I meant to say Ryman in my previous post. Molly, my setter bitch, was bred with one of the Ryman dogs and produced two great litters. This was when we lived in Minford, Ohio (7 years) which is in the sourthern central end of Ohio about 15 miles north of Portsmouth. Our property abutted about 1000 acres of prime woodland and we could litteraly walk out the back door and into superb grouse and woodcock cover. It was a bummer when we had to transfer back to Mass. The Ryman line of setters were just beautiful dogs, very biddable and a pleasure to work with. We made a practice of giving one pup away from each litter and selling the rest for $100 each! (1984-85).
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