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  1. Phil Lloyd
    Smart looking dogs Northernlite... Although my preferance is for curs,..I've had some good hunting with Bedlington lurchers...
  2. Phil Lloyd
    Superb ,..really informative,.. and filmed with a great sympathy for the subject...
  3. Phil Lloyd
    Best advice I can give you is,...'Don't ever work cheap'..... Start as you mean to go on,.....the trapping game has been a good Mistress to me... Always be professional,....be 100% honest with the customer, Practice to become proficient and familiar, with all the various styles of trap at your disposal... Stay away, from jobs that are not profitable,...pick and choose,...and never be afraid to walk away from a non-earner. It IS hard at first,...I do know this,...but if ya can hang on in there, until you become established,..it is a great life.
  4. Phil Lloyd
    Had quite a few Collie based lurchers,...in their most basic form,...they are invariably physically limited,...but,..if you have the same mindset as this most primitive of all the hunting dogs,...I find they do offer something that the other hybrids don't,....but,.by the same token,...they can be difficult to handle.. ...It is a foolish mistake to believe that, due to their reputed intelligence and tractability,...that collie crosses are easy to handle,...because in reality (if you want to use them for a bit more than a mere running dog)...they sure ain't..
  5. Phil Lloyd
    Good call Bosun
  6. Phil Lloyd
    Right or wrong,...to shoot hares in such numbers,...is neither here nor there....it is entirely a personal decision,..no more, no less.... Personaly,..if I was skint (which I have been many times)....and I could make money killing them...then I would....Same with deer and other game.... However,...I would not enjoy being at the death of a hundred Hares,..with or without a jukel,..just for the sport of it.... I would soon get bored.... Been spotting for rabbits on many a night,...finding the squatters with a dazzler for riflemen,....seen them rolled over in their hundreds,..but I'
  7. Phil Lloyd
    Yes, I agree,..and it is downright cruelty to take a full grown canine athlete, such as an ex racer,...a jukel that has been trained, conditioned, cosseted and kept in the manner of a Spartan warrior,.denied the opportunity to feel the wind in its face and experience the tender embrace of the barbed wire and woodland debris,....to then,...let the poor creature loose amidst the wastelands of factory units or forestry plantation,..to tear its guts out in the UK countryside. This foolishness is pure wickedness,...and is the action of a dumb Motherfecker.... BUT,.when a nice well balanced Gazeh
  8. Phil Lloyd
    Its a bad old day when a hunting man , feck's,... his fellow hunting men.... Nothing more to say really,... Let's move on,..many of us have backed a loser in our time,...in fact, I am a Black Belt in falling for a sob story,... Keep our trusted friend's close, and feck anyone else...
  9. Phil Lloyd
    I reared a nice wee bitch and used her for the roe and hares,...she fecked em up,..and I do mean, proper fecked.. Never gave the game away and told her, that she wasn't a lurcher,..and she never knew any different... Mind you, back in the day,. it was ALL after dark freelancing,.no training for the mouching/ferreting/netting business,...it just wasn't sensible to walk about during the daylight hours,...it always ended up , emotional... But, for the quick slip and trip,...I had no complaints,... I used her for several years,...broke her in the end,..but there ya go,..that's the hu
  10. Phil Lloyd
    Catch a fair few odd's and sod's,...it sure makes life interesting,.... The client's are usualy quite proud that their moles are different...and,....special.
  11. Phil Lloyd
    Conor is a breath of fresh air in the modern fight game,..he says it like it is,... He is in it,. for the gold doubloons,...end of story... Looking forward to the fight...
  12. Phil Lloyd
    Fair play to you fellah,...they are genuinely top notch pies,..I was privileged to have a wee taster,....but,..in my opinion,.to become the best of the best,..for me,.they need to be 3 x BIGGER
  13. Phil Lloyd
    I would only endorse what others have said.. Vin obviously has a natural talent for the filming game,...and considering the excellant results he has achieved with an IPhone...well,..the future seems bright. Inshallah,. we shall see some more interesting footage of the beautiful Dales, hopefully twinned with the vision and sheer excitement of honest and versatile canines,..pursuing and catching that born survivor,.. the rabbit...
  14. Phil Lloyd
    If you hunt illegally on a regular basis,..(which I used to do),...you increase the odds of capture and subsequent prosecution....It's simply down to the law of averages,..part and parcel of the game.... Them days are long gone.. I no longer need to freelance,..but in truth,..I was always 'guilty as charged'..
  15. Phil Lloyd
    Wasted a lifetime, on hunting with dogs and ferrets,..freelancing and walking where the fancy took me,...and accordingly,..the Magistrates Court made sure that I paid the price... I have no proper trade, no skills,..fecking useless at everything,.. and virtually unemployable Thank the Lord for the Yellow Pages,....that wee advert, offering my services as a controller of rural pests, saved the day,.my marriage and definitely, my liberty... So,.taking everything for what it is,.my life with lurchers has cost me dear, but ultimately saved the day
  16. Phil Lloyd
    Well done big fellah,..a lovely post,.filled with the joy of just being, out there... A good honest score,. combined with the other Saturday's, hard won ..you guys are certainly going for it. All the best to you and the wee Yin..
  17. Phil Lloyd
    We all require different dogs, for different tasks,....an obvious statement (and possibly not the answer the original poster was after),.but is,..in my mind,...a truism.... Personaly,...I only need a dog to seek, find (and hopefully connect) with a nuicence pest,..;ie,..the rabbit.. Anything else would be a criminal waste of dog flesh....I hunt mostly for the coin,...I enjoy the craic and love to go on a jolly,.but mostly, it is for wages...so,..it pays to keep the right tool for the job.... As for a test...well, every day is a test,...every job is another one,.. done and dusted
  18. Phil Lloyd
    From what I've seen,.Blue will go onwards and upwards,.you are fortunate to own such a promising young jukel
  19. Phil Lloyd
    Recently purchased a lamp from this vendor,...100% satisfied....
  20. Phil Lloyd
    "The best foot on a lurcher, is the one that sustains the least damage"...
  21. Phil Lloyd
    Just goes to show,.."there is life in us old dogs yet"........
  22. Phil Lloyd
    Marking an occupied warren,.. is a handy trait in a rabbiting/ferreting cur.... Keep at it....practice, practice,...practice...
  23. Phil Lloyd
    Just returned from a wee jaunt,..up North... To say that the weather was bad,..would be an understatement.... I've been hunting the rabbits for many years,..but I've never ferreted in such a cold , relentless high wind...a face stinging, force of nature,..accompanied by constant icy rain.... For a pair of elderly soft Southerners,...it was emotional... However,..it was great to be in the company of such determined and committed hunting men. Tomo and Vin realy do know their land, and are both (in my opinion)...at the top of their game.. Their dogs worked well and considering the how
  24. Phil Lloyd
    @ Lurchers,....you are right about collie crosses,...ya gotta get the right type,..or you can end up in therapy
  25. Phil Lloyd
    Obviously,..only a fool tells another hunting man, what he should, or should not do...so I won't... But,...(in my opinion)...it is not advisable to make a habit of breeding two Merles together...
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