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[leethedog 3,071]

We call those drocs mate ,they hold and usually quick affair too .ATB FD

Round me they range from 10inch to about 5 foot diameter and 20 - 40 foot long I know most spots from when I had long dogs

Edited November 19, 2015 by leethedog

[pablo esc 1,598]

Good stuff man. It give u lad great confidence too and to watch one run

[neil cooney 10,415]

There's a man made shore that we do and have done for years with great success.A couple of year back we put a dog of mine in [LUGS] and he bolted a fox but the lurchers missed it and it got back in the shore again.This shore was usually a straight forward affair,in 1 end out the other,about 100yds in lenght.The lads again took up positions with the lurchers but this time after half an hour nothing so on with the locater to find the terrier.I moved up and down the lenght of the shore but not a thing,not even the slightest mark.We then decided that it had to be the locater that was f****d as the coller had only new battereys installed that very morn so i headed for the van which was parked up in the yard about another 100 yds away the top end of the shore.I was still messing with the BnF when i started to get a signal,i was about 40 yds of the dog but was geting closer as i neared the gable of the farmers house.I came to where the farmer had dug a shore to bring services to a new part of the house and got a mark of 2mtr and when i jumped down into the trench i could clearly hear the dog just at the side of the bank and after pulling away a few rocks revealed both dog and fox.The farmer had broke through the old shore to bring in his services but you could clearly see where the original old shore carried on down towards the field at the front of his house.I also remember a dog belonging to Neil Cooney in this same shore years ago and same story only it was the old knocker boxes back then and we did not locate the dog,he eventually came out hours later with all the signs that he had killed his fox.We have done this place hundreds of times and them are the only couple of mishaps we have had.

You could write a small book on that particular drain Fatman.

My fathers lurcher was killed at it but proved how game he was before he died and your little lakeland , Tiny, and one of my own terriers all had there last hunts there.

Then there's the time four foxes bolted out of it and none accounted for, LOL.

[Rabbit Hunter 6,612]

Sounds like a very productive one!

[leethedog 3,071]

Took young Joe to a couple spots today nothing home in n the handy puppy place im ashamed to say out of frustration I took him to a bigger spot and he flew in and found after about 20 minutes and bayed for around 10 minutes after which time they moved .after a further 5 or so minutes Joe popped up on the other side of the earth just to drop my in a different eye a further 5 minutes he showed again looking confused so I leaded him up and left

[pablo esc 1,598]

Hard to say pal, he mightn be experieced enough yet for place like that or he might not have it in him. Back to basics and dont write it off but it a good age now for seasön and fairness

[leethedog 3,071]

He was frantic to get back in . I put it down to a loss and unable to find again by the way he was baying id say he had the fox in front of him at one point

[pablo esc 1,598]

That shoud be a good sign and hopefully a good starting curve.

[Robo1985 0]

Can't beat bringing on a young pup in its first season doing same myself with my pup that I kept back for myself

[leethedog 3,071]

First dig to young Joe today nice little one hole spot under an earth floored barn around 1m 20 minutes in all the lad done me proud

[Bustersback!!! 23]

Fair play, stick to the small places for this season, the small ones can still bite you on the ass every now and again.