Tracy Priestnall

plummers chasing a duck .. wow ! i have been missing out on life ! and for the first time ever i agree with the wirrel redline countryman plucky one .. i don't know why you bother explaining ?

just got a message saying six weeks ..is this you ? don't know what a p m is , or how to send one , but give me 48 hours and i'll get my number to you ... just took me twenty minutes to re-find this page !!! kev..medlock crew

coat has nothing to do with it , your lurchers have the same coat and their doing more cover than the little bitch . how many rabbits do you see on a average walk , has she caught or seen a catch yet , is she chasing in full view , ten foot or less behind a rabbit and still not hitting cover hard ? did you have her last winter when the cover was down ... more info needed

i think you'll throw some fine pups , i like the stamp of both dogs and their a nice match, i'd be interested in a bitch pup if your trading ..

superb photos , particularly on the river and the head shots

its not who votes but who counts the votes .. ?

that dogs got character .. love the way it springs over the privets

giro you represent no one but yourself ..what would i do .. not start a dumb arse club in the first place but the question is what will you do , beside going to ' talk 'to timid tim ,what are you and your club going to do ? you've got your name , want £ 11 for what ? .. a news letter ? were there ten of thousands asking you to start this club , if so you should have ten of thousands of members, how many members so far ? how many lurcher men are members of the countryside alliance ? i'll let you use both hands ! call it giros jolly lurcher club no problems but a w l sounds like you represent mo

i know what you mean squirrel .. but back to the original question i'd keep a pink poodle if it would do the job . I wouldn't be asking which cross ,which breed .. i would be thinking what does the pack need , its a lot too ask one dog too face hard cover each day throughout a season but in some areas you can rely on one bushing dog. I would recommend hound types too anyone because they pick up on ground scent that lurchers and terriers only feather on and pass , but from your description i'd stay they are not what your after and remember don't assume the lakeland will understand how the hound

NOT IN MY NAME , no thanks ..let me guess a few shows , lure chasing ,a few articles and a meeting with the plum mouthed weaklings at the country alliance.. whats their latest campaign rural bus stops ? you don't , or won't , represent me .. better to call yourself giros lurcher club..anyway i'll let you get on with your ' best practice ' report..

no two bobbery packs are the same , and there are NO rules in bobbery packs ..two of the greatest things about bushing and anyone trying to set standards is in the wrong game. i don't do enough rabbiting to care about retrieving and anything bigger doesn't need retrieving . if mine saw a ferret they'd think ' yellow mink! i like well run , organised packs and i like' wild as hawk's ' packs.. no snoberry bobberry...kev , medlock crew

amazed at how many on this site keep terrier's but knock them for going to ground , its like knocking a water dog for coming home wet ! terriers that work rabbit shouldn't go to ground it serves no purpose and terriers for fox should at every opportunity. SIZE isn't always the cure , cockers , beagles , basset, small lurchers , collie's, anything up to the size of foxhounds can, and do , trench into an earth and need digging out, a mates brindle 21-22 " lurcher went to ground and bolted one just last year.... so it isn't so much size has inclination , i have a 12 " beagle type who won't pass

which quarry requires the best nose , hare or fox ? i assume most agree its the hare ,beagles find the straight running fox easy work compared to hare. has for beagles staying up with foxhounds , hard on big open areas but beagles stick tighter to the line. your foxhounds going full steam over run the line , take a big swing like a flock of pigeons ,come back on the line only to find the beagles are now in front..modern beagles hunt like mini foxhounds and over run nearly as much , old type beagles don't over run by hundreds of yards and make time not waste it ... only talking small gun pack

Most modern pack beagles are harrier's .. 17 - 18 " isn't a beagle in my view , its a small harrier . As for beagle packs , in rough country they under cover and away whilst foxhounds and harriers are ' bunching up ' trying to push through bramble.and any pack that riot on squirrel , hares , deer is down to the huntsmen not the breed/strain . plus , the reason beagle cross foxhound are not often bred is down to size , I've seen first cross beagle x foxhound , 21 -22 " thick set , stocky hounds that weren't fast and would be left standing by foxhound or harrier. i don't know enough about foxh

top write up ,been a while since i heard the gaskins name .. a lot of great characters in the match dog game.