WILF
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That’s fantastic mate, great stuff
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I was going to comment about that, have you seen any of the “Hogs, dogs and quads” dvd’s mate ?……them lads rig for going hunting is out of this world ! I will try and find a picture
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I was waiting for that because I guessed you were a clown and now you just confirmed it. This is the last response you will get from me because you have been trying to set fire to a decent chat amongst lads who ain’t trying to prove anything, just having a friendly chin wag and I won’t enable you. My last word is this, your reply there tells me you have seen precisely f**k all….its such a nonsensical thing to say it’s just not true…..you sound about 15 ! If you think you can give any running mutt proper graft even worthy of the name in the west of ireland then you have never stepp
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Now, I can only offer an uneducated opinion of the limited things I’ve seen…..I’d say in Northern Ireland you’d still get a decent brute of a dog if you like a bit of foxing because they are still doing plenty of that up there. Cant speak for the rest of ireland except the west and I’d say anything reared out of the west would keel over at the sight of a field say at 6 mile Bottom….they would never have experienced the likes of that or seen hares as strong. There just isn’t the game in this part of the world to give a dog anything closely resembling proper graft. But irelan
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Had a terrier pup like that once……it never came home from a walk one day. Life’s too short to spend with things you grow to hate.
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Talking of Wheaton’s, was chatting to Stiff earlier and the name Chris Hickling came up…..seen him with one of his dogs at a hunt show years ago and I have to say, it was a very, very impressive looking animal. Obviously never seen them work but they certainly did look every inch the part.
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A lad I know was a young keeper on the hill in his youth, he has this cracking picture of him and the head keeper snowed in at his cottage….it was like almost at the top of his cottage door. Had brilliant photos of him bringing beats off the hill on the back of a pony and stuff like that.
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Mate, why are you playing this game ?…….just leave these people off. Been a very decent thread upto now.
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Funny how people get different impressions, admittedly I don’t know 10 or 20 grouse keepers but the couple I have met were killers….they were leathering gear with lurchers, terriers, guns and traps right, left and centre. Theres a lot of people would love to show their dogs the amount of graft them lads did.
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I can give you the flip side of that old chap….. Here there are no keepered estates, everything is local little gun clubs made up of oiks like us…….its a f***ing wildlife wasteland compared to Scotland and England, and I mean a wasteland ! All these clowns in gun clubs cutting about like Elmer Fudd sending WhatsApp messages all over the show if they see one skinny pheasant like they have spotted the white heart ! It’s vermin, vermin and more vermin and because historically it’s all tiny little 4 acre fields because Everyman got his share back in the day when the independenc
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Up to you mate, I’m not searching for all this normal bollocks on what has, upto now, been a tidy thread. Theres f**k all in it for me what you think, take it, don’t take it….dont care. All the best.
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Never seen them round holes mate, only this one out on the lamp.
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No, this was smooth and its method of killing was always the same….grab them by the back of the head, flip them and pull the chest cavity clean out of them….over in seconds mate.
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Wouldn’t have been around any in person except that one mate, so I wouldn’t have any experience of others.
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Like most things mate, I’m sure there is the occasional happy accident that lands in the hands of really good, dedicated dog lads…..but it’s wouldn’t be a go to thing out of choice most of the time and I’m not a dedicated good dog lad to start with.
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The dog I watched I’d have to say “why would you turn it on a fox !”…..imho you just wouldn’t, it’s too nice an animal mate. The best dog I seen on proper heavy game was a Wheaton Greyhound (not too much Wheaton judging by the look of the dog) called Paddy……wonderful calm, quiet, friendly dog in its kennel, around people, other dogs, livestock…..but show it the thing it liked to do and it’s turned into this lethal killing machine that would turn the roughest quarry into bits (and I mean bits) in 30 seconds flat. You had to have the window open in the Landy or it would have just gone
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Looked a decent hare to me mate, it would have straight lined a lot of dogs in my opinion.
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I just shot a Lab x Whippet that I got for my lad a few years back…..an absolute article and total pain in the arse, couldn’t do what a lab does, , couldn’t do what a whippet does, didn't have any killer instinct at all and just found ways to piss you off all the time. Theres a reason all the lads who were out killing things with dogs in a seriously way never had these type of crosses….its because they are shite !
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Well what I watched was a really classy animal, 2 and a half minutes on a decent hare, no kick up, turned it, boxed it and just outclassed the hare all the way along….took its time, no rush, and then killed it ! Class mate. I know the sum total of f**k all about the finer points of hare coursing but I know what I watched was class to watch. If lads can bring dogs down as nice to watch as that then fair play to them, you could watch it all day long.
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Although not a lurcher lad as terriers were his thing, one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, kind and cutting lads we have not seen for a very long time was a lad called Chief ! You could read lads like that musings all day long and it would be time well spent.
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I’ve recently seen a video of one of your dogs I think mate, all I can say is, hats off to you…..it’s was an exceptional animal to watch. I know we have a bit of craic on here but nobody could fault you round a dog judging by that…..there’s plenty would like to be a step behind you dog wise old chap.
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Now, if you want to talk about dogs that lad had the best dog I have ever seen. The dog was a pure machine !
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That was a previous dog, he ate the back of a mates truck…..luckily the lad was one of the soundest lads you would ever meet and told me not to worry. I was mortified especially seeing as the lad and his family were lovely generous people.
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I’d had bull blooded dogs before, Sal/bull/grey types and found them wanting, but I just clicked with my dog…..I’m not experienced enough to know the whys and wherefores mate, we just suited each other.
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The dog suited me because he wasn’t fragile, you could take him out night after night anywhere in the country on any terrain and he would smash about and you’d take him out again the next night and get the same or not for a few days and then out and get the same. Bumps, bangs, cuts, banged up feet never bothered the dog at all. I had a coursing type out of good breeding and I just found the dog way too fragile, I wasn’t the man for that dog, he needed better than me and I just broke him.
