How Shooting Over Pointers is Different

The dog runs fast and wide across the wind searching for the delicate scent of game. Its path through the purple heather smokes with honey scented pollen. Suddenly, the dog lifts its head and "roads" forward slowing until it senses the perfect distance at which the bird will tolerate its presence without flight. The dog stands rigid on point and the guns position themselves on either side of it anticipating with excitement the coming sport. Will it be a snipe "jinking" away to test their aim? Could it be a single old cock grouse, a covey or even last season's cock pheasant roaming on the edge of the moor? The guns' belief in the dog is rewarded when it flushes the covey and waits for the command to make the retrieves.

Pointers give good sport right through the season starting off on the grouse moor in August and later hunting partridge, snipe, pheasant and woodcock. In woodland and dense cover the dogs often work "continental style" wearing bells on their collars.

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