Not that you have a hard choice to make after all the pro lab input but here are a few more tid bits in favor of labs.

I know a older duck/goose guide who works the potholes area. He and his wife use to breed goldens and he says even with top breeding and pro training only 60% of the dogs turned out to be good hunters. Compare that with a well bred and trained lab and you get a dog that satisfies +95% of hunters.

I was a part of a retriever club in Austin before moving back to the NW and out of the +75 members, not one had a golden. There were tow flat coat retrievers (imagine a black golden, this breed pre-dates labs) but they were oddly behaved critters. Many of the members competed nationally in hunt and field trials.

Enjoy your new lab pup!