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Late to the game but spaniels are the truest flushing breed. When trained in a “classical” sense meaning allowed to flush fur as well as game. Will put quite a bit of small game in front of your barrels. As of recent I find many who won’t let their spaniel flush fur. I train mine the way men in my family have trained spaniels for four generations and don’t feel like they lack in either department. I currently have an American Cocker who is nearing the end of her hunting career due to age and an accidental Boykin/Springer cross that is showing promise through his first season. Like others have said all will need exercise and training but I’d you have the time to put in its well invested.78eb5f1f088b251b3eccf03cb6a52f7d.jpg713ad662a7884ed88222eb84a08e337e.jpg Treed by the young dog moments later he flushed a grouse that I missed as usual.


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On 1/26/2020 at 8:45 AM, Daveboone said:

Llewellyn Setter!

We had one for quite a while. Wonderful disposition, nice size, beautiful.

The Llewellyns are great bird dogs, my all time favorite outdoor TV show was Dez Young's "Hunting with Hank' and "Upland Days with Dash" on the old Outdoor Life channel. Two beautiful Llewellyns, I liked it so much I purchased the whole series of both shows on DVD.

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The field English Setters like the Llewellyns are much different that the AKC show types, much smaller and a lot less hair. I have owned and hunted with a couple of Grouse Ridge setters and they are great bird dogs. Below is my first one named "Stickers" after  a friend and I got home from a Pheasant hunt. Stickers had birds on the brain and he is zeroed in on a Finch eating out of a bird feeder.

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Our Annie was cousin to Dash (via the now gone Lynnhill  LLewellyns out of PA.. They are all very birdy. Annie would point grass hoppers, and a flock of geese flying over head would put her in overdrive. We once had to borrow a canoe when she charged into the water and swam half way across Stillwater Reservoir after a couple mergansers!

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