what type of cross to run on grouse moors

[Romany 1,065]

Visited a very nice man in Haddington once, cant remember is name, but he did take £150 from my then very small bank account..

[Giro 2,648]

Some cracking Pictures Romany...

[bigdaz 688]

Were all the deerhound coursing meets run on blue hares?.

[BLACKWATER... 157]

i romany they dont take to kindly to people poaching over the border judges are always harsh if you travel to poach ,bit more leniant if your local , just the way it is all lords estats well was, not now ,more free now , in places,had a fair few run ins probaly more than the border fox ,

[crossy terrier lad 2]

quailty photos romany, have u any of the dogs you use to run as a intrested in the build n size as to no watch to look when i buy myself the right dog for the job

[gibbo1973 187]

top quality pics ,guess the lad who s post it is will be a deerhound x fan soon ,

did the deerhounds run brown or blues when in comps???????????

[crossy terrier lad 2]

yh i work a mini deerhound look a like now that stands 23inch, would been ideal to drop on a older dog for my trip this year, but after talkin to a few chaps that no the score with this kinda dog . im going to wait till the reet pup comes along and take him up in his 2nd\ 3rd season long wait but i think it will be worth it

[poacher3161 1,766]

This small bitch faired well on grouse moors and any good dog will adapt to different ground one of the best dogs ive seen adapt to moorland was a dog called josh the great grand sire to lucky the dark destroyer who was an oldish dog [bANNED TEXT] he was first took on the moors all the best dogs i have seen adapt to this type of land have been lurcher to lurcher bred and two that i saw meet their end just happend to be greyhoundy types bred out of streight greyhounds.

[Romany 1,065]

Were all the deerhound coursing meets run on blue hares?.

 

No matie, Borders, Grantown on Spey and Tillypronie on blue hares..

In a nornmal season there were 10 events, the rest were on brown hare

There were also a lot of private run events, outsight the deerhound club..most of the ones I attended of this type were 8 dog stakes..

[gibbo1973 187]

did you give the blues alot more slip than the browns ?

or was the private ones a culling spree or private wager /banta to have a good day with dogs aswell

as a little gamble between your mates ??????

[Romany 1,065]

i romany they dont take to kindly to people poaching over the border judges are always harsh if you travel to poach ,bit more leniant if your local , just the way it is all lords estats well was, not now ,more free now , in places,had a fair few run ins probaly more than the border fox ,

 

They certainly dont Whin...

Been done twice over the border, in fact twice in over 40 years so not bad really see-ing how many times we have visited there, first at Duns, Sheriff Patterson, and at Haddington..thought we were going to get locked up at one point at Duns

[SMART DOG 340]

got a few mates on grouse moors there running a pup of mines 26 inch saluki lurchr and a wheaton lurcher cross saluk lurcher they do fine ,you want a dog up on his toes 26 good size ,nothing to small

stop talking garbage the best dog I have seen on the moors was 22tts why would you need a big dog

[SMART DOG 340]

got a few mates on grouse moors there running a pup of mines 26 inch saluki lurchr and a wheaton lurcher cross saluk lurcher they do fine ,you want a dog up on his toes 26 good size ,nothing to small

stop talking garbage the best dog I have seen on the moors was 22tts why would you need a big dog

[Romany 1,065]

did you give the blues alot more slip than the browns ?

or was the private ones a culling spree or private wager /banta to have a good day with dogs aswell

as a little gamble between your mates ??????

 

Private events we did the organised coursing bit, then, went for numbers, one dog one hare a deerhound bitch I had Becky got 14 one day, thats the best Ive done with a deerhound

 

On organised coursing events, a professional/semi professional slipper was always used, and judges too.

Alan Wilkinson was probably the best Ive seen as a slipper,

A slippers job on blue hares, on heather is one hell of a job, getting the dogs both sighted, two pretty large dogs pulling you over heather it is difficult, on one even on the borders the judge asked for longer slips three times till the hares were quite a long way off as the dogs were killing so well..on paper its supposed to be around -100 yards on heather, as we all know, coursing is not to kill..on private events weve let one dog loose and let them work the hares up and chase..

Ive had a go slipping on heather, never asked for another go, ha, ha...picking up is bad enough..

 

Not saying deerhounds are the best for this terrain, but, their stride and build certainly do help, and I enjoyed my times working them there, the picture above of two lurchers, now thats the stamp of lurchers we took up mostly, and they all did the buisiness

[Romany 1,065]

got a few mates on grouse moors there running a pup of mines 26 inch saluki lurchr and a wheaton lurcher cross saluk lurcher they do fine ,you want a dog up on his toes 26 good size ,nothing to small

stop talking garbage the best dog I have seen on the moors was 22tts why would you need a big dog

 

The best dog Ive seen on blue hares was 23 and a half inches