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    Shooting during the day you won't need the 56 - the 50 will be fine. I used to shoot the mountains for Chamois, and other long range stuff and shooting foxes at night without a lamp - Swarovski 6x42 was all I used.
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    I have a good PCP, two in fact, but it is always the GAS RAMS that I turn to for huntng with. Whilst I havent had any trouble with mine, you hear more problems with PCPs than you do with springers. If you get a top quality PCP you won't go wrong - Rapid 7 or an Airwolf that kind of thing. Mine is only an Air arms s410, but it has a load of work on it. The gas rams have gone reliably from the day they were built. Pics: Theoben Taunus, 20 cal gas ram - 1996. The Theoben Olympus .177 - 1995 PCP - Air Arms s410 in a GinB stockand other work Yet I f
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    Take the 20 Feb, good building tides, so th epollack fishing would be good. Use a flying collar rig: 12lb class rod and matched multiplier loaded with 30lb braid. French boom is better than one of those plastic straws. Weight on th ebottom to match drift - go down as fast as possible, it will save you losing loads of tackle. 15 foot trace from boom to a redgill / sidewinder / shad. Orange or black would be my first choice, OR luminous if you can find any. Drop to the bottom. Wind up at a steady pace to midwater -count the turns. I would go for 20 or 30 turns. Then ndrop down again, un
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    The next generation, at about 2 weeks. Now just 11 weeks and broken coat showing. New pictures to download and sort out...still in the camera! His mum
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    Up nicely on her toes - but she is obviously camera shy!
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    Which just goes to prove what was being said in the topic on "who's breeding the best dogs at the moment?" There are a load of people out there who havn't any sense of responsibility, either to their dogs or people they are selling to. They will get their cupuppance though. What goes around comes around.
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    Go to Cornwall or Newhaven! The Solent is fishing, but the eastern end is better than the western end at the moment. Newhaven is fishing fairly well. There are some cod coming from Falmouth boats. Plymouth isn't known as a cod port.
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    It would work much better if the 3/4 greyhound was the sire. That way you would get a racier type of virtually 50/50. You have to do the genetic matrix because some of them might come 3/4 collie from that mating.
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    I keep them on my dogs. Every lurcher I have had (40 years worth) has had its dew claws, I haven't had anything but one slight cut one in all those years. That cut was simply washed and wrapped and was fine in a week. On flinty ground and soft skinned dogs, I can see it being more of a problem, on grass it shouldn't be.
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    Because jack-the-lads try breeding spurious crosses with no idea of genetics and in many other cases little knowledge of what their dog's make up actually is. Then there are the "mistake" matings, where due to lack of proper control through the season a lurcher bitch gets mated by the lab or alsatian or some other street cur and they try to pass the litter off as lurchers bred for a particular purpose, when in fact it was just bad stock management that led to the litter in the first place and now they have to sell them. The Act has also, without a doubt, reduced the number of genuine lurch
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    Have you tried takng him where there are NO rabbits? That way there are no distractions. A big sandy beach for instance (not in the dunes, down by the sea). Give him his head - he is rebelling at not being allowed to grow up. Taking him hunting at 12 months or under is asking for trouble. That is like taking a 10 year old boy and putting him on the rugger pitch with the local mens team and expecting him to score a try. MUCH too young for hunting, especially with other dogs.I Have never been one to go out with mates. I hunt alone, just me and the dog. I have a 10 week old puppy, that hasn
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    Keeping both is out of the question, for various reasons. The idea was he would keep the bitch and have his first of the family line....I was happy with the dog beause we would always have call on the bitch, and I would offer advice when/if he came to breed from her. Those plans are now in tatters, but I am hopeful a friend will take her, then at least we will be in touch. Fingers crossed. They are both coming on nicely - as far as anyone can tell at 10 weeks! But picking things up and bringing them to us voluntarily (bringing presents), sitting on command, hand signal only and just a c
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    Interesting. I have had lurchers all my life. Run them for food collection and walked them through town most days - I have never even had a police officer question me. My car is sometimes parked in out of the way places, yet I have never had a bit of bother. I think it must be a case of attitude, appearance and how you generally go about things.
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    Well, the little bitch I had picked out for myself from Fly's litter was then usurped by my lad for him to have. So, I went along with it and played second fiddle...and selected a dog that was gloriously marked. I have now bonded with the dog, but he is unable to take the bitch that was originally my first choice - work has been cut right back and he only has 16 hours a week, so can't afford to live hardly. I am in a quandry now. Do I find a home for the fabulous little dog and go back to plan A , or go to plan B and keep the little chap (who I have bonded with and got training) and find
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    DJS said: think some people might disagree with you on that. No, it is true, a proper lurcher is rough or broken coated. The original lurcher was a herders dog, they had broken coats and worked the stock as well as provided for their keeper. They were not competition dogs, they were purely working dogs, in every sense of the word. I don't doubt smooth dogs can catch, but I would love to see them trained to work stock as well. The problem is, the word "lurcher" has been misused to describe any type of crossbred dog that is used to run to catch quarry. That is a running dog, not necessari
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    About now for the wreck pollack - now through February. Different things at different times of year.
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    It is common knowledge that broken coated luchers are faster, more versatile and better at keeping the freezer filled. The dvantages of a rougher coat are they are thorn proof too. You can still see muscle shape through the hair. Smooth coated dogs aren't real lurchers.
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    Does anyone on here speak English? You all sound like a bunch of foreigners, with completely unintelligible language. No wonder people getting hauled in. They should be charged with murder - murder of the English language and they deserve all they get.
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    Pike will stabilise their population at 10% of the biomass of fish in the water. Pike regulate their own numbers, but by weight of biomass. If a water will support say 1000kgs of pike, that could be 1000x 1kg fish, or 100 x 10kg fish - the bigger the fish they less they eat, becaue they are only eating for maintenance, growing pike eat more because they need maintenance plus growth. Putting pike into a water that has not had them naturally is stupid and very damaging.
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    Good read and good shooting. Adapting is the name of the game.
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    Over to the farm otday to see Anna's mum who has just come out of H after an op. We took the puppies over to see her ot cheer her up. I left Anna with her Mum and puppies and took Fly down to the woods for a squirrel, it was lovely and sunny. As we crossed the ditch into the wood and just as we got under a holly tree a flock of pigeons descended and landed in the trees around. I hissed for Fly to sit,which she did. I lined the rifle up on the undercarriage of the only pigeon offering anything like a shot and squeezed off. The pigeon dropped like a stone as the 20 cal Bisley Superfield dril
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    It's the crab apples attracting them!
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    Shame the selectivity doesn't start with the parentage then. Being more selctive at that stage saves a lot of wastage, what there is tends to be natural.
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    The outcross will have injected some hybrid vigour into the line and is a good thing to do. You can also get hybrid vigour in a pedigree line (not crossing) by using unrelated blood. Hybrid vigour will come through in such traits as disease resistence, conformation, mental stability and fecundity.
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    Yes, I was jsut about to post the exact same observation, the nose dive by the terrier!
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