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About holy grail

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  • Birthday 12/08/1989

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    Hunting - with dogs, guns, motorbikes<br />Shooting - both day and nightime<br />
  1. nah no luck cley man. the site didnt have anything on magazines at all. thanks for your reply cley man. cheers
  2. gday. im searching for a magazine for a Sportco model 2A, which is a .22 rimfire. anyone got one or know where i can find one? id be bloody appreciative of any info you guys have got to help me in my search. cheers
  3. i had the same problem with my 8 month old deerhound. when i got him he had been taught not to jump, he coudnt even jump onto the back of the ute. i quickly had him jumping on the ute by using my labrador to show him how. i would be on the ute, id call the lab up and give him a treat once he was up and id then id call the hound up. i think i got him on the 3rd try and hes never looked back. now for the fences. i consider the way i trained my dog to be a lot of work, or the 'hard way'. i started to construct a fence one wire at a time, id then grab a treat and call him with the command 'over
  4. hey. any of you piggers out there got an old breast plate to fit a staghound that you dont want? preferrably is oz would be good??? are plates even made to fit staghounds???
  5. never seen the mouth of a fox kill a dog, the fox is always torn apart pretty quickly. but we nearly lost a staghound to aN infection a couple of years back. i can imagine a terrior getting killed though but i find it hard to believe that a lurcher would fail against a fox
  6. sure does help. thankyou skycat. just one more question... can he recover from these conditions?
  7. gday. i was looking for a hunting ute, ready for next year when a friend/neighbour offered me this old cruiser for $4500. ive been to have a look at it and its in very good condition. its got brand new tires, 4lt diesel with 130,000km on the clock. its already set up for hunting pretty much, as its got lights on the back and the lightforce spotlight mount in the roof. the bull bar is as robust as they come. it sits out about 8 inches further than the normal bully you will see these days. i just thought id ask what options there are for a ute that age, as in, what can i buy for it from places l
  8. went out for a hunt on sunday, as it was cool weather and had rained. my newbie deerhound dog chased his first fox, but let it go. he also chased a hare, but lost that as well. its ok though as he's just new to it. got home sunday arvo, and within an hour of being home, noticed that my dog was really quiet and appeared 'sore'. as he had had a big day out (got a couple of chases) i thought he must have just been worn out and tired. the next morning however, he was a lot worse. he didnt touch his breakfast and gave a yelp when i rubbed his chest. his breathing was impared and he walked with a hi
  9. he's a 1 year old male deerhound. he has been out with other dogs only once, in which we only got 2 chases. no the lab and the jack didnt see it as they were busy in the cover flushing him out. but the lab would have given it all he had if he had seen it. i can see what you are talking about with jumping the fences at full speed. i personally dont want to let him on rabbits as this will in a sense, teach him to chase rabbits and hares in particular. i do not want him chasing hares when and if i can help it, as this just tires the dogs out, making them inactive come time for a fox chase. there
  10. we got 2 inches of rain overnight, so i decided to take my new dog out for a hunt and see if i could get him his 1st chase (on a fox that is) whilst the cool weather was about. as my dad and our other 2 dogs (lab and jack) flushed out the cover, one came out. the dog saw him and i said "go get him" (as you do) and he took off after it. the fox was about 100m away when he took off. the fox bolted through the open paddock with hal in pursuit. the fox reached the fence with hal barely 25m behind. here's where the problem arose: the fox went through the fence but hal (deerhound dog) did not go ov
  11. how the hell would he have trained the dog to kill the hunted foxes but not the pet one?? thats an extreme story, could be true though.... mabye the fox acted as an undercover hunter lol
  12. my deerhound gets a greyhound supplement, everyday with his dinner. this has all the essentials plus some extra calcium for the bones. its just a simple powder that you spread over his food. cant remember the name, and am not at home to check. it smells like fish.
  13. dont be ashamed to shed tears mate. something like that is always very hard to come to terms with. after reading your post i went outside to my new 1 yr old deerhound and gave him a big cuddle. i once had a pet roo. had him for 4 months until a steer stood on his leg/snapped it and we had to put him to sleep. he died in my arms. i was shattered for weeks and i still think about the little guy now and then. my thoughts are with you felltool.
  14. australia is great. the hunting can be full on depending on what areas you are in and your quarry. id imagine that most people would be ending their seasons about now because the heat is kicking in. time to put away the breast plates for another season fellas. by the way im not a pigger so i dont know for sure about the pig season's
  15. my cousin uses a Ridgeback. its the first pig dog he's had but he says it works better than some bull x's he's seen. havent seen the dog in person myself but have seen photo's. its a good looking dog. apparently ridgbeacks are one of the breeds more suitable for hunters whom rely on a keen sense of smell from their dogs. this dog is a really good sniffer and is often hunted through sugar cane feilds and stuff in Queensland.
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