Hunting with Shorthairs

Hunting with shorthairs can be a great way to enjoy the outdoors, work with your dog, and challenge your skills as a shooter.  As versatile hunting dogs, shorthairs are bred to work upland game as well as waterfowl.  They will search, point and retrieve upland game, and will retrieve waterfowl.  Watching these skillful hunters work cover, whether it is an open grassland for pheasants to dense brush and young forests for grouse and woodcock, is a joy.  Their enthusiasm and drive is makes them great hunting companions.

In the woods looking for grouse and woodcock:

Dill backing PJ on a woodcock in some thick cover.

A woodcock hiding in the leaves.

Dill and Sonny team up on a bird and in another location, Dill and PJ team up.

Here are some pictures from a recent pheasant hunt:

Duncan working the field,

 and a nice point on a bird.

PJ and Dill pointing a tight holding bird.   

Dill backing PJ on another bird.

Nice looking rooster takes flight.

Dill holds steady waiting for the shot.  A nice shot on the bird brings it down, and PJ and Dill move in to locate the downed bird.

  Dill makes a stylish retrieve.

Dill backs PJ on a bird.  The hunters move in and the bird takes flight. 

Duncan finds a nice rooster and the hunters enjoy success.

Even at almost 14 years old, Sonny even takes a turn looking for birds.