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Nice and chilled, just how I like them.

Everybody meet CLYDE bred out of my old dog TROY

There's a complete failure here by people to understand how others hunt, regard the hunt and the hunted animal. At the end of a Stag hunt in Ireland (before it was banned)the Stag was ropped up and taken back to a park. At the end of a Stag hunt in UK (before it was banned) the Stag was shot as that was the most humane thing to do. In France they kill it with a sword "because that's a more honourable death and the huntsman should be intimate with the stag when taking its life, to shoot it would be a dishonour" They aren't obsessed with humane this or t

BONNIE This is the other pups I kept back out of Troy

It's obvious that the use of locators has paved the way for mute dog to be used. That type pre locator days would not have been much use at all. But is it far more safer with a locator for the terrier? 100% it is! the fell and moorland saved a dog wedged tight at 19m that dog would have never been seen again if it was for the bellman and flint. But if we could dig within the law but not have a locator on I'd do it. Because my dogs are yappy little wind bags anyways lol. Maybe we wouldn't be in the mess were in now if locators was never used, just a thought. If you look at pi

If folks can't just give up with their f***ing pride and opinions about locators and how a foreign hunter should bow to the British/Irish way then this forum will soon become poorer for it. Just f***ing accept it or lose another great contributor to this forum. Blaise has been a bloody gent on here and yet folks are still telling him how he's doing it wrong. Even name calling now! Just accept it, even if you cant understand it. Or simply don't follow this thread.

My wheaton cross is fit and ready to rock and roll am very happy with him

One I got last year

When you're being called a dickhead and repeatedly told how your method is second rate then it's hardly soft to be running low on tolerance, considering his contribution to date. Folks just need to accept that these French lads do it differently.

I hardly ever went to school and didn't really get any grades. I myself wasn't told I was dyslexic till I was 15. By then I didn't care much for school as it was to late for any help. Any way after most of my life in bottom classes and thinking I was a failure. I am now 41 and a manager of a construction firm. With 20 men. Building million pounds harbour apartments. Plus also my other son who is also dyslexic is in his 2nd year of joinery aged 19 he can hang doors etc for fun.

Or perhaps the French aren't dull enough to put marked up dogs on the net ! Why not have the best of both worlds, use a collar but have a time limit before it's deemed necessary to locate it for a rescue ? That way you could keep your tradition alive and have the best interest of the terrier at heart too.

not a cross i've tried before but couldn't say no to the gift of this little straight half bitch

I applied for my fac a few months back and thought I might as well tag a sgc on to the application .. as I shoot a dairy farm for rats and ferrels, the owner docent want me shooting them off the roof and clogging all the gutters up so I cant get near them!! until now.. so I bought a semi so I could get a sound mod as to not create to much noise for the cattle. then I realised I like using shotguns so I bought an o/u off a mate at work, I like the idea of more traditional.. so today works gone t1ts up and ive got a few days off so I decided to have a crack at the woo

Just to walk a new permission and see whats about before it pissed down and found some nice warrens in a small wood, got 1 shot at a rabbit about 25mtrs and had to go as the rain came

Counted over 50 the other day a good few in groups of five or six and still leverets about looks to have been a good year for them.

a Pie on a barn cake is a wigan kebab as been said the lad is a grafter and I wish him atb there was a young lad very similar to Alfie round here started a fruit and veg round on his bike and pushing a mower through the streets in summer was doing ok with it it went on Facebook and some business people saw it club together and sorted him out with passing his test and a sign written van i hope Alfie gets similar luck because lads like them deserve it

I was finally expelled from school at 15 without a single exam result to my name ... I've never claimed a penny always been in work and now own my own business ... school isn't the b all and end all of everything .......

It’s easy, especially if you’re trying to sell a story, to paint a picture of trigger happy coppers gunning down a disabled lad with the mental age of a young child holding nothing but a harmless toy. In reality what might have happened is that police were faced with a very agitated looking man brandishing a sub-machine gun, and who wouldn’t communicate with them or comply with instructions to lay down the weapon. If they then assessed he was posed an imminent danger to life then I don’t see that they had much choice. Unless you were there, how can you judge the actions of the police

I hadn't been out foxing for a couple of weeks so thought i would go last night. After a conversation with the keeper who thought he had smelled fox at one particular farm i decided to start there. Arrived about 9.40pm and set the caller out on a fence post around 50yds away. Rifle loaded, scope checked and illuminator aligned and off we go with pheasant distress. After about 3 minutes there is one on the farm track looking towards the caller but not sure of it. I switched the Drone on and set the trigger by which time he had moved off the track into the field to my right and behind the sheep

I used too go 4/10 wks a time when my first was born,home for a few days back to it.... he was 2lb 7 ozs and in a baby unit for first few months, used to kill me mate to be fair, leaving them, alot of stress on the mrs and our relationship , my daughter was born 2 yrs later, lasted a few months and jacked, you miss the money but no amount can make up for lost time with them when they are that young, they change daily and i do regret missing out on my eldest, something ive tried to make for up ever since with the other2?thats why hes like my shadow?your lads a little older but its still hard,

This kid is inspirational,and he eats pie sandwiches,great attitude

No but I'm on deaths bed at minute sick as a small hospital here haha

Come on boys, it's a Friday night and you have both mentioned them initials, are you both on a death wish??

It would be a dammed shame if this thread came to an end due to perceived un-constructive criticism or advice. I can see the point regarding none use of locator kits but as has been said, not relevant because of French law. A more prudent question would be how many, if any, terriers are lost to ground during a season? Looking at the posted pictures of these French badger digging terriers there does appear to be differences in the way some on this side of the Channel did it. In the latter years of badger digging in England, to some, a digging dog could be recognised by the fact that it was miss

Plenty 'characters' left round here ?

Inspired by Boris J ?

There not as good as the APBT in the box though

I know that i can look at someone and spot if they have Down’s syndrome in a second . There is no excuse for shooting this lad . I also know that people don’t join the police or armed services to shoot the mentally disabled . Whoever pulled the trigger now has to live with this mistake .

I wish...far better than.this shit thread lol

If anyone speak about one more time of locator on this thread, just one time, this will be the end. I'm convinced that diversity is interesting, different ways of hunting is wonderful, that we have a lot of pleasure to discover who is hunting an other way. I'm very involved in hunting in France and this my life. I'm haven't any time to spend to somebodies who never hunted with me, who speak about my art by ignorance. One more time, the end.

Winter in sunny Devon was mild a fxck. It was spring that was a bxstard. Lol. March. Cheers Arry

I think he will follow in my footsteps shane, hes a good little lad, doesnt moan about the cold none of this 'when we going home shit' or trekking miles when out for 6/8hrs on the lamp, he loves his terriers and lurchers and not a bad little shot with an airgun and catty, keen fisherman had barbel to 11 lb. Got him a lurcher pup so he will be out with us this season ? ?

Speak about the advantages of locator, happiness and great values of e-hunting. (And leave this b*****d of french who is definitely unable to understand what hunting badger mean)

Managed to get me name bown for a well bred pup out of (spider ) to the (bulldozer) this is just the sort of pup av been looking for to put back in to my stuff I have

The old saying springs to mind if it ain't broke don't fix it. The French seem to be getting on fine. Long may it continue

Pretty sure when there is a firearm involved, or even a knife in close quarters, then non lethal options are off the table. Just too risky when matey is believed to have a firearm. It's a shit situation. One that I'm not qualified to pass judgement on.

That was a new one to me as well but a quick search would seem to suggest it does happen to a small extent!

Not sure if that is a mistaken inference by the author. Deer threaten ground nesting birds because they browse the bottom out of woods and hedges, removing the protective cover for them which then leads to over-predation. Never heard of them eating eggs to any significant degree before?

Nice pup that Rabbit hunter,thick set and laid back,2 qualities I admire in a pup or dog for that matter

I reckon I get more satisfaction, getting on terms with one shy troublesome fox than I do going out and shooting a truck full. If they have been upsetting and killing your birds , there is a massive sense of relief when you stop them .

They harvested most of the wheat here today , so I thought I’d take a look . I was expecting to see a few but was disappointed, not much out apart from deer rabbits and badgers. I did see one though , trotting across some old stubble which had been mucked , with something in its mouth . I squeaked, whistled, then barked to try and stop it but it carried on . Don’t normally do this but I shot it on the move , clipped it and it carried on a bit before stopping . Still wriggling I finished it off with a second shot . With the thermal I was able to find what it had in its mouth . Looks like some

Yea my coal bunkers are full and got load of split logs getting delivered end of month. Also buy north face gear in summer they always have sales on in the summer months and hike the prices up in winter.

£150 a day for labouring?!? I've got mates that do plastering that get £120 a day and joiners that will get less. Is that some sort of mad internet exaggeration? I mean £750 a week to labour? I simply can't believe thats true at all.

Don't think it's everybody online, I think it could be 'most' trades if they had there head screwed on right, labourers on £150 a day round here, machine drivers pull anything from 2-250 a shift, plumbers charging grand a pop to instal a boiler that takes a day, the list is endless, brickies on £22 a metre block and 750 per thou brick, the money's out there to be earnt

Robert taking in some fresh air last year after a tight dig accounting for a dog and vixen. Sorry about colour.

Arent we all a bit different mate in some shape or form i think his attitude and character come across as very good for a kid of his age