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  1. Limpo
    I always taught my dogs to jump, I'd also teach them to jump a five bar gate and not touch the top bar. Lay something loose on the top bar like your jumper and stand by the side of the gate so you can tip the back legs over if needed, I had a bitch badly banged up for months because she'd insist on just setting her back feet on the top bar on the way over, a little slip and bang on the cruciates, teach them to jump and jump high!
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    Lovely to see your dogs bheys, I've had many over the years but a knackered back has put paid to my running dog days as I can't keep up with them. Some lovely looking dogs there, fasted I've had was ginger bitch, 25" mainly greyhound, eigth collie and eigth deerhound but bred from type over about four generations, cracking dog and game for anything up to about four foot tall! She rarely missed a daytime Hare, was mustard at Charlie but was by no means the best rabbi tter I ever owned. That crown went to a scruffy bitch of greyhound, deerhound, collie, whippet at about 23". She would catch any
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    Down in Devon we had a spate of lads having their running dogs confiscated when caught with deer, once in a van (red handed mate) the other at the guys house. Both lost dogs under cruelty to animals legislation. Having a deer and a dog in a van is asking for trouble, hypothetically speaking someone would be better to gralloch deer and pick up when the sun is up so it's not taken at night. As for the Beeb reports regarding "coursing" I always email my local Beeb channel whenever they have the OB/estate owner moaning about bheys having a few rabbits with their dogs and report it as coursing.
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    Any of them really. When people talk accuracy as someone else mentioned its not an issue for rabbiting and fox because you should be shooting at sensible ranges, for me that's generally 15 to 60 yards on Fox and up to 100 on rabbits. I do shoot fox up to 100 with my .22 but it's a heart shot, little or no wind and a good gate to rest on. All 100yard shots for me personally require a rest. Over that and range and I'll get the .222 or better still a .243. My favourite gun for fox calling is my Savage 64 semi auto, most shots taken under 40 yards and with subs of HV hollow point it's quiet enough
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    Join a rough shoot for a few hundred quid, join a shooting club that does lamping and pigeon decoying or a target club you'll meet like minded people and it may lead to some sport. As for FAC I would start with SHotgun (unless it's really not for you) and/or .22 rim fire. A rim fire is much easier to obtain permission for than a centrefire which you will probably need dsc1 and/or mentoring for. Once you've had a rim fire for while and built up evidence of safe use/experience then try a few stalks where you can be guided and lent a rifle (making sure you keep the evidence of such activities fo
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    I've never used an electronic call always just a squeak through thumb, forefinger and pursed lips. It can vary between rabbit in distress and distressed vole. Foxes have been dogging round here for a month or more and it's been too quiet to lamp and most foxes are lamp shy anyway due to being near a few pheasant shoots. I've had 3 foxes in the last week one a dog who was "on patrol" all day long with his nose to ground doing a big loop round the valley. I sat by the path and ten minutes later up he trots, .22 at fifteen yards dropped him. Yesterday I went to the back of an old quarry where I'd
  7. Limpo
    Limpo here, my moniker is due to a stack of injuries over my fifty odd years that tend to make me walk with a bit of a wobble. I'm slower than I used to be but I still get there in the end. As stated I'm the wrong side of fifty and I live the bottom corner of Devon, I've got a small holding of 5 acres where I raise some lamb, poultry and veg. I've shot and fished since I was a toddler, grown up in the country and city (at times) but I'm at home in the woods and hills. I grew up ferreting with nets and dogs, I've always kept gundogs and Lurchers although an accident ten years or so ago means I
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