neil cooney
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Hope that's true Rat Face, as the hunting in it is pre ban and some of the faces in it are no longer with us.
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I got my video direct from the FMWTC and that was in the days before DVD ,so what are we talking about ? 12 or 15 years ago, so I doubt Johnny Bluck even knew what a working terrier was. The interview with George Newcombe is definitely the same interview but differently edited parts, same with the Maurice Bell interview. IMO the rescue with the rock fall is worth the price alone.
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I'm with you MIK, they're one animal I've no time for, a very wasteful killer.
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How Is Everyone's Birds Coming Through The Moult This Year
neil cooney replied to bogeyman's topic in Fowl & Feather Talk
I have some birds finished and some birds look half way through and I thought this years moult was later than the last few years. So what have you noticed ? -
Common Seal , I think. The rarer of the two species.
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And an excellent video it is. Nice to see the original founders sitting there together, some terrier work, some interviews and some opinions of some of the fore fathers who'll make you scratch your chin. But that's what makes it a great way of life.
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It absolutely kills me to say this but ye have to use the inter-net more. Especially keeping the site up to date. Personally if I was a novice starting off again I'd be very proud to be a member of such a club and heritage. For the sake of the price of less than 3 pints who wouldn't want to be in a club that might one day save your favourite terrier. 20 years membership would still be less than the price of a good worker to it's owner. JMHO.
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I've a funny feeling the original poster is from the South of Ireland where most clubs still buy a few hundred birds and turn them out into the Irish countryside to fend for themselves. IMO those days should be over because most of the birds we buy are coming from game farms or are surplus birds from larger driven shoots. If your not putting out hoppers but your neighbouring club is then that will rob some of your birds. Same if your neighbours have less vermin and so on. Ye British boys have been studying how to hold birds for donkey years but here in Ireland we now have more Buzzards, Pin
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https://youtu.be/Dmgh9-SjndA I know it's a TV ad but a great tune non the less.
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That's a relief, LOL.
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Harkila Pro Hunter Trousers
neil cooney replied to workworkwork's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
They barbed wire proof ? -
££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££ ruined the proper lakie IMO and a pity too because when they're good they're good. Looking for a good pup nowadays ? The words haystack and needle spring to mind.
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It was the burrowing into the wall that shocked me too. The dead Hornets I seen that day ,to me, looked bigger than our own. I was glad they were dead, LOL.
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now every time I hear of someone getting a hole in one, I'll be thinking of this thread and that photo.
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If lads are noticing a scarcity of Pheasants two weeks into the season then they're in trouble. One thing I have noticed is hoppers being emptied quiet quickly and this might mean wild food is scarce and that will cause Pheasants to move on. Also the last few years I've noticed that the Buzzards follow the Pheasants. I put a new feeder on a ditch last week and within 2 days there was a Buzzard sitting in the branches above it. I hadn't seen a Buzzard around there in months. If your club has released Pheasants and provided them with feeders and cover and you're not finding dead Pheasants th
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Beautiful. Where they made to your own specifications ?
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Bloody hell. We got scaffold a few years ago from Asia and in side one of the tubes was a nest of those large hornets. When I turned the tube upright the nest slid out and all the Hornets had died from the cold. They're pretty formidable looking insects. Not something to look forward to if they spread to our shores.
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Dytkos, although I don't break the law with my dogs or guns in any way I'd still find it hard to push them on other countrymen, especially as a lot of those laws are bullshit. But then again, with some power I might become a right little Hitler, LOL, it seems to be what happens when ordinary Joe Soaps get a title.
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https://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/campaignAdvert/43095.htm Just what Ireland needs, more Wildlife Rangers. BUT, if someones gotta do it then let it be a hunting person who knows the countryside rather than a lentil munching townie.
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If the few words regarding "but are farmers happy" were omitted from the article there would be absolutely nothing wrong with it because there's not even a mention of that again. As you say Bryan, boring, but IMO good PR.
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Don't over do the lungs it will scour dogs but I've often fed them with other flesh.
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A sad reflection on the Lurcher game. Hope he has a good permanent home now. Good luck with your search.
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Man Eating Pheasant.
neil cooney replied to neil cooney's topic in Driven, Walked Up, Rough Shooting
There's no doubt about it but folk under estimate the love of blood some game fowl have. When I used to keep Quail in a mixed aviary you rarely found dead Canary or Finch chicks on the ground. The only way you knew they were gone was when they'd be missing from the nest pan. I've often seen my Game Fowl swallow Mice and young Rats and when I used to get any amount of minced beef for free I used to give every bird a walnut sized piece of mince most days. They used to be able to smell it and would bounce off the wire as I approached them. But, this Pheasant who was attacking people was IMO c -
Dickens Cider. Nothing nicer than a Dickens Cider.
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I'm pretty sure RHD is present around here. Haven't seen it yet myself but folk are asking me why is there rabbits looking sick around their fields without the signs of myxi or they're asking where did all the rabbits suddenly go ? As bad as it is to loose the fantastic rabbit what's very worrying is that they've now proven that rabbits have passed on one of the RHD viruses to a Hare. For the hare population to suffer anymore would be terrible.
