Your Favorite Gun/Hunting Dog and Photos
 

I know I am new to this Parker community but I wanted to start a thread where we could talk about our best hunting dogs, their breed, how they were trained, why you love them so much.

My current hunting dog is a German Shorthaired Pointer (GSP) named Hoover but, my best and favorite was a Brittany Spaniel named April. April would hunt from dawn till dusk non-stop just for the love of the sport. I was in awe of her ability to find birds in places you would never expect. She would even point at birds roosting in trees. For a Brittany she was tiny. She was only about 25-30 lbs. When we got her she was the runt of the litter and then came down with distemper which may have stunted her growth even more. When April lived through the distemper we brought her home and she slept with me in my bed from then on. When my family moved we gave her to a guy who owned two older Brittanys and he continued hunting with April until she finally passed in 1982.

Attached is a photo of Hoover, my current hunting dog pointing at a lizard in the plants in front of my house. For the record, I do not hunt lizards... LOL

John

Wife, gun and dog, from about 18 years ago.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19...2/99187ee7.jpg

Ben was the huntingest dog I have ever shot over, gone for about ten years.
Still have the wife and Parker.
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19...ungBenJPEG.jpg

Faithful Shiner at age 13 and my beloved Betty dog. There have been several other setters a nd a Brittany whose careers I have on film and print whose memories are also dear.
Just wondering, what size shot and what are your favorite chokes for lizard?

Ruby my Gordon setter
 

Last picture was P.A> grouse....Parker repro16 28" Q1/Q2

Here is my 3 year old little girl Lucy, she is my 4th lab.

Favorite dog photo
 

Bella has become a great grouse dog at 6 yrs old. It's torture for her to sit for a photo opp though.
Dave

These are a couple pictures of my English Setter, Phantom.
For me, he encompassed everything that a person could want in a hunting dog.
I lost him suddenly at age 7, long before his time.
I've owned about 20 pointing dogs since 1980.
He was, and continues to be my favorite.

It was as hard on me as losing a child.

For as long as we remember them, they live forever!

Gun picture to follow, have to dig up a good one.
Parker Repro 28 ga straight, splinter, double triggers.