Scent and reason
“We want dogs that have a natural ability to hunt and find game”
If you scan many of the stud dog classified adverts in fieldsports magazines or on websites, the phrases ‘natural gun sense’ and ‘natural gamefinder’ will occur regularly. I have heard both used by a number of gundog owners, but you could spend many fruitless hours trying to find a definitive definition as to their meaning. It seems to me that the phrases are ‘advertising speak’, and it is unlikely whether anyone, when selecting a puppy or a stud dog, actually asks what they really mean.
Let’s take gun sense first. If your dog is used purely for beating or as part of
