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I saw a litter of RussellxBorder that looked similar.
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Dug into an ant hill some months ago while hunting the terrier, but imagine your bees were much worse.
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Groundhog, woodchuck, whistlepig, Grundsaudaag in our local Pa. Dutch dialect. http://www.pgc.state.pa.us/pgc/cwp/view.as...58&q=150839 It's a large rodent that constructs most of the earth dens in this part of the country. Farmers hate 'em because they have a voracious appetite and destroy crops. Their dens can collapse under farm equipment damaging the equipment and injuring the operators, and livestock can injure themselves stepping in the holes. OTOH, fox, raccoon, possum, rabbit and other animals use their dens for shelter, especially in the winter. They can be nasty wi
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Thanks. Be happy to keep 'em coming as long as the dog and quarry cooperate. Probably be taking a break from the terriers in a few weeks though as our other hunting seasons are starting up. My brother's already p*ssed I skipped opening day archery hunting for deer with him this morning.
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Nice morning - 50 degrees and 50% humidity to start the day. A little rain earlier this week softened the soil. Drove past a few permissions to check conditions and shoot the breeze with the owners, then off to the orchard. Started at the back and found quite a few holes that looked interesting to me, but not to Dot. Eventually worked our way to the sette that stymied us last week. Not this week though! Dot picked the eye she liked, and was in working in seconds. Barking and moving, she eventually settled twelve feet in and two feet down. Quick dig opened to clicking teeth and a
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The Power of the Dog Rudyard Kipling There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; And when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie-- Perfect passion and worship fed By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head. Nevertheless it is hardly fair To risk your heart to a dog to tear. When the fourteen years which Nature permits Are closing in asthma, or tumour or fits,
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National Working Terrier Federation donations
bshadle replied to m.r1's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
"Right under that tree is where I had sex for the first time. And right by that rock is where her mother stood and watched." "Her mother stood and watched? What'd she say?" "Baaaaaa" Sorry, couldn't help myself. -
Kate's right about here in the US Chucky. Get in with someone running beagles for rabbits and you'll get more game than you thought possible. Stalking them is fun, but I've found it best saved for cold mornings late in the season, preferably with a little snow on the ground. Don't know Michigan game laws for certain, but here in Pa. "lamping" them will definitely be very expensive. Martin - A lot of places here, especially close to larger cities, require using a shotgun instead of a high power rifle. Loaded with rifled slugs or especially the newer sabotted slugs, a shotgun can be d
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I agree with you JD. That's why I use 'em only for special circumstances. You can get to the dog in the same amount of time with a shovel and have more room to work IMO, but he was the one moving most of the dirt that day so I let him have at it. It was interesting to see them used that way though. You need the right type of soil to use PHDs like that as well. If the soil's too dry or sandy it just runs out the bottom and you need to scoop it out anyway. The one time that day that we agreed on using them was when the dog got in a tight tube under a massive buried slab of limesto
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In case the landowner wants me to run fence for him as part of the permission? Seriously... Sometimes for working through roots and rocks the PHDs let you punch a smaller hole without cutting or prying. They also do a good job if you have to clear dirt from behind the dog. If you overlap the bite, you can dig a surprisingly large hole fairly easy as well. I don't use 'em as my primary digging tool, but a friend does and we dug this one at five feet with 'em. They get down with a lot less dirt to backfill when you're done.
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I'm out alone most times, seldom need to get more than a few hundred yards from the truck, and am on the edge of a change from light soil to heavy shale, so I usually carry a pretty heavy set of tools. Three ft D-handle round-nose shovel, best quality I can afford. Six foot 3/4" hex iron bar, rounded point on one end, chisel point on the other. Probes as well as moves rocks. Trapper's trowel Folding saw and pruners for roots 3 ft snare pole Tie out stake and lead Box & collar Several nets. Small medical kit. Water for me and the dog. Camera and cell phone. In the truck,
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But will the cat stay until dug to?
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As one of those loveable Yanks, I'm not offended by the clip nor anyone's response to it. Over here a lot of gun shops offer try-before-buy opportunities. Best possible way to make sure the gun fits your hand and performs to your satisfaction. His manner was a little over the top, I think it was a play on the style of some of our old used car commercials on late night tv.
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Give me fresh baked bread or bisquits, still warm from the oven, slathered in butter 'til it's dripping. Might kill me a little sooner than expected, but I'll die happy. And well-fed. Follow it up with the Guinness and smoke just for good measure. :drag: Cut out all the pleasures and you might be alive, but you're not living.
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My two are just like that as well. If you close your eyes and listen to them, you'd think they were killing each other. As soon as one breaks it off, the other has it's nose on the floor, butt in the air and tail wagging. "Come on, just one more round."
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Ditch, The reason you want to get that kind of accuracy has little to do with picking what ventrical, at least for us mere mortal shooters. It's to give you a margin of error when you're shooting in the field at actual game. The conditions are seldom as perfect in the field as they are when you're sighting in on paper from a good fixed rest and under no pressure. The best shooters can maintain the same accuracy in the field as from the bench, most of us can't. A fox presents a pretty good size target for a clean kill, maybe 4" or so across. If you're shooting a 1" gro
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Didn't mean to start anything concerning borders and working, folks. Just a friend over here has a couple borders he brought back from Eire that are a good size for our earths and do a cracking job from what I've seen. For the earths around here anything that spans much over about 15" - 16" means you spend as much time digging them in as digging them out. Just curious about the size of 'em there, and the two pictured in particular.
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Nice looking dogs. What sort of size and span do you have on working borders there?
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Hot, humid day today. Beth came down from New York. Worked one two foot deep in the treeline behind the orchard, a nice twelve-pounder. No rain in about three weeks had everything dry and brick-hard. Plus lots of roots to cut with the shovel, pruners and saw. Temp went over 90, too hot for diggers and dogs. Called it a day with one. P.S. Don't have to hide faces here, it's legal on our side of the water. Groundhogs are classified agricultural pests.
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Their teeth are more rat-like, sharp incisors up front. If you can imagine the teeth on a 10 - 20 pound (5 - 10 Kg) rat, which is the size they get. They can give the dog a bad slice if it doesn't know the biting end from the sh*tting end.
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It's a darn shame when the laws become so onerous and repressive that a man feels he must give up something he enjoys and is good at rather than have to put up with the hassle of complying. It's worse when I think that what happens to you there happens to us here 20 or 30 years down the road.
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Wow. 520 miles, 9 hours driving time with no traffic jams, construction or rest stops.. If you want to make that kind of drive for groundhogs you're welcome, I sure wouldn't. Have nets, just haven't quite worked out the art of setting 'em. Groundhogs seem a little better than fox at avoiding 'em. Have an offer of a lurcher pup already, but not enough room nor enough free time to do justice by one. I'm not fond of having a working dog that doesn't get to work to its ability. Thanks for the offer though.
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I've never used those particular climbers, but have used both the "climbing sticks" and the screw-in or strap-on tree steps. They work to get you up and down, but the problem I've had with them is it's STRAIGHT up and down. Where a ladder leans at an angle and puts your weight directly over the step so it's like climbing a steep staircase, most of the strap on climbing rails and sticks are so close to the tree there's no knee room and your a$$ is hanging out, moving your center of gravity out away from the tree. You end up pulling yourself into the tree at the same time you're climbing up i
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No offense taken. No lurcher, and this particular landowner doesn't want guns on that portion of his property. He has workers in the orchards and sometimes customers picking their own fruits so doesn't want the gunshots and possibly stray bullets. Additionally, it was pretty close to some neighboring houses and would have been illegal to shoot under our laws anyway. Tried setting a few nets, but obviously not too successfully. Pretty new at this and still learning the ropes. Do have a few permissions where gunning is my primary method, but don't think I've ever posted about thos
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Ditch, We use them extensively here, mostly for deer and bear. There are also some designed to be totally free-standing so you can set them up in the middle of a field and hunt anything that might show up. A decent place to see various types and get some information is: (sorry to always give merchants over here, just not familiar with yours) http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/template...;navAction=jump The smaller, lighter ones make me nervous. Just not enough seat for my fat a$$ up in a tree, especially if the wind blows and makes the tree sway or I have to lean out to line up a