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  1. Shortstraw
    Bet he couldn’t believe his luck when you turned up. My springer lurcher is the best squirrel dog I’ve owned, very crafty, although she’s turned her attention to pheasants the last three years. They cant half bite though, my little jack used to hate the bloody things, she had a couple hanging off her snout in her time.
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    Love a nice rucksack. I’m also very rarely without mine.....always got a flask of tea in it....although I’ve gone down to the half litre now as the 1.2 litre flask was taking its toll on my shoulders...(I suffer with my muscles). Off topic, but the other thing I like is a good coat. I’ve just managed to get hold of the RAF blue goretex coat with removable liner off eBay (new £16.99)...usually about £30 ish....it’s bloody brilliant....massive double pockets at the bottom. Also treated myself to the Austrian gortex m65 style jacket, that was £45 though new, however the goretex in that is
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    Bloody good rucksack if it’s the one I’m thinking of.....I’ve a couple. Using a little 15 litre osprey at the minute.
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    It’s dogs like that in some weird sort of way seem to make the best ones. I know someone who’s got a young collie x Jack Russell......it’s a pet, but it’s got all the makings of a good mooching companion.
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    Hello shaaark...your right I used to have a pure collie dog and bitch also had collie lurchers, 50 % of them had not too bad hunting instinct, the others would just be as happy trotting along a path looking for a twig to carry.......but that’s with regards to having the drive to look for game when there’s not a great deal about. If you were ferreting or lamping putting game in front of them no problem. I used to see old ladies walking there pet spaniels whose hunting instinct would knock the socks off my lurchers.That’s when I decided I needed some spaniel in there. From a young age the
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    Mines doing well if it’s any interest to you. In fairness I don’t lamp or ferret anymore with my dogs so she just hunts. She’s caught everything, but really she’s just a one for the pot type of dog. Her drive to hunt would knock the socks off any bedlington or collie type lurcher......and that’s not pulling bed or collie lurchers down by any means. I can only comment on mine as I haven’t seen others work. I would sooner take my chances with a pet springer x a pet lurcher over a working bred collie or bedlington lurcher.....but that’s just me.
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    Good thing to remember.
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    Probably just me but I prefer the little robust old type of whippet.....each to their own like but I’m not too keen on the taller ones I’ve seen around the last decade or so.
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    Mine is also food mad.....strangely nearly all the best working dogs I’ve had have been food mad. This ones the same her appetite never seems to be quenched.
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    It was an accidental mating keepers bitch spaniel x big tall slender brindle old lurcher......they were advertised as spaniel x greyhound, but def a smooth large lurcher, which probably had a bit of everything in there. So in essence she is less than 50% sighthound, she’s has her own style of working which I love to watch. My bed/whip x collie greyhound whippet tends to scan across a field where as she will gladly scan and hunt it. She is unfortunately sensitive to thunder or similar which will send her to my side. Regarding speed, she is not far behind my other lurcher top end
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    Having problems uploading pic....keep checking as I will manage hopefully https://www.flickr.com/gp/138573537@N07/7jQZ45 https://www.flickr.com/gp/138573537@N07/XaCCzZ
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    Mines half springer x lurcher. I couldn’t ask for a better daytime hunting dog. She suits my needs well, I’m more of a one for the pot type of fella. For daytime hunting she hands down is better than any other lurcher I’ve owned with collie n bedlington in the breeding. I reckon she’s 22 inch. She does yip though occasionally. I got asked the other day what bred she is by this old lady who goes beating with her Labrador, when I told her a lurcher, she told me...nah that’s no lurcher who told you that......had to laugh as she catches me more than all the other lurchers I’ve had put togeth
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    Hello all.......anybody been working any type of gundog lurcher, just wondering how people re getting on with them.
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    It’s a shame old bryn hasn’t got his leg over yet.
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    Reminds me of the old Minshaw lurcher adverts.
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    Am I right in thinking you used to use scout with simple shot black bands? If so how did you find the black bands they do? cheers
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    I’ve had just two Chinese catapults, a simple shot scout copy and a generic optic fibre type. The Chinese scout copy is the best value bought catapult I’ve come across.....seriously I’ve had loads of fork hits etc and the band clamping is good quality. My little generic optic fibre Chinese catapult was a lovely fit in the hand, unfortunately for me I had about five plus fork hits in a row and a hand hit, I hadn’t shot for a while due to my muscles.......no idea what I was doing wrong.....it was me and not the catapult, however the hits had damaged it so much it had fractured part of
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    Managed to get a second hand one off eBay. Didn’t like it at first....not the best fitting catapult I’ve used, but I’m starting to like it. The quick change band system I love, it’s a brilliant idea.
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    Cheers ordered and sorted......6000 x 9.5 delivered for 51.20 I think.
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    Brilliant.......thanks.
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    Somebody gave me a contact number and Facebook name for someone who does the 9.5 in 5,000 bundles.........very good prices, but I can’t find the details.....if anybody has the contact number or details can you post them or pm me with them please. thanks shortstraw
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    I generally use 9.5 and theraband 25-20. I really like the gzk, can’t remember the cut......they were bought pre done, it was .75 though , really liked it, found it used to die prematurely at the pouch where it’s tied on.....sometimes not lasting long at all. I’ve just bought some of that red precise at .7, cut at 25-20mm. I find it a bit harder to pull than the theraband but not much...only shot a few in the woods this morning, seems quick and powerful enough. Is the extra price worth it over the theraband.....not sure yet.....in fact I can’t remember how much I paid for the theraba
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    Not read all the thread, but my little bitch is a hell of a fussy eater, sometimes she looks like a dog from a rspca advert. Only thing that really helps her is lamb ribs......she looks ace when I can get a supply of these. I also used to get fresh chicken carcasses, about 20/30 for a fiver..however one morning I came down stairs to sort the dogs out and the floor was covered in blood.....and I mean covered.......she went straight outside to do her business and blood was running through her. Anyway apparently she had picked something up from the chicken, can’t remember what, but I’m sure
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    I was off out lamping with my mate, we had a stretch of straight road to walk before we get to the fields, either side of the road is woods......pitch black no street lights. I saw a car pull in the woods, knock his lights and continue driving to hide his car behind a holly bush. A minute later a little a fat little fella popped out of the woods, he scams straight over to us........he had a gun of sorts around his neck which he was waving at us........” f**k off from here there’s things going off tonight”, it was just gone twelve. Been young at the time we just legged it......given he had a
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    Not bothered about rumours.
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