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There are some very sound folk on here local to you, if you did fancy a day / night out, i'm sure they would oblige.
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But can it do a Mata Haria impression Winner
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i have a dog here that will do all of the above and more, so according to you he is a bushing dog. to me hes just a lurcher I'm not entirely sure i'd be happy with my running dog giving tongue on scent . . . but each to their own. This argument could go round and round. . . . . but whatever you say mate, and as good at hunting up and working cover as your dogs are. . . . and trust me, ours are also plenty good at the job. . . . . . . in a lot of situations and on land we have . . .. there is absolutly no way in hell those dogs could be as effective as a purpose bred small bu
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I wasn't suggesting that it would not pick up the scent mate, I was just saying that noisy wee cover bashers do have their place. Plenty of times I been out and the runners know something is in there, but cannot efficiently work the cover in order to make it bolt. As you have said, decent dogs can scent game often miles off, if the wind is right I know you didn't say that matey, but it was said on this thread. Ask a few terrier lads how often they have had a dog off lead only for it to pick up a line and finally found a couple or more hundred meters away in the middle of some wood or scru
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I wasn't suggesting that it would not pick up the scent mate, I was just saying that noisy wee cover bashers do have their place. Plenty of times I been out and the runners know something is in there, but cannot efficiently work the cover in order to make it bolt. As you have said, decent dogs can scent game often miles off, if the wind is right
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I love posts like this, does anyone actually realise how good a dogs sense of smell is?.......it's so good that you can't even comprehend it!! This is what makes me laugh when folk say they need a smorgasboard of mutts crashing about in the bushes making enough racket to wake the dead just to find game!!......err, you don't . No but if the cover is large . . . . it does tend to help if the dog enters it. . . . rather than you just giving it a wee kick. And certain quarry will not leave large covers unless pressed hard, preferring to just run around inside. From what I have seen anyhow .
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I love posts like this, does anyone actually realise how good a dogs sense of smell is?.......it's so good that you can't even comprehend it!! This is what makes me laugh when folk say they need a smorgasboard of mutts crashing about in the bushes making enough racket to wake the dead just to find game!!......err, you don't . No but if the cover is large . . . . it does tend to help if the dog enters it. . . . rather than you just giving it a wee kick. And certain quarry will not leave large covers unless pressed hard, preferring to just run around inside. From what I have seen
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The only issues I can see with a pure are the price and the short legs Got a x that I rate here though
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I think I would lose a silent dog at times
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For what I do and the land I work. . . . .this is what I (think) I require. . . . A dog that. . . . Will face any cover, with determination. Will give tongue when on a good line and when quarry is sighted. Is highly driven. Can work independently, i.e is not dancing about my feet, but will get off and work big patches of cover or woodland. Has the obedience to be at least mostly directed and called back when the game is gone, or has been driven to ground in impossible to reach places etc. Works steadily and methodically, not madcap dashing about. Will follow fle
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thats at the back of my house if you like brambles come and see me i have lots Sorry mate, that wasn't aimed at you or those photos The second photo looks like it has a lot of what i'm on about. I just meant that to me there is a difference between hunting up and bushing, for example i'd use the runners to hunt up moorland etc, and wouldnt call it bushing
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For me 'bushing' is not working rough ground. . . . the running dogs we keep and work can hunt up and find game on that kind of ground on their own. I use the cover dog to work either large areas of bramble etc, usually way too big and thick for a person to get in and push rabbits out, and where, unless the dog in the cover makes some noise, you will usually totally lose track of where the dog and quarry are, as will the dogs on the outside often. I also use mine to push out larger pieces of woodland, running a line and pushing the quarry around until it either goes to ground or makes a break
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The first bit is total crap, the second very true. . . . and the third a little offensive, but a fair enough point Not sure i'd class this as easy. . . . . but maybe you would? I think it's as much about how you bring them up, and what kind of whippet you have, they are all a bit different, I have hunted mine all over the place on some really bad land and he has always caught well enough. However. . . . I won't argue with the fact that if it does go wrong they really can fall apart
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I have a whippet. I love him . . . .well at times. And he has surprised me with what he can do, taking everything I have tried him at. However, I got him as a ferreting and mooching companion, and for a small dog to have about the house.. . . . . if I wanted an all rounder. . . . . . . . i'd have got another dog There is a difference between a dog that will have a crack at anything you let it. . . . . and may have the drive, balls and luck to pull it off sometimes. . . . . . . and a dog you can say regularly takes all quarry. If I let my lad try everything he wanted to tack
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Thanks Dan, that means a lot coming from you
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Thanks for the kind words pal! He knows how to use those teeth He is just shy of 22" tts.
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Out of interest, apart from the two that I know of, including tjones on here. Do any folk have dogs that were bred out of hancock dogs, and not direct from him. Just seems like there are very few that go to be bred from, for all of those that are out there. Not a dog, just a question.
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Good luck tomorrow moocher! Out of interest, how you been fairing with all the 'teeth' control on these 41 farms. . . . . . . I saw you say your first dog was a yapper, the second wouldnt do teeth and this one has not seen teeth? You must have some lucky friends! To have a mate with so much permission, and no dogs to work it.
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Thanks for saying that mate. I love that bitch of yours, a good honest mooching companion, who always seems to fill the bag.
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Stick up some of yours iww!
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He's 'Gangsta'. . . . .
