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  1. pointer
    YOU BOYOS WANT TO RE - READ WHAT BBB HAS WRITTEN ...... AINT THAT THE TRUTH !!! SPRINGERS WOULD BE MY CHOICE ...... BEAGLES ARE AS FECKIN NIGHTMARE ..... THEY CAN HUNT BUT IT AINT EASY STOPPING THEM .... AND THATS A MAJOR FACTOR IN THE GAME DUCKWING Ive been saying for years that bushing with terriers is dodgy and i think eventually anyone who regularly goes bushing will lose a terrier if it isnt collared up.Even then it might get into a bad spot.If someone wants to bush with a terrier something like the B and F system is a must have. I have NEVER worked dogs or eve
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    I kill young rats most weeks and young rabbits fairly often.Its either pest control or a case of the dogs catching the odd thing on summer walks.I dont see a problem with it.Mind i have met people who only seem to hunt in the summer months,they do annoy me a bit. A few years ago i spent quite alot of time shooting rabbits during july and august in a moorland area,i enjoyed it at the time but i have no desire to do it again.In such areas you expect to take good numbers in just a couple of hours before the insects do your head in and you go home.These days id rather spend my time at this time o
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    she certainly likes her hunting mate.
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    he looks well mate.
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    There cant be many things better on a sunny day than a bit of ratting. My pup didnt do much except get in the way and to be honest isnt the sharpest tool in the box but i like him. I do sometimes look at him and wonder if much goes on in his little head,i cant see him being a canine brainbox.
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    I manage a factory dealing in chemicals and therefore deal with H and S amongst all the other over over top legislation etc that goes with it.Im also a qualified risk assesor and as such know that any company has to take seriously the risk posed to the general public.Paid or not makes no difference.At the very least most places of work such as this will have to wear hi-viz and other PPE,anybody who enters the site would also need to wear the same. If someone did get hurt on a site like the above someone would be responsible,absolutely no dought about it. Legislation is made,it is risk ass
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    Its not really a case of disagreeing,if thats what Duckwing has seen then thats his experience.Thinking about it ive never even seen a dozen of curtis,s dogs to ground. There isnt a terrier or lurcher type that hasnt been argued about on this forum,its the individuals personal experience that shapes his ideas about a breed or line of dogs.
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    Youve certainly been around Duckwing. are you able to say how they were bred or who owned them?im guessing you were in Wales.
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    nobody will ever know for sure,only curtis as the breeder can know the truth. i must admit that breeding that rough coated bitch had me thinking,then i heard the rumour of masks breeding BUT as with all conspiracy theories theres a glitch. If mask was was out of quest,then mated to his own mother how could the resulting litter have been one black,two tan and one shatter marked.All smooth coated and infact if anything tighter coated than mask/alice offspring.surely one of the pups would have been rough coated.
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    i agree mate each to their own,i was just making the point that effective pest control can be carried out without NV and lamps will often give more flexibility.
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    you dont need night-vision,especially on rats(or anything else) that isnt lamp-shy.i really do feel that all forms of rifle shooting have gone NV crazy.Its a handy tool but certainly not always necessary.i shoot enough rats without NV to know its not essential airgunning kit. lets face it we are only trying to kill a rat,the dumbest quarry species anybody can hunt FACT.technology designed to allow special forces in the cold war to kill people could be overkill in many situations.i like that my quarry knows its being lamped,i honestly feel im being unsporting when i fit a dimmer switch to my l
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    that what i like to see,rats shot in the head.i only ever go for the head shot I like shooting rats but id rather be fishing in that pond than shooting on it looks a good spot. will you be doing a night-time session?,like all places its going to be more producive.
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    I consider Curtis a friend and if he says that Mask is out of Maggot then ill go with that,rumours are rife in the dog world and with such a mix of terriers in those earlier plummers who knows what could crop up when inbred.Maybe something further back wasnt bred as it was supposed to be.Anyway,im not a plummer breeder and nothing ive owned or bred from or anything ill have in the future will affect todays plummers in anyway so its irrelevant really. Thinking about it further Mask cant be out of Quest because Quest had a litter from Mask and Curtis wouldnt have done that lining of Son/Moth
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    Thats kind of what i was hinting at but thought id let you tell the story. CP told me that Mask wasnt out of Quest so thats that really but as someone said in EDRD this month you cant be sure of a dogs pedigree 100% unless you witnessed the mating and knew no other dog had been near the bitch. I liked Quest and it wouldnt bother me one bit if my terriers were bred down from her.....dought ill get that coat again anyway,if anything my Red dog and my pup could do with thicker coats. I recall being out with hounds one day years ago and when asked how my pup was bred was told "ah,the dog with t
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    I cant say for sure,inbreeding might have brought it out.Dare i say the pedigrees of some plummers back then may not of been as stated either way it dosent matter,that bitch is dead and i havent got anything from her.I did breed another two bithes similar to that one but they are just seeing out their days ratting on a farm.
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    Those dogs are the result of an accidental brother/sister mating.Both parents were Mask/Alice bred by CP. The bitch in the pic had a crap coat but it was better than the half dozen or so terriers i saw out of Gena or a Gena daughter. Im not too keen on modern day plummer coats,they have nothing to them.Brian might have wanted a tight smooth coat but those terriers do suffer.Personally I prefer a smooth coat over rough but it has to be thick.For me there is no argument,too tight or whatever its called might look good in a summer show but i see it as a disability,worse than the linty coat
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    no sorry im only using wooden beds now.
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    stormyboy i think the whole "pure" plummer stuff along with the host of clubs is a load of bollocks.BUT i no longer care if anyone wants to call what i had mongrels or say they werent plummers.ive done my share of arguing on the net and regret it all.........may aswell debate religion and politics. i have a young pup here that is starting to use its nose,has been taken ratting and has come along for walks beside the river to get used to hounds.he will be worked,maybe not as much as an all-out digging dog but enough to know if he is usefull.if he works then ill have a terrier who is just about
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    Yes i worked the two bitches i had from curtis,not loads to ground but they did ok when the chances came up and did alot of bushing,ratting etc.Ive never had terriers with better noses than them two.I had an accidental litter out of one of them to a CP bred dog which produced a rough haired bitch which my mate worked to ground fairly regularly.Both mother and daughter were lost to ground working(seperate places six months apart). In 2002 I had lined the same bitch with a nuttall terrier and kept back the red dog in the pic above.He was sent down to curtis as a youngster and worked with one of
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    I still have a fondness for the plummers,some would maybe say i never had a plummer as they were direct from Curtis and as has been mentioned were the mixed bred dogs that produced what is now seen as a "plummer".I dont care either way as i was happy with what i had from CP. All i have now is a 6 1/2 month old pup,roughly a 3/4 plummer 1/4 nuttall.Not a plummer just a pup that goes back to the dogs CP had which suited me well enough.I cant see me ever having another red and white terrier again but i do like to hear of lads still working theirs.
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    she can do as much shooting as she wants.rats or rabbits. hedgehunter did learn the other night that those standing upward shots on a rat that knows its being illuminated arent quite as easy as the knelt down elbow on knee ones with a dozy rat that thinks its well away from danger daydreaming. but we all have to start somewhere,the funniest part is where i can see a rats eye in the crack of a wall but she cant in the amber light so it follows. "theres a rat" "where" "there" "cant see it" "F*****g THERE"
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    i never had much problem with condensation i just didnt find them as easy to keep clean as what they first appear.220 litre barrels are quite high and the neck of nearly all open top barrels is narrower so even if you tip it up the bedding,especially if its damp dosent always just fall out.i found they were also too big for a terrier. the way id do it now is to cut a barrel down,cut the hole out and make a wooden lift off top that would double up as a platform for the dog to lie out on in the warmer weather.the width of a 220 litre barrel makes for ample room for a terrier.for bigger dogs
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    ive used them on and off for years as i can get hold of as many brand new barrels as i want but now i use wooden beds.easier to keep clean and they must be warmer.if the bedding does get damp in the plastic barrels it sticks together and what looks a easily cleaned dog bed becomes a hassle.
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    I much prefer daytime hunting on either rabbits or rats BUT i spend a lot more time hunting at night purely because if your like me and work Monday to Friday then your not going to get enough sport in with only the weekend left.So lamping is an extremelly usefull pastime for me.I didnt do anywhere near as much lamping as normal last season because the rabbits just werent there,hopefully next season numbers will be back to normal. I have always felt that any Hunting,Shooting or Fishing i can do at night on a "work" day is a bonus.
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