Lurchers...

[mushroom 14,010]

Lmao some tongues out tonight

 

Darcy will you write my book??? A dickhead in Spain

[TOMO 28,403]

How Is dick head mate,,,has his throat cleared up,,,pm me

[tb25 4,627]

am still waiting mush for pics and a little wright up...;lol

[tb25 4,627]

hesnot called in a name like that has he tomo ffs

[mushroom 14,010]

It's Friday night ya cnuts I'm sat here in physio ffs lol

 

I'll do the write up this weekend ok

[lurchers 2,974]

From reading this thread times have changed over the yrs,theres not as much game about now as what there used to be and as for books ive only read a few from stories which i no is unture so that puts me off.when you tell the youngsters what you used to catch and see they just look at you as if you are stupid or lying.same as 1 of the stories in running dog adiction.

[J Darcy 5,871]

From reading this thread times have changed over the yrs,theres not as much game about now as what there used to be and as for books ive only read a few from stories which i no is unture so that puts me off.when you tell the youngsters what you used to catch and see they just look at you as if you are stupid or lying.same as 1 of the stories in running dog adiction.

There's still some tackle about matey, but only to those with a set of wheels, a desire bordering on obsession and a keen cunning running dog..... It's all that bit harder though I reckon, technology hasn't gone in our favour. There's less wilderness about now, houses popping up everywhere, all the rough fields of my youth seems to have gone to horse fields, each surrounded by electric fence and with the owners of the nags thinking they own the bleedin world! They don't realise that you've been walking those fields since before they were born.... It all counts for nothing.....

I feel sorry for the youngsters coming through, they've got to be savvy from the start to survive in this game. Whereas we had a bit of leaway, things have tightened up and only those with a brain will last the distance.

Where it all ends I don't know.....I tell the youngsters who I've shown the ropes to."enjoy your sport today, because in ten years time today will be looked back on as a 'golden era".... Good Hunting.

[morton 5,369]

I managed to exercise the mutts without the need of a car and still accounted for my share,the car made it easier to get to and haul the catch.Transport opened up the country to the discerning fur and feather forager,yet the lads who hunted on foot often had the better jukel?.Maybe a book that covers the progression from foot to wheel and the pro,s and cons that go with each.

[Bosun11 537]

Too true JD, i was only talking to Timmyk this weekend about the loss of the 'wild' and 'waste' fields, this countrys being cleaned up and sterilised to the detriment of hunters and hunted. Sad times...

[beast 1,884]

when i was young i would walk miles and miles, probably ten miles a day at least, and coming home with even a single rabbit was a real red letter day. i spent many years hunting land where game was very thin on the ground, caught quite a bit, but had i been driving at that time i would have travelled further afield. and yet, working a dog in these barren conditions not only turned every catch into a real event, but it taught a dog to really hunt, really get on and seek out its prey, and to try desperately not to let it escape. these were cur dogs, and they would learn every trick that a wild dog, fox or coyote learns in order to make a catch. not just running down quarry with sheer speed and wind, but nose, patience and brain were equally important.

when i got onto better land, the dogs i had in later life were putting a lot more away, but they never quite turned out like those sneaky, crafty old things i had as a young man. you could let them out the back door, and they would come back an hour, two hours, or whatever, later and always have something for you.

 

those are the sort of dogs i would like to read about, reckon there are any still about?

[2.8 guy 403]

Like you say most of its all been written about, and forums like this is like a book that keeps getting updated and added to constantly and any poacher worth his salt wouldnt be saying feck all to anyone, But

A book on modern day poaching lads using motors to drive the land a book that would try get why they do it across to those who dont, A book that would get across the adrenalin rush of having a subaru airborne playing the cat and mouse game with the cossers the scrapes and the running battles with the keepers getting rammed your names been put in the little black book the early morning knocks on the doors.

The nights were youve been bellied up and how you got out of it or not, the mods to the motors the bodges youve done to get you home then the distance traveled and the quarry they'd caught the men and the dogs and the motors and sometime there losses. No need for a motor LOL

 

Or a book called close calls a book just on those moments when capture looked like a given and some how you managed to escape through cunning, adrenalin or just shear luck.

 

But therer is one book that ive often thought has been over looked and thats the obedience world of lurchers since the tests was set up in the 80s the dogs and people and the judges and the shows then the anecdotes what goes on behind the scenes the training and the efforts and the breeding behind the dogs

[J Darcy 5,871]

Beast i don't know how many of those types there'd be left today. It seems we've all gone a bit too serious and specialised.......My first lurcher was one such dog, a bit of a cur if I'm honest but he caught some gear and helped me through a difficult childhood. Lived til he was twelve...I often think of him all these years later..... before that dog came along I was hunting with a gang of local lads with a variety of mongrels, you might call them a bobbery pack if you wanted to glorify them. In two whole seasons hunting, both summer and winter as we didn't know about seasons, we caught the grand total of two rabbits and those were caught on the same day. Those two rabbits really meant something to an ultra-keen young hunter......thought I'd won the lottery!

[Bosun11 537]

just plodding on meself,still get runs for the dogs get out the same as i always have,gonna do a movie me f**k them books haha atb at

If theres anyone i know that could have movie done about em, its you AT. ; )

[Qbgrey 4,259]

I THINK ITS A DYING BREED, TOMO,,, 1 MAN AND HIS LURCHER DOING EVERY THINK WITH IT,,,,,,,,TO ME THATS A LURCHER MAN,,,,,AND NOT A 1 TRICK PONY TYPE OF GUY,,,POACHER OR NOT,,,,, AND TO FIND MODERN 1 TODAY, THERES THE ODD 1 STILL ABOUT

tjones you hit the nail with that.too many sat night hunters about.i also tink the uk lands getting swallowed up,solar panels,houses,long runs of poles for apples,rhubarb,raspsberrys,tunnels,you name it your best open ground gone.

im also of te belief that ,most people think lurchers run and kill everthing,if you tell em them stock broke,retrieve,ferret,lamp,track,draw,and more they look at you wierd.

i lamp alone or with my very good friend,ive been out with complete dicks whos dogs unfit,and have no idea of dogs welfare etc.i dont travel miles to run my dog cause im lucky to have good ground near by.but if i didnt then travelling would not be a prob.

another obstable is farmers naturally hate lurchers,but i can say ive got a few old boys on side after seeing me dog go.they talking about it in the pub.

every one runs thier dogs differently,theirs still a few fellas keeping the breeding real,sadly thiers more ,and more dicks with point and fire untrained lurchers.anyway said enough .

[blackmaggie 3,377]

sadly thats so true obgrey i think when folk see all theses pics and storys on the net they want that instant success without really putting the ground work in you just need to look at how many dogs are for sale then look at the good dog men and how many they sell you would be lucky to get a stud never mind a sale of them sign of the times with the net etc