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thought mike brown had packed up,didnt he used to advertise his stud dogs in back of the ed/rd magazine a few years back,not seen his ad or heard talk of him for along time now,used to breed good stock.
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like darbo some of the best marking dogs ihad for ferreting were Bedlington based lurchers, most of them had the old true strain of rillington and eakring blood in them. the last one I had came from les robinson in brigg, had norman, lena, blue,venus etc took to ferreting like aduck to water and never lied at a mark,seen lots of false markers in my time, just let them do it in there own time, some of the best marking dogs that were about used by the old boys were just mongrel bred, but usually had abit of terrier some where in the mix
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tried shooting over ferrets in real rough hedges and overgrown patches a few times when using nets was not possible,but not for me, found that due to gunshots the rabbits were reluctant to bolt therefore more digging and lie ups,some of the rabbits were well blasted with buck shot and were unsaleable,my type of ferreting is silence, good steady reliable marking dog,and taking time and patience to set purse nets and long nets, but each to there own,also never favoured mob handed ferreting,just me and the dogs and silence.
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sorry king got no photos of dogs, and even if I did I would be clueless on how to put them up,afraid im the old school and just about moving with the times, really never felt the need for taking pictures of my dogs or bragging them up, just let them do the talking for me and get on with the job they were bred for. atb
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give it a bit more time and there will be plenty of cheap lurchers and giveaway pups. allover the country, its amazing the amount of lads I meet now who are offering lurchers freeto good homes or any body that will take them off there hands.one of the main reasons being a drastic reduction in rabbit and hare numbers, all over the country,prices for lurchers are mad and even worse for the elegant mongrels that are being bred.
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I had 2 good deerhoundx greyhounds from dave over the years,both were worked hard on all sorts of quarry on all sorts of terrain all over the place,they suited me and my type of hunting,to me they are one of the old style traditional lurchers,allright I know there not every ones type of lurcher these days, but evey body doesn't want to own bullxs and saluki hybrids, seen in this months edrd , that dave sleight has one of daves 12th generation English deerhounds at stud, looks a good solid and sound animal to me, like it or not dave plats has done a lot of hardwork and planning into his deerho
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,decided to have a quick shine out tonight ,just to give the young dog abit more experience, walked for nearly 2 hours into a lovely strong headwind , and nice pastureland,usually holds afew rabbits,not tonight never seen a rabbit let alone a run,in my55yrs of running dogs never seen anyting like it, beginning to wonder is it worth keeping a lurcher now that the rabbit is fast becoming a rarity in many parts of the country,this rhd is certainly taking its toll these last few years,and shortly this crap and mxy will decimate the hare population,thank god I enjoyed the good years of hunting wit
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the few rabbits that are still about after rhd and mxy, seem to breed all year round now, I put it down to the milder seasons and globule warming, you when ferreting in December you can hit on young rabbits in burys, caught a half grown rabbit only the other night, gone are the days when the old boys used to say only hunt rabbits when theres an R in the month, the other months used to be the rabbits main breeding seasons, but that's along time ago.
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beautiful picture, what a belter that pup isareal credit to you stonewall,great to know that there is folk like yourself that are keeping this type of lurcher going,do you use any specific strain of deerhound in the breeding of your dogs, not every bodys cup of tea these days, but the ones that I keep these days do all I want from them, had my first ones aroundthe early 1970s, but nowadays its getting harder to find good working strains of quality deerhounds, pre ban there was some good coursing stock around with deerhound coursing clubs,all the best and good luck.
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been looking at the handheld enforcer range,and they seem as if they would suit my needs,if I was to go for the enforcer what do you think my best option would be mainlyfor lamping large sized fields
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had my first experience of using the plr 500 last night, my mate has purchased one on ebay, round about the 40 pound mark, totally agree with what you said about it, only gripe that I have is there is a lot of side glare from this lamp,think it would be okay for lamping foxes, but no good if you are just using it for rabbits, because the beam is too wide, only way to overcome this problem could be to black out part of the lens to create a spot,or is there a filter you can buy to eliminate side glare,also don't think the plastic casing will take much to break under rough conditions.
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Rapid swelling and weeping of puss / blood...
grompz replied to Hamish.J.Cronan's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
iBy the look of the pictures of the dogs snouts, it might possibly have been caused by the dogs when at full speed running in the in the woods to have come into contact with bad bushes such as black thorn and heavy bramble cover, even sharp twigs and branches could cause punctures like those shown, seen dogs before with bad infections from coming into contact with the things I have mentioned, just keep your eye on it and keep wounds well cleansed,maybe try abit of antibiotic wound powder.atb -
this sort of behaviour w ithin certain ranks of lurchermen is certainly not any thing new in the world of the working lurcher,its been happening for years, but more so since the lurcher gained more popular with lurcher shows and the macho thing of lots of the younger generation running every thing every where summer and winter, with no regard for land owners or livestock etc, then plastering there achievements all over face book, as for stating its down to acertain element of people I would say a lot of it is down to the flash in the pan owners of lurchers who think they know all there is t
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its rare to find a Bedlington of good working stock these days, especially if its doing what you say, just for intrest do you know what lines are in it, I have found over the years that good working bedlingtons are thin on the ground, always was a great enthusiast of the Bedlington lurchers wonderful dogs for general all purpose work,last one I had came from a pest controller and the line went back to john piggins old strain which could certainly do the business, I wish you all the best with the litter and would like to hear how they progress.
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thinking about investing in a hand held rechargeable myself for this season, will only be using it couple of nights in the week, for a couple of hours, due to not many rabbits on my perms,if leds are shite just give the heads up on what would do the job,some of the land I work are big fields,so whats my options.
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sad news if this is true, brian has been in the game a very long time now, must be closing towards the late 70 mark, like or loathe the man he is old school material.
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pretty sure there were a few lads on here, a short while back,stating that these cheap batteries were made in china, and were prone to overheat when charging and in some cases burst into flames, like lads said cheap is not always the best route, I know money is tight for a lot of lads, butin long run for peace of mind I would go for a good quality one from reputable company, myself I need a new battery for the season so ill have to start saving hard, but it will be worth it in the long run.
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enjoyed the series of programes on johnny a few years ago, a real character,came over as a well respected man in the area where he lived,,used to bring a smile to my face with his antics and his camera,god bless johnny rip.
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always had a lot of time for the bedx greyhound, in my time I owned 4 first cross ones, and 1 bedxgreyx bedx whippet,all from good working stock at the time, never a murmer out of any of them,good honest and loyal workers all of them,excelled as ferreting,lamping,and general all round mooching dogs,would have another in a flash if the true type ofworking Bedlington was still out there to breed them,the other reason for not keeping one now is the lack of rabbits in the area I live in,never regreted owning any thing with beddy blood in it, even though they could be fun at times when hunting them
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cats absolutely detest the damn things,never seen so many ferals getting round the areas that I run the dogs on,not a young rabbit or bird seen because there lying in the long grass and vegetation for days waiting to pounce,got a deerhoundx that is a heller for ferals seems to sense when there on the land. hate it when he nails one, horrible things have given him a hard time on a few occasions, had a few terriers that would bolt them out of very rough desolate cover, also wearvery fond of feeding the song birds and gardening, but a constant struggle with the bstards killing young fledglings an
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top man darbo, your certainly into your lurcherknowledge, well impressed and many thanks for putting ad up,along time ago.
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carl Williams ,now that's a name from the past darbo, seem to remember if memory serves me right, he used to advertise 2 whippetx greyhounds at stud in the early 1980s in the old shooting news,think they were called ace and bow, may be somebody will have a photo of the advert, know if I trawled my old copies id probably find it some where.
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nice to know theres still a good few of us old dinosaur lurchermen still on this site,never say never where are lurchers are concerned its been my life and will till the end, thanks for coming to my rescue darbo for putting pics up. atb
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working ferrets got to be worth£80 each, looking at the mental price of cute, adorable kits, plus the cost of fuel to run ferrets to bishop Auckland, dig deep mate,lol.
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these dogs were being advertised as smithfields in the old shooting times of 1978,the pups were bred out of bluey (page 30 lurchers and long dogs out of a coursing greyhound, the ad also stated hares beware,about the same time a chap named Aubrey fryer was trying to produce a smith field type of lurcher, pictured in Lambourn book by hancock,must try and learn how to post pics myself, still learning;
