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just a question why do the heads have to be salmon or trout,surely any fish heads,bar spur dog would be okay to feed the dogs,and as for paying surely fish monger would be glad to give them as there only waste,just like chickens heads and feet,used to get them free and mince them up for calcium in dogs diet.
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i don't like the generation stuff he breeds.they don't have the same substance of a 1st x. to me anyway. thought you had some of the generation dogs of daves andwere thinking about getting another one, afew months ago.correct me if im wrong ginger beard
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seen in the ed/rd mag, that the welsh game fair has ceased to be,one of the reasons being its new location,like alot of other game fairs over the years started out a great venue but sadly of late less people attended and the quality of working terriers and lurchers went downhill,areal shame but a sign of the times,can see the midland going the same way in a few years time, what do you think.
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why not try dave platt, pretty sure he would have a stud dog, or do you not fancy using his blood lines.
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wouldnt say i was superstitious about friday 13th, but remember losing my job off 20 yrs on this date a few years ago,but crap like this and worst happens forgood ordinary folk every day, could be bad if you were born on this day.lol.
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got drunk christmas eve,so all i got was a load of grief from the wife, hot tongue and cold shoulder for christmas dinner,made myself scarce and anice quiet walk with the dogs, better than any christmas presents,just me and the dogs peace and solitude great,hope all you lads had a good one,merry christmas all.
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Can Anyone Remember The Old Man From 70,s Using Knocker Box ?
grompz replied to foxtails's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
thank you tiercel for posting a fantastic piece of the old boy ferreting,true country men and his ways are fast dissapearing from the countryside,such a crying shame, remember my old uncle who was stil out ferreing in his early 80s,snipping the hair of the young ferrets tails to identify theones which would work,great memories,all these old tricks, are getting lost in time,god bless the old boy and old uncle phil for teaching me all i know about ferreting,great days and even greater memories. -
nice write up, good to hear that you can work your dog off the slip with ease,keep it up ,what cross is it,a lot of it is down to the breedin and training of the dogs your using, alot of the terrier xs can be head strong and hardwork at night .especially if you have hunted them alot in daytime,my self have always found collie and deerhoundxs to stay close and work well without the need for a slip but just my experience of the ones ive owned and seen,at present i run a deerhoundx,this dog will walk at your side and just keep afew feet ahead of you at night,and not take off till light is flicked
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hows it bred,lot of the larger bred lurchers like the deerhoundxs,are slow to mature and come out of puppy hood,dont write it off just yet, perserve and in 6mths you could well have ahandy working dog seen it happen before.
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when you read plummers books, especially rogues and running dogs,there were alot of lurcher men mentioned by plummer.who he claimed he hunted with or were top class men in the field with their dogs be intresting to know if any of these men are still in the game and running dogs,afterall the book was first published in the early 1980s, surely if any of these men did exist some of them would still be alive today to verify how good a hunter plummer really was.just curious.
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all the best for your outing tommorrow mate, hope you see and catch a few,you will be one of the lucky ones in the country if you do.
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i cansee a lot of dogs and ferrets up for sale in another year or so,if this trend keeps up,you can hike miles of ground in my area with dogs and ferrets and rarely see a rabbit,thank god i can look back at my rabbiting careewith great memorys not like some of the young and upcoming hunters, who i fear may never get the chance to work there animals to there full potential due the decline in rabbits.
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Like a lot of the lads on here have said myself included, there is a dramatic decline in certain parts of the country in rabbit population,its just not in kent mate,poor weather for breeding, rhd and mxy,all contributing factors,looks like ableak season for alot of us,hope it comes good for you.
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many thanks lads for your replies and thanks game rooster for info very intresting reading,what neil cooney says about hares contacting this disease seems to me to ring true places miles from any where have a real notceable decline in hares of late, i fully agree that night shooting has adramatic effect on rabbit numbers,so if no rabbits to shoot start on the hares,butfor rabbits to disappear allover the country it is a very worrying time for true hunting folk,if it carries on the lurcher, terrier and ferret will be consigned to the history books and show bench god forbid.
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just been talking to a mate,about the dramatic decline in various parts of the country of the rabbit population,i stated my opinions on this problem on this forum several months ago,iknow that rhd has done alot of damage to the rabbit. these last few years,but now my mate reckons there is a stronger strain of disease wiping them out.im no expert on these matters but would be intrested toknow the name of this new strain,and where it originated from,is it linked to domestic rabbitand how lethal is it.
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First Motor You Went Dogging In
grompz replied to Robert hasselhoff's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
my first vehice for getting the dogs about was same as tiercels a moggy minor 10000 van,except it was green in colour,all the local farmers and small delivery firms had them,easy to work on and get parts at the time,i got mine of the local butcher what a shed used to stink of rotten meat,had no 1st gear,could see the road through the floor,had no window in drivers door,butgot me round the country with lurchers and ferrets for agood while,had no money in those days so i gave the butcher lamped rabbits,and he gave me my first dogging vehicle,great days, great times and great memories,then i pr -
great dog,if you can get the real genuine working bedlington bloodlines.had 4 bedlington xs over the years.brilliant dogs for ferreting and lamping,the best one i owned in the 90s was a bedlingtongreyhound x bedlington whippet. paid50 pound for him from a lad in burnley, worked hard for me and areal honest dog,could take hares in day time in small fields.only down fall ifound with them all was .they could be very head strong on prey when young and needed a firm hand,definetly not a beginners dog ,but brillint workers.atb/
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just a guess pharoah houndx saluki grey, looks a nice handy racey type.
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great childhood memories of mooching on the land as a kid,getting on the bus with a lurcher,terrier and ferret,to do days hunting,walking or cycling through the villages with a 410 tied on your back with baler twine,and the dogs running loose round you, on the rivers catching fish and watching for village bobby,tiime was nothing but wonderful days well spent learning about nature and field craft,pity the kids of today had never experienced it, the country oftoday would be a better place,loved my hunting and still do,its in the blood.atb.
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there was a topic on cmw on this site a year or so ago,and i stated that when it was the old shooting news.it was a brilliant read with good hunting down to earth writers.stopped buying it a couple of years ago when it started getting too political,full of adverts and lurchers and terriers dressed up in fancy dress,its now full of repetitive shite and seems full of fairy tales,most of the dog lads i know now call it the country maids weekly.lol.
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bstards and jerks that indulge in this mass garnage of this truelly and magnificient sportingbeast need the guns turning on themselfs,sorry to offend any shooters on here but to me there is no better and humane way to control hares than coursing but we have tony bliar and his cronies to thank for that.
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lamping hares at night,is nothing compared to running them with fair law in daytime,lots of the hares i seen caught on the lamp, early season would be running round your feet whilst under pressure and could be killed by an average lurcher,or a good boot,used to make these lurchers look like world beaters in their owners eyes,put the same dogs behind a good strong dec\jan hare in day light not fit to be in same field,yes ive lamped hares in the past but never did it for me.
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he deff got some good stock there ,my dog Buck , his sire Razzmatzz big distance greyhound, Buck fast and good stamina , razz deff injected quality in to a lurcher . regards in pure form greyhounds, never ran one like a lurcher, there speed might be there down fall , more so lamping running 35-40 mph in the dark it would be heart in your mouth job deff with greyhound razzmatzz still about.?heard good things about him off d platts got to be 5/6 years ago now. is this dog razmattz the same one that used to be advetised in back of ed/r for stud looked to be nice stamp of animal.
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like lots of the lads say dropping rabbits for pups and breaking paws on them to make them easier to catch,totally illegal and needless cruelty,just wait for pups to mature,and give them good honest runs, and ffs dont give the antis any more fuel to stop our sport,act like responsible people and not morons.
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.depends on what kind of land,and what you hunt with your dogs,when i first started running lurchers,more years than i care to remember,i always ran dogs 25 to28tts, this was on big quarry,big fields andhard upland ground,the dogs were mainly deerhoundx and had height and pace for this terrain,alot despite their size were damn good lampers on rabbits and did me well,for agood few years i ran bedlington xs, becausei was doing more ferreting and lamping and day time work.where i am now i have gone back to big dogs due to lack of rabbits and the hills and big fields that surround me,but each to t
