alimac
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i gave you one example, who said that what i said was based on one lonley experience..not me thats for sure....you should treat early birds the same as the late ones, perhaps the keepers around you prefere a easy life rather than let the pheashant keep its one form of escape from ground preditors... dont try and tell me that none of the 17 shoots have never turned around and said something along the lines of f..k i wished i had not clipped that last batch, a f..king fox got in etc etci still disagree totally with your percentages... but hey your as entitled to your opinion as much as me so m
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anyone know where i can watch the full video....
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you would end up hunting half the people on here
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dont make me laugh.... if you have two birds in a pen, one that can fly up to roost etc, the other has had its wing feathers clipped that can only manage a few feet... a fox joins them in the pen... which one will get it first???? the guy i do my terrier work with is also a keeper, he had a fox in one of his pens this year, the pen holds 750,the pen posts are topped at 7 ft, have anti fox grids etc.(so yes it is constructed proper) he lost about 14 or so... if they had been clipped the story would have been alot different, and yes he shot the fox on his morning rounds.... as for you
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should be ok up here in the cairngorms / grampian hills look forward to it, cheers s
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just had a quick look at the anti snaring campagne site ........ the snare they said killed the badger was a perfect circle and hadnt had anything caught in it, no way not on this earth.... lieing ba...rds .... even if you have something in a wire for seconds you still cant get them back like that.... although leaving a snare un checked for what is obviously longer than 24 hours makes life difficult for all and as for the picture of JOHN GILL of COUNTY DURHAM the one man anti snaring campagner... he got every thing he deserved, they fail to mention what had gone on/ he had done in
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p***y someone else talking sense.... were not trying to be belittling knobs, just giving some hard earned experience/advice..... the choice is yours weather or not you take it..... remember a dogs brain is not as complex as a humans, dont expect it to hunt rabbits above but not below.. they might have hearts the size of a bin lid but dont expect you dog to read your mind... there just not capable
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foxdog, i cant say any more to change your mind, but in a year or so time when you have one of these embarrasing times(as it will happen) remember my advice..... as long as your happy with you dog that is ALL that counts, if you can smile in the face of embarasement then fair play, happy hunting mate, all the best alimac
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as i said if your wanting a earth dog to work fox then letting it on rabbits is going to put you in the position were you dig some holes for a poxy bunnie.... would look really good if out with a keeper for the first time
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what i would like to know is if theres any one out there that has the dog, the ground etc to do it this year????? we did just over the hundred last year with 4 dogs, i say 4 but there was a 5th that took about 3 in a park next to where we parked....it was us that jacked not the dogs, we packed in just after mid night, if the rabbits were squatting a little better and we had the urge to carry on the numbers could of been alot different.. so if you get a big bag of bunnies this year add a post to this thread saying what you took, what could of improved the count, and if you or your dog
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n.v imo if you intend to dig fox with your terrier then only let it work fox weather its above or below ground, letting it chace rabbits willy nilly will only ruin your earth dog..... and when i say earth work i mean proper earth work , not a dog going to ground after its chaced a bunnie down a hole, like the previous post said.... hob and jill my fell might take a quickened step if it puts up a bunnie but wont chace it as it knows what it will get, and has learned it aint worth it... when we have all the terriers out bushing for fox, its VERY rare you see one of the dogs afte
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not to start argument but never clipped pheas or parts , IF something gets past the pen deffenses your screwed, then you really wish you hadnt clipped them when you walk in and find 150 dead birds, if they cant fly they cant escape........ and secondly , as with all live stock i wouldnt keep what i didnt have time to look after properly, if time dont stretch to two diff pen sites, just knock up a 10 x 10 partr pen next to your pheas pen ........ as i say not looking for arguments just giving advice
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personally if the dog was going to be used to dig with, i wouldnt let it near rabbits , if it chased one id give it a shake... you will see why i think like this if you do let it chase rabbits and you end up digging a 6ft hole with your mates to a sodding bunnie.... i must add that NO its not happened to me... touch wood
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as fereterjoe said is how you need to do it, another tip, the old birds that you mention are like the kids your mum used to tell you to keep away from as they will leed you astray, the old cock birds come in around the pen even more once the new arrivals come home.. poults will follow these birds away from the pen and get lost.... imo these old birds are better delt with, il leave it to you to decide what action i suggest for them
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yep very impressive....
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sounds to me as if your pals have just gone out and bought something for a few hundred quid and as it said NIGHT VISION there expecting to see as if it were day light.... wrong, as with most tecnology you get what you pay for, pay peanuts get monkeys...... i bought a pbs7 cyber eye last year, flip up head mounted etc, just the job when lamping with the dogs... was deflated with its performannce until the end of last season when i scraped the unit mounted ir75 (infa red) and bought a ir filter for the blitz.... now i can pick eyes up at well over 300 yards and make out what it is at prob
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doxhope has got it bang on with his last post
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molly... as two are only 9 weeks iv only watched the other two work.. had a big strong first cross that was just to heavy for catching game consistantly, but was as game as they come ... i then got a first cross bitch, quick for a bull x , kean as mustard, but lacks a little fight.. the second cross( or as i should have said a 3/4 1/4) i mentioned was the big male first cross over a heinz variety lurcher, light and good with long ears... the dog i kept is looking good a huge chest and stride with a good dash of fire in his belly... but over all as long as there racey i dont mind what
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as molly, heres my first cross, need nothing more racey than this one, also got second cross and 2 5/8 3/8 dogs
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cheers, yep the fawn one is a looker alright, as long as they do a i ask of them i cant ask for any more, they are litter brothers bred from some good stuff.... fingers crossed
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these two arrived last week..
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not single handed bag but a good one none the less.. so how did yours get on with the red ones ??? you got your pictures of the 3 or 4 that you have done in a night?? thought not... all this my dog your dog gets a little boring
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thats fair enough mark, a dog thats finished its working life early, which now only has to work a few minutes at a time.. but the bitchs aint going to be the same, set ups like that breed from a bitch in her first season and then again on every other for the rest of her life.... un fair , plain and simple
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120 lurchers says it all for me..... and theres alot of people on here saying top bloke he saved me a few quid over the years... are these the same people who post on threads on puppy peddlers etc saying there worse than shit and deserve a good kicking.... come on make your minds up..... dont know the guy, never even heard of him till 10 minutes ago, but any one that makes money on a regular and consistant basis like he obviously did by breeding litter after litter of pups..is going to get ne sympathie votes off me. would you sell a bitch of yours to the likes of him??? thought not !!
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Birds stolen from Norfolk farm
alimac replied to a topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
5000 quid.... if the dealer is selling them for a fiver each, he deserves to be robbed.. lol