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  2. Bit of History...something different

    in General Talk

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    Anyone old enough to remember that the Guiness Book Of Word Records used to give the rat killing records from the 19th century. Detailing dogs, locations and numbers killed.

    Billy, Jocko and a bitch called Jenny Lind were all in that book. The earlier editions had loads of information.

  3. Bit of History...something different

    in General Talk

    Posted

    Plummer's Nathan is by far his greatest work (though I'll always tipp my hat to Fell Terrier, flawed that it is)

    You gotta hand it to him, 'ol DBP really did do his homework on such subjects. Maroc the Barbary ape, the Hinkley Boar, Blue Pauls, Red Smutts etc.... Would we really know these names and what went on in the Westminister Pits if Plummer hadn't put pen to paper in the past 40 years.

    I'm not such a fan of the man, but his early works are... Fantastic.  

    Before ego and self-righteous took hold....

  6. What you listening to at the moment.

    in General Talk

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    2 hours ago, eastcoast said:

    Combat Rock, The Clash. 

    Some young lass on the radio informed me that 40 years ago today it was released so played it on getting home. 40 years?...how did that happen? Police & Thieves still resonates but not so much, maybe getting old and comfortably boring is not such a bad thing.

     

     

     

    OK, so those of us of a certain age can retrospect albums as easy as pie....

    This album;

    Know your Rights

    Should I Stay.....

    Rock the Casbah

    Overpowered...

    Jeez, an album I'd fight for to the death, especially when the best track is Straight To Hell

    Love this album.... And all the world should know its name....

  7. Julius Francis.....

    in General Talk

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    On 15/06/2022 at 15:12, WILF said:

    Maybe its just me, but other than the dirty animal was a total prick, can’t see what reason he had to chin the geezer ? 

    He was moving away, noisy and annoying yes, but going in the right direction….nobody gets to just chin people now days I’m afraid.

    There was no reason to do it over and above it’s what we would all want to do…..but we ain’t supposedly professional door staff.

    If door staff chinned every loud and mouthy prick every time they came across one they would be smashing the granny out of people all night, every night at doors up and down the country……

    I'd agree with that...

    When I watched it my thought was 'why crack him at that point?'

    Sure he was annoying, which is hard work, but he'd danced around long enough for most on the job to know he's really got nothing but front...

    Nah, i think JF got a bit too wound-up with this fella and using his 'professional skill set' dropped the cnut either for anger, lost face or bravado.... Whichever way it was, he's done himself no favours...

  9. Brother to sister mating is it to close,

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

    Posted

    7 hours ago, mC HULL said:

    that’s what we’re discussing isn’t it you seem to be irate because what i think is different to what you think

    and it’s not me is it the there’s plenty of evidence that points to it been a bad idea 

     

    That would depend on what you would call bad... Because many would see the odd cull (or freak if you keep it) as part of the greater good. And let's get it straight, that is the exception, in probably many litters. No one is ruling out outcrosses when we're talking about family lines, but in the main, if you have all the qualities you require in a family of dogs then your best option imo, is to keep that blood tight.

  10. Brother to sister mating is it to close,

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, mC HULL said:

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    seems to me like lads didn’t have much access to stock so thought they can just breed tight mate 

     

     

    Nope, not at all... There was plenty of decent bull blooded dogs in the NW back then, and there was plenty of lads with decent pure breds too. Lads knew how close breeding worked well enough mate... If your trying to make out that 'they just got lucky' then you'd be very much mistaken.

  14. Brother to sister mating is it to close,

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    4 minutes ago, Blackmag said:

    Spike was a very good alrounder sg had some very good dogs duke clogg a 5/8 who to be fair was probably under used but again a good  alrounder but not in spikes league spike as did duke ended up in Ireland on stud duties this is were spike lined otter at sq s 

    All the best stuff out of that family (wouldn't call it a line) came out of the tight bred stuff. And what wasn't excellent was borderline 'nuts'. There was also a couple of 'oddities', one I remember being a hermaphrodite, though that didn't stop it being a 27" stunner, fast and iron hard. Things like that just went with the territory back then...

    No point overthinking it, if the tight stuff worked and worked well then just go with it...

    Back when I had them, that's what I planned to do. Sure, i'd have to bring new blood in at some point but that, i'm fairly certain, would of been well down the road and I could of lived with producing the odd freak for the greater good..?

  16. Jays

    in Airgun Hunting

    Posted

    20 hours ago, Timmy H said:

    This is a favourite topic of mine. As a 64 year old countryman I appreciate ALL wildlife, it's all there for a reason and needs to survive, that's what gives us diversity.  We might not like a magpie or a jay raiding a nest but that is nature and all those species have survived for 1000s of years before human beings started interfering. Predators have never wiped out a species, humans do it regularly. How do we pick what we should control? Robins eat anything and will fight to the death over territory, the tits and swallows, martins etc eat insects that are vastly reduced in numbers, blackbirds eat worms, thrushes eat snails including the rare mendip snail, should we shoot the thrushes to protect the snails?  It seems to me that too many shooters just target crows, magpies, jays, rooks and jackdaws because they think they can just shoot them as a pest. That's totally wrong, the real pest is the person who sets up artificial feeders and nest boxes to encourage the already successful species like blue tits that have exploded in numbers in the last 10 years to the detriment of rarer birds that need the same nesting sites in the wild. Shooting corvids to protect rare birds is daft, if they're rare the corvids aren't likely to find them anyway, they'll nearly always find nests of the common birds like pigeons and blackbirds which are a natural food source and as common as hell. Nature will find a balance, always has and will continue to do so, when the food supply runs short then the corvids will take a big hit on numbers. Over 30 years of the GLs, a legal challenge that proved shooters were ignoring the rules and still we have posts that are technically "illegal" shooting. Who will we blame when all bird shooting except pheasants and partridges is banned? Obvious isn't it? Blame the shooters who break the existing GLs, post it up and boast about it to get a few others saying "well done". Shooting corvids just because they are doing what they have always done isn't sensible, take out a few and the next year they will breed even more to make up the numbers, only food supply and conditions will really regulate the numbers. Just as an added point, in woodland, 2 of the biggest nest raiders are green and spotted woodpeckers who will raid nestholes in trees, so why aren't we shooting them? I'm not saying we shouldn't control corvids but we should be thinking about all our bird species, not just the pretty ones that we want in our gardens, they've all been here a lot longer than us humans.

    Great post... ? 

  21. Albino roe

    in General Talk

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    17 minutes ago, sussex said:

    I’ve seen an albino badger and a white one ..seen hundreds of white fallow , never seen a true albino one ..

    Sussex, your right... The fallow i seen was white but I'm unsure if it was a true albino (unusual for the NW none the less..)

  23. Albino roe

    in General Talk

    Posted

    In my lifetime, so far, I've seen, albino foxes, albino badgers and an albino fallow buck. The genetic malfunction is not that uncommon, but sadly they usually don't last very long in the wild....

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