When I lived out West, you COULD hunt without a dog................BUT, you would be successful WITH a good pointer breed.....trying to find wild quail, and especially chukar, without a dog would be like trying to find a gold nugget in a stream - you might, but then again............
A well-trained dog is worth it's weight in birds - less miles to traverse, less missed or lost birds - in short, a better experience. Even without bagging birds, watching a good dog do its work is something wonderful
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