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  1. fluff
    youle always get that were there high unemployment and lack of goverment funding , most of there places were miniing areas and if you had a not so brite son he could go down pit , or some other lauboring job ,now there not as many manual jobs for them ,so you end up with generaitions of people who are a bit loopy ,and generaitons who have not worked thatcher started it back in seventies mines shut down steel works etc and blair opend the gates for foreigners banned hunting etc coursing national service would sort them out a bit ,never been on face book never will,alot of these guys take
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    never had bull in a lurcher never neede it , got hard bitten colie type and saluki coursing type more than enough
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    there a guy called calum donahue he knows a good net maker from ashington area at the [BANNED TEXT] price
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    youse are feching crazy at times net boards , net gauges ,nails , free hand is a lot quicker and once you use the same twine, you get good with it ,what i would say to guys is use a gage for every end mesh to get your size incase your creeping with your sizes , learnt to make nets 34 years ago as kids never had a net gage until maybe twenty years ago , we bought a cheap 4z shitty net copied the mesh size then made it to our requirments lay you nets and gear we are sailing to waters dangerous and impailing ,come sweat or cold getting old , o the bonny shoals of herring there must be s
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    best way mate and im being seurous dont listen to drivle on here, go to someone that makes nets like mick dadd or if you were up here in scotland teach you in an hour or two , i would say a day helping a ,man and learning how to do its a day worth well spending , forget about all the nails and boards do it properly , learn with needle and spacer then when you get handy you can gauge the mesh and tallyho do it free hand like fishermen do on boats harbours for a living ,
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    there an old guy who hand knits 10 0r12 z nets crackers very good and well made ,calum donahue on here knowse him ,there 1 50 each top drawer nets , bought fiftteen top drawer ,even tho i make good nets too nice big rings they catch well and dont move with wind etc ferrets can get through mesh dont no if he always has them but very good and big rings easy to sort out
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    forget about lamping better in daylite so you can see what the dogs up to , never lamp to sort a problem always in daylite , first, see what the problem is and then use an expierenced eye ,not boasting but i never won top obeiednce and grafted lurchers hard ,coursing allsorts of game to a high standard because im a duck egg, an hour and i would sort it out or piont it out and come up with solution or not , some are not clever to learn other gain knowledge through there peers ,i learnt of top greyhound men lurcher men and feildtrail spaneils etc , knowledge you cant get of a poxy comp ,
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    only scottish muntjac ive heard of were brought up from near suffolk and let go,apart from that the ones ive brought home from holidays when it was all legal , got some goodbuck heads, hardy wee critters
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    get youre self up ,befor season ends theres a local bed and brekki
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    some of my dogs take there food bowl in the bed to ,so every nite i watch them feed and take them of it , as the get posesive over a silly bowl , she thinks rabbits are food like the bowl , lack of game never had dogs burry because of lack of game , more heredity , get her fetching again properly , dead rabbits on string and then live ones in a controled manner , youlle rectifie it ,if not then at least you tried ,ha ddogs fetching good then sicken mostly alot of saluk in them , the collie typei have neverr sickend even when there knacked , hope you solve your problem
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    maybe leave her of the rabbits and course or flush some thing thatl test her see how she performs then ,
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    sometimes a breeding trait or she has got into a bad habit , saw greyhounds years ago with live rabbits run back in to kennel and burry there catch in straw , some times but never saw alurcher coursing etc rabbiting burrying there catch , to date usaly to much going on ,for to worry about burrying , does she bury toys etc or anything else
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    was bred and born on coursing all big arable feilds ,but never let money blind me , and i have had some great dogs that do whats on the tin , i work hard at times to earn a good pay but never thought about breeding dogs to make a pot of money ,even tho had some good ones and been surrounded with very good dogs for some its a lively hood others a sport and passion ,coursing dogs wil always make good money at times , as the hare is a great test for any mans dog single handed on good big arable land ,if your brought up in areas with big arable feilds as i have the hare was the main qaurry
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    had collie greyhound whippet greyhound type line bred got one left she is just under 24 wouldnt have any smaller realy ,23 upwards, ive found, and for larger feilds biggger qaurry bigger 25 26 27 , not a lover of small dogs unless terrier or spaneil , running dogs should be able to cacth on any land and have the height size to cope with the land ,as for picking runs and all that stuff were i hunt you run whatever as there not piles of stuff to pick your runs , get a dog that suits your land ,and kills were ever hope you find one
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    ye thats for sure ,but the white hare was caut by a lad in larkhall i questioned it then had a good look at pics it was a white brown hare ,caut a pure ginger rabbit last week beutiful looking thing kept the skin and the mask , saw three in 30 years plus of hunting ,marked like that the first one was near aberlady nature reserve in 19 83 thought it was hare but was a ginger rabbit , saw one three months ago missed it then caught this one last week a mile from the area i saw it maybe same one
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    what charity is it for , i wished we done lots of things like that before the ban and show a good side to hunting , not just killing hares and abusing the farmers land etc not got paypal acount or anything else like that do you get a charity receipt were you moneys going mate
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    there was a man from larkhall who did catch a white hare with dogs white like the snow and it wasnt a mountain hare ,saw pics of him and dogs with it queer looking thing pure white with a dark eye like a normal hare i think a while back
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    flacko never ever had a dog whimpering at hole and certanly not wanting one going down the hole like a terrier no good full stop the idea to me dogs walk quitely round holes marks one ferret down rabbit out, cacthes or nets it and moves on no barking digging doing my head in , i want a dog the minute hees in feild hees rabbiting not playing and acting mad ,, another thing i like , a dog that follows the action round a set for the bolt quitely and controled , and marks roughly were the kill is if ferrets on one ,till i come over with bleeper , locator ,, i hardly speak to a dog from the
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    no ,there a few got them but not for work they maybe hunt on top the ground like a hound but they dont look capable of doing what they were bred for, nice pets but carry a few troubles with show breeding etc
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    what you doing next week you can do my yard and ille let you hunt til your sick of chaseing game
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    are the hand spun or just sheet netting rigged its not rocket sceince , buying sheet netting , rigging it 100yards long, fifty yards set for your kill , you could teach teenagers to rig nets or immigrants lol fech in hell , as 14 15 year old kids we made our own out of old linen salmon nets and sea trout nets ,35 years ago ,no computers books just trail and error and useing your loaf , had a few feck ups but was all in the fun of it
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    keep away from puppy peddlars get purpose bred running dogs ,
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    shooting pheasants out of trees is good fun and a easy dinner but sometimes the old cock high up on a branch hes to clever to get taken flies off or hides his self to well, not a lover of snow , its nice going out but up on the hils its bitter and alot of holes are coverd can be a tiol some days ,prefer just normal conditions , as boys we had some fun chaseing hares on snow with terrier mongrel and running dogs were easy to spot ,great days
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    good little watch , like any hunting ,next to coursing bolting rabbits great sport
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    saw enough of plodders ,fast dogs , meduim dogs you need pace on general fields 50 to a hundred acres been proven time and time again and if bred right no how to use there gears , i was brought up in good running land were a hare would stretch a meduim paced dog , you need pace to get there then bend him then try and work the hare , then snap him up , i like going out at nite as well as day without pace wouldnt get half as much gear or exiting chases ,when you see some of these big furry dogs you wonder if they can catch a good strong winter hare ,or ones with big wide fronts its a hare we
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