WHAT DOES A GOOD GUNDOG LOOK LIKE?

One that is able to show brilliance despite many flaws

By Ben Samuelson

I started to write this piece as a paean to the platoon of impeccably behaved gundogs that Richard Halstead used to bring to pick-up at Meanley, my old TVR boss Peter Wheeler’s shoot in Lancashire. Looking like they had been drilled by an RSM from the Brigade of Guards, they’d sit, still and silent, while the drive was active. Carefully, they watched