Mike, My mistake, Rev only lived to 6. He got some exotic infection working in the Southwest, tick born I think. He had two or three 1000+ point days and he may have surpassed Bart if he had lived as long.
Ringo was my first bird dog; I had had a number of coon hounds before him. In '96 I got involved with a couple of guys I knew in bird hunting, Bob DeSanto with his Springers and Don Ludwig with his GWP. They both lived on Sandusky St. in Ashland, Ohio. I started looking for a bird dog. In February '97, Bob ran into a guy (Dion Bliss) at a dog event over on the Indiana line who turned out to be a neighbor on Sandusky St. who had Pointers, including three pups left from an October, '96 litter. Bob told me about the pups and I went to see them on a cold drizzly evening. Dion showed them to me and flipped a wing on a string in front of them. One was clearly more responsive to it than the other two, so I said "I guess that one" which was Rev. Dion said he was keeping that one. I asked him which of the other two would be best for me as a novice bird chaser and he said that probably the block headed one. I got him, Ringo, and the rest is history.
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