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[cocker 2,654]

 

[Penda 3,216]

Good this has been cocker im alot younger then you lot the thread has reminded me of my dad when I was a kid hed tell stories of days on the fens he,d call 6 mile bottom they my dad had a good old 3/4 1/4 collie bitch meant to off been a good dog he used to course with a well known traveller from this way our dad said he would bung the farmer a bottle of wiskey for a days coursing he said they used to have some right craics on the days out shame times have to chsnge he taught me most of what I know even though I always thought I knew better

[morton 5,367]

Me and a mucker used to work a few days to enable us to have funds to hunt a week or two,then work again.We plastered a double cellar out for a couple of Seihks from Leeds,£600 was owed,we said we,d take cash plus their escort van,a few days later they arrived with an old Austin A35,in the early ,s the car was vintage,they tried telling us the motor was worth the work we put in,at best it was a £40 motor.A few harsh words,with the emphasis their headwear would make useful bandages for their injury,s etc,we walked away with £280 a vintage motor and the inner feeling of contentment,possibly because the Seihks did not yet know we,d trashed one of the ceilings.That motor took us all over the Fens,Dales and A1 for the next 6 months,it ran on fumes and was the most reliable pile of shite we had the pleasure of hunting in,not one tug in that motor,sadly wrecked when my mucker tried towing a motor in snow and pulling half the back end off it,i shed a tear for its demise.

Edited February 16, 2014 by morton

[courseadog 231]

Good topic cocker things have changed a lot for men like you but to be honest iv only ever known the ban other then when I was a boy and me dad had lurchers , I still get out as do you and always have a good craic

The media tool paints a dark picture of working dogs in general and this has lead us to the ban we are under

It's reading posts on Internet like this that will keep the next generation keen

I used to run with lads that worked dogs befor the ban most have jacked it in most lads I run with now are like me and have only ever known the ban but keep at it regardless

[lurcherman887 178]

This pic from the 70s cocker my grandad with two bitches he had. He passed away now but loved the game, they used to run them hard. He had a good deerhound greyhound lurcher,one day they went out his dog brin killed 4 from 4 on Salisbury plains they went to the pub had a drink give the dogs a rest and went lamping brin done another 4 from 4. He told me some story's and the craic they got up to. Long before my time but the good old days, a million miles from how it is today. image.jpg

Good pic mate

[cocker 2,654]

Good topic cocker things have changed a lot for men like you but to be honest iv only ever known the ban other then when I was a boy and me dad had lurchers , I still get out as do you and always have a good craic

The media tool paints a dark picture of working dogs in general and this has lead us to the ban we are under

It's reading posts on Internet like this that will keep the next generation keen

I used to run with lads that worked dogs befor the ban most have jacked it in most lads I run with now are like me and have only ever known the ban but keep at it regardless

well done mate keep at it

[cocker 2,654]

me with my son in my arms 1985 collie grey and bedlington saluki, never dream of a ban coming, travelled all over in that old trailer coursed all over lincoln norfolk cambridge, hardly any hassle at all either coursing or stopping places

same boy who's in my arms getting into dogs 1989

same son 2013 more into fishing than dogs now cos of all hassle

[Guest edrd]

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Edited June 19, 2016 by edrd

[morton 5,367]

We bought a Ford Escort Mexico,tuned to the bollocks,useless for carrying mutts in but faaasst.Corsing hares around the A1 and dodging the boys in blue we made our rapid escape one sunny sunday morning,leaving the A1 at Wetherby with blue flashing lights a distant view,heading towards Harewood at 110 miles an hour,bonnet released itself of its quick release straps and and we ended in a ditch on the roof,dogs and owners attempting hasty exit to be met by the pursuers,another fine and a wrecked motor,fecking hares.

[Guest edrd]

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Edited June 19, 2016 by edrd

[Silversnake 1,099]

Very interesting read, the ban really is a shame. I know very little on the topic but a lot of you old boys did A LOT of poaching. If we take dogs on to private land here the farmers shoot the dogs and if we got caught by the police dogs and vehicles are confiscated and even worse trouble if we have guns. I wonder do local communities/shires support the ban over there or is instigated by federal politicians? I hope the ban gets lifted for the sake of your dogs if nothing else. Thanks for the thread cocker

[dpb82uk 138]

good reed

[TOMO 24,863]

Great pics them cocker,,,..love the the old caravan,,,, what ever happened to travelers putting that Crome on trailers,,,don't see it now,,,,the other thing travelers do,,, is never take the plastic of the seats,,, could never understand that one...must of been all sweaty ,,,,

 

Morton I had to google an image of an Austin a35.... Mind I know what the a40 looked liked cos we had one rusting on our drive for a few years,,,, my old man thought he could make extra cash doing old motors up and forgoing them,,,,,even as a young lad of 10 in the 70,s I knew it was a waste of time,,,, cos the old man was useless at mechanics ,,,,me mam put her foot down in the end,,, and made him clear the drive,,, of the 5 cars,,, that we're rusting away on our drive,,,,lol

[paulus 26]

when i was a nipper there was a place i walked past on my way to school that sold them caravans pissed if i can remember the blokes name now, he had hundreds of them all shiny and gleaming, i ended up working there one summer, he had two big black nasty Alsations that ran free after closing. i remember the few we had i think the last one was posh as it had leaded windows

[sandymere 8,261]

Woking dogs, racing dogs, terriers, was a different world in the 70's and 80's

 

 

 

An old morris van and little responsibility.

 

 

Edit to add the tale.....

 

Looking back it was a different world, some good dogs and good men or is that just the rose tinted glasses of time. I started in the 60's with a terrier chasing bunnies through the brambles in our local wood and began my obsession with running dogs with a whippet x collie in the 70's. The chalk quarries of Bedfordshire afforded our sport with dogs, ferrets and airguns and chasing rabbits was just what kids did in them days.

 

Next in the late 70’s early ’s, I lived in Ipswich and whilst on a job in Newmarket bought I a little rough coated fawn smutt, about 22”, from a fella after watching his dogs run one afternoon. That lurcher and I in an old Morris van went all over Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire; although in truth think the van spent as much time broken down by the side of the road as it did on it, we lived for hares. I got chased occasionally by a landowner but it never seemed a big deal and even when caught it was just a get off my land type thing rather than police helicopters like today.

 

After thatt I lived in Northants and was a permit trainer at Henlow greyhound stadium racing there and other tracks around the south east of England, I lamped with a little Beddy/whippet x collie /greyhound that I got from Far cotton, last pic. The next move was to W/Sussex where he was joined by a deerhound hybrid along with a saluki cross as I revisited my love of coursing spending my spare time running hares on the south downs.

 

I had some times, met good and bad but other than the odd bad accident that left dogs injured or worse I loved every minute of watching my dogs run, be in the field or on the track. A lot of years a lot of dogs but I still get that thrill when a dog is making up the ground and the chase is on!

Edited February 18, 2014 by sandymere