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    four rats and 3 ferals from this pic............7 points total 41
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    Rich ill be starting to go onto the dales and woodland shooting rabbits once the keeper stops me working the dogs in a few weeks time.Your more than welcome to pop up there with me and shoot a few things if you want.Its not that easy though,ive seen me walk up those banks and need a breather before i can hold the gun steady stay in touch mate,we can keep busy through the summer months before we start again with dogs in august.
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  4. pointer
    glad to hear it mate
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    I missed out on going to a good rat shooting spot tonight because i didnt get back from hunting untill late. anyway i shot these two an hour ago at another place. 2 rats.2 points total 34
  6. pointer
    nice one, i was pretty gutted i didnt make it tonight but i was unavoidably stuck in Yorkshire.
  7. pointer
    cheers lads, i think ill have alot of fun with him.
  8. pointer
    dont worry.........................not for a few years anyway
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    thanks jim he is 14 months old,to be honest i havent spent the time training him that i should have and he can be a handfull but im confident by the time next season comes round he will be ok.well for my standards anyway dave i think ill let you do the shooting mate and ill try and control the bloody dog i just love these dogs,theres just something about them.
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    yeah ratting is good sport with dogs or guns.its my favorite air-rifle quarry though i must admit i did like stalking rabbits through the reeds and tall grasses on the fells during the long late summer nights last year.
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    Mines a Schimitar,i have no idea what half and half was using but it looked good.maybe he will be on here tomorrow with details. I was talking to a keeper at the weekend who said that even though the season for working the lurchers is nearly over theres plenty of air-rifle shooting that can be done all year.It should keep me busy and i can give the pop up hide some hammer and get the gwp some work.
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    I had a couple of hours out with Half and Half last night to shoot rats and it turned out theres perhaps a couple more running around than we expected. H and H was armed with night vision and quickly built up a good tally of rats ending with 34 if i remember right. I forgot to fit the dimmer switch to the lamp and it spooked the rats a bit but i got half a dozen and a few ferals that the farmer wanted culling. Id be investing in NV myself if i had this sort of shooting.As always with ratting you cant always get all the bodies back and id left my litter picker at a farm the previous night
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    Its been a good season getting out with a few packs aswell as the lurchers.As always though theres never enough time to do everything you plan to do at the beginning. still next season is only a few months away.
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    This young dog will become my main working dog from next season.He will hopefully be out regularly hunting the heather,reedbeds,gorse and braken that make up the Dales and Fells i work my dogs over.He should learn to find,point and then catch his quarry,any he flushes out can be ran by a lurcher or perhaps in time shot. If i get him trained right ill have him retrieving anything that is shot aswell as catching a few bolting rabbits as they first emerge from the ground out ferreting or marking setts and watching nets.Plus the inevitable ratting that all my dogs must take to.We had him out o
  15. pointer
    i havent been out much with the air-rifle in the last week or so but ive had a few trips. only four rats and the three ferals are mine in the above pic 11 rats 3 ferals...........14 points total 32
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    Time will tell weather mine gets tail damage,i cant see it happening when he is working up on the moors but it might happen whilst ratting or ferreting rabbits in hedgerows.or perhaps when flushing stuff out of gorse to a waiting gun. this time next season ill know for sure weather mine should have been docked or not.he will have been worked enough by then.
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    It was a very enjoyable afternoon out in great company.I get to work lurchers over some cracking land but the scenery on saturday was particularly good. roll on next season
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    I have an undocked GWP which is taken bushing with terriers in all cover and also out ratting day and night and yesterday he went ratting in the release pens and hegrerows. I feel this dog will face more chance of damaging his tail than a dog worked on moors in the more traditional hpr work.My pointers tail is the same as my gwp cross lurcher which has worked in all sorts of cover ratting and rabbiting for six years without tail damage.Foxhounds and Beagles arent docked and they crash through cover. I can see why a spaniel is docked as its tail is always wagging.Im happy to keep an undock
  19. pointer
    cheers dave
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    i like the pic ive started my GWP slowly this season on the rats and a bit of bushing.ive had him up the moors but i kept him on a 30 foot lead as he can lose his head when faced with that amount of scent on open ground still this summer should see him settle down and next season will see him up the dales in those reeds and heather hopefully finding and catching rabbits.ill also take him ferreting and he might even get to retrieve a few shot foxes.
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    I think that breaking a terrier to chickens is slightly harder than any other stock because chickens can have a habit of living in daft places.im sure that anybody who goes ratting will have had dogs marking a pile of rubbish etc and as you move it a chicken or two comes out,or your on an allotment and ones under a shed.terriers in those situations are excited and could latch onto anything as they push their way through crap in the dark. basically i dont fully trust any dog untill its been around chickens in a hunting situation.same as i keep an eye on a dog the first time its taken ferret
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    In the past ive had problems when dogs i thought were broke to chickens went out and killed one whilst out ratting. These days i dont get any problems because i own my own chickens and often feed my dogs alongside them.They have to learn that if a chicken wants a bit of food that they are eating they have to give it up no questions asked. BUT the best thing you can do is go ratting amongst chickens a couple of times a week especially at night as chickens can roost just about anywhere in farm buildings and when disturbed can fly down on top of you and your dogs.The dogs will not always
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    glad you enjoyed it mate,its always a pleasure to have you and Paddy out for a bit of rabbiting.
  24. pointer
    no problem scott,ill be in touch mate
  25. pointer
    i wish i ran into them,ive heard they are on the rivers i hunt around but ive never seen one. ive been out with minkhounds a couple of times and enjoyed it.
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