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  1. OldPhil
    Well, I've always been a fan,...I grew up around sheep herders and cattle dogs, so it was perhaps inevitable that I gel, with the pastoral hybrids.. Used, other tools for other jobs, mind you?,...but although great age does not always guarantee, great wisdom, I have returned to the fold, so to speak..? The collie influence does bring a lot to a Moucher's table,...ya just got to be,..realistic..?
  2. OldPhil
    Smashing? My kind of rabbiting?
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    I agree, and of late, due in the main to a massive increase in girth, from Curries and Shiraz,..I have started to physically resemble,... a Mole? Financially, the trapping game has been a good Mistress to me, ..it's always been great craic ..?
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    Personally, I would sooner gift a rabbiting tyke to a genuine good home than accept vonga for it... Loads of good lads around the UK,...plenty of nice average hunting jukels available...? Obviously, if you desire something special, a coursing /racing champ or a similar paragon,..you will have to pay the seller's price...but, really,...is it THAT fecking serious.. Life is too short Brothers,..I've been there, done that,..why not settle for a good honest worker and leave the super -priced, super dawgs,... to them as craves em..?
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    I still dream of this scran... I guess I always will..?
  6. OldPhil
    I kept giving a bucket load of dead moles to M. Moon's Eagle Owls in Hilsea... They got fat real quick and put weight on to such a degree, that they fell off their perches.. Moonie loved them old Owls....?
  7. OldPhil
    You are right there Fireman,...I had many years of loyal service from my hybrid Heelers,.. real strong, well -padded feet...? No probs....?
  8. OldPhil
    Fair play,...? But a nice net always helps the wee mouching curs of the world?
  9. OldPhil
    Its business, .just business...?
  10. OldPhil
    Be careful Dido..? I once took 30 + Grey Squirrels from Bay House School in Gosport.. They had been allowed to run amok in the schools, 'Nature Area'..? Every Bird Box and nesting area had been ransacked, and there was feck all nature left, just squirrels! I started using kill traps in tunnels, but after catching a dozen or so, I started finding fag packets, spuds, all sorts of mysterious gifts firing off my traps. It was plainly obvious that I had been rumbled... In cases where there is even the remotest chance of a kid getting into a Spring Trap, I invariably go
  11. OldPhil
    I've several pals working traps on the Moors,.. they tell me that the Doc sure delivers some powerful medicine to the Stoats Mind you, its only right and proper,...I've always felt that a killing trap should do what it says on the tin, I reckon this fecker does?
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    True words,...sometime with lurchers/running dog types etc,.. things often go full circle and the old originals return?
  13. OldPhil
    Good on ya Fireman for showing some feelings about your old canine pal... I really admire that quality in a Hunting Man.?
  14. OldPhil
    ? It's good to look back on past events, remember your old hunting pals and the exciting times out with the dogs,..but, film wise, there is a time to switch the camera off? Most men know when that time is, and they act accordingly... In saying this,..and considering my own past deeds, it is a case of 'what any man chooses to do with his dogs, is entirely a matter for his own conscience'... End of story really...?
  15. OldPhil
    True...?
  16. OldPhil
    I've seen some beautiful Plummer style terriers..? Gorgeous, fiery Red and white marked tykes,..lovely wee things. They look ideal for getting into those tight, dense bramble patches, for the rabbits. Been offered some nice pups over the years, ( once even saw a Brindle coloured one)..but, on every occasion, I just couldn't do it....I just couldn't?
  17. OldPhil
    I've just had my Covid Jab,..very slick and efficient work by the Nurse...? Now we are off out to harass a few shushis with the dogs... I feel strangely empowered,....'onwards and upwards' now, eh.?
  18. OldPhil
    Good to hear some conversation regarding Whippets...? When I first came South from my native Wales, we settled in Portsmouth... There was a long tradition of poaching/mouching style of roustabout hunting in the area. It seemed as everywhere I wandered, I encountered lads with whippets. In my opinion,..Whippets (Ped and Non-Ped) and Rabbiting,.... go together like Apple Pie and Cream,...I loves 'em..?
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    Yes,..I remember that little booklet Allan.. To be honest, it is a miracle that the wee treatise has survived for 33 years ! Back in the day, the Binding process colloquially known as 'Perfect Bound',..was not as sophisticated as it is today. The glues were poor, and it needed a much thicker collection of pages to produce a long -lasting product. With such a slim Jim type of booklet, the pages were almost certain to fall out,...but there ya go, it was, what it was...? Halcyon Days though,...I wish I could have those thirty odd years back,...I might have walked a differ
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    Let your new Mole Traps weather in a good killing run...? All the best,..I wish you good trapping..?
  21. OldPhil
    If the ACD has the correct minerals and renowned basic instinct,....those unguarded chainsaws, will be reassuringly safe?
  22. OldPhil
    Good honest jukels,.. full of fun,.... I love them...?
  23. OldPhil
    Yep, it was reet quiet in the countryside back then....?
  24. OldPhil
    Well, I'm no art critic, I just liked the bright , happy colors, so whether its a good effort or not, God only knows? However, it was a gift to me from a complete stranger, so I accepted the picture, with the good grace in which it had been given..? http://www.chalkwarren.co.uk/
  25. OldPhil
    Halcyon Days?
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