Born Hunter
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That's mental. Do the folks of Rufford go to the ford for a few hours just to video cars getting wrecked? Ha I assume a lot of them are shorted electrics an not water in the engine?
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Painting block kennels
Born Hunter replied to Born Hunter's topic in Home Stuff, Building and Leisure
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Every time I see this specimen it impresses me.
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Painting block kennels
Born Hunter replied to Born Hunter's topic in Home Stuff, Building and Leisure
Cheers mate. Just two. I don't want too many dogs so two is about right. Saying that a spare pen is always handy for visitors or hot bitches etc. -
Yes, but you can still be overpopulated and have a declining population. As a result of birth rate trends for it is believed that all major regions, including India and China, will see populations declines shortly. All except Africa…
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Yes
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I've finally got the boundaries to about 1500 acres of stalking on my doorstep to explore, with muntjac all the way up to 20+ point stags roaming about. So yeah, I intend to break my iphone step counter over the two weeks I have off! My Xmas has changed quite dramatically since my mate had to promptly move into my spare room...
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I drilled a hole in the tread plate on the outer edge of either side. One meter/yard trigger clip dog lead, loop the hand loop over the handle of the shovel and fasten the clip through one of the drilled hole on the tread plate. the head of the shovel will hang flat across your arse when being carried then. When needed for digging, it comes off in about 5 seconds. If you just tied to either end of the shaft then the head of the shovel will be any which way and it'll be sliding up and down the shaft, be a right game. Anyway, worked grand for me!
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That’s why I suggest small casual groups operating under the guise of rough shooting and paying rent to make themselves a valued asset to the countryside. The antis wouldn’t be chasing such small informal groups. Hunts are too in your face to avoid them but they survive because they are trail hunting, right, lol. Legitimate coursing could have survived simply by making themselves valuable and operating with a bit of savvy imo. But it was never going to happen so probably ain’t worth even discussing in hindsight.
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Problem coursing had is to be the outlaw you make yourself a c**t to powerful stakeholders in the countryside. Shooting has economic and political clout to leverage. Hunting has enormous political tools, there’s hunting men in every corner of the establishment from councillors to PMs, from police wildlife crime officers to directors of intelligence services. Farming obviously has great economic power too. Now I’m not suggesting these make hunting and shooting etc bulletproof but when compared to coursing, what does that have to leverage when deciding to operate the way they do?
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Maybe we have been speaking at cross purposes here. I don’t disagree with that. I’ve simply been pointing out why coursing has found itself the enemy of the rest of the countryside and this sort of anti coursing movement has risen. For over a decade I was involved with a DIY syndicate shoot in coursing country. Out that way the type of shoots that dominate are little piss pot syndicates because the land is shit, put simply. Yeah there’s commercial stuff but it’s not the mainstay. We were on 1700 acres and rent was like 3.5k. There was a well known fella from up the A1 that was allowed to
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It was indeed written into the ‘05 act as an offence for landowners to allow illegal hunting. But yeah sure loopholes get closed, primarily as a result of total public idiocy, like those hero pikies rallying and like the masters holding a f***ing ‘how we break the law’ digital workshop. I disagree with the sentiment of the gentlemanly comment. I think presentation in life is everything. But there’s no point in us going around on this. Ill always being killing something because I’m not pigeon holed. I’m not a hunting man, I’m not a dog man, I’m not a shooting man etc etc. There’s too
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In this instance it ain’t upsetting joe blogs that’s the problem, it’s farmer Giles. There are lads out there digging 3-400 a season without provoking the farming and land owning community to back campaigns to increase policing and punishments. Coursing said ‘f**k it’ and yeah fair whatever that’s their choice given their circumstances but it was THEIR choice.
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I think it’s fair to say folks need to be conscious of ‘how they go about things’ since the ban. But it’s also right to say that most have just found a way and either got lucky or lived with having to be cautious. I know lads who 20 years ago would’ve had a kennel of stripped dogs but now won’t tolerate anything like that on their yard. Terriers only enemies are the antis. Coursing though have managed to turn the whole countryside against them.
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Mate, the loopholes offer deniability, they don’t offer exemption. Exactly the same as with hunting. Why are dogs muzzled? There’s no legal explanation for that other than “well we didn’t want them to kill the hares they were coursing”.
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Well that’s their decision. A small mob on permission with a few walking guns would be utilising a legal loophole and get no serious bother. Big events can’t be hidden. No guns present offers little plausible deniability. No permission and you are now a threat to much more powerful rural groups. The coursing world is now represented by people who don’t give a f**k at all. Rightly or wrongly. But they have to take some of the responsibility for where they find themselves.
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I accept that big coursing meets couldn’t go on. But coursing could, did and does continue on smaller scale via legal loopholes the same way everything else has. But the vast majority do not operate this way and have made themselves a threat to the interests of those in positions of power in rural politics. Im not passing judgement. It is what it is.
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f**k all I expect. But how many running dogs are ran on permission? The CA represent the interests of rural stakeholders. Before the ban coursing was a minority stakeholder but legitimate nonetheless. The ban removed its legitimacy and left only those who never were welcomed anyway. Now coursing is simply a threat to the major stakeholders that are left ie farming and estates. There’s clearly no loyalty to some romantic ideal of a sportsman. Their loyalty is to rural stakeholders and if you find yourself not one anymore then you can’t expect a single f**k from any of them.
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I think I agree, but then they win.... Cape Buff is beyond my means, but if I was able to justify a lavish no expense spared trip to Africa, then I'd certainly be looking for one. The sort of stuff that'll be likely to draw me to the Dark Continent is considered 'least concern' by the IUCN, so potentially importable after this ban, whatever it may look like when finally passed.
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Law hasn’t been passed yet. But it’s on the cards.
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His dad! British big game hunters to be banned from bringing trophies home | Hunting | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Law will cover near-threatened, threatened and endangered species, from lions to rhinos and polar bears
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Finally got that through then. It was on the books back in 2019 when I had 'trophies' at a taxidermist. I had planned on a shoulder mount but worried about the talk of bans asked for a simple shield mount. I thought it had all blown over tbh but sounds like COVID just stalled it...
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I'd imagine the benefit of the cross is it'll produce a dog with more hunt in it than a lab but more forgiving to the novice than a spaniel?
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A bit of wind ain't a bad thing, it really helps dry them out. But yeah, keeping them out of it should be a big consideration, they'll be a lot more hospitable in the winter for it. Sun's nice but not having any won't harm them imo.
