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Article: Making a point; Minnesota waterfowlers prefer retrievers over all other sporting dogs. But English pointers and setters are finding increased favor among serious upland hunters and field-trialers.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 26, 1998
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In a state where retrieving dogs rule - where Labradors are nearly as abundant as mosquitoes - Jerry Kolter and Steve Studer make a point of being different.
Kolter, of Forest Lake, and Studer, of Stillwater, are aficionados not of the state's many wetlands and, in fall, of the ducks that visit them.
Instead it is the wooded uplands of Kannebec and Sandstone counties and, farther north, the uplands of Koochiching, St. Louis and Lake of the Woods counties, among others, that attract these two specialists.
"There's something about a dog working out ahead, running that edge, pointing birds and holding them until you get there, that I find ...