when hunting cover

[fay 75]

when hunting cover would u let your lurcher run with the dogs to watch them or hold on a slip through out the day ive found when i hold on the slip u can miss alot breking through the cover .what do use do ?

[J.DOG 1,355]

I hold the lurcher back to start with till it understands that the other dog is flushing stuff out then after that its always off lead

[fitchet 788]

Bit of both depending on ground and the dogs. Atb

[fay 75]

I hold the lurcher back to start with till it understands that the other dog is flushing stuff out then after that its always off lead

i do that my self doesnt take long before they cop dog in rabbit out off the lead catch simple i like to watch the dogs work to gether

[J.DOG 1,355]

I hold the lurcher back to start with till it understands that the other dog is flushing stuff out then after that its always off lead

i do that my self doesnt take long before they cop dog in rabbit out off the lead catch simple i like to watch the dogs work to gether

 

Yep it's brill when they work like a well oiled machine

[whippet 99 2,613]

let them run and do what comes natural to a pack, they wont learn nout on a lead..................

[troter58 1,711]

i always let them sort it out there selfs never have the lurcher on the slip no point really if its out the back and your stood on the front with the dog on the slip let them learn there trade. atb

[pernod 466]

A bit of both mate. If just out a mooch, then there is nothing better to watch than a lurcher following whats going on in cover.

But when after bigger things years ago we always got a lot more game by positioning the dogs where we anticipated a bolt would come. A wee bit like beating to waiting guns !!!!

 

 

yours in sport Pernod

[wuyang 513]

No slip for me, off from day one.

[Guest long-tail]

majority of the time all dogs are loose but then i bush a lot of hedgerows and the lurcher will stay fieldside keeping tabs on the terrier picking up the bolted rabbits but sometimes when working thick cover i put the lurcher on a slip otherwise she be in with the terrier then your certain to miss flushed game

[iceman001979 1,316]

Dog learn nothing being on a slip.He learn alot more off and with the others dogs does not take long tell they catch on

[j1985 1,984]

I hold the lurcher back to start with till it understands that the other dog is flushing stuff out then after that its always off lead

 

Same here mate.

[bird 10,014]

most times when out with other lads dogs, the other dogs let Bryn mark or go in cover, lol its quite strange really as the dogs, just do it with out being told.! Even my pup Buck just stands back like the other older dogs do, Bryn like a springer he marks+ goes in ,dont see many lurchers go in cover like him he marked these and got them .!

 

[nothernlite 18,268]

never have the dogs on the lead during the day let them work they soon get to know whats happening and work as a team

[Phil Lloyd 10,739]

when hunting cover would u let your lurcher run with the dogs to watch them or hold on a slip through out the day ive found when i hold on the slip u can miss alot breking through the cover .what do use do ?

 

For me,..this is what true 'lurcher work' is all about....

 

I like to let the dogs, 'see the rabbit, roe',.whatever,.and then act accordingly...

 

Slip leads are required when walking the stubble's and matching running dogs, against the hares,.but, for roustabout, bush busters and hunting type curs....freedom is the bye-word,...and if ya ain't gonna use a lurcher, like a lurcher,.then why fecking bother...

 

All the best, and good hunting,.regards, CHALKWARREN...