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Originally Posted by M.C. Gusto
That chart posted is a joke. Anyone wanting to know the facts just look into the top qualifying cover dogs, field trial or retriever trials. There will be your answer.
Ex. The top grouse and woodcock dogs are almost always EP and ES. The top retrievers are labs followed by Chessie. The continental breeds are usually the do it all between the two.
Lots of money at stake with competition, no ones wasting time and money on a breed that wont get it done.
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Field trials are not hunting....Generally speaking, they are games developed by people and people cannot duplicate a real day of hunting. The top retriever trial dogs are Labs because labs are much easier to train than a Chessie....it's not because a Lab is necessarily a better waterfowl dog. Quite the opposite in many peoples' opinions who hunt waterfowl. Plus for every Chessie around there are probably 1,000 or more Labs.
Springer trials are sort of set up to duplicate a day of hunting, but in reality they are not. Two birds are put out for each dog, so they rarely are working more than 10 minutes per series at a trial. So, field trialers want a dog that is fast and flashy for 10 minutes or so where as a hunter wants a dog that will hunt hard all day. Many, many Springers I've seen would do well in field trials, but most hunters don't have the time, interest, or money to trial a dog. Ditto for many of the breeds.