SheepChaser
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That’s what I’m saying - there isn’t much incentive to control them when the scam is lining the governments pockets!
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From my limited experience, things I’ve noticed are - Its often over priced without the justification. You have to be careful that you include your time and faffing about, fuel for any delivery’s etc in your price - this is partly why statement one is true - there is no economy of scale. So whilst your stuff may be lovely it’s probably not that much more lovely than anyone else’s. You get the price you want (and the trade) by selling a story not your produce. The above story is more important than being organic - natural, free range, happy, high welfare and all of that
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I very much doubt the cops will be off for years mate.
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It’s a very clever scam isn’t it. I have a cow worth let’s say £2000 as a fat beast. It gets TB. Or is suspected of having TB. You, DEFRA, take that cow and give me less than it’s worth, and you pay using tax payers money. You then sell my cow into the food chain for its full value and pocket the cash. Very clever that. It’s costing the tax payer millions and making DEFRA a shit ton of cash. Oh and the cow probably didn’t have TB in the first place but you couldn’t tell until you killed it.
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I spend my day to day life with them and I’m not sure I’d keep a heavily collie blooded dog as a runner.
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This is one downside of collie blooded lurchers, you never know what you’re going to get!
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I’ve a fast, leggy type collie bitch here, I often wonder about putting a runner over her.
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She’s a right lump! Has really come into her own. Was very impressed with her!
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Out of curiosity, who decided?
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You may be surprised
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I’d be very surprised if many of the dogs here would have made the catch? Be interesting to see. Or would the sand and heat get the better of them do you think ?
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I hear tell that in times when such things were legal, some keepers didn't mind a handy lurcher somewhere in the beating line for those that went back.
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Generally it’s the old money who are ok and the new money that are a problem. There are a number of big estates, including one of the biggest and most famous in southern England with a massive famous shoot where the keepers would lose their jobs if found shooting foxes.......... People talk a lot about things they half understand.
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Not being a dick but no one pays tax to promote rabbit or fox numbers. Butterflies, Beatles, birds and door mice maybe.
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That’s about right ? i live in the land of the big shoot these days, so I see keepers every day and half of my ground is keepered. I’m slowly educating them ? I think I’m probably very lucky in that some of the ones here see the value of dog work as well as the rifle for pest control. Either that or they’d rather me run about all night like an idiot while they are tucked up in bed ? what’s very refreshing is that our one young keeper does the vermin control on the 5000 acre main block here, and only uses a lamp, says he doesn’t need NV or thermal, and if there’s a lamp shy one the bushers or t
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I reckon it’s the “sport shooters” who do the most damage. End of the day it’s a job for a keeper, and for the most part the population of foxes is artificially inflated due to the release of birds. Simple fact of life is it’s their job to whack foxes and not a sport as such, so I can see why a rifle and a thermal is used. Same as why on shooting estates litters are dug etc. Hard comparing sport with pleasure. I been asked to go out tonight for a fox that dug into A partridge unit last night and killed a pile. That’s life. The ones who are f***ing the job are the hobby shooters who’s whol
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I do get your point mate. But I would say there’s probably as much effort shooting that number on foot like that, as there is long netting some big warrens and emptying them with ferrets.
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I do agree with you in many ways mate. It’s the world we live in now though. Most people only do the things they do to make a name for themselves.
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100% you’re sure that if someone posted that they’d caught a couple hundred rabbits either ferreting or whatever on here - they’d only get negative comments and no one would be praising them ? Disnt see many negative comments on the lads doing 100+ on the lamp etc. Just making the point that there are plenty of numbers men on both Sides of the gun / dog divide.
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True. But if that photo had three blokes, a few dogs, pile of ferrets and long nets etc etc, they would be THL hero’s. Would they not ?
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Load of old drivel. Romanticised bollocks.
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That’s great. And very romantic. People probably said the same about lamps.
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They are meant to stop folk seeing a big light shining out over all of the fields mapping your route and showing your position?
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Depends what you do and where you do it. Quite handy passing through land with no light at all, and being able to scout each field as you walk through it and no one know you are there. Spot quarry, get in position etc and lights only on for a few seconds as you slip the dog. If lamping larger quarry then you’re not Likely to be having huge numbers of runs so very little visual evidence that you’re there.
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Thank you, he's a pretty pup. Looks like grandad.
