Accip74
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Believe me it doesn't have to be ordinary & unfit, goshawks can be lamped just as easily & if it's raining mate head to the woods and do some ferreting! I've never stayed at home cos it was raining or windy lol If you stayed at home every time the weather wasn't perfect in England you would'nt be out much! Believe me it doesn't have to be ordinary & unfit, goshawks can be lamped just as easily & if it's raining mate head to the woods and do some ferreting! I've never stayed at home cos it was raining or windy lol If you stayed at home every time the weather wasn't perfect in
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I agree paying a fortune for a bird doesn't garantee anything, but it's a misconception that a gos can't be flown just on weekends & holidays (excluding imprints) & that they are any harder to train than Harris hawks, you may not be pulling game birds out of the sky on a regular basis, but you can still have a lot of success with full control, you just have keep on top of things, the initial training is the easy part! ATB
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Well that's a shame, if it's any consolation I too have had a disaster this year, but for very different reasons, I spent a lot of money on a Russian male from a 'top' German breeder, money I won't see again..... Your right it's not just about the money, but when I got my first gos, I basically done 3 jobs over a year, my day job,fir & sat night on another job & Sundays on a mates house just so I could afford to get the bird! After that you make sure you can do it justice.... 7 weeks is not a long time, when you consider you could fly it for years
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I'm not judging what you do for a living mate! We all work hard for what we have & yes £400 is too cheap for a goshawk, but that's the way it's gone unfortunately, if it had been a £1000 you would of thought a lot harder about getting one. I honestly hope it turns out good for you, cos when it all comes together there is no better in this sport!! Good luck
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Sounds like a day you won't forget in a hurry mate. Top stuff!
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I know mate, I'm English
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It's easy to do yourself
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You're right about Plummer, I'm not regarding him as a great terrier man, but the content in Fell Terriers about other terrier men is informative, as for Chapmen, I read the book over twenty years ago as teenager & it struck me as a lot of bull, maybe I'd think differently now......but I doubt it lol
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You've probably read everything that's worth reading anyway mate, there isn't much out there that isn't just digging stories. Fell terriers by Plummer is very interesting, one of the worst is Eddie Chapmens book, full of tall stories....
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Times When Your Dog Made You Look Like A Prick
Accip74 replied to colliexgreyhound's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
Once out with the lads to show off a new dog, dog was meant to do 'the business' & cost a few quid, we entered him in a large earth & was just watching his tail disappear from view when he let out blood curdling scream! His foe was there to meet him round the corner! No amount of encouragement would get that dog to go back down lol -
Hunt & working terriers by sir Jocelyn Lucas
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Surely the fame thing can only mean anything to aspiring youngsters. When I was a kid I couldn't get enough of reading about the great terrier men & lurchers men, the more I read about Lucas, buck/breay etc the more I aspired to be like them, I was even lucky enough to spend a week with Frank Buck & a week hunting with Brian Nuttal when I was still a teenager & got a good insight into what these men were about. These guys were more into producing great workers than just telling stories about digging! When you grow up you realise most of these so called famous terrier men writing
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Just found this thread, the buck lines had already lost their edge by the 80s, so who knows whats out there now! I had 4 dogs from him in the very late 80s, 2 pups & 2 adults, 3 of them never made the grade (wouldn't stay) the other was 'Flint' who won the great Yorkshire Show in 87', now he was the 'real deal', probably the last truly great dog bred by frank ( owned by his son max at the time of purchase)
