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  1. freelance
    Yeah i knew the dog well mate..it was litter brother to that coloured bitch i had called Jess..it was owned originally by a lad in Carlisle called Kev then it came back to West Cumbria when he moved up Scotland..it got killed running a big Red down in the Lakes..i seen it take some canny bags of gear when my mate had it but when the guy from Carlisle had it we took it North and it bagged a few but he said he didn't wan't to tire the dog out and put it in the motor lol..it never got tested until it "came home" lol..this is Smash below after our trip with Kev..ATB Andy. Cheers Andy, yeah tha
  2. freelance
    Yeah i knew the dog well mate..it was litter brother to that coloured bitch i had called Jess..it was owned originally by a lad in Carlisle called Kev then it came back to West Cumbria when he moved up Scotland..it got killed running a big Red down in the Lakes..i seen it take some canny bags of gear when my mate had it but when the guy from Carlisle had it we took it North and it bagged a few but he said he didn't wan't to tire the dog out and put it in the motor lol..it never got tested until it "came home" lol..this is Smash below after our trip with Kev..ATB Andy. Cheers Andy, yeah tha
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    Andy do you remember a grey dog called smash a minshaw x collie grey, i think it got sold to the Liverpool lot ? Cheers Atb
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    I,ll second that and good pics
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    Pups are looking splendid chaps, a picture of health. Am looking forward to hearing there progress reports working wise come the season. Atb
  6. freelance
    She is bang tidy !!!!!!!
  7. freelance
    :laugh: :laugh: I can just imagine them FFS !!!
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    It dose dell.Lads heard the bang about a mile out.Only found out it was there car on returning . Phoned me the next morning i couldent stop laughing. :laugh: It does, but not at the time. Much better to sneak on and off and know one is the wiser Atb Agree.But over 35 years your going to have the odd run in no matter how wise you are. Agreed, you only got not be lucky the once LOL, i am sure catcher you got your fair share of hairy moments near misses and stories as i have mate Atb
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    I only have the one dog now, but preban had a couple of runners and one or two earth dogs and used to have a block of four kennels. I always kenneled mine separately, as you never know what they can get up two when your not there, ive kenneled a few dogs together when i have had hunting holidays away and your struggling for somewhere to put the dogs. But apart from that i am old school and i personally would prefer all mine separate Atb
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    It dose dell.Lads heard the bang about a mile out.Only found out it was there car on returning . Phoned me the next morning i couldent stop laughing. :laugh: It does, but not at the time. Much better to sneak on and off and know one is the wiser Atb
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    Got it off fleabay tomo cant remember how much but wasn't expensive. I just googled plastic cladding/sheets, its only thin but once its stuck/screwed down and all edged in aluminum angle it is very easy to keep a clean kennel. Have been meaning to silicone all the edge,es inside sleeping box when i get round to doing it LOL. But it was the best thing i did the plastic
  12. freelance
    Had all the windows put through once and a message scratched in the bonnet Atb
  13. freelance
    Here,s my set up, shed and run. My potlicker sleeps in the shed bit and its insulated and lined with plastic so can be wiped out and disinfected. Only a small set up and the dogs in the house as much as its out, as i feel you get a better bond with them. Suits me Atb
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    Man sheds

    freelance replied to Simoman's topic in General Talk

    This is my man shed, back half of a garage split off. It does me
  15. freelance
    Cheryl Cole !!!!!!!
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    I agree, years and years ago before the ban. There was nothing worse than being out with the dazzler on somewhere you really shouldn't be and running stuff that will take your dog a wee bit further than your average mr bunny. Its a horrible sickening feeling in your stomach when the dog doesn't return and you cant hear any sigh of contact and its silent, really is not nice at all . Funnily enough was just talking about this subject with a mate yesterday while we was walking the pot lickers, and to some it up i care for my dog a lot and really don't like it when he goes out of sight but unfort
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    Vin that's what i use, i got one off fleabay Atb
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    BURGLARS
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    Going off the labs for a min, anybody witnessed any other gundog crosses work ? I have seen a few springer crosses for sale in the classifieds over the years. atb
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    This is a query that comes up on a perennial basis,..and is definitely worthy of debate.... I have hunted with the half cross, and a three quarter bred variety of this hybrid, and I can say that both, showed me good sport... Personaly,..I think that the retrieving based breeds, lack the primitive instinct, that the BEST of the Herders add to the mix.. Lovely, easily trained dogs though... All the best, Chalkwarren.. Martyn Huxley's,.. 'Thistle'.... Thats the one chaulky, cheers Still cant remember what it was in LOL, think i remember the dog got stolen in the a
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    I don't know why more of the gundog breeds are not more popular to be honest. I have never seen a lab blooded lurcher, although i did witness a GWP first cross ( a straight GWP over a lurcher ) up Scotland many moons ago and to be honest it was not the best, but that could of been down to the owner as much as the breed. Atb
  22. freelance
    I think a straight half cross should easily be on par with a good first cross cur grey, providing the lab side was out of decent stuff and not the big fat overweight picking up labs you sometimes see. A keeper friend of mine has a tidy black bitch, nice and lean. That would be the better stamp as long as it had the right blood. I remember an article years ago, cant remember if it was in shooting news or edrd. It was called Thistle by M Huxley, about a brindle half lab grey cross bitch, which by all accounts of the article was a winner. My own personal view would be the half cross put a cross a
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    I use a bike and normally do about 4 to 6 mile, i also have the dog on a lead. Otherwise he will race up and down and can burn them selves out, so when on lead can regulate how fast they are trotting cantering ect. Thats just the way i do it Atb
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    Again i agree with Andy, i can only speak from what i have seen with my own eyes, and that's my own old minshaw dog that was only 24 ish to the shoulder and his cousin that was only 23 and half to the shoulder. These are the only dogs ( apart from a couple of other closely bred and similar sized dogs ) i have seen taking reds and were all hinds apart from a not a bad size yearling/pricket/spiker . I have never seen a brace of well bred and big bull crosses specially bred for that job, so maybe Hedz is right, also i have only seen them taken slipped from motor on a roadside and not from a motor
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    Exactly Andy All the one,s i have seen taken were on mostly rough ground and as you say were hindered and takin in or against a gutter dyke fence ect, and the mutts still had a rough ride, am talking preban here early 90,s. Atb
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