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Year before last i took a trip to NZ and had a whale of a time. The lads i met there were true gents and looked after me very well with stalking, pig hunting and fishing galore. In return i offered to take them or their mates out if they were ever in the UK. This weekend was the first chance i got to return the favour. A young kiwi lad came down from Londin where he is staying to shoot a roe. We had a good weekend even with saturdays weather and he took a nice roe doe off sticks on saturday and went on a vermin drive on sunday. He got on the train absolutely shattered sunda

Had a wee wander today unfortunately for the big dog we was walking a place where she was subject to the lead due to some walkers, the little dogs made good there day with some nice hunts to there selfs and done well to push a few bits and bobs about, at this side of this season am happy just plodding and unwinding alittle. A few boring pics off the team

Been coming along time, but I guess I will have a difficult decision to make in the near future. Got an old dog here almost 12 year old and she is not that far from the end i guess, had her from 9 weeks old and she has seen off a marriage, various military postings and good knows how many miles running with me in her youth. Question is when is the right time to take the one way trip to the vets and say goodbye to my old friend, some days she looks at me as if to say I have had a good innings but the time is right, but then just occasionally she shows some signs of her youth, but these are few

My thoughts are 99% of people will support this as "common sense to protect us" and call anyone like me who see's it as 'the beginning' a "stupid terrorist sympathiser". My thoughts tend to remain thoughts, because most folks don't get it.

This design has a special reminiscence for me as it was the design of the first knife i was involved in making some 35 years ago. An old boy, an engineer to trade took an interest in me as a lad and forged up a similar blade with me i "helped". He gave it to me some time later and i still use it today. It is a good all rounder for butchering up a carcass, recently helping a mate who has a small holding and does his own butchering and he admired it. As he gave me half a carcass for the freezer i have made it as a gift for him. Series 2 Land-rover leaf spring deferentially heat treated blad

I've heard you can finger bang a black bear to death, if you're quick and horny enough.... Is that true?

Ice statues........

Cheers mate he’s 9 this year. Tbh ave never used him as a specific dog I need him to be abit off everything. I don’t dig enough for him to be solely that however he does find a few each season it’s on his own accord. He’s grabbed a few roe in deep cover pushes about 50% of my game out banks woods to the big dog but will settle down to a days ferreting. He will be a huge loss for me when his time is up

I was told it was best to do it "one day too soon, rather than leave it one day too late" in other words, while the dog still has a bit of dignity, rather than see your old mate too sick or crippled with pain. Be with her to the end.....she has earned that much.....but it's never an easy day......

Or, are we back to the same old chestnut as I beleive it which is, some societys / cultures are just not a good fit for each other? African society/ culture is fine in Africa, Arabic society/culture is fine in Arabia and European culture is fine in Europe.......but, try forcing them together and it isn’t going to work. ..........and scientists are simply trying to find things to convince us that it should work and that we are somehow stupid, bigoted, narrow minded or just misinformed is we see a problem?

I put my old whippet down over a year ago now, jet was 13, and riddled with arthritis, the meds weren’t doing much anymore, I knew it was time, when I got out the lamp and he didn’t want to come. It’s ok to let them stay in front of the fire, as long as they aren’t suffering in pain 24/7.

Marsh Harrier

Scarborough Bridlington or Filey for me, all within 10 minute drive for me, wife wants to go back to Cyprus, hope she goes lol

pair of twats !

Was -25 with wind chill last night,looking forward to Thailand next month

Dose not need a hair dryer he just takes it off his head and throws it in the tumble dryer atvbjimmy

Big?There are guys around,enterprising characters who work for the lecky board,they turn up in their works vehicles and arrange that you don't actually pay for your hps usage,seen it done at 5 grand for an industrial unit and 2 grand for a house,the unit they dug up the pavement directly outside as they worked,genuine professional job and tidy finish,always best to be legal however and avoid those sort of people and situations.

Had a terrier start collapsing on walks and going into fits last year. That was the time to let her go. She would piss in the house and hide because she knew it was wrong but couldnt help it. Not worth watching. I agree with doing it whilst the dog has some dignity.

When you think it's time it May be less stressful if you have the vet come out and do it in comfortable surroundings (house). I've lost my fair share to working/out in the field over the years, the hardest being 2 old terriers I had pts within a few months of each other, I cried like a small child not afraid to admit that, whatever happens won't be easy, just don't let it suffer anymore than it has too. Atb in what you decide ?

It's an interesting subject and one that growing abilities in science/genetics will likely give us as much information in the next few years as al the fossils since Darwin.

None what so ever. U.

I wonder if there could be something in this 'Cheddar Man' being a darkie, and possibly all or some of our ancesters. I keep getting a compulsive urge to move back to Peckham and loiter outside Morley's fried chicken shop wid me bredren, sucking air through me teet, and cussin and dissin any whitey that dares to walk past.

Well done Mark very nice in depth write up mate. Nice to see a youngster going out no youngster's are interested here. Well done to Rabid for taking you and sharing his knowledge i've a sneaky feeling he enjoyed it as much as you. Thanks for sharing. Cheers Arry

It's ok, hardly anybody puts any hunting related stuff on here, so we have to read something., besides I like watching kid's play as long as they don't hurt each other.

Bloody Skippy's everywhere, you just cant go anywhere these days without bumping into them. ( Sth. Aus.) SS, Teds temps are that huge nearly 90C swing, years ago I flew from Sydney to Vienna, via Singapore. Just wearing tshirt shorts and sandles, got off the plane and my balls shot up to my throat because it was -28C and we had to get onto a bus on the tarmac. They actually were worried because I was so chilled in the terminal. But I love the environments at extremes - such different worlds. Ted I would love to try some of your jam, but it would be held by Customs, ( and eaten

To be fair, it really don’t matter if some Kenyan has an IQ like Steven Hawkin......if he is f***ing 11 year old virgins to cure himself of AIDS and slaughtering the village next door over some goats then he is a backwards f****r.

Hang on... while I was puffing a grunting up that hill dragging that stag you were skipping along behind taking pictures!? Fair play to George - that was a difficult approach and the prone shot was from a soaking, stoney patch of ground. Both shots were at around 140m as well so a cool head on his shoulders and after watching you run 400m to congratulate him, grinning like an idiot the whole way, I could tell it meant as much to you as it did to him! Must have been a proud moment for you, can’t wait to do that with my own lad when he’s older. My two the following day were almost carb

And in the 21st century in Wales those who give me permission to work my dogs say when, so I crack on ...I wish a lot of people posting from the UK not just on this thread or on this broad would read the terrier code of conduct and the laws in which we have to work terriers for pest control and think about them every time they post , and to my Celtic cousin over the river also think before you post or you to could be in the same shit the anti's are universal in their attacks and what they use in one country they will use in another ...

could not get it on the river

He’s at home now safe and sound! me and a few good lads off here made are way up the fell first thing this morning, after many miles of searching, we were making are way to check a section of woodland when one of the lads took a quad back down to my house. My missus was there ready to leave, someone had called to say they had him at the local pet shop, so off she went, 20 mins later he’s back home curled up in the sofa where he belongs. He was found 5 or 6 miles away from where I last saw him. Other than a little scratch on his toe and putting in a cold night he’s fine

A fair way off, osprey with fish from last years crop of images..

Trip to Dorset the weekend with Matt and my son George . It was to be George’s first experience of sika having stalked many roe at home . Saturday was a washout with extremely low cloud soaking us to the bone with very few deer seen . Just before last knockings, Matt being the gent he is text me to say he had glasses a group of sika up a hedge line where he was so George and myself made our way to him . Matt guided George into a prone shooting position . I watched on from a distance . A gateway was the position Matt chose and after them both settling in a bit the rifle spoke and a young hind

Well I will probably have a moan but there always good old fashioned literature.

Agreed, sir. The sales pitch is ISIS. Tomorrow it's the BNP. Thursday it's the Football Lads Alliance. Friday it's UKIP... It's nothing more than an attack on content and the freedom to view such.

That'll be political activists, not scientists. If science shows some of the reasons for racism to be bollocks then it's up to racists to reassess and adapt or substantiate their beliefs. Just the same as when science shows biological differences between what we call different racial groups, it's up to folks that reckon there are no differences to take in these facts and adapt their beliefs. Anything else is ignorance! We can all have different beliefs, be they political or personal etc. When the reasons a person originally used to justify them are found to be implausible then a balanced

If you think a 270 is better suited to your shooting needs then so be it. I wouldn't fret over barrel type, get what you want, I have a mixture, all are light rifles which I consider far more important than colour/composition. I look after all of my rifles and struggle to see the difference in wear, durability, accuracy.

Some round here shoot and just leave them where they fall ,a disgusting practice by any standards .

Yup mackem lots in hk,some of the fish in the ditches and reservoirs are huge.i seen barking deer,boar(huge),those crazy monkey what dive off trees into the water,very funny.

She's one thick cnut but I wouldn't kick her out of bed for farting.

I feel sorry for the bloke who posted this topic, I bet he didnt think it would turn into a slagging match for two f***ing babies...

Might need to explain to some on here how first to get that smell on their hands

Cover we done yesterday put 2 to ground in a bad spot left for another day

The next day arrived much better with a cold wind and clear skies .George and myself stalked along a patch of gorse hoping to spot deer out in the sun as on previous visits . A stag caught our eye on the banking opposite but off piste. We watched as he skylines and disappeared. Sat for a while taking in the sights and were rewarded with the spotting of a huge stag atop a bracken clad mound that materialized from nowhere. He was also off piste but never mind ,just good to see .Matt arrived to say he'd shot a spiked and a young switch stag and need a hand for the long extraction to the truck wi

Spoken like a true keeper, but you're right. We do have be seen to work terriers in a humane and professional manner while preforming pest control. But here in Ireland it is very traditional to allow quarry to live for another day and without a shadow of a doubt educated game DOES make for better terriers. To a lot of Irish terriermen the very thoughts of killing game is completely out of the question. On a legal note, I'm not sure about Britain but under our Master of Foxhounds rules a cold marked fox can be bolted by a terrier to be hunted by hounds. But not when put to ground afte

up and away

Brain bolted this dog fox 20 yards away from keepers pens.another fox was bolted and missed 10 mins later.