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Like shooting the game during a hunt, and many other things that overseas have no bearing on hound work.
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Position filled! Cheers
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hare hunting by w lovell-hewett, lonsdale libary is the best book ever written on beagling, as good as lloyds if not better.
personally, these days google a k c beagle trials. try better beagle magazine, or beagles unlimited.
you tube... carrying the line part 1-2 , u k packs are now harriers running under the name beagles, try the yanks they do know their beagles.
kev-medlock crew
I think the tendency is for UK beagles to be well up on the leg, as we hunt beagles over open land for the brown hare mostly, and we frown upon the hare being shot mid-hunt.
Over the pond, they hunt cottontail as well as white hares often in much tighter cover/woodland. They like the smaller types 12'' and under, for rabbits, and a faster type 13'' over (like the old patch type, more like the UK type) for the varying hare. But its hard to find beaglers over the pond, who dont hunt like a gun-pack. Saying that, I admire their style, many use hounds simply as a functional working dog to hunt game, without the pompus traditional 'rules' that seem to apply in hound circles here. Though the working trials obviously attract their share of trophy chasers it seems, and these do not always represent the best hounds.
DnN
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wilderness patchwork, Harcoombe mentioned it in edrd a great read about an american beagle breeder
By the late Willet Randall, who started the (still very popular) 'Patch' line of beagles in up state New York. Its a good read, as much about living in the wild woods as the beagles themselves. Great knowledge of breeding. And he certainly churned out top quality stock for literally decades.
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No, all north of the border.
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The crew is females and males, mostly Canadians, and they will all be making between 120 and 250 pounds each day, sometimes more. 1 million trees to plant.
And each tree needs to be planted to a high standard. Which can be done in a second or two, with a bit of practice. DnN -
haha shit, planting yes!
And if I find a decent grafter there will be loads of other, equally shitty, well paid forest and wildlife and habitat management work to follow on through Spring/Summer, UK and Canada. Dog(s) welcome!
If your interested, message me. All the best
DnN
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Hello
My partner has a vacancy for a hard-working outdoorsy type person on her crew. The job is tough, but the harder you work the more you get paid.
You will be self employed. All training provided. There is accommodation available with the crew. A work vehicle of your own would be handy, lots of rough forest track driving. Otherwise driving license essential.
The ideal applicant should be FIT and healthy, and able to push themselves physically. It often comes down to mental attitude, and the will to push on in all weathers. Only frost or snow covering the site will stop work, so many days will be spent in the rain or sleet, but you wont be cold, you will be sweating your balls off while working.
Starts Nov 1st, until May.
If you want to save up a wad of cash, and not afraid of hard physical work every day then drop me a message.
DnN
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I wish I could hunt down there more often, I love the open scrub type of land, you often get a nice viewing or two, a rare thing up here. You have the mountains, forests, and desert scrub, all fairly close together in Eastern Spain, its a cracking area in my opinion.
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you dont get stamina or good feet from greyhounds, should be a great cross for many folks needs, in my opinion.
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Slowly but surely, my 'bushing' dogs got bigger. I dont know if the term 'bushing dog' still applies if they weigh 30 kg + and stand 24'' +, and are not hammering brambles and gorse, but instead hunting through sitka spruce, heather, rocks and crags?
10 years ago, my needs ( as a keeper and pest controller) were purely pest control, and mostly foxes at that. I hunted covers, such as wooded ravines, bracken covered crags, hardwood and forestry blocks, reshes, heathery fells, any odd spots of cover where the fox's lay up. If I had mates out, the cover would be worked like a small drive, otherwise I would cast the dogs into the cover, and hope to guess where the fox should exit to get a shot and slip the running dog.
The best dogs for this are hot-nosed (you dont want a hound that will run old tracks), and they need to cast out and search the entire cover for scent. I wanted them to be heading back to me if they didnt locate a fox in the cover, and if they put one out in the opposite direction, as often happens when out alone, I didnt want them to disappear on his trail, but I didnt mind a short hunt-up of a mile or so, just incase he goes to ground, which happened now and then. And I didnt want them to follow him under. I found these attributes in the spaniel cross terrier. They were also easy to train, and easy to handle.
Nowadays, Im using a german wirehaired pointer for finding and driving game in cover or hill (deer/boar/fox), and though free-hunting every morning, she is obedient enough to take stalking, she blood tracks very well and can hold a wounded deer. I take her snipe and woodcock shooting, she is an excellent bird-dog with a good retrieve, and great in water. She also hunts rabbit now and then. She can mark 'to ground', and has a bit of experience tree-marking. She hunts closed-mouthed, unless sighted, and will stay on healthy game for 2/3 kilometers. She has gone further on a gut-shot stag. Too big to hit tight cover regularly, but we dont have much of that here. I hope to breed my next generation from this bitch, producing a wirehair/bull/deerhound type that should make hardy and very robust hunting dogs for rough land or big game.
I like a hunt to be fast, and not to cover too much land. The quarry is often big. My permisions are not huge so hounds are out the question though one day I will have the space for a brace!
I could have perhaps stuck with the spaniel/terriers all along, and still done ok even on the boar etc... but on this rough mountain, the bigger dogs cover it so much faster, and I like having dogs with a bit of beef when the need arrises. I could also use a thousand other breeds, types or crosses to the same/similar effect, but I like what Im running and im getting the job done. With a good plan for future breeding I reckon Im sorted with these bigger 'bushing dogs', for my needs. I should also add, that a lot of my hunting will be outside of the UK, and within 5 years I will be based outside the UK, so I have had to plan ahead somewhat regarding future needs as well as present.
Its been great reading about other folks dogs, and how they hunt them. The variety is amazing, thats part of the joy of the sport I guess.
Good hunting
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I used my cocker, instead of my springer. I got a heap of foxes back then, and though my old springer would hunt/mark them, and bay one up if it was winged, the cocker was more driven, and would kill one without hesitation, he got a bit too keen on fox (with hindsight), I had to dig to him a few times, and he eventually died hunting a fox over a road. Either of the spaniels would have been fine though. The terrier was a straight crossbred russell/fell, bred out of 2 good local lines we keep for digging mostly.
Cocker
Springer
The terrier, she was our most useful digging terrier for years
This is Jess. Out doing some thick hedgerows and rough corners for rabbit (and stuff). This kind of hunting was not like my usual everyday hill/forest ground, it was like mini hunting holidays just down the valley on the odd weekend, great fun with a mate or two to carry the haul back to the motor!
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I owned spaniels and terriers before I got into lurchers and other hunting dogs. I kept the terriers for earth work, but they went ratting and obviously they came in useful tracking vermin along the river or in walls or cover from time to time. I dont like dogs being idle in kennels.
Like has been said, spaniels suit beating almost perfectly, or short-range flushing to the shot-gun or lurcher. Terriers, being bred to be single minded earth dogs will feck clean off on a scent and are understandably more selfish, and can be aggressive too especially around the kill. They would also be underground if they get chance, especially if they know where any nearby holes are, you can bet they will go check on them,.
I bred my own terrier/spaniels and they were in a league of their own, far better suited to driving cover than either spaniel or terrier, they hunted with voice on a hot scent, never went to ground, though would mark well. I had a bitch, Jess, that would hunt stuff back towards me regularly, she was the best hunting dog I had back then.
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Id opt for one of the proven line-bred coursing dogs, over a modern greyhound for adding the longdog element. Just my opinion
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I started this year, got myself a recurve bow, and the practice is paying off. I grew up using various guns/rifles as the norm, but the feeling of hunting with a bow takes you straight back to cave-man! And the field craft that goes with it.
I have some very good venues in Europe if you ever wanted a hunt, feel free to drop me a message. DnN
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Any dog that ratches and as a mooch about usually picks up the habit of marking tree,s,they only have to chase the odd squirrel or feral to get into the swing of it,many an happy hour can be undertaken with a mutt and an air-rifle ridding the land of a grey or two,until the tree,s come into leaf.
I agree, pretty much any dog will get the swing of marking trees, but I reckon the purpose-bred dogs, that have had many generations of careful breeding put into them, will be head and shoulders ahead of the average mutt.
Ive got mates with tree dogs, and they say that they are born looking up into the branches, they know the score without learning, its ingrained in them.
A dog bred like this will be pretty much guaranteed, a treeing dog.
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Ive got ULG visiting in the near future, going to be hunting all weekend no doubt. Reds should be rutting by then. Its a nice time to be about on the hill, and in the forest.
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I keep terriers for digging, but they get to hunt big stuff above ground, like boar and deer. Ive not ruined one yet. Had a few headaches, but its all good fun.
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Never heard of anyone breeding dogs specially for treeing in the UK, but the amount of grey squirrels in some parts, maybe someone should!
The best Ive had was a collie. Also the lurchers were decent tree markers, but by no means specialists! My GWP is getting better and better at holding a tree mark, and certainly her time in Canada helped with this as she was none stop squirrel/chipmunk hunting. Raccoons are good fun too.
In the states many strains of hound have also been developed for marking tree game.
All the best
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Very nice litter!
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When a plan comes together like that the satisfaction is tremendous... happy days. Well done to the dogs an all.
DnN
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SS makes good 3 or 5 ply webbing collars, made to measure, as wide as you want.
No tusk will go through them, though he wont endorse them as cut collars. I had one for the old bull cross and it lasted his lifetime.
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At present, 2 spaces, for handler + dog(s) on the bushing team.
I took these pics on the south coast of France, but they are all present on the land in Aragon.
This is curry plant, that is great in cooking.
This is wild asparagus, the roe deer love this plant.
This is the dwarf oak, the boar love the acorns.
Fennel
My bitch... the pines are quite similar to the 'scots' variety, but strangely they cling onto their old cones for years.
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There are a couple of openings on the January hunt due to cancelations!
PM me for a bit of craic about it.
Outdoor Winter Work Vacancy... Borders
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