I live in Nebraska and only hunt upland game birds, mostly pheasant, quail and chukars over my two female GSP's and my female Welsh Springer Spaniel.
This year I used a Merkel 1620 Combo for hunting except for a couple of times when the weather was really bad and then I used an old Laurona BLE. I will never part with the 1620 and hope to be using it 20+ years from now!!


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