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  1. Work and farm life dictates that my dogs are 99% run under the lamp . Having the farm is good because they stay fit by coming with me to see stock , I should probably walk more than just ride round on the quad though 

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  2. We run quite a variety , stone walls , Cornish banks ( basically earth and stone pilled up to form walls ) , forestry edge , moorland etc etc , some fenced with stock netting some with 3 strands of  barbed wire . Dogs always do best on the unfenced fields with clean wall faces . Most of the fields are pretty small round us , our biggest at home is just over 5 acres and so don't give bigger dogs much chance . We have to travel a bit to get in to bigger ground but do find it helps to know the ground well as quarry can often go over a brow in a field and duck out of the beam.

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  3. The first lurcher I owned was a collie x and would often look at rabbits it knew it had no chance of getting and wouldn't attempt to run them , if they were 50/50 he would quite often stalk down the side of the beam trying to gain ground before putting in the hard work of the chase . It was never a problem for me I think he was just a clever dog who was never too fast and had to use his brain more than all out speed . At the end of the day he caught really good numbers of rabbits and we rarely drew a blank , but he was also a great family dog , would go for miles with the missus beside her horse and was fantastic with the kids .

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  4. I had a lot of fun with my old one , bred similar 1st cross to 1st cross . Got him at about 18 months and he was absolutely useless for until he was about 3 , always seemed he couldn't control his legs or how fast they could go . He was never a world beater and it took ages for him to turn in a field but when he was motoring it was a sight , properly fast and the way he picked up rabbits was something special to watch . 

    Good luck with your one he looks a nice pup .

  5. 12 minutes ago, Elchapo said:

    There was a guy on another fourm who said his dog could take red hind single , everyone doubted , he had  acouple members of that fourm up and his dog did it in front them , was pics prove it and the other lads there to witness it , 

    I dont think the hinds would be to much trouble as long as the dog could get on terms with them , the way he was talking he had had a few with the bitch . Some of the lowland stags I have seen though are monsters .

  6. I was chatting to a lad I have known for years the other night and the conversation turned to reds ( or pre ban reds as it was ) . He had a few tales .

     First he was sat in cover next to a hedge with his bitch 3/4 grey 1/4 bull as his mates were drawing a marsh with beagles to flush foxes through . He said he heard something big coming along the hedge line behind him and he thought it was going to be a moorland pony , a red hind launched itself off  the wall next to him straight out into the open ground in front of him . He slipped the bitch and within about 100 yards the dog had the hind down and pinned by the throat , he was on hand in no time to dispatch it .

    Second time , out with his bitch again and 2 pups about a year old each , drawing a bit of rough ground a red stag got out from behind a couple of trees , not a massive stag but still a stag , said the bitch was on it in no time . right up on the back of its neck , the pups flanked it one each side and he said it pulled down and was over and done with in under a minute .

    The third, another stag , he said was a monster in some maize ground , slipped his bitch and a mates 1/2 cross on it , he said it took off and straight lined the dogs for speed but as it went to jump out of the field it hit the top of the hedge and fell back in to the field , he said it got up and the dogs pilled in one on a shoulder one on the rear leg , the stag kicked out and the leg dog was swatted away like a fly . With that the stag ran right at the lads with the one dog still holding on , they dived for cover , the shoulder dog lost its grip and the stag shot past over a hedge and into the forestry . He reckoned it was as intimidating as having a bull charging towards you and the noise was unreal .

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Penda said:

    Yeah no worries mate I was only gona say cause Joe's jacks been dead along time hard to get stuff through those lines now you probably find it but finding stuff that's tried and tested is the hard part

    He reckons the bitch he had would of been 3/4 grey , so assume Jack over a pure grey , best dog he has ever had he says took everything and no reverse . Both parents of our 2 are well tested by all accounts so fingers crossed for them

     

  8. 1 hour ago, Penda said:

    They both off jack or they grandchildren to jack 

    I am probably confusing you as well as I did my self .

    My mate had a bitch years back that was meant to be bred from Jack so half sister to Arthur ( thats where i got mixed up ) , he then put her to a dog called Floyd from Dorset way and also bred from Jack . This was how the father to our pups was bred . The mother of ours is a bit of an unknown , she is a greyhound x whippet bull that belongs to another mate , he got her from Wales but doesn't really know to much about her breeding , but is well pleased with her .

    Not trying to be the big I am quoting names etc just genuinely interested in the breeding side of things 

  9. On 07/12/2019 at 18:53, runner neil said:

    I spoke with the chap whose dog sired my 2 pups today and got on to how he is bred . He had the dam to his dog , she was a 3/4 grey 1/4 bull with the bull coming from Arthur lines ,by his account she was the best dog he had ever had , a once in a lifetime dog he reckoned , he put the bitch to a dog called floyd which was located through Jason Powell and also bred from Arthur .

    I am not really interested in the big name thing and I know for sure there were plenty of bull x out there doing a better job quietly , but I am interested to know how Arthur was bred if anyone knows and if anyone knows anything about the floyd dog ?

    Thanks in advance for any info

    I stand corrected on this , both the mother and father to my pups father were bred from Joe Smiths Jack not Arthur as I stated . 

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  10. 4 hours ago, billhardy said:

    Don't know ythe flun dog but I gad a male from him a few on here see. N him graft over five seasons plenty speed decent stamina single handed on all made stuff look easy owned grafted behind the scenes. Atb bill

    Cheers , Bill 

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