Setter Quotes

“If you are not a trend setter, at least be able to exploit the ones you see.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“However, pointers, as a rule, will train up quicker, are less likely to show temperament, and may work better in warm weather if water is scares; while setters are more likely to work better if the going is wet, take cover more courageously, and prove more nearly “one man” dogs. But burrs never the pointers … you pick your own dog!”
― Horace Lytle, Gun Dogs Afield

“Setters,” he was saying, “are usually supposed to be the keenest and pointers the strongest, but in my opinion it all depends on the partic’lar dog. Nowadays I hear a good deal about the pointer bein’ the best dog, and I’ve owned some good ones myself. There’s nothing prettier than strong, wiry pointer doublin’ and turnin’ in the brush and freezin’ to a steady point. But for my own part, give me a well-bred Llewellyn setter; they’re the humanist dog they is. They’ve got the bird sense, too. Oh, you can’t beat ‘em.”
― Walter Alden Dyer, The Dogs of Boytown

“Jim said his only objection to setters for Florida is not their long hair—because that soon thins out down there—but that they insist on “winding” birds, whereas the pointers learn to trail them.
- Florida Bobs By Horace Lytle”
― Jim Casada, The Greatest Quail Hunting Book Ever, Collector’s Edition

“For a covey dog, give me a pointer—stamina, dash, derring-do. For a singles dog, give me a setter—patience, thoroughness, precision. Just one man’s experience, and if it doesn’t jibe with yours don’t sue me for it.
- The Old Maid By Havilah Babcock”
― Jim Casada, The Greatest Quail Hunting Book Ever, Collector’s Edition

“Setters were my first love and pointers are my present amours, but my observation leads me to believe there is no marked difference between the good ones of either breed. Under present hunting conditions I would train my young dog to follow a trail until the bird was found and flushed. Just so long as he was following scent I would stay with him and give him my moral support, and we would find that bird if it took the rest of the day to do it. I would teach him by example that finding birds was his job and that I would stay with him from soup to nuts.”
― Burton L Spiller, DRUMMER IN THE WOODS. Twenty-One Wonderful Stories About Grouse Shooting