English Pointers are great if you hunt on horseback because they seem to be wide ranging. I was on a quail hunting trip a long while ago in Georgia and we followed the dogs around sitting in a truck drawn trailer - they used English Pointers. GSPs and Brittanies are popular in Western Canada prairie country for pheasant, sharptail or partridge hunting on foot. GSPs have the advantage of being versatile - most will retrieve ducks and the ones that don't naturally can be easily trained to. Of course they can't stand the cold like the Labs and others.