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  1. rob284
    Depends how many lads you go out with too, you won’t be digging your own dog the whole time. I could keep a dozen of my old dog as he’s great around the yard and no hassle but these pups I have, to keep half a dozen of the lively type would break your heart haha, knock years off your life.
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    Know of a lad who has a cracker of a Russell just as you said, retired now but was a great dog in his prime. He might stick a pic up if he sees the thread.
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    If it’s a healed up wound leave it, there’s nothing wrong, it’s just scar tissue and it’ll grow back in time if the dog doesn’t injure that area again.
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    If you shoot 160 the previous season your being a bit naive to expect a good tally in the following season. If that lad was out for sport he would leave that healthy population and take a few every outing, then he would have something to go at the following season. Different story if he is a pest controller, and if he was it’s a job well done and he couldn’t complain about the fall in numbers. My opinion, if your concerned about the numbers in an area, don’t hunt in it.
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    One that’s just hard and too full on, and one that just bays is of limited use, they need more for some jobs. A terrier that will take it’s time and pick it’s hold is very valuable even if it doesn’t bay.
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    13 inch and 13 pound. ?
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    Apologies that’s what I thought you meant, they’re a great tool regardless. What tool is it that you mean?
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    Apologies that’s what I thought you meant, they’re a great tool regardless. What tool is it that you mean?
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    Mattock? If that’s what your on about it’s for different ground and plenty of the englishlads use them ?. I often have use for the mattock and it’s great for levelling off a dig on a steep incline and working around roots and cutting, but it wouldn’t be used for the job of a sharptooth. Your right in saying a mattock and a shovel will dig most places, most but not all. There’s some places where you need the weight of a 6ft bar to break the ground up and having one will take hours off of a dig.
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    The last two pics, hows that dog bred Mik? It’s the image of my black dog.
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    I think the lad who makes them makes a long shaft one now.
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    I think they’re for two different jobs. Heavy graft for keeping the sides square in stiff ground and chopping roots, whereas the sharp tooth is handy in the middle of the dig especially in stoney ground, looks like it isn’t doing much but breaks a good 6 inch of ground for the shovel. Like you said, it all depends on the ground your digging. I would have been lost without both of them this morning.
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    Welded a 6ft solid inch bar to a graft head and it will shift any ground. Carrying it is torture but it’s often worth it and can half the time at a dig.?
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    Was the dog from Wigan? ?
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    Last time I went it was crawling with them! Especially around the east.
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    Won’t be px as you won’t find a better rifle. He’s selling as he doesn’t get out anymore.
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    Of course they do, the steel ones are forgiving and are able for a bit of stick but the wooden ones do last for many seasons if you uses them as they should be used. I wouldn’t have a wooden one now as there’s no reason to pick one over a steel one, but they’re handy light if your used to the steel ones.
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    Theoben mk2 air rifle .20 View Advert My father has decided to sell his theoben mk2 air rifle which he has had from new. It is in an immaculate condition, not a single mark and wouldn’t have shot more that 200 shots in its lifetime. It’s a .20 which he says is a great size for both fur and feather. He’s in Lancashire. Advertiser rob284 Date 16/09/18 Price £700.00 Category
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    Even the wooden shaft shovels last a lifetime, these lads breaking shovels are just using them wrong.
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    The ones in your picture are just the job. Round mouth and a graft for the edges. Then a heavy graft and a sharp tooth, all you need. If your working on a banking, a mattock is a great tool to level off as well, also good working around roots under a tree.
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    You can see just above it is where it was hanging stuck to the clay whilst we was under it, Never dug it since. Things you do for a dog eh.
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    Picture of the boulder after it collapsed. Was lucky that day.
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    Yeah was out digging with my father and got a mark at 10 ft on a place we had dug a few times. Solid clay for 4 foot the hit a large boulder, must have been 5ft in diameter. We had to start a new dig and dig beside it. Again we had about 5 ft of dry hard clay and then 5ft of the softest sand under this clay where the sett was burrowed. Once we got the right depth we tunnelled is under the rock as the rock was burried in hard clay and wasn’t budging. Near the end my father jumps in and pulls the dog out stretched under the boulder, passed me the dog and as he jumps out of the dig the boulder co
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    Not been out yet, normally would be but probably start late September for other reasons. Can’t wait for it to get cooler. Love getting out early morning on a hard frost.
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