There's nothing quite like a brace of setters (yes, even English or Irish). I've had 4 over the years, but my current pups don't work well together, and I have a deposit on a pup for next year to become what I hope to be my brace of the future. I don't hunt a brace for grouse or woodcock. It's too hard to keep track of the dogs in the thick stuff, and I like to have a close and farther reaching dog braced together -- not a good combo in the grouse woods, but a heckofa combination on the prairie.
I like the idea of having a flushing dog to put up birds that the pointers have found. I just don't think I want to be the handler in that case.
Still, a good solid dog on point gets my heart to thumping, even if it doesn't even have a feathered tail.
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