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  1. Tracy Priestnall
    seen 6-7 plummers, all bar one were unless but i have seen several on film that look lively, so the jury is still out for me. i was disappointed that none i saw shown any beagle traits, they hunt like Russel's or any other terrier. beware new terrier breeds rarely nowt new about them...just look a bit differ from the last new one kev-medlock crew.
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    is that p ts cricket? it is a little heavy if you looking at it as a lurcher but if you see the dog as a fast bushing dog or fast terrier it looks sprightly. question...if you had half a dozen crickets and run them as a pack how do you think they would go? p s ..if that is p t a good terrier over the airedale would produce some nice terrier types of 17 -21 inch, i would take two pups, ...interested? kev-medlock crew
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    coloured working terriers, border/lakie..just names for the undiscript fell terriers... still found on farms in the lakes today. back in 70s - early 80s when smaller terriers were the norm % of terriers out with the fell packs were small mongerally fell terriers not the lookers seen in books and magazines. i can remember plenty of terriers bought as border/ lakies which with hindsight were just fells.. reds, black and tans, grizzle...in fact not with hindsight we knew it at the time. historians tell us that the early fell terriers were old lines of the old black and tan terrier that
  4. Tracy Priestnall
    two dibble asked me if i was lamping one night...i was on asda car park ! kev-medlock crew
  5. Tracy Priestnall
    no contract, no consent and if the police have a search warrent ask if it was signed by a judge on oath. hunting with hounds and coursing are illegal but they are not unlawful. acts of law are not the law that's why they are called acts...acting as law...not the law. acts of law need consent...do not give it. kev-medlock crew.
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    no contract, no consent.
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    in my area there as always been bobbery packs due to the amount of bramble beds and rough inner-city land. some of these bramble beds are huge and from late 70s till mid 90s local lads relied on terriers which have always done the job. in the mid 90s we started getting beagles and griffons, some local lads think the hound crosses took bushing to another level, others still prefer terriers. a pack out two-three times a week in winter will get 60-70 days hunting, this will break many dogs and make others. many, many terriers served for ten seasons, vary good dogs, above and below. one qual
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    to many lads are using hunting hounds for flushing and than bitchin that the hounds hunt up to strongly. the longer hounds stay on the better the hunt...that's real hunting i dont think crossbred beagles are the answer for you, many can hunt as strongly as pure beagles. try running on small hounds you can keep up with or use non-scent hounds. kev-medlock crew.
  9. Tracy Priestnall
    good luck with them.
  10. Tracy Priestnall
    nice pups mate
  11. Tracy Priestnall
    to many lads are getting hunting hounds and then using them for flushing!. teagles and speagals aint the answer as many of them can hunt as far as pure beagles. you would be better off getting small hounds that you can keep up with ,or get non-scent hounds..
  12. Tracy Priestnall
    i know your not dissing terriers but you are ignorant of them, read plummers book the fell terrier, read the interview with Joe Armstrong. he ferreted with his terriers, shot over them, dug badger, bolted otters, worked fox, ratted etc. then go to frank buck, he also shot over and ferreted with his best earth dogs. then check bill crisp, his terrier mischeif also worked otter, badger, fox ,rat, rabbit, hare but also took eels and salmon from the river and was filmed doing it. then watch several of the warreners films,see terriers, ratting, workng in a pack, being shot over, bolting from d
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    for much ,much more on plummer beating read e d r d magazine!
  14. Tracy Priestnall
    no such thing as a pedigree jack russell,
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    according to two German writers, who had articles in the e d r d magazine, the jagd terriers are fox terriers bred from English stock sent to Germany. i have seen footage of jagd with wiry coats and a fox terrier appearance but others look more like patterdales in the head shape. i have never seen a jagd, only footage, but to me they hunt the same as any other terrier, all terriers have the same hunting method/style. border terriers are said to be calmer than excitable Russell's, fells enter faster than borders, lakelands are violent fighters whilst the sporting Lucas as a gentle nature
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    nuttalls strain does throw some small 9-10 inch terriers, his terriers of 11-12 inch were not considered small back in the 70s-early 80s. read plummers fell terrier, most of the out an out foxing men thought 11-12-13 inch was ideal size. they told us big terriers were needed to follow hounds, they told us beddys had to be big to catch rabbits, they told us that lakelands needed to be big to work rock-piles what they seldom tell us is the main reason for breeding big terriers is because it is vary easy to breed big, good looking terriers and vary hard to breed good quality small terriers.
  17. Tracy Priestnall
    check out e-books, diary of a otter hunter book, free read plus other titles. mostly old books. type in free e books and search for hunting
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    i have read three articals on harrys sealyhams and in each they never caught a single rat, recently saw ratting on river taw and again not a rat caught. i don't like them , countrymens weekly dogs. now i hear nine hundred a pup and wonder how that helps revive the breed? please harry if your reading tell me how a grand a pup helps revive a breed, let me guess, does it keep the riff raff element away? i was all for harrys pack, good luck to him but now i know its more about 5 grand a litter...bollocks! yo, phil lloyd, met you at the waterloo cup...80s...you were with hosker on a ma
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    your description of a spaniel is basically the kennel club field trial dog, they work for 20 minutes, in a game rich area in light bracken, don't need a good, or even a indifferent, nose. they hunt by drive. before field trials started spaniels had voice, cockers were known for their merry voice and they said any good spaniel could tell you by its voice which game it was hunting . spaniels were also not expected to retrieve. in the states, western and eastern Europe spaniels are still worked as rough shooting dogs, not foreverer pipped on a whistle terriers hunt more more like the
  20. Tracy Priestnall
    most of teagle types i have seen can hunt as far as a beagle...its what they do. try smaller hounds you can keep up with.
  21. Tracy Priestnall
    i would love to see this cross, once almost bred e s s x Irish bull, 15 years ago but the bitch was shy, mousy, didn't fancy shy bull crosses. also didn't fancy fighters, fighting in deep cover over a catch for example. i knew a pair of staff bull x collie that were 17 inch and proper good dogs. if there wasn't a run in bramble they just bore one. i see these as bulldozers that will smash threw cover, little tanks. keep the pups back with the covered ears and good coats. a mix of flushing dog x catch dog, if they are from two good dogs they could be special...
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    as for numbers, at least six. keep the dogs you need rather than the dogs you want. back in the day a pack made up of terrier, hound, running dogs, covered all corners regards fox, rabbit packs are different to fox packs, drummer packs don't need earth dogs and not everyone wants hounds on rabbit. if you live in a area of hard tough cover, you cant expect just one bushing dog to do all the work, so in my pack 3-4 dogs would be finders. and two running dogs. i also expect the runners to hunt.
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    you cannot compare beagles to terriers...they have different styles of hunting, as do spaniels. terriers have high head carriage, spaniels have mid-range head carriage ,and beagles have low head carriage. which means they all have a different hunting style. to say terriers are not as good has beagles are at hunting the line, or tracking, is to totally miss the point of how terriers hunt. terriers have their own style, as do spaniels.
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    cockers work in tighter circles, amongst spaniel men the bigger 20-22 inch springer are seen as the best for working big bramble. spaniels are flushing dogs that hunt body scent, questing dogs. they work silently, barred from trials if they yap. the biggest name in spaniels was the late keith erlanderson, he described the old spaniels as a cross between a zulu - warrior and a spanish fighting bull...if you could still find spaniels of this sort we would all want them! one of this sort as just sold for £20,ooo on the field trial circit, a springer. bob ottey, game keeper ran a fox pac
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    basicly, there are three types of bushing dog. find and flush or find and hunt, or find and catch. or you could try to breed a dog to find, flush, hunt and catch ? decide what type you want, that suits your gaffs and your hunting.
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