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    Thanks She is 12. She has been beating on two local shoots for the last 4 years . She knows the drives , can keep the line and face thick cover. She loves it , she can despatch birds , load the game cart and work the dog. This pic was from keepers day and she was mentored by a close family friend who is an experienced game shot and deer stalker. Look at the average age of beaters , guns and picker up team on a shoot day . We need to get as many kids into it as possible.
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    That could be true about the brownies in Argentina. As they start to run to the sea for better feeding . The vast majority of brownies that go on to be sea trout are hen fish. I read an article about Argentina and it was rainbows that were stocked into their lakes / lochs and they are now breeding as wild rainbows just like New Zealand and they average over 12lb.
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    We were back on the hill today and she found a few good ones . She wasn't happy I stopped to take her pic as she was carrying the big one. I haven't trained her she just started finding them and retrieving them.
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    She found and retrieved another antler today on the hill
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    My lab finds them and retrieves them. She has found loads of cast red antlers on the hill and in the woods. Roe antlers are a lot harder to find and I have only found 4 or 5 in all my time in the woods. If it's poor hill ground and high deer numbers the deer eat them as well . My son found a matching pair of cast red antlers a couple of years ago on a wooded bank. I think I posted the pic on the forum. They were laying side by side . The stag must have jumped down and cast them both at the same time.
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    If your interested in Highlands and highland wildlife especially deer . Lea MacNally - Highland Deer Forest and Highland Year are both full of good stuff from a man who spent his life on the hill. Everything from his time at the dens to watching eagles .
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    BB 's Tides Ending / Dark estuary and Manka the Sky Gypsy probably the best wildfowling books ever written. Ian Niall's , Poachers Handbook is a classic for kids. Hugh Falkus sea trout and salmon books are awesome reads for anyone interested in fishing Lurchers and Longdogs by Walsh , dated but first hunting book I read when I was a kid.
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    Rhubarb is doing well and herb garden is coming good. Today put in Brussel sprouts , kale x 2 varieties , shallots , chard , lettuce . Still have carrots to put in but will wait a week or two . I will get pic in the morning assuming bunnies , slugs and snails haven't had an all night rave
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    Fair play mate for writing and asking the question. Tim Bonner is a toff so no surprise they are only interested in large mounted packs in the shires. Division over the years between hunters , shooters , terrier men , coursers , falconers etc etc has badly watered down our voice , arguement and political clout. We don't need BASC , CA , AWL, SGA , etc etc we need ONE organisation SPEAKING for ALL. There is no point criticising the organisations they need our help and support. But to get One organisation first we need tolerance and mutual respect . That said claiming you are a hunter , sh
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    Read a few good ones lately . Sorry I don't know all the authors. The Mark of the Grizzly - Real accounts of survivors , forest rangers and friends of victims of Grizzly attacks in Americas national parks. The Mad Trapper of Rat River - The story about the Mounties biggest man hunt in the Yukon. Epic terrain , survival and endurance and they are still not sure who he was. Hell West and Crooked -Tom Cole - life in the outback Australia in the 1920s and thirties. A real life crocodile Dundee.
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    Some Pics from Hunters Fen , by John Humpreys . Chris Green , The Cornish Countryman has one and uses it in his Wildfowling Videos attachment=300784:IMG_2402.JPG]
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    My Lab enjoying the snow up in the woods.
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    Hunters Fen , by John Humphreys is full of old punt gunning pics and stories .
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    Similar story in Norway . The main objection was they scatter the Moose and kill Moose hunters dogs. Moose hunting is a national pastime / obsession. It's a fantastic country with amazing hunting culture and traditions. You can buy gill nets and otter boards at the check out in shops. I was there in May and they shot a wolf just up the road from where we were staying . Even in Norway with its amazing space and forest cover there are tensions with large predators. Made me realise Scotland is far too small and over crowded for wolves.
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    Great games today. I thought Scotland were really struggling the first 30 minutes and I thought The Welsh forwards were going to destroy us in the second half once they setttled into it. Must have been some team talk at half time. Alun wyn Jones was awesome along with Tippuric. Reckon both will be Lions . John Barclay staked a claim as well for a Lions shirt and thought Hamish Watson was great , and Ali Price was miles better Laidlaw. The Irish did a great job on the French , great game thought the pace and commitment by all was brilliant to see.
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    Cheers mate It's a private estate road.
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    Beaters day today and my daughter shot her first keepers day and got her first bird. She was really safe and with really high birds all day did really well.
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    Go back to basics , recall , sitting staying , walking at heel . If he is only 2 , is this his first season of work ? If it is he is still really young to do a full day , you have got to manage his opportunities, the last manic drive of the day with lots of gunshot and ducks dropping out the sky is not the place to have a young inexperienced dog. Sounds like this would test a fully experienced dog. Maybe skip this drive , keep him on the lead or at heel or ask to get put on the outside of the drive where he can't get too involved. Set him up to succeed. Run him where you know he will get
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    Definitely get one from a working strain. There is a growing gap between pet and show labs , traditional working labs and Trialling labs. I think temprament is more to do with rearing , training and environment. Most people look to see if the parents are fully health tested before buying a pup. It's not a guarantee but helps. Reckon the key with labs is not to over work / run them when they are too young and manage their food intake . If I was looking for a pup , I would want both parents to do regular work , be Sound around guns and have a good double coat. Doesn't really matter if it's
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    Pheasant breasts , wrap in tinfoil parcel , drizzle in oil, salt and pepper, slice chorizo and crumb Stilton over the top , wrap up the parcel only take about 15 - 20 minutes .
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    This was my lurcher I had as a kid , marking grey partridge on winter barley. About a week after that pic , with about 8 inches of snow she winded a hare , way out in the middle of the same field that had dug a scrape in the snow. Will never forget that run. She was some marking dog used to creep about on the top of a burries like a cat , gently putting down each paw.
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    Kids believing in Santa is what it is all about. Been taking my two since they were about 4 to pick a tree in the woods , cut it and drag it back to the car. They are now just turning teenagers and still are mad keen on going out and finding the tree . It's become family tradition. My mate up the road has two pre school age kids. He sprinkled deer droppings on shed roof and roof of his car last year and took them out first thing to show them where the reindeer had been hovering with the sleight !! You should have seen their face. The magic of Christmas , you can't buy it.
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    We went on holiday a few years ago, stunning , great Trout and sea trout fishing and wildfowlers paradise in the winter. Well Done , sounds like you have pulled off the great escape.
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    If anyone isn't collecting the pin feathers from their woodcock , then I would take them as my mother inlaw is looking for a few to have a go at painting woodcock using the pin feathers.
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    As been said by others depends what your into. Labs were traditionally for working on the grouse moors and the the peg and picking up on pheasant shoots and wildfowlers dogs for the shore , and springer spaniels being beaters dogs and rough shooters dogs. Cocker spaniels being originally for wood cock. Cockers are very fashionable although meant to have lots of springer blood in them !! But it depends on how you bring them up and what you train them for and how well you train them.
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