Its all about the time you put in. plenty of people have used mutts before all the new fashion dogs. You still need to train all the basic's.It might not lock up on a point but it will give you a indication. The big thing is getting it used to guy fire when training it.
Also you are better learning your mistakes on a mutt then a $1500 pup. My current dog is a lab/pointer x heading dog. Bit to much strong eye heading dog for my liking.
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