gunner wrote:Birdogz wrote: "Most FT guys don't have seasoned pheasant dogs. That I am sure about. "
You might be surprised. There are field trial dogs started, trained, and broke on pheasant. Do you know of the Pheasant Futurity, the Pheasant Championships both amateur and open and the restricted breed stakes run for years on the long tailed birds? Do you know of the many pros that have their training camps, some passed down for decades in some of the best pheasant country, starting young pups and finishing their older dogs and hunting strings on the gaudy birds? Do you know how many field trialers/bird hunters make the traditional yearly sojourn back out from other parts of the country to kill their limit over their dogs?
gunner, I've had old hunters tell me that a field trial pointing dog can't handle a grouse and many make the same claim that Birdogz, makes about trial dogs handling pheasants. Where do people get this misinformation?