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  1. Hands of Stone
    I've recently had one of mine back from a couple of months on the run.... she turned up in a neighbours logshed and he wanted to keep her there cos he hadnt seen a rat in ages!
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    I have caught a fair few foxes with my pull chord type trap, but I often think how it must put the fox off by all the extra faffing around attaching the bait?? whereas with the treadle you could just rock up and throw the bait to the back of the trap??
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    Everyone different, and on the ground i hunt (big bracken banks and gorse patches) i need the lurchers to get in there and find the game for them selves
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    good luck, it soon comes natural.. just make sure you keep everything tight when you tie your knots
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    Good luck mate, i struggled like hell for ages to find one. keep your eyes open and they pop up eventually
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    Ive had rabbits out of burrows with brock in them. The main problem is rabbits can jump straight over the bunnies in them big tubes, so sometimes they take a bit of shifting. I find the best bet if you think theres a good few rabbits in is to drop your ferts in, with out netting, keep the lurcher well back so whatever bolts goes into the easier burrows. ofcourse if the sett is on the permission boundary you can guarantee everything fecks off the wrong way..... oh and watch out who can see you messing around on a sett, plenty heroes want to get locked up! at 15ft i should think they do joi
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    When i first got a lurcher it was frustrating when she got an injury and had to be rested so these days i keep two, with a fair age gap so when the older retires the younger (hopefully) will be in prime, then maybe get a pup. It only really works if you have loads of work/time/space (and money for the extra feckin vets bills)!!!!!
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    If you go with friend state that you may be accompanied, and also that you want to remove the catch
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    get them out early as poss, but maybe put a bit of thought into what ground you go on, (if you're lucky enough to have a choice) i try and start my tiny wee pups off on open ground so they can see everything that happens
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    Ive got a photo somewhere of a brown n white mole i caught. over a few years i had about 5 coloured ones all from a patch of about 20 acres. (must have been genetic) and bein a kid at the time i thought they were fairly common and binned the lot... Do'h!!!
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    Try taking him to your main patch give him a bit of work but then put him back in the van and call it a day before he throws the towel in. As frustrating as it is try and keep that up for a good while and then after hes chilled out in the van instead of going home let him out and try again. Good luck!
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    Personally (and i'm deffo no expert) I think alot to do with it is how you enter a dog, ones that start off in the day time usually need dragging off a burrow at night till they learn to come back but can make the better allrounder. Dogs which start off lamping make less reliable markers. But you dont end up throwing a wobbler with the pup as he is hunting up and emptying all your permission in one fell swoop!
  13. Hands of Stone
    trouble is he's a cnut.....
  14. Hands of Stone
    Hi just wondering if theres anybody want a few bits and bobs? I've got a few song birds n things if anyone wants them?
  15. Hands of Stone
    by them i mean jackers for bushing n mouching
  16. Hands of Stone
    what type are you after? I havnt got any terriers at the moment but quite often get offered them
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    Just a thought, but is it on particularly high protein scran? High protein affects some dogs differently to others
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    Sherwood do a pair of trousers that are brilliant as far as thorns/gorse/nettles go, but the material is bloody cold when I'm standing waiting for a bolt, and boiling when I'm running after hounds
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    I'm no expert but i believe if theres some fairly hefty scarring you have to prove the dog was taken to a pet, otherwise they can try and get you for unneccesary suffering?? Like i said i'm no expert so i don't know if this is true
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    Out of 25-30 ferrets ive had over the last few seasons, I reckon i've had 4/5 belters. This year i've bred from 2 of them, so hopefully I'm onto a winner for the next few seasons. Vin, I remember you were short on ferts a year ot two ago, how are you doing for them atm?
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    I had a half cross years ago that was ok on hares on a short slip, or hunted up. But i think i was lucky and got a good one....
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    My bitch is bred that way, her sire was a first cross saluki/grey. Dam first cross bull/grey. She is ok, no world beater as an allrounder, i'm pretty sure she'd have done everything back in the good old days though..... Her only fault really is she was a hell of a pain to stock train and her stamina soon goes, but then she has thrown very much to her mothers side so she is built fairly robust.... 25" and 26kgs. I've used her for beating/dogging in when i was a keeper, ferreting, bushing, coming out with the terriers, out with hounds, lamping allsorts. I'd defo consider a similar bred pu
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    iworkwhippets......come for a day on my permish if i can have a day on yours???
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    Similar to tomo's suggestion, I've set purse nets over holes and pushed rabbits back home and had some good results.... a couple of points though..... Set the nets with the opposite way when ferreting Reach in and grab the netted rabbit, dont pull him out by the net strings If the burrow is as the guy says dont bother with this method, try longnetting
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    Me and a mate got confused on some new permission and we bolted when a pick-up we didnt recognise came up the field....
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