If you don't mind the care required by a long haired dog, standard poodles can be great gun dogs. Their intelligence can't be questioned.

anecdotally, a couple generations ago I lived in New Orleans and had a standard white. I never thought about hunting her. On walks through Audubon Park I would come across people training their gun dogs and I would strike up a conversation. The recurring story I heard was of a guy who had two standard blacks that he entered in trials. The only question about his dogs was which one would win first and which would get second. Years later I was casting about for a wire haired pointed and by chance bought one from the poodle guy. He said the poodles belonged to his wife and he trained them for field work on a bet!