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  1. morton
    the company that made the knife that is next to that sheath made copies of all sorts of knives back in the late 70`s early `s i had an ss youth dager with the exact same handle but a different style blade, it also came in a metal lined sheath An SS youth dagger,now the pieces are falling into place!
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    Stab a Mexican with it,if he screams and dies,its a good un.
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    People tend to forget that the Deerhound was a Scottish hound to run the open moors and deal with large,fast and quarry little else could come to terms with,sadly id be dubious about any so called pure blood being able to do a quarter of what the original took as the norm. Now i will stand corrected but i believe the deerhound was bred to deal with injured quarry, mainly red deer that had been shot and injured by the early guns of the time which were very inaccurate. I was actually having a cup of tea with a guy who slipped and judged deerhounds for a few years back in the day. They caught v
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    Some useful looking mutts on there,as origin unknown its hard to tell what influenced the working side of the breeding,yet the Deerhound seems evident in their make-up.
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    Ill warrant after the injuns dealt with Custers typical American ego,they ate his mutts.Thus the breeding line of workers was no more.
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    I doubt there is any such thing as a genuine tested line over 200 years,here there or anywhere,the only tested lines have come from generations of untested and show bred stock.All these superior hunting lines come from Kc show dogs,especially in America.Tried and tested breeding and outcrossing have brought out the best in the breed,especially the outcrossing.The nearest thing to the original Deerhound to me is the Deer/Grey-Collie/Grey.
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    Ive always known staghounds as basically Deerhoundy lurcher types,all the travelling lads owned pot filling stags at some stage or another.People get mixed up with hounds that hunt stags here and lurchers that are known as staghounds.I know where your coming from,yet the dogs that are bred over there now have many generations of non working jukels in the mix,the same as here.Selective breeding and graft as brought out the best from the original.
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    People tend to forget that the Deerhound was a Scottish hound to run the open moors and deal with large,fast and quarry little else could come to terms with,sadly id be dubious about any so called pure blood being able to do a quarter of what the original took as the norm.
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    And I assume that the staghound types that Dan and his countrymen uses are descended from the original deerhounds brought over by settlers 200 years ago when deerhounds were purely working type rough haired greyhounds bred for ability not show. In the intervening years the yanks have continued to breed for performance....and against bigger, more dangerous quary than anything our dogs have to tackle. Meanwhile the deerhound over here has probably gone in the opposite direction, being mainly selected for a handsome profile, coat type and height. No matter that one or two people have been trying
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    The truth is there are still plenty of Deerhoundy lurchers about,some owners never went down the route of needing to compete with all and sundry as a reason to own and run a dog.A saluki hybrid is a far more useful mutt at running Hares,on certain land,thats about when its superiority over a Deerhoundy hybrid finishes.The lurcher to some of us is not a dog that needs to compete and make a name for the owner,a dog that requires some fabled breeding before it will be accepted.Many want a dog that will cover a multitude of disciplines,over the best and worst of ground,kill a few and miss some,day
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    A rifle takes less looking after,can be locked up and forgot about, until the urge to take it out again arrives.Feck me,that sounds like a lot of lurcher lads and their mutts now.
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    My old bitch as just been retired at 9,screamed like a banshee,seldom got bit,bolted more than her share,mainly in rocks,thats been about the norm with the ones ive bred and keep,her grandson here as just had his first season,he likes to get stuck in more,hopefully another seasons education will settle him.Ive seen some of these tales of the fox slaying Beddys and am sure they are based on fact,the lads working them originally would have had little reason to lie,unlike to many modern owners.As with other terrier breeds there will be the ones that will and the ones,i prefer,that bolt.
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    A few years ago id have been in agreement,but the Beddy as a working mutt is slowly making a resurgence.
  14. morton
    Better and more reliable whirriers about,save the brass and look elsewhere.
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    Thats also bollocks as i know for a fact the Bull x,s did em all in,well what the beddy/whippets could,nt find. Youve nearly got me convinced,but,there are so few lions in GB and ive stopped chasing Dandy,s,ill leave it. there are so few lions in GB cos my last litter killed them all...............................
  16. morton
    Youve nearly got me convinced,but,there are so few lions in GB and ive stopped chasing Dandy,s,ill leave it.
  17. morton
    Behave Rodney,ill have a tenners worth of whats got you into that mindset.
  18. morton
    Bollocks that will cock on its 3rd swoop.
  19. morton
    Everybody thinks your joking,i know youve allready got one booked,deposit on the way?. Hell yeah - my merles are on Preloved, £50 each, but to be honest, I'll just dump them to make room I want to comb those ears ! Merles are so 1980,sooooo Plummeresque.Get into the sled dragging lion chewers,afraid of no bunny,even the Dales rodents.
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    Everybody thinks your joking,i know youve allready got one booked,deposit on the way?.
  21. morton
    Ill guarantee if you were to breed a litter,post a few fabricated days in the field and ask £600 a pup,they would soon be sold on here.
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    It amuses me that with all the Muslim ideology and strict religious beliefs instilled in the asian community,every massage parlour and prostitute in Bradford would be basically redundant without the Muslim patronage.
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    Ferreting along the Wharfe at Otley last year 3 Kites followed proceedings and kept swooping low over the dogs,a myxi rabbit was tossed to them and as we walked away they were soon down feeding,a minute later one of the lurchers slunk back and retrieved the bunny.
  25. morton
    I owned a first cross Lab/Grey,trained up easily,showed plenty of early promise,but lacked pace that would have made a more useful dog out of it.
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