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Thanks for the replys folks. I just prefer the old hemp nets as I like the way they lay . Used to have some really good tangle free nets that pursed well and were made out of stuff that looked like green shoe lace material. I bought them off a really old guy about fifteen years ago at the amber hotel lurcher show , I think it was in Derbyshire. They were handy for early on in the season when there was plenty of nettles and stuff still about, or in hedge bottoms. Never seen any like them again . This old guy had his daughter with him who was in her forties then, does anyone know him or wether

Make sure you keep it clean keep bathing it in salt water and just take for short walks for a week. Its par for the course with working dogs. Make sure you cut off any bits that are hanging loose .

No been looking for another for years, don,t make them anymore. Brilliant allround lamp.

well said !

Not another topic where people slag off hancock agian. Why give the lad a hard time? Ive seen some good hancock dogs work in the last 15 yearsor so. He may be a puppy farmer, but thats not what this topics about. Alot of the lads on this site would f**k up a dog with the best breeding in the world!

i'll probably get laughed at lol... plummer wrote about a fella that owned a 1st cross bull/greyhound, it was built like a middleweight boxer that could continue lamping rabbits long after the owner had wanted to retire... i believe that part to be true about a vast majority of bull cross lurchers... and if they fail on fox i think its a shame that they dont get passed on as rabbit dogs instead of being pts... if you get one with a racey frame and soft mouth its as good a rabbit dog as any JMHO! while i agree with your sentiment don,t quote me with bloody plummer

had dogs like that other the years that have turned out good in the end, but watch out with bull x ,s as it can go the other way when they get older if there unsteady, nerves can often turn into an eggresive unsteady dog in years to come.

one of the best replies I have heard on this site in years, well said

how old is it?

quote...would be interested to know what it adds to the lurcher that just used to take pre ban hares and rabbit. No one in there right mind would go and buy a bullx to just take rabbits and hares.???????

Not wanting to sound mean, but what kind of question is this, its rediculous.

hyperphetical question really as they can go either way especially first crosses. I had to bithes out of a 3/4 greyhound 1/4 border litter and one turned out 24 1/2 and the other was 27 more like a greyhound. Even line breeding for years can still throw different sizes.

won,t be the type with the locking wheel on top, i bought some when they were still making them, there is nothing to touch them all the rest are crap, next best is a piece of string !

How does a small number of people come to own all the countryside, you only live once if you want to go out and do something f--k em go out and do it your a long time dead

Farmers on the fens :wankerzo4: were,nt moaning about hare numbers pre ban when they were taking £250 ie; £25 each for ten of us to have a saturday coursing on thier land.