Hareydave 1,214 Posted February 12, 2015 Report Share Posted February 12, 2015 I get the same buzz ferreting coursing fishing, netting or watching a few finches in a tree.. I didn't learn much at school I spent most my time watching bullfinchs out the window an taking slaps..were did you get the buzz for hunting 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hareydave 1,214 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 what the story with the wee arrow...this was for the lurcher section Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hareydave 1,214 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 any chance a rerouting this back to the lurcher section Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tommy.c 859 Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 Lol.......... what a plonker.......... THL CLOWN...... ha ha ha ha ha ha PMSL ...... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hareydave 1,214 Posted February 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 (edited) Lol.......... what a plonker.......... THL CLOWN...... ha ha ha ha ha ha PMSL ...... you ok there tom there no need to be pulling your wire over it...site was on auto pilot.. maybe that what happn to you when there weeding crap out Edited February 13, 2015 by Hareydave Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Plummerterrier 291 Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 Are you ok mate some pretty strange posts recently? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
krawnden 1,036 Posted February 13, 2015 Report Share Posted February 13, 2015 I still remember where I got the buzz from clear as day even though it was over 40 years ago. As I kid I was passionate about wildlife (still am) and used to spend all my pocket money on wildlife related stuff. Used to buy bird feeders to hang in the garden, bought binoculars, bird watching books etc etc. I read loads of books on natural history, animal tracks, blah blah, blah. One of the books I read was "The Private Life of the Rabbit" by R.M. Lockley. Pretty dry reading matter for a 10 yr old kid - it's full of scientific sort of observations about rabbit behaviour - but I was fascinated by it, and wanted to try and observe the same sort of things in real life for myself. So I used to get up at the crack of dawn in the school holidays and go off with my binoculars to watch rabbits. I spent literally hours and hours and hours hidden away somewhere lying on my stomach watching rabbits through my binos. Some of the stuff I'd read about I got to witness for myself, and I also got to see a few things that hadn't been in the book. Anyhow, after I'd been doing this for quite a few months I suddenly realised it wasn't enough just to watch them from a distance. For some inexplicable reason this sweet little boy who used to watch every natural history documentary etc suddenly had an overwhelming urge to catch the little critters. I'd learnt enough about their habits from observing them that I felt I was in with a good chance, so I started creeping around the bushes with big stones, half bricks etc that I reckoned I'd easily be able to kill them with. Although I threw quite a few stones I never once hit a rabbit, never mind killed one! Looking back on it now it seems laughable, but I didn't have anybody to show me what to do, or take me out hunting, so I had to figure it all out for myself. No internet in those days so it was long hours spent in the library and the bookshop, and evenings poring over the Tideline and Coch-y-Bonddhu book catalogues. So the focus of my reading material shifted to stuff like trapping, catties, lurchers etc and it all went from there. But without a shadow of a doubt it all originally stemmed from reading that book of R.M. Lockley's... 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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