D Brian Plummer

[Moocher71 4,049]

16 minutes ago, mackem said:

Please do mate, I would be interested

I'll try find it 

[mackem 25,987]

3 minutes ago, Moocher71 said:

I'll try find it 

I looked for it, saw her hawking in maryland last year then got distracted by a bloke lamping coyotes with his eagle

 

[Moocher71 4,049]

1 hour ago, mackem said:

I looked for it, saw her hawking in maryland last year then got distracted by a bloke lamping coyotes with his eagle

 

Great bit of film ,I had a look but couldn't find one I watched but it was about mentoring new comers to falconry in new York. 

 

[Black neck 15,814]

6 hours ago, Moocher71 said:

Great bit of film ,I had a look but couldn't find one I watched but it was about mentoring new comers to falconry in new York. 

 

Jacked on the coyote 

[tatsblisters 9,364]

Think i have mentioned it before only met Plummer once when he was signing books at Chatsworth show in the 80s and he came across similar to how a company director in some cases talks to those below him. Though the old boys from my area who spent time in his company when he lived in Rotherham always said he was smarter than the average bear.

[Moocher71 4,049]

14 hours ago, mango said:

Merle bitch is Merle x Fathom other photo is a dog out of her by a dog called Duke and is a litter brother to Glen, there were three dogs in the litter, Plummer had the other one and if memory serves me it looked similar to the collie marked one on the other post.

Mango they look nice type and like look of the dog in bottom pic ,me older brother and uncul had few pups from hancock/Plummer back in 80s 

Did you ever meet mo smith by any chance ,he good friend of me unculs 

[chartpolski 22,919]

2 hours ago, tatsblisters said:

Think i have mentioned it before only met Plummer once when he was signing books at Chatsworth show in the 80s and he came across similar to how a company director in some cases talks to those below him. Though the old boys from my area who spent time in his company when he lived in Rotherham always said he was smarter than the average bear.

I'd say he must have been smart/intelligent to have written and marketed his books the way he did.

Evidently he was the most stolen author from libraries at one time !

We all know he used huge amounts of "poetic lisence", (some would say plagiarism), but his books were required reading for most young lads starting out in the game !

I never met him , but know one first hand tale; he came up to Lemington in Northumberland to interview some pals of mine for one of his books, and possibly buy some game birds and miniature working jack Russell's from them.

After listening to him for about ten minutes, the literally threw him out of the pub. They had no time for bullshitters !

Cheers.

 

Edited March 23, 2022 by chartpolski

[jukel123 7,957]

6 hours ago, tatsblisters said:

Think i have mentioned it before only met Plummer once when he was signing books at Chatsworth show in the 80s and he came across similar to how a company director in some cases talks to those below him. Though the old boys from my area who spent time in his company when he lived in Rotherham always said he was smarter than the average bear.

At the beginning of this thread there's a lad who refers to him as "Mr Plummer" and appears to think he was some sort of God. Guess he was just a young lad with some spare hero worship to get rid of.

I can well imagine Plummer  addressing others as inferiors. I suppose the game he got into: lurchers and ferreting, are traditionally working class pursuits. So he no doubt thought he was superior as he was from a middle  class background, in a middle class job,  and was, in effect slumming it with us peasants----- "educating"  us in the process. I think he would have got right up my nose!

 But as a lot of lads have said., he saw an opportunity in the market. Churned out a lot of books on others' experiences and, in the process, entertained and encouraged  youngsters to get involved in fieldsports. Before the Shooting News, the only access we had to lurcher literature were the ads in Exchange and Mart, so his articles were interesting to a lot of us. It's only in hindsight we realise he was a plonker.

Edited March 23, 2022 by jukel123

[mackem 25,987]

2 hours ago, jukel123 said:

But as a lot of lads have said., he saw an opportunity in the market. Churned out a lot of books on others' experiences and, in the process, entertained and encouraged  youngsters to get involved in fieldsports. 

Right place, right time, prolific author churning books out in different names, he hit the jackpot, he was THE man, I wonder if he owned or had a stake in Huddlesford Publications? And why did he always harp on about being skint ffs

[New moon 250]

Old plummer always had that school teacher thing about him, that never offended me, as im not that insecure especially in the field or around working dogs, plenty of fakes in the dog game, always as been, always will be.

[jukel123 7,957]

7 minutes ago, mackem said:

Right place, right time, prolific author churning books out in different names, he hit the jackpot, he was THE man, I wonder if he owned or had a stake in Huddlesford Publications? And why did he always harp on about being skint ffs

How much would he have earned for a book do you reckon?

How much would he have been paid by Shoooting News per week?

 

[mackem 25,987]

Just now, jukel123 said:

How much would he have earned for a book do you reckon?

How much would he have been paid by Shoooting News per week?

 

Shooting news wasn't that much, I wrote a couple of articles, 4 or 5 I think, can't remember how much the cash was, £18?£20? Certainly wasn't life changing, but the number of books he churned out could have bought his cottage if he was publishing them himself, and his teachers salary to top it off, he wasn't skint unless he had a secret crack and hooker habit he was keeping under wraps

[New moon 250]

If he had brass you certainly couldn't see it around him, dont think you would write books to a very limited amount of readers if motivated by money alone, that said he was jew blooded

[New moon 250]

And lets be honest, some of his books well worth the money.

[mackem 25,987]

2 minutes ago, New moon said:

If he had brass you certainly couldn't see it around him,

Loads of people like that though, I have an acquaintance who to all appearances is a dossier, looks like he lives in a squat (currently he may look OK as he is serving four and a half years), but he has a collection of watches valued at well over a million quid. Ya just never know with people.