Thread: Pointer and Setter Trials

come on man. what flair are you on about, are you out for a fashion show or hunt over your dog with few in the bag.....
There is a time and place for everything. In UK all the trials, driven shoots and hunting done over a dog is a tradition on the moors with number of people there. Its a gathering. Here its you your dog and a mate with a 330ml water bottle a gun and few shells. Any more then 3 guys and you'd shoot each-other...
Look at the driven boar hunting in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and the rest of the southeastern Europe, its really a ritual of 20+ individuals with horns being blown before a hunt and an apple in the pigs mouth at the end of the hunt, they play a separate tune for each species being shot out of respect. Now that's an occasion you dress up for, because it will serve the purpose.

You end up going on a chamois hunt, you go with 2 guys a gun, full backpack. Apparel to suit the hunt, galling winds and chilly snow falling on your head but also to manage the pouring sweat from climbing the rocks. I'm yet to see a chamois hunter with a tie on his neck, be it Europe or NZ.

Point being, there is a purpose for everything and a reason for tradition and why they have what they have...
There is no point turning NZ into UK when its not... I appreciate that you fancy the tweed style and I am not trying to convince you otherwise, but the least you can do is, don't knock others for apparently "not having flair and identity"...