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    Ellis, Jackie Drakeford has written several books on lurchers. One that will stand you in good stead is "Understanding the working lurcher". Regardles of which type of lurcher you get, the same reasoning applie. You need to understand the pups needs from a dogs point of view, not an owners. Once you can start to understand how they think you will be fine. Puppies of any breeding do not speak English (neither do a lot of folks on here!). You have to forsee some things, so as to avoid a pitfall. A bit like driving - you don't wait for the aciident to happen, you avoid the situation so th
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    Get a leather worker to make one for you. Loads of belt makers do stuff for bikers, a collar would be easy and you could have it to your own design. Failing that google "greyhound supplies" and see what is available. Then try "Lurcher collars" I am sure I saw someone advertising them in Countryman's Weekly - could have been Ian Hodge or Arthur Carter, I can't remember.
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    If that is the dog in question under your name, she looks a little cracker. The dog will tell you, take her out for a walk and go somewhere she can have a good sniff about and explore the surroundings without being impeded by a lead. She should be trained to walk close and when you are on safe ground (away from roads) let her go. Literally just let her have her head and explore, sniffing under bramble patches, sticking her head down holes - encourage her to do this. While you are out she will kick up a rabbit lying in some tall grass, or from under a wood pile. There is no harm in letting her
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    What do you want the resulting pup for? That will determine what you use. Open fields and long runs, yes Saluki would inject some stamina, but at the cost of some brain! Salukis aren't the easiest dogs to train, they can be, but they aren't as quick to learn as others. Headstrong would be one way to describe it, or "selctively deaf" perhaps!
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    I have never taken dew claws off - they use them for grip when climbing, or scrabbling up steep ground and if turning at speed. How would you like someone to take your thumbs off? Dogs have evolved with them there for a reason.
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    Most of the wastage is created by idiots who have spurious crosses, either by accident or because they don't understand genetics. The rest of the wastage is created by poor handling and training, lack of patience from the owner that tries to get a dog working too soon. Few seem to realise that a good lurcher is usually in its 3rd year before it really starts to show. Before then there will be signs, sure, but like playing a footballer or rugger player too soon, injuries occur because the joints are not fully formed at 1 year with smaller dogs and even later in bigger ones. You would have t
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    Ask on the Whitby forum. That is a mine of information and there is boat, kayak and shore fishing. Specifically for that area. Good bunch of lads who are mad on their fishing and good anglers.
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    Whatever you get, get it early if you can. I would agree witht he Bedlington bit from Mega (above) but my preference is for whippet cross - they bounce well. Whippet crosses look very fragile, but I can assure you they are very strong, nimble and quick. My 9 week old pup nicked a pigeon I put down while I was emptying the car last night - he picked it up and was carrying it around proudly! I wish I had got a picture, it was brilliant. You can't tell him off, he is doing what I want him to do later in life, so how can that be wrong? He did bring it over to me when I encouraged him ("calling
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    No, I don't have pictures. I need to make some for myself too - I am sure you can get the gist of it though. Quill stem is the body, the shot inside makes the weight (plus the weight of the other parts). Brass strip will spin around the wire and the stem will wobble. Beads are just to make it easier for the blade to spin. Wax or epoxy just to stop the shot from falling out. If blade is too long, simply snip it back a bit and try again - SNIP WITH CARE, don't take a great chunk off for the first go! Just a little at a time. Once you have the right length, you will make the seco
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    Try making a crow quill lure - nothing better than catching a fish on a lure or fly you have made yourself. 1. Crow (or other big feather quill - Canada primarary is a bit big). The bit you want is the thick end. 2. Strip the hackle off. Cut the quill to about 1" - 1 1/2" long with a sharp knife. 3. A thin piece of rigging wire (I use 56lb single strand wire from American Fishing Wire, the same as I use for my pike and tope traces, single strand is better than multistrand for this job) 4. Pierce the blunt end of the quill with a needle, to push the wire through. You want about
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    Instead of tryng to bolt the door after the horse has bolted, all you lads with young dogs in the maiking - go and see a sheep farmer in the next couple of months. They will be lambing soon - depending on when they tupped. We have lambs now, we always have some early ones, but then lamb through to March. On the hills they will be tupping around now, so lambing come April. Get a young dog and shut it in a sheep trailer with an old ewe that has lamb(s) at foot - she will be so protective over those lambs that she will take the dog on and sort it out. This is a well known sheep breaking metho
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    Could somebody please translate this into English? What utter gobbledegook. Completely incomprehensible.
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    Michigan Blue-back probably.
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    If you are shooting in clinically clean conditions, such as those in competition circles, where you have pellet holders and that kind of thing. You might gain a few % advantage - BUT pellet lube is going to have a dirt attracting aspect to it. My pellets just get tipped out of the tin into a leather pouch - some soft pouch and some hard leather pouch. That's it. I don't sort out damaged ones, or weigh them, I just pick them out and use them. If there is a really damaged one I toss it, but otherwise they just get "fire formed" as they go down the barrel. In my pocket I bet lube would attract d
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    Cheers Mattyg. I am going to give it a go with some drop nets just to see if they are active before I buy some traps. Give them an hour soak, then lift, so in attendance - nice pool to try in the river, slow and deep with mud banks!
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    no mate you dont get wat im asking.i mean best hares you have coursed..its just an opinion like for instance i have been all over the country and to me the best test was beetween a place caled terenton fens or a place caled devels dyke field.too good places wer there woud be really strong hares Is that devils dyke on the downs brighton way? cambs way So, how did you get the permission to run on all these different areas then?
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    Pete, how did you get permission for tags on a canal? Who did you approach for the permission to trap, BWB? My river, I have found out, is heaving with them! I have no problem getting permission from the landowner for that stretch, but the canals are a different matter.
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    Not knocking it, just can't be bothered with it, as the ability to hit swan vesta heads at 30 yards is good enough for me - 8 out of 10 anyway and those that miss are within 1/2". Plenty good enough for my needs. I don't do the competition thing, in anything. I am competitive enough with myself.
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    Lead is a perfectly good lubricant!
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    Wow, that is some haul. I haven't seen anywhere with rabbit numbers like that for years.Even on my sister'sground on Skye the rabbits have just disappeared. We used to see plenty, not that many, but plenty.Now, even up there, there are only handfuls. We don't have any on our farm now - i shot my first rabbit for about 4 years the other day. Quite literally there just aren't any. Good to knnow there are still about here and there,so with any luck our rabbit population will bounce back again. Hats off to you.
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    do you think rabbits and other quarry run slower on the lamp mate ? at the end of the day the animal is running for its life like these other fools who think if you flash a lamp when a rabbit is going for a hedge it will turn load of shit the only 1 who will change speed is the dog! a rabbit is running for its life ive found the best type lamping dogs are saluki crosses ie coursing bred stock work mine day and night and they do the lot You don't flash it, you shake it. And it does work - or at least it has for me for the 35 odd years I have run lurchers. If you shake the lamp the rabbit d
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    Well, that's it, they have all gone to their new homes and are settling in nicely. I am pleased they have all gone to loving, working homes.People who will bring them on with patience and care. Good luck pups, serve your owners like your mum has served us over the years (and still is). I hope we meet again one day.
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    There used to be a Portugese couple who ran in a nominatin at the Waterloo Cup. They are still sensible over there, but the antis are beginning to have some influence - bull fighting is their main target first. Then they will follow the natural course of the anti and turn on the next thing they want to get criminalised until we live in a sterile world where nothing ever dies!
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    Expected a response, although not from you, I find your posts very entertaining and your photos are class, my post was not directed at anyone but everyone (work that one out) nowadays it all seems to be about numbers and results whereas years ago quality and enjoyment seemed to be the main factor. People hunted for pleasure rather than results. Maybe I'm getting old.. Thank you Mackay, i find your post even more confusing now though Or perhaps i am interpreting it wrong? That is the danger with the written conversation, there is no body language, or tone of voice to give those addi
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    Caniculata, what you want to be on the lookout for is a type of lurcher, rather than an actual breeding. If you are after a fast off the mark dog for small fields, then 24" is huge. I would prefer something more in the 21" - 22" range. The whippet stamp would be ideal as the longdog influence. I would like a dash of collie in there somewhere, preferably on the dams line. Bedlington will provide a good coat for warding off thorns and providing the instinct to work cover, really work cover, in tight situations. I know you have the terriers to do that, but if a rabbit dives in a hedge this ty
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