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    Was it Reel Wars ????
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    The intention was good though.
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    Bell, I would think I've seen more Woodcock so far this Winter than I seen for the whole of last year. Still annoyed over that bird this morning though. I hate to see that. Seen two this morning, my mate missed the other one.
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    I have a few of those bottles (empty of course) on the shelf but I'm more of a Take Courage man myself with it's Gamecock emblem. Someone picked me up a few old Courage badges and they're nice and I'm told that years ago the Courage emblems used to be a Gamecock and a Pit Dog.
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    Shot my first Woodcock of the season this morning too, but didn't pick him up . Shot two cock pheasants, good shots too, but would swap both of them for the Woodcock.
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    Bloody hell, if that brindle jumps any higher it will have to start wearing a parachute.
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    Washed down with a fine pint of cider.......................I'd say "go ahead plug me in," LOL.
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    First of all Jigsaw, roadkill my ass. And secondly Lidl or Aldi are doing cheap winches next week so no excuses. Although you might have to get a golfball, .
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    Shooting this morning found one with it's head and breast eaten. So in a funny way that's two I've seen in a week, one very healthy, one very unhealthy. The one we found today looked skinny. Would it have been a weakened Winter visitor ? And I'm guessing a Buzzard was the culprit ? For a bird that we see once or twice a year to see twice in a week is very unusual indeed.
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    I love that word "Stockman". You don't hear it too often now but years ago it was only used for someone who had the Stockmans eye which meant they consistently had good animals about them. A hard thing to do.
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    I bet you did and so did the lads who owned your terriers ancestors. It's good to have good lads with you.
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    I disagree. No matter what you require in a working dog be it a hound, a lurcher, a terrier ,a gundog, a greyhound or a sheepdog the one thing that separates the good ones from the bad ones is the desire to do the job and push themselves to the limit. In other words, Heart. Two greyhounds in the same race might be as fast as one another but the one that wants that hare the most usually wins. A pack of hounds might number 37 and they all have good noses but the ones that want that fox the most will be up front. One terrier comes off after 4 hours ,most lads happy, another does 10 hou
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    Darcy

    neil cooney replied to twelsh's topic in General Talk

    "Down The Beam", it's a book for lads that go lamping. The book for lads who talk about lamping is called "Down The Pub."
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    Seen it for the first time 2 days ago Jigsaw on the same site I'd say you seen it on. It looks good.
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    Jack Hargreaves was a hero of mine because of his no nonsense attitude to the working countryside. Out Of Town used to be shown on a Saturday morning at 11 o clock. I was still at school at the time and used to go ferreting on a Saturday morning with an old neighbour of mine who used to want to go earlier than that. So I used to sit in my mothers kitchen with coat and boots on, ferrets in the box and net's in the bag watching Ol' Jack. No video recorders in them days. The second Out of Town was over I'd walk out the door with my neighbour waiting and giving out. I never told him why I'd b
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    I've still to get of the mark but the lad I was shooting with this morning had one. Fireman, there's a shoot near me that cost the price of a good second hand car to join every year and the shoot captain get's all the woodcock, no matter who shoots them. I too, would be keeping quiet.
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    A few years ago there was a club put together with the intention of coursing with Wolfhounds. I can't remember if it was the judge or whoever but a remark was said that 'Those Wolfhounds that did reach their quarry showed no desire to kill it'. As someone said they are a re-created breed of dog. Incidentally, there's one in the Natural history museum in Dublin over one hundred years old and it's more like a lurcher than todays Wolfhound. Celtic legend has it that the Irish Wolfhound was the equal of two men in battle (which means he was the equal of 5 Saxons) so I'm glad that the old typ
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    Absolutely WF, but it's the good terrierman that knows when a terrier is not up to the grade, there's factors along the way that could stop a terrier making the grade.
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    That's just it Shane. The man you were talking to was probably talking from experience and the first time I heard it the man who said it probably was breeding at the time 6 or 7 litters a year and he was striving for in his dogs what we strive for in our terriers. Heart and gameness. When I questioned it he blamed the chromosomes, but like me, he's no scientist, just a practical dog man. But I did remember what was said and I took it on board. I let the likes of these men do the hard work because lets face it any terrierman who's breeding more than two litters a year is a peddler and doesn'
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    They're doing interesting things with horses at the minute based on labwork The money that's involved in the Racehorse industry in massive and nearly every little aspect of it is at some time tested in a lab. But on the subject of repeat matings ? War Of Attrition won the Cheltenham Gold Cup a few years ago and when his full brother (very same stallion, very same mare) came up for sale the owners of War Of Attrition, Gigginstown Stud, payed good money for him. Where is he ? As far as I know he's useless. It's very common in horse breeding that if you breed a good one (taking into acc
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    You could write a small book on that particular drain Fatman. My fathers lurcher was killed at it but proved how game he was before he died and your little lakeland , Tiny, and one of my own terriers all had there last hunts there. Then there's the time four foxes bolted out of it and none accounted for, LOL.
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    Huw, the one thing you have going for you is that you're only thinking about taking up fieldsports. Who's to say that if you got into a bit of shooting and the first wet pissy freezing cold day you went out was to be your last ? If on the other hand, you had been hunting for years, met someone you fell in love with and after a while she told you to give it up as she didn't like it my advice to you in that situation would be to cut of your own testicles and hand them to her.
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    Was great to see Matt Hayes and some fishing on mainstream (no pun intended) television there recently Jonnie. And BBC too.
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    LOL, and ye all lived to tell the tale. Good days indeed. Sorry, meant to say nights.
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    The first litter must have been good Dillydog if it was repeated.If the second litter was much better then that shows that repeat matings can be different. Whether for good or bad. I think you'll find all litters are different it has nothing to do with how many consecutive breeding's a pair makes Absolutely, that's why it's not a sure fire recipe for success if the first litter was great. BUT, on the flip side of my argument, how many times if the first litter were curs would a second litter have worked out ???????? That is one gamble I would not make.
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