No, Scout didn't. I didn't take him and I'm glad I didn't. They use their dogs differently out there. They range out in a grid through the fields roughly 50 yds or less from their handler. It is very undisciplined yet very efficient. They are out working the field rows and flushing birds. When someone shoots and they see the bird twitch they break automatically to retrieve.

If I taught or allowed Scout to hunt like that he would never sit on a dove field or God forbid in a duck blind and wait for a signal to retrieve.

I had no idea folks hunted dogs that way but the guy said all he cared about was if his dog brought the birds to his hand. and they did do that. There was just a lot more chaos involved than what I'm accustomed to. Of course, we don't have pheasant here but we do have some quail. Those S. Dakota dogs would suck at that here because they would bust out too far ahead and flush instead of holding a point. It's a function of where you are hunting. It is pointless to teach a dog to hold a point in a cornfield 6 or 7 feet tall because you can't see him.