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  4. Getting started

    in Earthdogs & Working Terriers

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    Hello, I'v not made very may posts on this forum but i'v been thinking about getting my first terrier. I'v not been keepering long but i'v been looking after my grouse beat for almost a year now and would like to have my own terrier rather than getting one of the other keeper to come over with there's. I could get hold of a dog with out to much trouble but i would like to work a border but i am having a job finding anyone with working borders that I could get a pup from, any info that would put me in touch with someone with pups from working line would be a big help.

    Cheers, Tom

  6. Raptor ID?

    in Wildlife and General Photography

    Posted

    Could still be Buzzard......males and females differ in size, plus the colours are variable. From creamy/white to very dark brown. Juvenille Buzzard possibly?

     

    I agree with boo, I'v seen penty of buzzards ranging from very light to almost black on the back, same with the size, you see some real scrawny small ones from time to time. plus a goshawk is more of a slate gray with a more bow'd wing, like a big cock sparrow hawk

  8. hare loss

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    what would you blame for the decline in hares theres land devoid of hares that once held decent numbers.i think the increase in buzzards and other birds of prey has played a significant part 20 years ago you never seen a buzzard now there as common as dog shit.lamping has also played its part as theres dogs taking hare on the lamp that would struggle daytime.

    buzzards wont have a great deal to do with it mate they wont even take a leveret :thumbs: the only BOP that could bother hares in uk is the goshawk and golden eagle and even then not enough to hit numbers in any area :thumbs: be dickheads shooting them thats your problem :thumbs:

     

    that is total sh!te "wont even take a leveret" you need to get out the house a bit more, its stupid made up facts like that, that is setting back laws to control of these feckin things. as a grouse keeper who is out on the hill everyday i can tell you 100% they will take leverts, adult white hare, grouse, lapwings, curluws as well as anything else that moves and i'v seen this not just read about it on the RSPB web page.

     

    And as a grouse keeper you wont have an agenda right.......

     

    where facts are concerned agendas are irrelevant .

  9. hare loss

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

    Posted

    what would you blame for the decline in hares theres land devoid of hares that once held decent numbers.i think the increase in buzzards and other birds of prey has played a significant part 20 years ago you never seen a buzzard now there as common as dog shit.lamping has also played its part as theres dogs taking hare on the lamp that would struggle daytime.

    buzzards wont have a great deal to do with it mate they wont even take a leveret :thumbs: the only BOP that could bother hares in uk is the goshawk and golden eagle and even then not enough to hit numbers in any area :thumbs: be dickheads shooting them thats your problem :thumbs:

     

    that is total sh!te "wont even take a leveret" you need to get out the house a bit more, its stupid made up facts like that, that is setting back laws to control of these feckin things. as a grouse keeper who is out on the hill everyday i can tell you 100% they will take leverts, adult white hare, grouse, lapwings, curluws as well as anything else that moves and i'v seen this not just read about it on the RSPB web page.

    dont care what you say mate,if they do take them it would be in really small numbers..fact :kiss:

     

    And where may i ask did you come by this "fact"? is it a "fact" that you, yourself have come to realise on a daily basis? at your place of work perhaps? or is it just you talking sh!te about a subject which you have little or no real knowledge about? what do you think they eat? rabbits yes, but they dont try to catch them running, how often have you put up a hare (if you have spend any time out doors) at your feet? a buzzard just drop on them from a height, just the same way they hunt rabbits and as far as leverets go you can catch them in your hands.

  10. hare loss

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

    Posted

    what would you blame for the decline in hares theres land devoid of hares that once held decent numbers.i think the increase in buzzards and other birds of prey has played a significant part 20 years ago you never seen a buzzard now there as common as dog shit.lamping has also played its part as theres dogs taking hare on the lamp that would struggle daytime.

    buzzards wont have a great deal to do with it mate they wont even take a leveret :thumbs: the only BOP that could bother hares in uk is the goshawk and golden eagle and even then not enough to hit numbers in any area :thumbs: be dickheads shooting them thats your problem :thumbs:

     

    that is total sh!te "wont even take a leveret" you need to get out the house a bit more, its stupid made up facts like that, that is setting back laws to control of these feckin things. as a grouse keeper who is out on the hill everyday i can tell you 100% they will take leverts, adult white hare, grouse, lapwings, curluws as well as anything else that moves and i'v seen this not just read about it on the RSPB web page.

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  14. what age should you start taking dogs beating

    in Gundogs & Retrievers

    Posted

    Hi mate, me again.....Sounds like you are doing the basics correctly and i hope they all turn out to be wee crackers. We all want to get our dogs up to a standard where we can take them to shoots but pushing them wont help. Walking them in parks and stuff wont get them ready for shoot day, with lots of smells and mainly other dogs working around them will drive them wild. I thought like you that my 2 pups at that age were 100% on the recall to my whistle but as i said to you when i took them to that shoot a couple of weeks ago(aged nearly 1 year) the first bird that fell from the sky the wee b*****d was off......i whistled,he stopped and funnily enough in 12 long months it was the first time i had seen that "f**k you" look in his eyes.... :laugh:

    They will go back at the end of the season, just for another look. I have just started dummy work with a launcher and signs are good.......if they turn out like there parents al be a happy man......atb :thumbs:

    thanks alot mate, info is spot on and took on board, im glad iv been told cause by the sounds of it i would have been tearing my hair out by the end of the day, so im gona have a pop up beating with my mate and hes taking his sproker and 2 older cockers (all well over a year old) and at least ill get a feel and see what i need to be doin when the time comes, thanks again for the advice atb :thumbs:

     

    I would take one with you on the leed, if you dont think they will do a whole day leave them in your car for the rest of the day. they wont learn anything in the kennel, I start mine off as soon as, by one year old their spot on to work every day beating or picking up

  18. wire haired pointer x lab

    in Working Dogs & Livestock

    Posted

    any more info? has it done anything other than sitting? stays retreives walking to heel on and off the lead?

    she has just gone for walks she is steady off the lead she comes bac when told to, she has been out on the shooting field

    with lots of other dogs she goes in water, she has a lovely nature.

     

    so it doesn't sit, stay, pick up or walk to heel it just comes back to its name? and you want £300 that will be harder to train than just buying a pup?

    she is just 1 year old she is just a pup, she hasnt had a chance to do much

     

    I have a pointer X pup (which cost me £150) and she is 1 year old and she sits, stays, hunts, points, sits and comes back to the whistle, retrieves dead and wounded game to hand, jumps fences on comand and not gun shy. so dont give that rubbish the dog is not worth £300 your trying to rob some one

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  19. wire haired pointer x lab

    in Working Dogs & Livestock

    Posted

    any more info? has it done anything other than sitting? stays retreives walking to heel on and off the lead?

    she has just gone for walks she is steady off the lead she comes bac when told to, she has been out on the shooting field

    with lots of other dogs she goes in water, she has a lovely nature.

     

    so it doesn't sit, stay, pick up or walk to heel it just comes back to its name? and you want £300 that will be harder to train than just buying a pup?

  21. lamping foxes with a shotgun

    in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns

    Posted

    yeh just turn the lamp off and make a squeakin noise with ur lips, turn it back on to seee if he's comming in turn it off squeak a bit more then turn it onwhen he's comming right in and keep squeakin if he slows down or looks like he's thining twice and shot him when he comes into range. if its a young daft one or some that has never been bothered there is a good chance they will come right in. rember to turn the engine off as soon as you see his eyes.

    good luck

  25. need some advice

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

    Posted

    Alright I have been given this deer/wheaten X not long ago he's just turned a year old, keen enuff but wont bring what he catched back to me. soon as it stops moving he drops it and walks back to me. i'v tryed throwing rabbits for him and dummys he just runs up sniffs them and walks on. is it to late to get him retreving? has anyone else had this problem and sorted it?

    cheers, Tom

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