derekbrown
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I have concrete floors in kennels not sealed,I use chlorus most days in the summer months and never a smell of piss.i don't know is it available in uk.its chlorine based so the place smells a bit like a swimming pool.
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Hope the foxhounds doing well for ye,we have 9 or 10 crossbreds and lurchers,a lot of times here a dog nearly has too walk on top of a fox before they get up,later in season some foxes know the crack with lurchers outside and don't want to even leave a smallish place but it makes for great hunting,they could be hunting on view half the time and would catch a few in coverWe hunt a pack of foxhound but your more than welcome we dont do many we bits but theres plenty lurcher lads that do and sometimes the fox will be out of the cover befor the dogs even in
dont get me wrong when i started out with hounds i had beagles and cross between them but they just did nt suit the hunting i do
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If your springer wont hunt heavy cover then its not much good and needs culled your right about them not holding a line but in all fairness most we bits of cover you could walk them out clapping your hands with same result
I didn't mean not hunt heavy cover I meant springers not going deep far down into heavy glens and forestries,springers tend to hunt a bit closer to you.i must try a day hunting up north,not many foxes down this side of the country would leave cover without some kind of pressure on them.
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A good springer beagle for example would be better than a spaniel for flushing out for lurchers,a good one would try cover deeper than a spaniel,would hunt a line better and would have the voice too which most spaniels don't have.for pure hunting pure hounds better most of the time but some crossbreds will hunt on as far as pure hounds but there main job is driving cover,blowing foxes out and then move on to the next spot.Im not sure what this cross would bring if you want to hunt use beagles foxhounds or harriers
if you want flush stuff out for the lurcher use a springer or cocker
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The Irish hare belongs to the Irish people,most men that course them give them a lot more respect and fair play than the coursing clubs do.
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No better boys than coursing club members to vandalise vechicles and slash tyres once nobody is watching" if they are being watched then no better boys to run to their vehicles shouting threats as they retreat.
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I know that but just with circumstances it suited me,I know that for most it was bad news.dont get me wrong,I have f**k all,never had but I had enough to be happy.
glad it suited you bud but it didnt suit everyone i couldnt enjoy the free time because the next bill was always in my mind .Personally recession suited me,lucky to have no debt and was hunting 4 days a week and lamping any night felt like it and no rush home.working now 50 hours a week,money very good but money isn't everything.every week now is a countdown to Friday evening,sad enough lifestyle I think.how long to the next recession???
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Personally recession suited me,lucky to have no debt and was hunting 4 days a week and lamping any night felt like it and no rush home.working now 50 hours a week,money very good but money isn't everything.every week now is a countdown to Friday evening,sad enough lifestyle I think.how long to the next recession???
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Too big,too clumsy and too half hearted,typical deerhounds.
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was out walking the pups and the lurcher in the forestry with the wife last night,just a few hundred yards I could see ahead of me a bloke with a kid no more than 7 yrs old bent over at the side of the van Im driving,,This van I have till Wednesday next on loan from a good mate to keep me on the road till my new wheels are insured..Wasnt the cnut trying to break into the van..I ran like fuk and about 100 yards hte kid spotted me and yer man jumped in the car he was driving and sped away,I got partial reg numbers but no more.so I loaded up the wife and dogs and drove around trying to see if I could find the car.THis was in a very rural area,not many houses about ..So just a warning,dont let much on view even deep in the sticks...you never know whos passing by...If I were another half hour later I reckon the van would have been done over..
Was that north,south,east or west of city.i had stuff robbed from my van south of city in a forestry last month.
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It made straight for heavy cover but ran like fuk to get there,we hunt cover for foxes every week with teagles but only ever see sika and fallow the odd time,this was a different creature,do any of ye know are muntjac in cork/Munster area?
i heard they are like courseing a hare mateSaw a small deer out lamping in cork couple years ago,presumed it was a sika fawn but it ran as good as a hare,are muntjac good to run?
I think perhaps you are thinking of Chinese Water Deer. The Muntjac is never far from thorny cover and when he is he makes every effort to get back into it.
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Saw a small deer out lamping in cork couple years ago,presumed it was a sika fawn but it ran as good as a hare,are muntjac good to run?
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Fine looking pup,I have a few of them myself
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Have no prob running a dog in a pair once I know it's also single handed.i prefer racy bull hounds,the big heavy ones have their uses but running them down is not their strong point.if any dog that catches can't finish job they no good
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In my limited experience foxhound harriers don't often work out,I seen more bad than good.lkeep good hunting beagles but never saw any that would pass out good foxhounds on speed alone,beagles probably hold a line better though and better tongue,foxhound tongue is shite,good marking dogs some of them.anybody hunt a pack of foxhound harriers and if so how do they hunt regards finding foxes, hunting, marking and tongue ????
For pure hunting u can't beat harriers.
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I am mid forties and got my first dog when I was eight.i am my whole life hunting and catching foxes.l could never shoot one,bad form.i know different craic in uk and everyone has their reasons but f**k it I what a waste to shoot one.
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Good few harrier packs Munster area that hunt fox only,all the ones I know would have a few foxhounds mixed through though
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In my limited experience the best dogs have to often be held back from a young age,the dogs that are nursed along may or may not be ok but are never the best,lurchers,terriers or hounds.
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Be better caught with a lurcher up the field,shame to shoot them especially a vixen in cub.Out stalking today. Managed to grass a beast early and went wandering.
Spotted a doe behind a deer fence so went for a look, and this young lady popped up for a look.
Can`t let one pass, keeper would give me a thick ear ! lol
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I live east of leeds and there used to be a significant population of rabbits in the woods road side margins along railway bankings and there always had been.I started to see a decline roughly 5 years ago which coincided with the first buzzards I had ever seen in the area living there all my life.These buzzards have raised chicks successfully year on year.The rabbits have disappered with buzzards seen in all the areas where i used to see the rabbits and I regularily put them up along the wood margins and railway bankings when walking the dogs.There is also an area where there used to be hares but they have gone with buzzards regularily seen on a pylon in the middle of this land and a farmers pumping station.As soon as a rabbit or two is seen anywhere buzzards appear and the rabbits disappear.I just wonder how many rabbits a year a buzzard will kill.I have never seen any dead rabbits indicating myxi.This decline has also coincided with the woods in the area being thinned and buzzards hunt within the woods which I have witnessed putting one up of a young rabbit in the woods last summer.Prior to being thinned buzzards would not have caught rabbits in the wood.Driving about the number of buzzards seen nowadays is significant and a work colleague who is involved with the rspb ringing birds says he does not bother with them any more because the population is so high.We also have redkites all over the area but people say they dont kill anything.This is disputed and the racehorse trianer who writes an article in the yorkshire post says since they appeared over her land lapwings have never raise a chick.I would like to see some figures for the estimated increase in buzzard numbers over the last 10 years.
In the 80s there was rabbits everywhere here but no buzzards now buzzards are all over the place and rabbits getting more scarce every year.buzzards only arrived here about 15 years ago l think but are like magpies here now.
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f**k off you tit. the dog wouldent just go to enyone. iv got a dog here that i dont realy use ax mutch as i sould and in need of a terrior so way not offer a swap that could benifit me and someone else?
Did you win that dog you are swapping as last prize in a spelling competition I wonder.
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Mine are fed evenings around six or seven normally.so if lamping they would be 24 hours at least with no food.but mine used on foxes so might have 5 or 6 runs if I am very lucky,not the many runs on rabbits you would get but then I suppose when catch is made more energy is spent than catching a rabbit.once a dog is well kept and nourished normally 24 hours with no food before work won't have any probs.
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