Hunting Down Under !

[chartpolski 20,418]

Then we visited friends where I picked oranges and lemons from their garden, (and this is their winter !!).

 

 

 

 

 

These were then squeezed and used to make some very nice vodka cocktails !!! LOL !!!

[mackem 23,824]

Excellent write-up Charts,your right,some of the pics do look like Canada,big-country,enjoy your trip and thanks for sharing the outing.

[aussiewhippet 0]

nice work mate. those whippets look AWESOME!

[Gerard40 1]

If you want to help me with the hunt club next Saturday CP, your welcome to come along. I know how much you like digging.

[skycat 6,172]

Awesome photos C. Regarding the difference between Roo dogs and Stags: would it be fair to say that they are both like our lurchers, with the Roo dogs being smooth coated and slightly smaller and stockier, or is that just the two in your photos?

[Moll. 1,769]

Brilliant thread Charty, really interesting

[TOMO 24,876]

BRILIANT MATE,,,i hope you get some more days out,, so you can keep putting the pics up, charty was there any hares on that open land?????

[bird 9,594]

great pics+thread , good read that

[dytkos 17,536]

Great thread and top write up and pics

 

Cheers, D.

[Tsayad 88]

Pardon me for butting in

Awesome photos C. Regarding the difference between Roo dogs and Stags: would it be fair to say that they are both like our lurchers, with the Roo dogs being smooth coated and slightly smaller and stockier, or is that just the two in your photos?

 

As I understand it, "Lurcher" is you term for a generic cross between a sighthound and a working dog.

 

"Staghound" is a term that we apply to a similar cross of hybrid of the smooth-coated sighthounds - mainly greyhound - and the roughcoated sighthounds, predominantly deerhound.

 

They may be either rough or smooth coated, although it is more common for the rough coated dogs to be referred to as Staghounds and the larger smoothcoats as Kangaroo dogs.

 

Try here http://www.kangaroodog.org/

[chartpolski 20,418]

Gerry, I'd love to come out with the hunt, I'll pm you my wifes number. If somehow you don;t get it, both Dromana and Frankie/Moses have it.

 

Skycat, I may be wrong, but I think the only difference between Roo Dogs and Staghounds is the coat, Roos being smooth coated and Stags being rough. The Roo dog in the pics has a wee bit of Bull in him way back, and the Stag has a bit of Borzoi way back.

 

Tomo, we saw pleanty hares, and the only reason we didn't slip on them was that we were after other quarry. I can't believe the Saluki or Saluki Hybrid isn't more popular down hear, as the land we were on would be perfect for coursing !!

 

Cheers.

[TOMO 24,876]

Gerry, I'd love to come out with the hunt, I'll pm you my wifes number. If somehow you don;t get it, both Dromana and Frankie/Moses have it.

 

Skycat, I may be wrong, but I think the only difference between Roo Dogs and Staghounds is the coat, Roos being smooth coated and Stags being rough. The Roo dog in the pics has a wee bit of Bull in him way back, and the Stag has a bit of Borzoi way back.

 

Tomo, we saw pleanty hares, and the only reason we didn't slip on them was that we were after other quarry. I can't believe the Saluki or Saluki Hybrid isn't more popular down hear, as the land we were on would be perfect for coursing !!

 

Cheers.

 

its the country to go to, thats for shure,,, am i right in thinking organised hare coursing with greyhounds was banned years and years ago,,,,,, but can you still hunt them with lurchers/stags ect???

[my hounds 306]

What a fantastic post,thank you.

[Gerard40 1]

Yep organised hare coursing was banned years ago, but there are heaps of hare about. You can shoot them or dog them. I shot a couple tonight for the dogs. I think that they are a pain because i hunt foxes. They just wear your dogs out. It was not uncommon to shoot 20 hare that are pushed from a swamp with the hounds while chasing foxes.

 

I think the only Saluki over here are show bred stuff, i may be wrong though.

Edited August 6, 2011 by Gerard40

[muntana 0]

This is the type of post we need more of