MR TEA POT 1,287 Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 watched this back in the 80's. 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rabbit Hunter 6,608 Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 What an egotistical, full of himself gobshite. 2 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rabbit Hunter 6,608 Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 1 minute ago, W. Katchum said: Wrong thread, fuji’s Thread is the other one Lmao. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The one 8,397 Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 No seen it before got to be worth a look ?. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cragman 2,635 Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 He had an arrogance about him and was always “right”. I enjoyed his books as a young man and that’s all. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,973 Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 I'd have loved to have read his threads/posts on here. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 23,785 Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 15 minutes ago, ChrisJones said: I'd have loved to have read his threads/posts on here. I wonder how he would have fared in this age of transparency. 4 1 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,973 Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, W. Katchum said: He’d a left here after multiple accounts an finally settled on facebook The offliner would have been priceless! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,973 Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 4 minutes ago, W. Katchum said: Never say never Markbrick and Plummer in the car park outside the Red Lion. First to knit 10 nets takes the pot. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dewi 187 Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 Never seen this before but heard about it, and was told that the fox at the end travelled all the way from S Wales just to be in the film Having seen it now I can easily believe that it arrived in the same sack it left in... 1 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
steve66 3,086 Posted November 13, 2018 Report Share Posted November 13, 2018 3 hours ago, W. Katchum said: He’d a left here after multiple accounts an finally settled on facebook Plumber and brick on the same forum , now theres entertainment lol 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scothunter 12,609 Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 Yea he told a tall tale and maybe dramatised the truth,but let's be honest I haven't read a book that wasn't. Say what you like he lived the way he wanted and I suspect like me as a kid most got into it after reading his books I was the usual kid with an air rifle going out shooting at anything that moved song birds etc even the arse of mates lol So it showed me the error of doing such things and found a new respect to wildlife and hunting Was given a loan of one of his books and was hooked on them. They were funny and yea educational to a degree. Got my first ferret and lurcher of the back of reading his books. He even replied to a letter I sent him when I was 16 still have it. Many years later I met the man and he was approachable and polite. . 9 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
j j m 6,481 Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 interesting Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Greyman 25,259 Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 He was a glorified puppy farmer who built a small empire on bullshit and when more knowledgable types like harcombe came along and exposed him he ran off to live in Scotland as a recluse still farming dogs but white Alsatians, as Scot says he still got many of us started in the game, I actually made the 250 mile round trip to go up and see him in a mk1 escourt van on an old chicken farm near Lichfield were him and Hancock were churning out some proper Unworked unproven collie crosses like a conveyor belt, my mate actually bought a pup that went right back to his original dogs and it was absolutely shite, my £2.50 whippet cross from the dogs home knocked spots off it in everything, even foxes that were earning us a living back then, I think it was two year old and around 27" ats before it took a fox, you would have starved to death if you thought one of his dogs were going to keep you alive as he claimed in the book merle, happy days though 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stumfelter 3,032 Posted November 14, 2018 Report Share Posted November 14, 2018 7 hours ago, scothunter said: Yea he told a tall tale and maybe dramatised the truth,but let's be honest I haven't read a book that wasn't. Say what you like he lived the way he wanted and I suspect like me as a kid most got into it after reading his books I was the usual kid with an air rifle going out shooting at anything that moved song birds etc even the arse of mates lol So it showed me the error of doing such things and found a new respect to wildlife and hunting Was given a loan of one of his books and was hooked on them. They were funny and yea educational to a degree. Got my first ferret and lurcher of the back of reading his books. He even replied to a letter I sent him when I was 16 still have it. Many years later I met the man and he was approachable and polite. . Apart from the letter and meeting the man you've just described my young life to a tee. He must have put so many lads on to doing more than just air rifles. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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