Robin Lewis and I have hired guides in northern New Hampshire and hunted snowshoe hare behind their dogs.
First time it was with Swedish Hounds which are much like beagles but with considerably longer legs. The guide said "While the other guides' dogs are floundering around in deep snow, my dogs will be hunting."
I was using my IJ Skeeter .410 and Robin used his AAHE 16.
The second time we used a different guide who had beagles and we were ALL floundering around in deep snow.
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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