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Complete Hunting Breed

Post by ESS13 » Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:59 pm

The best all around hunting breed for hunting anything anywhere. Go.

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by GSP4ME » Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:02 pm

Impossible to reach a consensus on such a thing but I'll play along.


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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by ESS13 » Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:08 pm

Nice. Im curious how many guys are working upland, waterfowl, or even running hares or other animals.

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by GSP4ME » Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:32 pm

I know a guy who uses his for wild hogs, squirrel, duck, dove, rabbit, deer(tracking wounded and dead, not running them), turkey, coyote, and that's just for the fun stuff. Through the week that same dog is his best ranch hand sorting and herding cattle.

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by Georgia Boy » Tue Dec 09, 2014 5:19 pm

Deutsch Drahthaar We run our dogs on all that and a whole lot more
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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by Ms. Cage » Tue Dec 09, 2014 5:58 pm

I think any breed is capable of hunting anything you want. All a matter of training and exposure

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by Mountaineer » Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:23 pm

ESS13 wrote:The best all around hunting breed for hunting anything anywhere. Go.
Human

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by polmaise » Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:32 pm

Mountaineer wrote:
ESS13 wrote:The best all around hunting breed for hunting anything anywhere. Go.
Human
PREDATOR !
Humans are stupid :mrgreen:

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by mnaj_springer » Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:38 pm

African wild dog... Somewhere in the area of 80% success rate when hunting.
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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by Mountaineer » Tue Dec 09, 2014 6:59 pm

polmaise wrote:
Mountaineer wrote:
ESS13 wrote:The best all around hunting breed for hunting anything anywhere. Go.
Human
PREDATOR !
Humans are stupid :mrgreen:
There would be evidence aplenty to exemplify your description but humans use many items, tools and critters, to enable successful hunting.
I still vote.....humanus stupidus.

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by sdsujacks » Wed Dec 10, 2014 9:26 am

Wachtelhund

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by Georgia Boy » Wed Dec 10, 2014 6:58 pm

If you desire your "complete dog" to point upland birds the black mouth cur, wachtelhund and African dog are not options.
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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by mnaj_springer » Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:08 pm

Georgia Boy wrote:If you desire your "complete dog" to point upland birds the black mouth cur, wachtelhund and African dog are not options.
True, but I don't believe that pointing was a requirement. :mrgreen:
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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by Georgia Boy » Fri Dec 12, 2014 7:22 am

ESS13 wrote:The best all around hunting breed for hunting anything anywhere. Go.
ESS13 wrote:Nice. Im curious how many guys are working upland, waterfowl, or even running hares or other animals.
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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by mnaj_springer » Fri Dec 12, 2014 7:58 am

Georgia Boy wrote:
ESS13 wrote:The best all around hunting breed for hunting anything anywhere. Go.
ESS13 wrote:Nice. Im curious how many guys are working upland, waterfowl, or even running hares or other animals.
Georgia Boy, clearly there are some facetious folks responding to this post. But if you want to be serious, I repeat, pointing was not one of the OP's prerequisites.
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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by GSP4ME » Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:25 am

Georgia Boy wrote:If you desire your "complete dog" to point upland birds the black mouth cur, wachtelhund and African dog are not options.

A dog need not point to hunt upland birds. A flusher works for a great many hunters.

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by Georgia Boy » Fri Dec 12, 2014 5:32 pm

mnaj_springer wrote:
Georgia Boy wrote:
ESS13 wrote:The best all around hunting breed for hunting anything anywhere. Go.
ESS13 wrote:Nice. Im curious how many guys are working upland, waterfowl, or even running hares or other animals.
Georgia Boy, clearly there are some facetious folks responding to this post. But if you want to be serious, I repeat, pointing was not one of the OP's prerequisites.
Ok then I say include Teckel
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Post by birddog1968 » Fri Dec 12, 2014 7:47 pm

Lab
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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by nikegundog » Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:17 pm

Wesselpointer, what do I win?

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by birddog1968 » Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:39 pm

nikegundog wrote:Wesselpointer, what do I win?
A wesselpointer :)
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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by nikegundog » Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:41 pm

birddog1968 wrote:
nikegundog wrote:Wesselpointer, what do I win?
A wesselpointer :)
Ouch!

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by jimbo&rooster » Sat Dec 13, 2014 6:40 am

Lab. I use mine for upland birds, doves, when I waterfowl hunted she traveled the country with me, I flush and shoot rabbits over her and she will tree and retrieve squirrels.

I have also used her to herd sheep.

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by Bluesky2012 » Sat Dec 13, 2014 6:17 pm

Ms. Cage wrote:I think any breed is capable of hunting anything you want. All a matter of training and exposure

I'd love to see a Yorker retrive a goose.
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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by madmurph » Sun Dec 14, 2014 4:48 pm

I think Georgia Boy wins for most complete dogs. He has posted some great photos of his dogs in the past retrieving everything imaginable with fur or feathers including some photos of the dogs mixing it up with hogs. Not many true versatiles like that out there. Nice job Georgia Boy.
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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by mnaj_springer » Sun Dec 14, 2014 7:01 pm

madmurph wrote:I think Georgia Boy wins for most complete dogs. He has posted some great photos of his dogs in the past retrieving everything imaginable with fur or feathers including some photos of the dogs mixing it up with hogs. Not many true versatiles like that out there. Nice job Georgia Boy.
Are you his agent or something? :mrgreen:
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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by CDN_Cocker » Sun Dec 14, 2014 7:10 pm

How's this for versatility:

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I won't continue, but these are all my english cocker Jake.
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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by GSP4ME » Mon Dec 15, 2014 9:24 am

^
That's good stuff CDN.

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Re: Complete Hunting Breed

Post by Georgia Boy » Mon Dec 15, 2014 4:56 pm

mnaj_springer wrote:
madmurph wrote:I think Georgia Boy wins for most complete dogs. He has posted some great photos of his dogs in the past retrieving everything imaginable with fur or feathers including some photos of the dogs mixing it up with hogs. Not many true versatiles like that out there. Nice job Georgia Boy.
Are you his agent or something? :mrgreen:
Thanks. I have several more recent ones but have not been able to post pics as of late because it says they are to big? Not sure how to resize.
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