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What is a good type of a dog for hunting quail/ducks/etc?

I am going to start hunting and need to know what type of dog would be good at it.The main things I am going to hunt are

Quails,Ducks,Pheasents,Turkeys,etc

thx

German Short hair, or german wire hair

  1. miss_nikki Said,

    English Spring Spaniel
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  2. prez_1940s Said,

    German Short hair, or german wire hair
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  3. msashleycanyon Said,

    A husky, hound dogs maybe
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  4. follow.nothing Said,

    Bloodhound
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  5. Meister Said,

    Those darned birds always fly away afore my dogs can catch one, so I dunno.
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  6. scope4231 Said,

    beagles and black labs are excellent bird dogs if you train them right
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  7. Ken S Said,

    LAB
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  8. Tumbledown Teddy Said,

    Labrador they are the perfect Gun dog
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  9. bill g Said,

    nothing like a chesapeake for all around hunting
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  10. Pepsi_Chica22 Said,

    Golden Retreivers are the best in my opinion. They also make great fam. pets!
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  11. kty_weber Said,

    Labs. They are great hunting dogs as well as great family dogs.
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  12. Silvereyy Said,

    hunting is horrible
    why would you want to kill innocent animals

    Murderer
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  13. KaTiE rOtHwEiLeR (L) Said,

    Chocolate lab, english pointer, short hair pointer, yellow lab.
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  14. angelhaiku Said,

    Golden Retriever hands down. But you have to get the ones that are bred for hunting, not the showy little foo foo lazy pieces of fur.

    you can try http://www.topbrassgoldens.com. I got my golden from there and if I hunted, she’d make the BEST dog. She absolutely loves water, loves putting things in her mouth and it’s pretty hard to scare her (gun fire noise)
    And Goldens are the best family dogs too. You won’t be sorry. Trust me.
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  15. big mac Said,

    i say a beagle they have a good sense of smell and real ferocious to animals but mans best friend
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  16. huntin4life12 Said,

    try brittany spaniels

    they are great for all around hunting
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    http://www.brittanys.com/

  17. xxxx Said,

    labrador retriever
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  18. Country Kid Said,

    Lab
    I’ve never had a Lab, I just wrote that down. I have a German shepperd / Huskey cross. I got him when I was 16. 14 years later and I still got him. He’d flush anything. Best dog
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  19. stacy l Said,

    coon dogs are excellent bird dogs. They are large sized though. Blood hounds are large sized as well but great hunters as well. But if you are looking for a small dog beagles are bird dogs as well
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  20. BirdogsID Said,

    A lab is going to be your most versatile dog. HOWEVER, for the quail, you need to get a pointer of some sort. Labs just dont have the nose required. And the dog that you are going to use for Quail and pheasant is not going to be the same dog you use for the ducks. I dont think that you can use a dog for turkey. They would pick up on any movement and split real fast.
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  21. docgobbler Said,

    Check out a Vizsla. They are super pointers, very smart, and great retrievers. Also good family dog but do require some space to run.
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    I owned one for 14 years and hunted quail, dove, and ducks with her.

  22. smf_hi Said,

    A lab or a golden retriever are your only real options if you want to shoot upland birds and ducks/geese. Springer Spaniels or a German shorthairs won’t be good at diving into ice water to retrieve ducks. Thier coats are just not made to survive being cold and wet for hours on end, plus they are not really water dogs.
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  23. grumpy girl Said,

    any pointer, spaniel, or my personal favorite the nova scotia duck tolling retriever. clumber or springer spaniels are my choices in spaniel family. irish setters make good gun dogs and house pets also. research the breeds on akc.org to find out more. good luck.
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  24. hatton Said,

    Alot of people can just answer a question, but I can answer this question with many years of experience. I have owned both yellow labs and black labs and a golden retriever. All were fine hunting partners. But the golden seemed to be more mild mannered, easier to control and train and always listened to commands and NEVER got side tracked. With the labs, they were good dogs but had problems in all areas at certain times. The one major problem with a golden is the shedding of the long hair!! Although the labs shed it wasnt as noticable as the long hair all over left by the golden.
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  25. randy c Said,

    any of the "retriever" breeds work well. I have hunted over black labs, golden labs, golden retrievers and german shorthairs. The german shorthairs don’t do well in water, my over all favorite is the golden retriever, mostly because it is such a family oriented dog, and does well at any type of bird hunting.
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  26. DT Said,

    Bird dog.
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