barraboy
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my mate has a lab that'll work cover very effectively, but she's one of very few that ive seen that can hold a candle to a spaniel. my advice would be avoid trialing lines and find a nice home bred line from a bloke who does a lot of rough shooting with his labs over a couple of generations and it should do ok for you. more reliable option is to get a spaniel but labs will work cover just as spaniels can go wildfowling on the marsh.
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basic commands are a series of pips for recall and a low sustained whistle for the stop. but best option is to do as advised and check with the previous owner, what did he use when he demonstrated what the dog could do?
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Swim out 100yards in tidal water on a stormy freezing cold december morning and retrieve geese and ducks Could do, I've a lab here no bigger or chunkier than a lot of collie greyhounds, her coats no denser, so we should assume she's not capable of doing it. I reckon a lurcher could probably do it, after all plenty of springers work on the marsh albeit most in neoprene jackets. guess it depends on how well it would cope with the weather and the cold, can it do seven morning evening flights in succession, the labs double coat is what gives it the edge in wildfowling if a labs lac
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good one we had plenty of mallard fly over us as we trudged out to the marsh then sat there for a few hours watching shellduck and swans fly by.....just not our day
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Scenario one: Sunday, up at 4am decoys nets gun dog packed 5 am start. on the marsh at 6. march out set up sit in cold gutter. result a few mallard fly past and a pack of wigeon out of range. Scenario two: take cocker for training, middle of the afternoon, park in car park, say hello to half dozen people strolling about, hear sounds. look over bank 10 yards from car...200 teal or so less than 20 yards away..... at least i got something with the canon even if the Baikal stayed down. a few naff shots. hopefully do better this morning.............
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There was a piece in Sporting Gun a couple of months ago. made interesting reading and left me undecided lol
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depends on what you want it for, i take my lab onto the marsh and my cocker rough shooting. my mate has a springer he uses on the marsh, she's great retrieves just as well as the lab. but after the first swim is a touch shivery [even with the neoprene coat] the lab he just soaks it up, ice in Dec, might as well be June. exceptions to every rule, i have a friend with a lab that smashes cover she's great but of the dozen or so labs she's the only one who does. most dogs can be trained to do most tasks but some are just equipped better, physically, for certain roles. but no hard rules whatever
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we have are ups and down, retrieving being a bit up and down at the minute. so we are in a lane at the moment only, hunts well responsive to the whistle. pleased so far, first spaniel so im making a few errors but had some good lads help me out
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All gone mate. it was nr Weston Staffordshire
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chocolate labs have always appealed to the pet market more so you see plenty of ditzy ones but ive seen loopy pet black and yellows labs too. black labs are more popular as workers and so they tend to be seen more, fox red well thats the new trendy name for dark yellow labs and they seem very fashionable at the minute. i believe there was a chocolate in the championship a year or two ago, plus there appear to be several pros running them, once a couple get made up to FTch and put to stud there'll be a few more out in the field. seems ironic that for most people colour in a working dog does
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cracking looking dog. my pup was bred by the Holpleys a farming family in nr. Weston its their bitch Santiam Golden girl and they gave him [the pup] the name Hopleameade Harrier
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hi timber, his sire is ftch timsgarry valtos dam a nice bitch from cheshire sired by ftch Argyll warrior out of a bitch sired by ftch chyknell goldstar, the bloods there just up to me not to bollox it up.
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Heard Ian mention this at the Midland, read the quote on his site. never seen him in the flesh but pleased to have him in my pups pedigree through the dam's mother sired by Chyknell Goldstar,,,Druid
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This is my latest addition, thirteen weeks old today, but keen, fingers crossed i don't mess up, first cocker labs previously.. can't really see the black sock very well, lol
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how much does a dog like that cost from those kennels? He bought her at 5 months from a trialer who felt she was going to be too small for his needs. the pups were bred in the purple and despite her small stature the bitch is an awesome dog. she wasnt cheap but her breeding is excellent. your looking at over £500. as she's not mine wouldnt want to talk exact money.
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this is my mate's new spaniel pup bred by David Lisett at the Buccleuch Kennels, only 8 months when i saw it but it was clear has awesome potential FTch parents, stacked full of red, look forward to shooting over it all being well and im still able too.
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are these similar to the ones shown on Chris Greens Pigeoning DVD, was thinking of getting a couple be interested to hear how they're working out
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i have a SP3 cant fault it, but its best to try a few see what fits and take it from there,,as for rifles, i know bugger all about them, lol
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my mates lad joined the royal engineers about 9 months ago, loving every minute of it.
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mixed bags are great, we had a good day Saturday on our little shambles [we aint organised enough to be a syndicate]: 11 ducks, 23 pheasants, 3 woodies, 1 snipe, 3 woodcock, and 2 rooks...not huge numbers but a good day had by all. boring pics in the kitchen of a few i've taken home: game pie is on the menu i think :clapper:
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not had any geese yet, [couple of the shambles have had a few pinks] but seen plenty, there are several thousand roosting near our shoot and flighting out to the Ribble, and over in the bay [Cockerham Marsh] there are thousands flighting in over Pilling and that area these birds are skyhigh, and the permission over there [where its feasible to shoot them] is mostly Wildfowling Clubs. we are getting plenty of mallard flighting in on various flashes over the shoot, the marshy stuff is brimming with snipe and we are getting the geese starting to come lower across us, so fingers crossed first goos
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generally i dont bother to get involved in plummer threads its too much hassle......but i think this makes a fair point. that second pic is a belter david bailey must have took it ;) didnt realise it was all over the web
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http://www.shootingtimes.co.uk/features/25...bore_rifle.html ST testing out a TWO BORE rifle :gunsmilie:
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OFF TO SEE WELLER IN MAY AT THE BALLROOM, BLACKPOOL!!!!! annual thing
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anything really tolkien, trash 70s skinhead novels, 50s beat authors kerouac and his ilk, classics like hardy, dickens et al,some russian stuff, french german,,in translation, icelandic sagas, autobiogs, history books, i like the Sassoon stuff read his poetry too, i guess i'll read pretty much anything, my literary tastes are pretty varied, although at the minute im reading tyrannosaurus reg, tom my 2 year old thinks its great...lol
