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I personally think a dog that uses its nose will find more than one looking for it. But it also depends on what your hunting ground is like. For mooching around like I do a dog using it’s nose is a lot more beneficial and great to watch. Also a dog given the chance to hunt and not walked 20 miles on a slip will end using its nose and it eyes and you don’t need to pay a fortune for a thermal imager. As for combining two different breeds yes there is chance of getting the worst traits but there’s equally a good chance of getting the best. Thank goodness people looked towards the positive ou

What set fire to his house...?

Bitch pup, nine months of age now. By far the sharpest pup I’ve ever owned. Started catching about 7 months and with a real nice style to her. Very high hopes for next season if I can keep her in one piece!

Popped out last night before the wind really picked up , it was windy but nothing like the 60 mph winds we experienced through the night. I placed out the caller and started with vixen mating call , 5 minutes in and lit up a fox that had come in unseen downwind , as I lit it up it ran off up the field and stopped around 300 yds away . I changed the call to hare distress which seemed to hold its attention so I put a sneak in on it , closing the gap to 140 yds and downwind. Got set up on the bipod and when I looked through the scope I could see the fox was now lying down facing straight at me ,

Worked out better for me in the end. My mates springer x working farm collie came into season so I bred her with a 3/4 russel 1/4 beagle. Both excellent bushing dogs. Hopefully she catches. I will keep the bitch over with me, rear the pups take one from the litter then send the bitch back over with him. He doesn't want anything too do with pups though has he bred his cocker bitch in the summer and it cost him £1500 for a c section in the vets after one got stuck. That's the risks I suppose though. If all goes well I will have a well bred bushing pup or 2 so it will all be worth it hopefully ??

Dogs working well today bushed a few rabbits out and retrieved a duck off the river the other night

I took a walk down to the village shop early morning to get some milk and bumped into local farmer and asked if he needed any one to ferret his land and he said "pop your phone number and address to the farm later today and we have a chat " I popped into the farm and after having a good chat I walked away with a map in my pocket of the boundary of my new permission ? I'm over the moon I got it and it's holding good numbers of coney and other vermin .

People love to claim they have a rescue. It's a type of virtue signalling. My Mrs tells everyone one of ours is a rescue. A mate of mine took it off someone years ago because it weren't being looked after, since then it did a season with him and a season in hunt service, it then retired to us for an easy life catching a few rats......yet she tells everyone its a 'rescue'. They can't fckin help themselves ?

Just got back in after trying c50 with its own ir. Picture was a lot crisper cleaner than my pard. It was a drizzly damp night and still no issues. I couldn't say how clear it is compared to drone. As I didn't take mine tonight. But up to pard big difference. I have ordered one. Anyone want a drone lol

Pure saluki i use to have

Subaru & Saluki; Range Rover & Saluki; Range Rover & Deerhound. Onwards and upwards, Grasshopper ! ?? ! Cheers.

I'm struggling to see the point of a Spaniel/Greyhound cross. Too big for a busher, too slow for fast game. Ive never had trouble with "normal" lurchers using their nose to find their game. Still, there'll be people who swear by them, and I fully appreciate that,and I'd love to see one working. Maybe just keep a good working pair, Spaniel AND lurcher ? Cheers.

That Skywalker og is a cracking smoke! Got this at the moment, grandaddy purple, straight Indica, I like it... Yokel

Is it really that hard to write the ull in ? ?

As has been said, I think plenty of lurchers have enough nose to hunt up well. I've had a lurcher that hunted well and was damn fast , great to watch especially following a line in the hills or air scenting a bunny. Lacked prey drive and hell to live with. I've recently had to PTS my cocker patt , he started out well but never had a great interest in rabbit, loved woodcock and pheasant unfortunately gun-shy , occasionally had magic moments but mostly spent his time pissing shitting and fighting . My bitch has come on a bit since he's gone, I liked the idea of a busher but they have to one do t

TBH never seen a springer x greyhound but have seen a few springer whippets all of them were very handy easy to live with type of dog's especially the one bred out of the small type springers i owned and bred for 30years and has small type mooching dogs go i would have one over any other whippet cross. I remember over 40years ago some lads from Rotherham brought some springer x whippet pups up from a chap in Hertfordshire called John Wild who rated this cross for bushing and knocking about with bigger lurchers due to a lot of badger setts on the land they hunted.

Pick up my lad at 7-30 and headed over the Dale it was a slow start but we carried on we were getting a couple here and there then it picked up and we ended up with 25 the ferrets and dogs worked well out again in the morning but will have to make do with the dogs for company the last photo I had to take at home as my phone battery died

Not a patch on sheepys fine dining experience. But fresh langoustine scampi supper was top notch ?

I've read stories about huntsman I know well.....shooting hounds and feeding them to the pack, hanging live foxes up to train hounds, and beating hounds with whips. Funny because I know they worship their hounds, have a house full of retired ones and would go out of their way to preserve foxes. The scum will always convince themselves that abuses exist. It's like the stories about 'bait' dogs. Am I stupid enough to believe no idiot has ever done something like that..no...but it would be easier to find pet dogs worrying livestock, dogs dying young because they are morbidly obese and cats

To be fair I’m tempted to get a teckle bitch and start knocking pups out £150 -£250. That will upset a few folk ?

21 weeks Sunday, going very well so far ?

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Oh dear, I honestly don't want to get involved in this, but all a switch does is break the circuit. What you appear to have there is a two gang switch, and the only thing going into it should be a live feed. If you just want it to supply a feed to two separate lights, disconnect all those black wires, put a link between the two commons, connect a live feed to either common, it doesn't matter which one, , then one "L1" to one lamp and the other "L1" to the other lamp. I say this in the nicest way, but you obviously haven't a clue, so if it goes wrong, please don't say " C

You don’t put the neutral in any of them. lives only into that switch. If you have a live and neutral feed in and a live and neutral out to each light you need to put all three neutral wires in a separate strip connector. The live feed in goes into the common and you also need to link common to common with a short piece of wire. You then put a live from one light feed into the left hand L1 and the other live into the right hand L1. I will draw you a diagram if you need it. Those switches are a pain in the arse because of the neon. you can just remove it if it’s not neces

Lads yous are going a bit off topic no one said they are any better or worse than a terrier the lad just wanted to know if the man worked his teckels

After 12 good years I lost my Collie x Grey in may last year , I posted on here if any one knew of a litter and had a number of messages back( thanks ) , so this is a bit of a follow on. This is Nell my 3/4 grey 1/4 collie 7 month old bitch , who I got at 8weeks . Nell is out of proven working stock from the North East of England bred by a lad who had both the mum and dad. I know this cross is not for everyone , but they suit me ,this is my 3rd collie x . As a more mature owner ( wrong side of 65) my activities are more focused on mooching and picking up the odd bit of fur and feather he

Alright it's in shit state but 80k couldn't get a plot of land for that here. Cheers Arry

For sure mate,some of the most interesting characters I have encountered live just on the edge.

The original version BD suits me as it's mainly a sleep aid but I haven't had the munchies since I was 18 till this, lol. The Godfather OG is a bit more trippy but strong, still good to get some rest. I don't like the commercially grown hydro my mates get, it is strong but nothing in it if you know what I mean. Soil rules for me.

Totally agree when i was bang at it with the lurchers i would have never even contemplated this cross or a first cross collie greyhound though i always had a springer spaniel for bushing and in some situations working alongside my running dog's.

Our last shoot today, just an afternoon thing and a duck flight afterwards. I have borrowed a 20bore for the grandson to try from my mates shop with a view to buying if it suits. I hope he gets to shoot a few today.

When I had lurchers yeah they missed stuff slipping away while they had their head down but they found stuff sitting tight or following the scent and it was close by but out of sight in undergrowth so I like to see a dog using all its senses hearing included . I also liked to watch a dogs reaction to working like this and also reading the dogs body language .

We have been getting Doe's before Xmas with young in them if wee can we let them go But sometimes the hobs get too them first or dogs watt can we do lads it's hunting season lads keep going

Organic soil grown Godfather and Black Domina, puts the lights out after munchie city, lol. I don't like smoking when hunting but did partake at work greenkeeping and always had the place immaculate. Been a smoker the last 40 years and never had a problem with it. Midnight toker only these days. The ice has taken over here, filthy shit and shouldn't be put in the same class as one of God's herbs ?.

It's good to get a dog which matches your own abilities as you age. I'm 72 and have decided the best match for me is a pug. They're ugly, have a crazed eye look and always have their arses on show. They couldn't catch a rabbit in a phone box and need their butts kicking for being such monstrosities. They complement yours truly perfectly.

You know the score ? the viets would have chopped it at 6,the albis at 7,the brits when it's good and ready ? I was in a superb shop earlier, knocks the Dutch out of the ball-park,100 different strains and clinically clean.

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Has your friend's greyhound only got three leg's ? ?

f***ing hell. hope you kicked the shit off your boots before going in there ?