Magpie
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AMEN TO THAT spot on i waited over a year for the right litter to get what i wanted ... as has been said they are with you for a long time so you need to make sure of your choice ......... I also waited, and waited some more. When I frist enquired no one was breeding Beardie lurchers. If I wanted a bull or a saluki then fine, but no Beardies not even Hancock. Then i get a call from them "we've just bred a litter of Beardie half crosses". Great so I wait and wait some more to see how they turned out. I was in now hurry to buy as I was still happy chasing about the count
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Same old same old. Whats the point!? You make up your own mind mate....... IF YOU DARE! but you risk ridicule and damnation from the high and mighty. Tomo, the reason I bought my bitch from the Hancocks is that I specifically wanted a half cross Beardie, nothing else. I new, working parents or otherwise, that that is what I would get. I wouldn't have some demented old fool banging on about a line of lurcher that supposedly can have its family tree traced back for hundreds of years. A line of lurchers that contain everything under the sun, including some incredibly puzzling breeds, BUT
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Please For gods sake phone the man, speak to him or his daughter Sally and make your own mind up. I guarantee you won't get any hard sell antics and you'll only get honest answers to your questions. You might find one of their pups isn't for you, then again it might be exactly what you're looking for. Asking for advice on this forum as to whether you should buy a 'Hancock' is just asking for trouble. Everybody has their own opinion on this subject. I'm not offering mine. There are enough people on this site and others that can vouch for how good my Beardie cross is so I don't feel that I h
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A FIRST! cross Beardie/Greyhound.......
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That be me mate.
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Strong dark ale for me. Sneck lifter is my favorite. Hobgoblin's nice too. I also like a drop of cherry brandy now and again and home made slow gin.
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Yes mate, we were lamping from a 4x4 and shooting them with BSA super tens (non-fac). There is a sizable rabbit population on that particular business park. We shot sixty six two weeks earlier. We're at them again at the weekend though I doubt we will shot as many this time round.
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Thanks for the replies lads. We did miss a few, but not too many. Unfortunately we hit a few that either,(in their death throws), kicked themselves in to deep cover where we couldn't find them or weren't hit cleanly an managed to make cover before we could get to them. I hate it when that happens, but no ones that good a shot as not to miss or wound. Happy hunting folks. Magpie.
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They don't exist pal. There hasn't be a bob tail or anything of it's like for years. Therefore no starting point. I'm not saying you won't find a line of lurchers that have this OLD! type in it ancestry, but it would be well diluted by now. Think about it for a second, it doesn't sense. The gene pool would be minuscule and probably so inbred as to produce all manner of monsters. I suggest any old mungraly lurcher with a rough coat could be passed off as a Norfolk type if the owner/breeder was less than honest and or looking to make a few quid out of such an obvious gimmick. That's
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45 went to a friend up the road to feed her dogs. The rest went into my freezer to feed my two and the ferrets. I use everything I catch/shoot one way or another, nothing is wasted. After all, that's how it should be isn't it.
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All in a nights work mate.
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Just a couple of pics from last weekends little foray. Same location as before, same team(Graeme and I) only a lot more rabbits. All rabbits and the Pigeon were shot with BSA super tens. It's dirty work.
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OOPPS! corrected.
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Yeah something like Breeze. How are you getting on with the ferret kits?
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Your not wrong there Undisputed, I consider myself very lucky. We're out again in a fortnight, can't wait.
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Cheers pal!
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As some of you may know, I recently embarked on a career as a professional pest controller. All my initial training has gone very well. So much so that I had not dropped below 91% on any of my end of week exams. I achieved a mark of 83.5% for the overall exam at the end of the six week course. I just have to wait now to find out when my BPCA level 2 exam is and then I'm all done. I've been on a number of training courses whilst with my new company including, A high level access equipment course ( IPAF). A stored product and textile pest ID course. A few others that I can't be bothered to g
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Interesting looking pup that one mate, hows it bred?
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I started with this type of running dog. Bred by a lady from Norfolk, owner of ' Cracker ' the Norfolk under 23' racing champion 3 years running. They're just non ped Whippets really, no mystery. Splash of Greyhound perhaps and maybe a bit of something else but, mainly Whippet. the little dogs I kept were as fast as fook but, had no stamina. A dozen or more runs on the lamp would see the knackered. Their feet weren't too bad, though they did skin from time to time. Having said that the dam to my first bitch' Cracker ' didn't have a complete foot at the the end of any of her legs by the t
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How are those pups of yours getting on BF? They really looked the biz. If I'd had the room at the time I might have been tempted to have one.
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One or two of my Beardie cross in action. Following pics were taken at a driven hare shoot........honest
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You really won't want to be carrying a pair of 10x50's about, they'll way a ton. What you need is 8x32 or 10x32. You only ever get what you pay for so the more you spend the better they'll be. Leica and swarovski are top notch manufacturers of binoculars but your talking onwards and upwards or £700. They will be nitrogen filled so they don't fog up. If you're in and out of the car going from cold to warm then ordinary bins will fog up and become useless. You can buy cheaper nitrogen filled bins but as I said you get what you pay for. My Leica bins come with a lifetime warranty so I'll nev
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I'll be there on Monday, looks to be the best day weather wise.
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Sound advice fella, thanks
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Absolutely, ect.