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What price are people getting for pheasants from the game dealers at the moment?
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In deep snow even a collie can kill more hares than you can carry, this means that most of the near-useless, heavy, pot-lickers pictured on these forums which can never, ever catch a good daytime winter hare single handed (or even a lamped hare in many cases) can kill hares in the snow. It's not sport, most will have done it once, but once should be enough. The hare is a magnificent sporting animal and it takes a good dog to catch a daytime winter hare single-handed, but in the snow almost any dog can kill a hare. Coursing is a sport, if you just want to kill hares then snare them or get a r
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If a new species like that had turned up on my patch I would have done everything I could to have stopped anyone shooting them. You've killed a breeding pair who would have populated your patch if left alone, in a couple of years time there would have been a lot of CWD about and you would have been able to take a regular, sustainable harvest.
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It's a parasitic infection, salt blocks won't make any difference at all. It's associated with wet summers, and wetlands genrally as well as infected herds of sheep and cattle. I see it in roe on some ground I have near extensive wetlands but never find it in roe elsewhere see: www.sac.ac.uk/mainrep/pdfs/tn557liverfluke.pdf
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I use a .410 for that sort of job
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dave platts deerhound greyhounds
Lost Generation replied to daz280597's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
dont think he works is stock any more, were good dogs. Rather by from working sire+ dam, then you know what they will do now, not 10-15 years ago.!! I really don't think you need to worry about the working ability of the dogs Dave's breeds. It's easy to knock other people but there are dogs from his breeding killing all sorts of game on at least four continents. I have never bought a dog from him, but I know Dave and the blood lines of our dogs are connected and if you go to his house he will show you letters and testimonials from an awful lot of people who have bought pups from him -
dave platts deerhound greyhounds
Lost Generation replied to daz280597's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
There's plenty about doing a very good job, why not give hime a ring and ask him yourself? -
Hi Dan It sounds like we agree about many things, but just don't underestimate the deerhound, there are probably only about 2,000 pure-bred deerhounds in the world right now and sure, many are kept as pets and the breed has suffered from inbreeding and from breeding for the show ring rather than for work, but there are a suprising number of workers out there - good, solid deerhounds who are grafting away killing large game and dangerous game in the UK, Eire, the USA, Australia and in Africa and elsewhere and obviously these are the ones to use to sire hybrids to do the same kind of work. BTW
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Hi Dan My understanding is that most US coyote hands are effectively line bred deerhound-greyhounds although in some cases the lines have been kept going for quite a few generations so I'm not really sure exactly what you are arguing about. It's easy to think that you have something almost as fast as a track greyhound until you actually put it up against a good track dog and see that greyhound make your dog look like a donkey. We have a huge greyhound racing industry in the UK and I have several friends who breed and train track dogs for a living. I sometimes go out and have a run or two wit
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The deerhounds suck and the greyhounds suck so lets breed them together to try and get lucky. Breed a good huntin dog to a good huntin dog and you will be so far ahead. You dont need greyhound, collie, deerhound, saluki, wheaten, beddy or bulldog. Every time somebody makes a new first cross like these, they go in reverse. No amount of "hybrid vigour" can make up for the decades of breeding good dogs and culling out the shit. I see two huge problems with huntin dogs today and one is everybody keeps thinkin they can improve by making more first crosses and secondly nobody is culling the shi
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Several litters of deerhound blooded dogs in the CMW this week
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First Lurcher - Deerhound x Greyhound?
Lost Generation replied to Little Butch's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
Nice Brindle colour now.............I would guess that he will be predominantly grey with heather brindle underneath when he is grown up -
In my experience golf courses offer the fastest running going and if you are running that type of ground or anywhere with lots of short grass you need a very fast, light, quick turning dog and would be better off with a greyhound/whippet or similar. I'm a deerhound/greyhound owner, breeder and enthusiast but I think you are choosing the wrong tool for the job. I have given up running golf courses after killing several dogs on them, the speeds are so great that its just too dangerous for the dog for my taste.
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In my experience golf courses offer the fastest running going and if you are running that type of ground or anywhere with lots of short grass you need a very fast, light, quick turning dog and would be better off with a greyhound/whippet or similar for that sort of running. I'm a deerhound/greyhound owner, breeder and enthusiast but I think you are choosing the wrong tool for the job and should think again. I have given up running golf courses after killing several dogs on them, the speeds are so great that its just too easy to kill a dog for my taste.
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this is what thought it could only mean... The thing is, i have never seen anyone with one... Shows you the sign is working then!
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Bump
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At the moment lithium ion battery packs are only made by Deben: www.deben.com/lithium-ion.html but if you shop around you may be able to find someone doing them cheaper than Deben. The price of the pack includes chargers and a belt pack
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Guaranteed just means that a dog will do what the seller says it will. I think that Stabba is confusing 'guaranteed' with 'tried and tested'. The lesson is to listen very carefully to what the seller actually guarantees you the dog will do so that you buy on the basis of what they have actually told you rather than on what you want to hear. For instance: if someone tells you that "I can guarantee you that this bull cross will kill any fox he gets hold of" he is not telling you that the dog is capable of catching a fox or anything else at all, simply that if it somehow happens to get hold of on
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The striker and battery combination should be fine, although if you can afford the extra go for a lithium ion battery which are much lighter (only about a third the weight of conventional batteries). Also as, Chartpolski has said, the lamp pictured has the 240mm blitz head not the handier 170mm striker although they both use the same 100w bulb.
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Most first crosses and in fact most 3/4 bred deerhound greys are going to be broken coated and in fact the rough coat which hides scars and provides a bit more protection is one of the many reasons (like brains, nose, good feet, good conformation, laid back temperament, superb natural hunting ability, speed, stamina etc) for preferring deerhound greys over most other types of dog, particularly bull crosses. There's lots of information on this site about them and I'm sure that if you either use the search facility or scroll back through the pages of the lurcher forum you will find plenty of inf
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Decent knife but no gut hook
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The man wants a sturdy fixed blade knife with a gut hook and a sheaf not a poncy rust-prone folding French toothpick with a blade about as strong as a piece of paper and no gut hook or sheaf or an expensive scandanavian knife with no gut hook! My choice would be either a Schrade Old Timer Gut hook Skinner or a fixed blade gerber gator gut hook See: www.thebushcraftstore.co.uk/gerber-gator-fixed-gut-hook-bladed-knife-144-p.asp
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A long time ago and I am talking the late 1970's / early 1980's I knew a guy who killed a lot and I mean a lot of big game and uuummmn .. lets just say other stuff with borzoi greyhounds before the law and the owners of the 'other stuff' eventually caught up with him! In over 30 years with long dogs probably the best single handed hare killer I have ever seen was a 27" rough coated borzoi/greyhound / deerhound/greyhound bitch belonging to a friend. This bitch was also a very tidy lamper and fox and deer dog as well. I think that the borzoi does have something to offer to lurcher breeders a
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It's obviously a trained police buzzard and probably fitted with a camera, I bet they have a trained owl watching you at night as well. Probably best to flee the country now! ...............Alternatively, you could go to your GP and tell him that you are being spyed on and followed by a buzzard, I'm sure the doctor would give you some pills or an injection to help with this feeling or he may refer you on to the men in white coats to see if they can help.
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It's obviously a trained police buzzard and probably fitted with a camera, I bet they have a trained owl watching you at night as well. Probably best to flee the country now!
