before the one I have now, loved to swim and did 100 yards retrieves by hand signals. My current springer doesn't care for the water and is a mediocre retriever. She is part (less than 1/4) bench breeding. Field strain springer's are very good dogs. They (field and bench) are almost like two different breed

I don't think they will take the really harsh cold as well as a Lab., watch your dog and possibly a vest.

[whitey]

Get a Lab.
"Cooke Canyon"
They work great..
The Little "Springers" are great dogs.
Dont get Me wrong.
If You want a ual purpose dog that endures..
LAB...

[Hangfire]

If you want a dual purpose dog and mostly hunt upland game birds get a Springer. If you mostly hunt waterfowl get a Lab., if you can put up with there size.

[MuleySniper]

Had one growing up. He was a good dog, real birdy. My dad has another on now, a little female. She's good too. They get a little stinky though.
MS

[adam.WI]

Get a Lab.
"Cooke Canyon"
They work great..
The Little "Springers" are great dogs.
Dont get Me wrong.
If You want a ual purpose dog that endures..
LAB...

When you say endures, do you mean those arctic temps that west WA gets .

Upwind, I take my brittany out all the time and she is fine on the west side, springer will do very well.