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    Dickyboy-This sad,sorry law we now have states that up to 2 dogs can be used to flush a fox for waiting guns or a bird of prey?.A lurcher on its own or doubled up can no longer legally kill a fox ,but can be used to follow up and dispatch a wounded fox.Im not advising you to break this law mate but if you read what Ive wrote you will see a way around this crap.Good hunting.
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    I appreciate it mate even if no-one else does?
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    Around us the firearm officer asks people what calibre rifle the applicant wants before the certificate is granted. Within reason any calibre was O,k so long as you had a valid reason to own one.You only nead to pay £26 if you add further calibres after the certificate is granted.This includes the addition of silencers.Think about your calibre choice before applying. There is no minimum acreage of land for any calibre,it just has to be safe for that calibre.If you are granted a ticket through joining a club then legally you have to find out if any land you shoot on is passed for your calibre
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    Beat me to it,J.D
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    Excellent action shot.Hope theres many more digs to come.
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    Having read the link Im not sure why anyone wishes to preserve a strain of lurcher which never became popular either as the 1st cross or line bred.[other than a collector I suppose]. Nothing about this breeding suggests anything superior to whats commenly available today. This tumbler cross sight hound will be forgotten along with heeler crosses and Handcock lurchers which are overrated in my book.They are all fashion lurchers and thier time has gone.If they were any good then wed all have one ?. Stick with what you know and dont waste time on chasing the ULTIMATE lurcher.
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    J.D-Forget the ultimate dog of any breed.The nearest you will get is a lurcher that is mediocre at some forms of hunting but excells at another.Lurchers have been bred worldwide for thousands of years and the ultimimate hunter would be around by now.The best thing any of us can do is start with a pup from the right breeding ,from a bitch that fits our idea of what we want to work,and introduce that pup bit by bit to each quarry.Some lurchers develop a knack for feather whereas some never take to it.Some relish the challenge of bigger or biteback quarry.Some will never get past the rabbit stage
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    Quality footage mate,cracking dogs and great landscape.
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    I would be more inclined to think they were getting access to the loft via the cavity. We had this problem in early winter.Check all around the base of the houses especially where drains run under lintels into the house.The rats were indeed feeding off bird tables and travelled a fair way to "play in the house at night,5.30 am actually".Found the small warren under a shed and ferretted it .
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    what you gonna call it ??? How about -"DISH THE DIRT AND STAND WELL BACK" No offence J.D
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    He laid her on the table,so white,so clean and bare. His forehead wet with beads of sweat, he rubbed her here and there. He touched her neck and then her breast and drooling touched her thigh. The slit was wet and all was set,he gave a jouyous cry . The hole was wide, he looked inside,all was dark and murky. He rubbed his hands and stretched his arms and then he stuffed the turkey. May I be the first to wish you all a very ,merry Christmas and good hunting throughout the new year. Foxdropper.
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    Excellent pics mate, the digging shots arnt bad either :11:
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    First class replie mate.Been reading this for a while and I cant believe how narrow minded some people are? ANY breed of dog can turn nasty if not properly socialised. Im not knocking any breed of lurcher for foxing but I will say Ive seen some lads with so called foxdogs whose lurchers hold a fox until the lads run in for the kill.This to me is not exceptable ,I like a dog to kill a fox single handed and for a well entered bullX this is thier fortae,what they excell at.Yes they are bred from some very hard aggressive stuff but when channelled into the right moment through careful entering ,
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    AT WHAT POINT DO YOU BECOME NUV NO MATES. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I dunno...I guess when you become Mr. No-dog...Surely you should be called 'Dog-dropper'. You didn't answer the question though matey...you wait 24hrs before you instigate a rescue...? You happy with that then...? Nice... Nuv-AT what point do I mention leaving the dog for 24 hours.The call was made as soon as I realised I could be in trouble and that was when the dog disappeared into an unknown goil,which at one point in its length was an estimated 30m below ground[if it ran straight to the lake] Wouldnt
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    If its only the one shotgun you wish to buy then go for one of the cheaper multichokes.Lanber sporter at £475 new!.
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    In areas lit by street lights ,robins dont seem to sleep round us. Always a pleasure to see the barn owl hovering in the lamp.These are making a come back around us.
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    Sorry to hear that mate.
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    AT WHAT POINT DO YOU BECOME NUV NO MATES.
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    Excellent thought mate.I know I would attend if asked to. The place I nearly came unstuck has long since been dug up as its still a working quarry.Incidentally,shortly after my mishap a lad lost a terrior there and they found it 2 days later ,drowned in one of the many lakes created by the quarrying.The lake however was nowhere near the terriers point of entry so how it got there is speculation. On the plus side ,this place holds a lot of foxes and we did manage 4 successful digs in some natural earths before these too were dug up in the name of progress. The majority of this place is now a
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    Cheers lads.Im compiling a list of people to pm . :11: :11:
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    Just interested to know who would put themselves out to help rescue a terrier.I was reading an account of a fell and moorland rescue in an old book today and wondered if the situation arose with someone we knew ,or didnt ,how many could honestly say they would risk a bollicking from her in doors to attend a rescue at any time of day or night.I for one am indepted to a couple of mates who helped me find a terrier I lost out walking around our local tip.Id heard a few foxes got around this place so the obvious thing to do was check it out.I was walking over the sand pits which created the landfi
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    Rapid 7 mk 1 is the dogs wotsits for me ,with the added bonus that its easy to whack up way beyond 12ft/sec.On a firearms of course!.
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    Apparently all the wild species of dog do this,vet says its a necessary thing to maintain a good coat.Its only us that find it disgusting.In the wild ,a dog would move to another den when it got too bad.
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    Mucker-this is a very relavent question.I had problems with dogs pissing the bed area so I narrowed the sleeping area down with a board.Now the dogs have to move forward to piss.This smaller area is also easier to keep warm!.
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    A good example of how threads get diverted onto meanningless drivvle! :11: :11: Pre locator days must have been heavy on casualties of terriers.Im told the badger digs on faster than a man in sandy soil,and so many terriers trying to follow would have been buried alive.Terriers were chosen for voice as much as gameness,which today has to an extent been overlooked,as now mute ,game dogs can be dug to. Wonder what parson jack would have thought of that ! By the way Ian B,nice snow!!!!!!.
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