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Hands of Stone

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  1. I stopped buying it when the pictures didn't quite go with the articles, like an article on rabbit snaring and the put a picture of a fox snare..... d'oh!
  2. After waiting for what seemed like ages, but still managed to get caught half prepared my Russell pups have finally made an appearance! 3 all whites, and two with eye patches. Can't wait for next season now haha
  3. Cheers. Next time I will try and remember my phone for a few pictures
  4. I've been meaning to get out for a couple of weeks now, but finally got round to it tonight. Jake (the lurcher) has been out dogging in every day now for the last 8 weeks so he is pretty fit, but getting wound up just flushing pheasants and he has been getting quite sharp at catching the odd poult. Anyway, parked up the buggy and walked across the first field where there was nothing out, I was thinking to myself that I should have gone the other side of the estate, when I spotted a squatter 20 yards away in the long grass. I slipped the dog thinking it would be a great start to the night.
  5. I had a welsh collie x grey half bred bitch a few years back, I would have another if I could get it but I believe the strain on welsh collie has gone now. It belonged to a guy called Barry but I forget his surname
  6. I take both gun and lurcher, but as a lot of my permission has foot paths it pays to try and look like i'm following the law.....
  7. My parents have a small holding, and when I was growing up i'd play for hours with the goat kids and pet lambs. I'd cry my eyes out when the went to slaughter and called my dad everything I could think of for taking them. I'd still tuck in when they came home in kit form! These days for me at least, I'd rather eat something that's had a field to run in than an intensively reared pork chop or a kfc chicken.
  8. I have trapped a few whites/gingers/ and a brown and white one. Moles, not badgers! All within a small area over a few years.
  9. So, none of our wildlife is a match for them? Where can I get a pup?
  10. For me, as part of a gun pack I would chose harriers every time. I just like the crazy wee buggers, but for 'proper' hunting I'd rather follow foxhounds instead of everything. And also I think your hounds, whatever type you keep, should all be of the same type. What works for a bobbery pack would be a disaster if you tried it with hounds, your harriers might piss off after a rambler, (on quiet days it happens quite a bit!) your beagles would get left behind, leaving the foxhounds still looking for a fox. And if you are working loose terriers, well just go check the deepest earth by the busie
  11. I'm just getting back into a 6 year gap from keepering, and I have kennels full of just about everything other than a gundog!
  12. Hi folks, Just wondering if anyone else is using anything other than the usual spaniels, labs?
  13. I house train all the pups I take on, its nice of on an evening to let them in, and not worry about the carpet, and if there's and injury or invalid them keeping an eye on them is easier if they are in the house. Also when they get old I like to have them in the house for a before they take that last stroll down the garden, but then I'm a softy!
  14. I have got a spare, But its a long drive for you mate!
  15. They've been doing that in my village for years I think parent to pup wouldn't be so close as a brother/sister mating, but I'm only guessing. I have heard that half brother to half sister is accepted way of starting a line
  16. Look on bridport nets mate, it depends who I'm making them for. If its for lads that go with hound packs then it thicker stuff or the hounds destroy them
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  18. King, cos of the flag I'm guessing you are in Wales..... just a heads up that it's illegal to use (but not own) them here...
  19. Anybody breeding any tidy little ferrets for ratting this year? If there's a spare or two and they are up for sale I would like to hear from you.. I already have ferrets but they are a bit on the chunky side for regular ratting trips. Thanks for reading.
  20. I usually get up and take them out for a quick round the block to empty them out, put the terriers away and then run a couple of miles on the road with my lurchers before work, then when im home after work give them all a 3/4 mile walk and another quick one round the block last thing at night, but what I have found really helps keep them calm is to have a couple of hours in the house in the evening. I find it reinforces the pack thing. But I always house train them as pups so I realise not everyone could have them inside.
  21. It was 3am on a Monday morning. So it wouldn't have been real busy. The trouble is there a number of packs, registered and private/pirate in our area, so locating the correct huntsman would have taken some doing. I was there when the whole of the local mounted pack crossed the A55 about 11 am on a Saturday morning, they stopped the road no bother, no collisions or casualties. I believe the plod tasered a sheep not so long ago in the same area.
  22. Its not a training book, but "Running dog maintenance" by Penny Taylor is invaluable to have
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