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  1. Nearly put the post up a month ago?

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    TOOLEBOX,

    We had a great trip ,and got out to hunt with some great fellow hunters for free ,as im not a rich use tourist paying for sport

    Bredan lived nr mount demount .taenrgki  mountain ,the only highest snow clad mountain there ,see it when got up and back in bed

     

    I went down to south island and again ,got to shoot some thar nanny's on a massive ranch .high up in there mountains using a 7,62

    just past christchurch ,Geraldine 

    guide took me up and i paid for ammo and gave him a tip for taking me out shooting these animals 

    what a trip what lovely kind people .all wanted to help us british tourists 

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  2. Nearly put the post up a month ago?

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    16 hours ago, toolebox said:

    Bad knees are the pits, both mine were replaced last year, and I'm pain free in that respect. I'm now 67 years old and had a keyhole operation 8 years ago. At that time, the Doctor reported that he had to remove a lot more of the feathering along the edge of the damaged cartage, that stops any more damage, however it means what is left will spread out thinner in the joint speeding up the wear and tear process. Back then, when I went under the knife, I asked the Doctor if it was ok to go pig hunting the very next day. He told while I couldn't undo his repair, the knee might swell up tight. So off I went hunting the next day, all to my wife's dismay. Now fast-forward ten years to a time, I had, due to a bad fall, badly damaged the second joint in my thumb. This joint couldn't be repaired, so it had to be removed, and the two bones shaved and pined together. The dressings required changing over a long weekend, so I was asked to come into the doctors rooms where the nurse would, take a look at the wound & replace the bandage. While I was sitting in one of the rooms, the phone rang out in the main office & the nurse went to answer it. Sitting there looking about I happened to look down and saw my name on an open file, I couldn't help myself and to be fair they were my records. I just lifted a couple of papers out of the way & had a wee read. It was a report in full, of the time I'd had the keyhole surgery on my knee, and the following notes "Mr Toole asked if it was ok for him to go hunting the very next day, which he did, and I know think his knee has not had a single day's rest since ". I quickly sat back down & on thinking about my comments I'd just read I roared with laugher .....

    As we get older, one health problem then leads to another as the body starts to break down aided by the lifestyle we have lead, and I've heard a nasty rumour " no one's getting out alive" My hope is I don't get to the stage I'm shitting my pants and fail to remember my loved ones, that would be a bitch for them. The Red Indians use to speak of a good death, one in battle, but I'd settle for kicking the bucket while I was asleep.

    Hi there , been to nz twice now ,when i get a break from running my pest control business ,long flight from uk to your north island ..Took all my family my 2 sons and wife

    Had met some young kiwi s in ipswich suffolk,and had some good hunting with Seanad his brother (came over for a couple of years before joining the army in uk )

    Pig Hunting and other things these guys would talk about ,and i said to myself i must put it down on my bucket lists..At around 40 /44 yrs old we went over.for around 3 weeks i believe 

    The views in north island and hiring a car ,we did it cheap by staying in camp site lodges .loads of things to see ,all the tourist spots etc .Great friendly people if fact the nicest ones i have ever met iin my whole life.

    Cut to the chase ,a pig hunter who made dvds on pig hunting every day ,invited us to stay with them ,can you believe it ,never met him or his family ,bread calls 

    lifes a boar was his company ,nice guy ,church goer ,but his love for pig dogs and hunting was in him .all he lived for was hunting and putting food on the table

    we got up every morning he took us fishing and hunting in the bush with his dogs

    jesus i was fit as a butchers doing ,but man they kept walking up down all over ,and i called it a jungle we hunted in .Great Sport ,and even greater friends we made

     

     

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  4. Mick Douglas Norfolk Lurchers

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    Just now, Systema said:

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    Paddy and me at newmarket job ,heavy land bolted like rockets ,each dig was 2/3 backed upland shallow compare with the sandy areas we did near ipswich 8 to 10 ft deep sometimes ,my early days again and i only wish i had thought of taking more pics or even doing my videos on you tube .that would have been bloody awesome  .but we got a good drink of the farmer when he saw what we caught ..hapy days with some great teachers ,my pest control training was now about 5yrs in terminix ,then rentokil and 3 more big national to give me the exp of working in pest industry ...20 hard years but i was like a sponge taking it all in . doing big sites ipswich hospital with igrox pest control .and high st retailers etc food factory ,prisons horse racing studs and airports  .this is what i planned for and it all came together .hard slog  but worth it 

     

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  6. Mick Douglas Norfolk Lurchers

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    I only had mother and  her pup to work and hunt for all our rabbiting trips with paddy (john)..Barleys training had paid off ,when she started working at 16 months with me lamping ,coursing ferreting and shooting two.

    for she took foxes too and bambi ,she had the heart to tackle anything ,even walking the woods at night and using my air rifle to knock down long tails ,she brought them all back to hand .Like mick said once when you only have 1 or 2 dogs you spend the time out working them and they get better and better ,(having alot time is not given to each one )

  8. Mick Douglas Norfolk Lurchers

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    Another season on horse paddocks on our own ,big old net baskets ,but quicker to run out ,mostly 4z but it picked up all the twigs ,leaves etc .But held rabbits well.Again i brought sheet netting and set up all my own long nets with ample bag in them.Most purse nets was hemp which paddy taught me to make starting at 3;6 long ,but later we did alot of golf courses big holes to net ,and made them all 4; in length  learning better ways .One day we caught 2 rabbits in one purse net ,as numbers was high then.

    He had it once 3 in one net ,i had no reason not to believe him

    we hunted for many many seasons ,great old poacher he was lol

     

  10. Mick Douglas Norfolk Lurchers

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    Ferreting on a large horses paddocks ,again you can see my long nets on anchor pins ,hemp and my early days in rabbit control .Them my home made quick set another few years later i trialed for my sport.

    Barley was so calm and biddable a great little lurcher at 23 inch high ,her feet was cat feet " micks saying as there tight and compact ,hardly no injuries in her whole career "

    My AGE  no idea ,but my son chad here in pic learning the art, and his no 34 yrs old 

    I had met up with some great rabbit guys ,the old school teaching me so much ,we were using the rentokil van every weekend ferreting .(working for pest control national got a free van ,so we used it all the time .Happy days

     

    Had local butchers to drop off rabbits ,paddy and me both had around 20 great farms to get round in winter time in suffolk and essex.We only netted ,mainly purse nets and average catches was 45 to 55 a day ,alot of digging too 

     

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  15. Mick Douglas Norfolk Lurchers

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    Well what's going on nowadays , people wasting money on these so called dog dealers 

    Telling you can catch 3 out of 3 winter hares in the fens ..??

    And when you ask these dog dealers what cross you want ,as if by a miracle its got all of them in this breeding 

    ha ha.

    Some are easily fooled.Not able to learn and put in all the effort to train a lurcher and form the bond you need,

    Want one ready made for lamping or what type of sport they do .

    Mick said it simple to me.Why would you spend hours days and time in training ,and working your best lurcher and some one bids on it at a show and offers you a price ,sells it on.

    Normally it got a lot of faults by being passed around to in experience owners, and the classic one is over working the poor thing..blowing internal organs ,damage joints and tendentious  run after run when the door bones and body are not fully grown up 

    These types have no patience ,or a common sense to them its just a tool to  brag about ,and when it fails on a course ,up the road it goes to another home.

    You know and we all know you would never part with your best worker ,well i wouldn't ..

    Trying to correct a running dog that's been run into the ground is , a very very hard task indeed .

    its a job i tired once ,and never again ...

    I take my time ,put the bullshit filter on ,and look for a cross with some brains, collie x speed .and Good work lines

    been lucky as most pups i got from good breeders are mostly all the same in litters ,(not 6 different colours size and markings) Like a lottery .

    I  rather have more up top than a speed machine, which can use for lots of jobs.Made a big mistake going to Takely in essex to get a pup ,came out of a traveller greyhound coursing lines .Not much up top ,to sense to stop at barb wire

    or jump and this sight hound i used  made the vet very very rich .Accident after accident.

    Never again.

    we all like different choices ,and it s great to see what can be done when a trainer is really good at this task

    David sleight with his kelpie cross , i watched and listen to him and it did make sense .well done for sharing your advice to us learners

    Making videos on his training too show basic needed , I think he good for the sport . And insure there are alot i don't know has help other people in training 

    Always a school day and you get out the best bits of a dog if you take things slower and don't rush ,you got years of hunting ahead and why not wait it will pay off later ,my view .happy hunting .

    I just only find small areas locally where the rhd2 has not been ,and no big numbers getting caught now .

    but its sad to see the countryside without the humble bunny ,lots loads of contracts  once it hit us in sunny suffolk

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  17. Mick Douglas Norfolk Lurchers

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    After more years in hunting and rabbiting ,and some lurchers had been and sadly gone .

    I found my training and learning much improved ,with help and advice by some local gamekeepers in hadleigh suffolk

    Tim Cole he was bloody good at training gun dogs and sold part train ones to guns etc.

    he passed on alot of good tips ..... but when i showed up to a gundog training class ,with all the other breeds 

    i got some funny looks lol.

    SHE was i guess 4 months to 5 i guess and we did a few classes.

    She sat in the rabbit pen ,calm and taking it all in ,plenty of praise and unlike some of the others did a good job.

    My thoughts was train like a gundog ,but get her to the best obedience  of all my last lurchers.

    stop whistles ,hunting up ,and carrying birds and fur .Tim said get all the ground work in livestock steady ,socialising 

    and recall ...But  THERES NO RUSH BOY,you got years ahead ,So it payed off .I could send her in and stop her chasing and all the right calm nature was in her breeding.Few moxies at 15 months old

    My other dog mates thought i was mad lol

    They just wanted a lurcher off a slip lead ,and spent all day trying to get them back (which meant all game was running away before we could get near them ?)

    It paid off lamping one night when a rabbit bolted off towards a main road ,and my mate couldn't understand how i blew my stop whistle and she stopped and sit up.

    Right before you saying her heart was not in it ,sadly she caught rabbits i never saw and hunting and quartering  as good as any gundog ...We all learn from each dog we have and hear feet was like cat feet tight and her working life had hardly any injuries  due to her high level of intelligence !!!

    happy hunting and we all have our ways to bring up a working pot filler 

     

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  18. Mick Douglas Norfolk Lurchers

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    Mick was a very good with his hands ,he had kiln where he fired all his pottery he made.

    He was making knives to ,and explaining about carbon steel and holding there edge.

    Its was interesting to me ,as most of my knives were crap,im a young  lad buying these fancy stainless steel ones

    which i seem to put down and lose.

    He was a wheeler dealer ,he  asked if i ever seen this lovely long handle narrow blade  type knife before ??

    nope was his it i asked ? A gypsy  dualing knife ,it and a long narrow blade which locked in different angles for fight ing with 

    looked very smart ,he said its for sale ... but i never had enough to bid on it .wish i had lol

    He told me he helped locals at a school in craft work , special needs , which if my memory still working .

    But please correct me if its a bit wrong ,but he always helped me and with hunting ,training lurchers ,just about everything

    to do with field craft .sadly my memory can't recall it all .  was growing up around and Mick Said one thing

    He said he had travellers round ,and some where really nice people and enjoyed the banter with them

    on other hand he had others intent on nick everything which was nailed down.

    He put up with this type of wasters .

    One think for sure that bloody cold wind off the marsh es could freeze the balls off any monkey .

    Im trying to find some more pics of this amazing man . please share if you got any .Happy hunting

     

     

     

     

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  19. Mick Douglas Norfolk Lurchers

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    Went to local car boot sale last year at Marks They ESSEX ,

    Saw these lurcher prints ,the stall owner turned to to be Doug Coopers Widow mFrom CT

    Chatted to her  about mick and her husband who she lost ,ends up she lives at Mildenhall suffolk ?

    Gave her my business card  ,pest control details ,was looking forward to seeing her some great stories 

    and never did get in touch ... pity really

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