Surprises When Digging

[Hands of Stone 154]

I dug to a ferret and broke through to a fox once. glad i broke through right on top and didnt have to reach up the tube! Luckily the jil was unharmed

[david jones 97]

Didn't dig to but bolted a fox last year bloody nearly sh#t me self, me heart sank I thought that's it me ferrets done for.

So relieved when they come out unharmed.

[mad4it 693]

same as david jones I bolted a fox once and thought my ferret was dead but she came out of another hole. ive also seen a adder coiled up in the entrance of a fox earth once

[gnipper 5,968]

A shellduck in a purse net was a bit of a surprise, so was getting 8 rabbits in a stop end the first time we did some new permission too.

[Jamie93 57]

Was ferreting a small 4 holer a couple of seasons ago when my hob decided to lay up. Gave it 10 minutes then out came the spade. About a foot into the dig when all of a sudden a huge dog fox bolted. His head was stuck in the net tight and I shat myself. He managed to free himself and scarpered. I thought my ferret was a gonna but out he walked without a mark.

[gnipper 5,968]

I think I must be one of the only ferreters that's never bolted a fox or found a ferret.

[wildman 374]

have bolted hare,stoat,mink dug down to hedgehog ,grass snake but never fox dogs once put one up from cover and i watched it go down a rabbit set we had just ferreted no doult one day i.ll drop on one good luck this season lads my first trip next sunday

[WEDGEY 749]

Bolted fox

CRUMLIN

[pie-eater 377]

Only things Ive bolted apart from rabbits are rats and stoats.

[northern lad 2,292]

Dropped a couple of jills into a small warren last season,out shot a bunny....with THREE ferrets behind it,the new addition even had its own collar on it

[The one 8,398]

Rats ,cats stoats and weasels once had two hedge hogs the ferrets where going crazy foaming at the mouth trying to bite them had a couple of foxes bolt once a Jill didn't show at a three holer dug down it was a vixen with three cubs ,craziest thing that ever bolted was a bantam cockerel

[norseman 424]

I can barely bolt rabbits

[RossM 7,979]

Bolted a mink once, it went down another warren so bolted it again to the shotgun...

[gnipper 5,968]

Dropped a couple of jills into a small warren last season,out shot a bunny....with THREE ferrets behind it,the new addition even had its own collar on it

Lucky b*****d ?

[The one 8,398]

Bolted a mink once, it went down another warren so bolted it again to the shotgun...

I was ferreting a wood for the commission and i looked over and there was a big light coloured head watching me out the next burrow i fired in the jills but they made nothing of it . I always wondered if it was a mink or a large hob ferret