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Still going, thats over a page per rabbit. . . .
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Must be true as you said 'FACT' after it.
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you are right on the money but still the bigest i know of with a pic to back it up Aye, from what i heard though, it wasn't exactly the most difficult 'hunt'. I think they reckon a true wild pig will usually make about 500/600 pound max.
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That pick was proved to have been a domestic hog released. Been lots of similar cases, it seems they are always big dmectic pigs that have been let go.
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Yes, black thorn sucks mate. I also hate that kind of rose style thorn stuff, the wild rose kind, it seems to have hooks, and be smaller and sharper than normal brambles, and the hooks dont break off they dig in like fish hooks. I had a bad dig under some today, a couple of feet int a verticle bank, then 6 foot down, i had to hammer in foot pegs to stand on, and it was above a road, about 12 foot up.
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Malt - treat yourself mate, put the kids on half rations Newkid - Aye, if had similar, and the best is being out and someone going 'come here a sec' and then pulling a large chunk of bramble / thorn bush out of your hair
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And a new chapter begins . . . .
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The coneys certainly ain't dull pal! I almost cry reading some reports on here with pictures of nice clean buries in the middle of short grass fields. Terrier gets pretty much wherever a rabbit can get. She looks a hell of a state after a good mooch in the brambles though, covered in blood from where her ears get nicked. She's pushed countless rabbits out when we're mooching but my lurcher's too thick to learn to work with her effectively. The 50% terrier in him gets too much and he's always trying to get in after her. Even if I hold him on a slip away from the hedge he's that wound u
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The coneys certainly ain't dull pal! I almost cry reading some reports on here with pictures of nice clean buries in the middle of short grass fields. Terrier gets pretty much wherever a rabbit can get. She looks a hell of a state after a good mooch in the brambles though, covered in blood from where her ears get nicked. She's pushed countless rabbits out when we're mooching but my lurcher's too thick to learn to work with her effectively. The 50% terrier in him gets too much and he's always trying to get in after her. Even if I hold him on a slip away from the hedge he's that wound u
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Now that does sound exhilarating You cant beat having terriers in with the mix. Yesterday, the lads were dumbfounded at the amount of rabbits Keepa marked and we got from the walls. Garry reckons she alone accounted for about 75% of the total. I know some people dont think mooching terriers are 'real working dogs' but for me they are just as valuable as a good lurcher. And have accounted for more than just rabbits and rats pre ban A good bushing terrier is a good send. And the difference between one that chases stuff aboutand goes into bushes and one that really works cover is hug
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Malt - That made me chuckle mate, the thing is, the bunnys are always in the thick stuff. I look like a selfharmer, my arms are cut to bits Looks like nice land do mooch with a determined terrier, and yours looks like she get in some places RD - Yer i got a telling off about the chair . . . . .you can still use it, but stability is somewhat of an issue. I did suggest that an office chair was perhaps not the best choice in the first place, a nice deck chair would have been a better option. That place is mad, there are some bad dog hazards, including large metal spikes pointing upwards, im
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Fair play mate, we tend to take the three dogs and just let them have their head in the woods etc, sometimes they stick together sometimes they split up, they find their own game and run it, many times one is in the cover with the other two on ready mode outside. Moll - that's probably one of my favourite passtimes, with two or three good dogs (or more haha), you never know what you will push out or stumble across, as long as the chaos is organised and the dogs know their places, roles etc and gel as a team, it can be very productive, as the game dont know whats where and get less thinking
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Wow. . . . great minds think a like! I'd say the greatest challenges we face is crazy cover and trying to stop the dogs getting banged up racing through woods, across mountain sides. Oh yes and the digging is horrendous!
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Right . . . . the chair. Aye it 'belongs' to a member off here, well at least it did until i broke it . . . . . it's his place to sit and have a cuppa and watch the dogs work. The thing about that land, you would need a jcb and a tipper to carry off the crazy shit you find up there . . . . I used t do a lot of hedges, i grew up doing hedges all day long, and now rarely do any, it's a lot of horsey places, and woodland etc. On most farms / estates the rabbits seem to be in the woods, and the odd one or two in hedges. Odd. I'd give my right arm for some moorland just for something differ
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That is perfect for straight hedges mate, but a lot of the land we do is woodland, and a pain, so three dogs is handy, especially as the three we use all have different edges and skills, by their breed and size etc. Also when out bishing in woodland etc, three dogs cover three times the space if able to work independantly, so scent a wider area, cut stuff off, etc etc.
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I find it odd because i have always had a bobbery pack of running dogs and terriers. Normal walks alone are just like days like this for me? Aye, i have no issue with three dogs out ferreting, especially on tricky land, and that's runners, then for a good mooch about, i see no problem with adding a pair or more of terriers into the mix. I kind of thought that was the way you went bushing, cos with one dog it's hard fecking work. Dont get me wrong i catch when out with one a lone, but so many times he gets blind sided by a rabbit pulling a sneaky one and nipping between cover, when with
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I'm bored of stomping the same land day in day out, and looking at the same views, as nice as they are! What kind of land / terrain do you hunt? Pictures would be nice. Here are some to kick off. Thick Shropshire thorn. Rare arable. Welsh hills. Forestry Some nice shoots. The rarest of rare, flat land, fields and hedges, which we rarely see. Mixed woodland. There's more but i've run out of steam. Lets see yours!
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This is very odd. I know some folk take lurcher work and themselves very 'seriously', but surely even they have been out with a mate and had multiple dogs lose for a stretch and something has risen and been chased mob handed?
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what's your fav colour of purse nets ?
Ideation replied to lampingkid's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
I don't know what this stuff is mate, someone made a friend a few nets and i have ended up with a couple. It's like a kind of medium weight material, but real soft and almost fluffy, a bit like a wool, it never tangles with undergrowth and just pulls off, but seems to wrap up bunnys really well, and they seem t tanle up into a ball every time. It's grey. -
what's your fav colour of purse nets ?
Ideation replied to lampingkid's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
Best net material i ever seen was carpet stuff. -
will there be handcuffs Aye, but there is an extra charge
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Aye mate, it'd be a laugh, i'll make a citizens arrest if i catch you
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Feed her first, and then just sit down with her and let her be around you and give her a stroke, scratch etc. She will soon come round. Give her an egg mixed up in a bowl and then give her s stroke when she is feeding etc. Dont flick / tap her etc, that does no good.
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very true mate it gets so you no whates going to be where very rarely a surprise, years ago i dreamed of having this much permision now i just dream of them years, ironic Well mate, i have a deal for you? Give me all your permo, then you can poach it, and i can try to catch you. Sound fun?
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Yer, it's fecking dull without him, he was on them saluki boys like a tramp on chips BRING BACK THE BAW!
