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"Setting dogges" is an old term used for setters and the original purpose of the English Setter was to set or point upland game birds. From the best available information, it appears that the English Setter was a trained bird dog in England more than 400 years ago and there are works of art created in the early 15th century showing dogs that ...
The dog would freeze or set (as in Setter) and allow the hunter to throw the net over the game before it flushed. Flushing dogs, on the other hand, were often used by falconers to flush game for the raptors. Most continental European pointing breeds are classified as versatile gun dog breeds or sometimes HPR breeds (for hunt, point, and ...
English Setter Irish Setter Irish Red and White Setter Gordon Setter. The setter is a type of gundog used most often for hunting game such as quail, pheasant, and grouse. In the UK, the four setter breeds, together with the pointers, usually form a subgroup within the gundog group as they share a common function. However, the setter breeds each ...
The Pointer, sometimes called the English Pointer, is a medium-sized breed of pointing dog developed in England. Pointers are used to find game for hunters , and are considered by gundog enthusiasts to be one of the finest breeds of its type; however, unlike most other hunting breeds, its purpose is to point, not retrieve game.
Count Noble (August 1, 1879 – January 20, 1891) was a dog English Setter. He was so well known that when he died in 1891, The New York Times ran an obituary. [1] He was popularly known as the "$10,000 hunting dog." [2] He was described as a "national symbol of what was great in bird dogs." [2] Benjamin Frederick Wilson, Count Noble's owner
Pointer and setter trials are trials for both pointing dogs and setters. [1] During pointer and setter trials the dogs are run in a brace (pair of dogs run together) with two judges observing, the dogs are worked into the wind on live gamebirds, they are required to quarter their assigned beat, finding and pointing any game in the beat.
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An English Springer Spaniel (Liver and White) and English Cocker Spaniel (Blue Roan) When hunting upland game , flushing dogs (spaniels and retrievers) work much more closely with the hunter. Flushers will not cover the same amount of ground as a pointing dog as the flusher must be kept within shotgun distance.