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I work with a guy that has one and he grew up around them. They are still strict on requiring hunt test to get papers on them. Each dog must complete the hunt trial successfully regardless of parent. They also require certain physical characteristics. You can't get papers until the dog is mature. This is what he told me. He said the dogs perform very well as bird dogs. They also are very gamey dogs. One of his adult dogs disappeared one night and he found fresh hog sign near by the next day. Said he believed the dog went after the hog and got killed. He said he stumbled up on a hog one day and the old dog bayed till he got to him then caught. He is not a hog hunter. He is a bird Hunter and very sold on the breed as being the best all round dog there are. He currently has a young dog that is a very nice dog that handles very well. Impressive dogs in my opinion.

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