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  2. Carl Williams

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    20 hours ago, Kalibrgun said:

    We started with old motorbike batteries then would end up falling over spilling acid going home with holes in jacket ? them 14amp golf cart batteries were ok then lithium came out and all I'll use now lol. Seen some decent hare numbers today on big meadow fields just below the moors farmer going mad over em "eating all his grass" lol 

    Aye and the old bsa Bantam headlight with a cut off brush stale for a handle

  4. RIP FLY

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    It Will get easier mate given time, had to have my old lad put to sleep last year, vet came and did it in the garden. we were all there. i was a wreck.

    You still have the memories and looks like she had a real good life with you all.

    Rip Fly. 

     

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  6. RIP murph

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    Rip Murphy, had to have Jake my old lad put to.sleep in May 13years I  completely lost it, I was bawling my eyes out. Never affected me like that previously. Just goes to show what a strong bond we can develop with our dogs. Keep your pecked up.mate, it gets easier with time

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  10. Kin fuming

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    i always go out on my own mate, to avoid the very situation that you have described. What a nightmare that must have been. only ever made one exception  and that was taking me daughter out, with one dog each, slip each one individually, just to get a young dog some experience really. still laughing thinking about the young un spinning about on the lead watching the old lurcher coursing the rabbit up the hedge. Looking back i was lucky he did not open up. He caught his 1st rabbit that night actually.? 

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  13. Collie whippet grey X bedlington

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    .I've got one here,  13 now . Collie greyhoundxbeddlington whippet. She was a very sharp bitch in her younger days, good nose, turn on a sixpence and a very committed strike. So committed in fact I could hardley  bear to watch when the rabbit was close to cover when in pursuit. Sadley had to retire her at 5 years. Hit some sheep wire as she struck a  bolted rabbit . Broke a bone in her neck. Carried her 1.5 mile back home,she was paralyzed, vet said leave her here ,give her a week if she's not up by then she's not getting up.  Went back on day 6 , vet came out looking a bit glum, gave me the bad news, I said where is she, he said she's in that room there , as I was walking towards the door I could hear  a scratching on the door. Opened it up and she was on her feet, swaying  about like a new born calf standing for the 1st time. Vet couldn't believe it, reckon she must of heard my voice!. As she got a bit better she actually caught a,few rabbits she put out of cover on our walks with the the lurchers . I would probably have taken a litter from her except for her injury, didn't want to chance it , her not being fully fit as,it were.  Intending on a new pup early next year if I can find the right one, most likely be my last  lurched or it will probably outlast me.

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  17. Fat filled bunnies

    in Ferrets & Ferreting

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    On 31/10/2019 at 21:05, beany01 said:

    I’ve tried rabbit cooked many ways, but I don’t like it. I eat every other animal or fish going, but bloody typical I don’t like rabbit! It always seem to have a hint of the guts in the taste.

     After you have dressed them,Try soaking them in salt water over night , then drain off and rinse carcass under tap before cooking

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  21. Taltonia whippets

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    2 hours ago, carp king said:

    Because I have seen a few run both work and lure course mate,a have a pure bred show dog and she would go through a wall when younger but is 13 now...lure coursing different to work I know but the show breds that I have seen have great stamina  a think there will of been a lot of great dogs undiscovered in the show world of whippets simply because they spend there entire life on a table ...some show people are terrified of letting there dogs off the lead !!! When I mention show dogs above am on about kc showing not fun fair showing . This is just my opinion 

    You have a valid point there in regards to your comment that a lot of the show bred whippets never get a chance to run game. Just a month or so back I was out with my lurchers, just for a walk after work. Bumped into a women with a black whippet on a lead. I stopped to admire her dog . He was 3 years old and she said came from a very good line of pedigree dogs, father , grandfather show champs etc etc. My dogs were off the lead at the time so I asked her if she ever let's it off the lead as we were,well way from roads,and cattle. She said she didn't like to really as it keeps catching the local rabbits. Lol. I managed to talk her into letting it have a run with my dogs who are no slouches speed wise, this little dog was trying them up in knots . Unbelievable tight turns and pace. Great to see it running free. Felt sorry for the little tyke stuck on the lead 

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  22. Justify this

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    On 13/10/2019 at 10:45, Moocher71 said:

    I see photos of end bag of hare shoot on fens last yr ,279 hares in one morning .

    the lad doing the wright up said it was like being at Waterloo ,

     ok for guns to shoot what they want but running a few with a jook is going to get ya took if ya get caught and loose motor and dog and go jail for running a hare or two yet these fools kill them all .

    the ban as dealt the hare a bad hand ,more are killed now than ever befor by guns .

     

    they as always been poachers and always will be ,it's just how you do it ,going on land with 4x4 and jooks leaping out back and causing damige ain't poaching to me ,it's criminal .gates Brocken ,equipment stolen and crops driven over ,no wonder farmers don't like it ,

    poaching is when no one knows you been there apart from you and catch is safely tucked away .

    most the land I work I'm poaching but I go on my own and take only what I need and its just me and my jook .

     

     

    Yep they can't outrun a bullet, that's for sure

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  23. Justify this

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    On 13/10/2019 at 09:17, fireman said:

    Some keepers i know do a hare shoot and hundreds are shot,just like they allways have been on big shooting estates and the hare numbers keep coming back up as they will on a well run shooting estate where vermin control is carried out as it removes predators.A hare drive will bring in a good days money and that in turns pays for keepers,traps etc so it makes the estate work.It does sicken me to see hundreds of hares laid out just for sport but then so does  seeing hundreds of game birds laid out and them being worth feck all as the money was in the shot taken.There are things in other field sports that we find distasteful but we all kill for sport(some justify it by calling it pest control) so not one of us has grounds for rightousness when it comes to killing things really.

    Fair point

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