Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Bird Dogs => Topic started by: upwind on August 03, 2010, 06:33:55 PM
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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.
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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
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springers can do anything a lab can do... except maybe tundra swans, (but they don't know that).
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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
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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 :chuckle:.
Upwind, I take my brittany out all the time and she is fine on the west side, springer will do very well.
