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Just back home from what will probably be our last hunting trip of the season, travelled well over 500 miles by motor & put in some very hard miles on foot in what was very testing weather to say the least. On awakening the first morning I opened the campervan door to a winter wonderland,it was extremely windy & the snow was very heavy indeed. The second morning we headed out it was mostly rain mixed with a little sleet but as we trudged up the mountains that turned once again to heavy & persistent snow. Both mornings were extremely cold with the temperature just below freezing but the strong winds made the real feel temperature below minus double digits. Visibility was poor both mornings & occasionally in a white out it was nigh on impossible to see 10-20 yards in front of you. Still we cracked on & had ourselves a go,I had old Boots with me,Rose & my Cocker Spaniel Suzie too & my Mrs pup who was 7 month's old just yesterday,everyday still being a school day for the pup & I guess she could fare far worse than tag along with Boots at her age,he knows the craic & rarely if ever puts a foot wrong in life..we did manage to see a bit of wildlife,mainly way too far off in the distance & or looking down on us from granite,icy cliffs in the corries above us high on the mountain tops. It's always good to be out in mother nature's back garden regardless of getting on the scoreboard,we did strike lucky one morning when the tracking collars showed the dog's were together & steady some 930 yard's away,it took me a good while to get to them but the dog's had the job sorted when I arrived so all was fine & dandy & the next morning we were unlucky,that's just how it goes especially out on the mountains & probably even more so when conditions aren't exactly favourable. Another adventure,more memories made,another season has came to it's end.. Time to rest up,enjoy the spring/summer break,let the dog's recharge their batteries & when winter comes around again see what happens then..always be appreciative of your working dog's,we owe them so much,I certainly do.
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From what you can see & on breeding that Rocky is certainly the one I'd be interested in myself,be the one I'd take a punt on anyways,that Pincho looks like it would love to be in and amongst the hard stuff,looks a strapping dog he does.
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20 minutes ago, spindolero said:
was the dog Shane down in Stoke area?
He was from up here in Cumbria Spindolero,he was here from a puppy,I hunted with the dog for a couple of seasons & as far as I'm aware he seen out his last days here too,I can't honestly say if he went down to Stoke in the years in between though?
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14 hours ago, Abullx said:
Didn’t the bitch on the right have a dog called Thor in her or you was putting her to him If i remember correctly
The bitch was bred to Thor,she only produced one pup,we have her here,she is absolutely granite,100% single handed who will die before she quits,very hard animal yet very biddable & not a bother with other dog's & bombproof around livestock. This is her as a very young bitch,she is 3 this upcoming summer.
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1 minute ago, bullyson said:
Thanks Andy there loving life and nice to have about the place there just over 4 1/2 months old dog is around 22” and 48lb as of this morning bitch is around 20” and 34/35lb
That dog should of been called Bruiser!! He's a beautiful stamp of dogs flesh he is very much like my dog Bear
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16 hours ago, Johnnykar said:
unequalled panorama girls
https://url.epoch.tw/JM0wrWhy don't you get yourself a dildo & shove it up your own arse!!
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On 22/01/2024 at 10:44, Backandbeyond said:
Out of interest mate, which of the 3 runners would you say ticks all the boxes for an all-rounder and puts the most away bigger quarry wise? You have a nice selection of dogs there with slightly different make ups so do you have a favourite if you don't mind me asking?
For bigger gear Boots has been far & away the best of the 3, unfortunately Bear broke his neck as a young dog which stopped his progression in it's track's literally,he was 'looking' like being a brilliant dog,he just done everything as one would like to see,a big powerful,very fast dog he was,alas we never got to see what he may of achieved,still today he can occasionally show a glimpse of his youth & look pretty impressive at work. I personally believe he would of been a better dog than Boots on big gear but there again maybe he wouldn't? Rose is the best of the 3 as far as being an all round type,she has had a lot of gear,big gear included,she isn't the biggest but she doesn't know that. She has had around half of the number what Boots has had on big stuff,no mean feat for what was the smallest pup in the litter. Day or night comes alike to her,she has caught lot's of tackle in both sphere's,she too is a very quick animal,retrieves in textbook fashion & although all 3 will confront anything I'd personally say she is the one who will take a bit more punishment on the harder stuff without making too much of a fuss of thing's. She has had good numbers on the lamp & has put some impressive numbers away in the day too on all matter of stuff. As for a favourite of the 3 well it has to be Boots,he has honestly been a masterclass at certain thing's,he's been a wonderful servant to us. He will be 12 this upcoming October 1st,he only has one eye but he's still the first dog I load up in the motor of a morning when heading out,he's obviously not the dog he once was but it just wouldn't seem right going without him & as long as he wants to go he's always welcome to lead my team out.
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Thanks for the comments folk's,I'll get around to answering the questions asked when I'm back from doing the dog's this morning.. meanwhile here's a few pics from our recent adventures
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Coming on a treat Keith
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Both these we have go back to Remus & through him a dog called Shane which was a genuine first cross out of an undefeated dog called Nailer & a Greyhound
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2 minutes ago, C.green said:
That doesnt really get mentioned much does it but numbers of bodies infront of a dog dont mean much to me its how they do them id much rather see a couple taken in style infront of me than 10 killed at hedges or 3 oceans away when its had the sting took out of it.
If your lamping them then the law of averages says the majority will be fence bouncer's or caught in a ditch etc especially up north where the fields etc are much smaller than further down the road..perhaps down South it would be highly likely to be the total opposite to that. Running them daytime was a different thing as you were often pushing them from cover & into the open to run them,in the dark they almost always try to run to cover & therefore fences,hedges & suchlike.
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It sure does get your heart racing when you set eyes upon a few big lumps of venison..great thread folks,brave dog's & keen owner's I tip my hat to you all
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20 minutes ago, joe ox said:
Some dogs just dont cut the mustard on the big fella's. On a night out Richie and a coursing x deer grey mix on a buck not a massive buck a decent sorrel though. The courser x deergrey was about 28tts with speed to burn. The run started with the courser x deergrey in front, it was pushing though, Richie just couldnt get in to do his job as he just didnt have the same fast speed as the courser which was dictating the speed/pace, this goes on for a half a dozen turns no mistakes from the buck as he probably didnt feel under any pressure then then luckily the courser x deergrey makes a mistake and stumbles allowing Richie to get into action, one turn a bit of rough and tumble and the buck is decked, with no help from the courser x deergrey but it did come in and take a hold when the buck was down! I walked over collared Richie put the breaker stick in his mouth and broke him off then stepped back and clamped him between my knees as I knew he would do somersaults watching what was about to happen. The courser was now on its own holding the buck, it did not even keep hold for ten seconds as soon as the buck struggled and the courser deeergrey realized it was holding on its own it just let go and stood back as the buck got up and made off it never made any effort at all to keep hold or follow the buck as it made off, Richie was going crazy to be back off but I had him held tight. We had missed a nice buck about an hour before because the courser was just pushing and I needed to do this to prove the point. The buck in the picture was about the same size. The courser x deergrey was not my dog.
I owned such a dog myself Joe,best dog I've ever seen on Roe yet on the bigger species she would run onto them like an exocet missile then just slow down awaiting help,once knocked over by another dog she would do what needed doing but she just didn't have the want/heart to get up close & personal on her own with one of the larger species,fantastic on Roe as I said but most certainly wasn't one for the big lumps of venison. I've seen others do the same which weren't owned by me & just because they can knock a Roe or CWD over doesn't mean by any stretch of the imagination that they will do the same with the bigger beasts.
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5 hours ago, Black neck said:
How's that youngun bred
She's just lurcher x lurcher bred matey,bit of everything in her bar bull I'd imagine,she's my Mrs dog,she does all the hard work with her,walking,feeding, obedience training,breaking to livestock, learning her to jump etc,I just take the pup now & again with my own idiot's to let her gain a bit of fieldcraft whilst out & about & hopefully to see a few odds & sods laid to rest by my useless gits.
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5/8 Grey 3/8 Bull the dam to above mutt
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5/8 Grey mongrel
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1 hour ago, Grunter123 said:
Good look I been looking for a while
all shite about
all kids with dogs that are shit out there no old stuff that’s been proper tried and tested dogs that go out week in week out .
once a month if there lucky and there shite .
good look
They certainly ain't all shite matey,I know of numerous tested to the hilt animals,not a backward step in them.. admittedly there is certainly more shite with idiot's that own them but the same can be said for all lurchers in general
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Young pup at 5 1/2 month's old learning a 'little bit' off old Boots this past week,she could do a lot worse than follow his every move.
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15 hours ago, joe ox said:
Never checked the price of venison for years its probably still the same as it was 40 year ago?
That's the very reason they should NEVER come home in the same motor as a decent dog or two Joe,they just ain't worth it.
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Smart animal,as an adult & a pup too,in fantastic shape & could obviously walk the walk..what's in the dog Blacky? Looks like a Saluki/Bull/Grey type?
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5 minutes ago, Deerhunter1 said:
I regularly do 6 hour round trips or further to work my dogs, as do other people I know & bring their catch home. If I wasn’t prepared to get it home or at least some of it then I wouldn’t kill it
Fair play to you,I'd rather release what the dog's catch if possible & travel home with nothing but memories & my dog's sleeping here at home in their beds of a night..the end result doesn't need to be a dead body in my opinion
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8 minutes ago, Deerhunter1 said:
Sometimes dogs on the back seat and a boot full is the only way, unless you fancy driving a 5/6 hour round trip twice which doesn’t sound much fun to me
If you had been before the court's before & lost dog's etc & or are out very regularly & having to drive long distances to work your dog's then I think what you've wrote would be very different in my opinion
Boots,Bear & Rose..
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Some of the land is very much like that Penda, amazing to see the wildlife still going about their daily lives up there in such conditions..these seven were a long old way off,the second pic is a crop from the first but even so far away they weren't exactly hard to spot.