SUPER POACHERS ??????

[fred90 3,089]

1 hour ago, Greyman said:

Mate the truth is we were just criminals, and taking game just carried a lesser risk than robbing, walking into a trout farm in the middle of the night and netting out all the fish at a quid a piece was very lucrative and very low risk, I would drive over a hundred miles in my mk1 escort van for a night on the trout, most lurcher  work was more for fun than money unless you were constantly on the deer and fox’s, but snares were much more effective and less lightly to get you caught, so yes there is a lot of romantic nonsense written about it but people that were willing had some good years in the game but it was just a job we enjoyed and cash was still king  

mk1 escort van brings back memories. took over from mini van as many rabbiters vehicle of choice. 

[Greyman 25,151]

4 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

No one seriously after the money side of poaching would contemplate a running dog surely 

what can a lurcher possibly do that you could definitely achieve with  a .243 from the side of a woodblock ? 

I don’t know many lurchers that can install a salmon trap or gaff line 

A good runner could still bring in the bacon, when Fox pelts were fetching £25 a pop and a deer worth a £100 but it was just one tool in your box, eels used to bring in good money with no risk just putting traps in the ditches at the side of the road, there were seasons for most things obviously no one was interested in a scabby summer fox pelt or an earthie tasting winter trout, gun shots would give away your presence so it would be one shot and gone not very effective for a good bag, also modern silenced firearms were not that easy to come by it was just the odd old shitty shotgun and one lad I went out with had an old  Enfield 303 I think it was probably from ww2, but it did make the deer fall down if we could find some as they were quite rare, a night on the deer meant a drive down to Salisbury or Dorset from Bristol,now they are in the park opposite my house and worth nothing 

[Greyman 25,151]

36 minutes ago, fred90 said:

mk1 escort van brings back memories. took over from mini van as many rabbiters vehicle of choice. 

 I drove up to Tamworth in one to pick up a Hancock with a mate seemed like a right epic journey with military planning , I do it nowadays in about an hour and half go up there 3/4 times a year just to see an old mate and have a bit of fishing

[NEWKID 26,094]

22 hours ago, waltjnr said:

You would have loved to have lived those years ,times you cant even imagine ,but hey ho ,you young uns know best ! 

Give over....lol

[NEWKID 26,094]

7 hours ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Let’s have it right. 

Its very easy to go in about that aspect of lurcher work. 

But not many in reality are genuine poachers. 

We can all play the “ ive walked where I wanted “ crack. Anyone can ditch a dog out a van at a hare or jump a gate with a lamp for a spin on a few deer. 

But whose really going and cleaning estates out of pheasants and partridge ? 

That stuff has been dead since the 80s at least. And it was a handful of professional poachers doing it .

this great game bollocks belongs in the realms of fiction 

 

Theres poaching......and then theres poaching..!!

Unless its salmos or phessies it ain't poaching in my book...lol lol

[ftm 3,357]

Most of us "oldies" could write a fair few chapters in a book .I certainly could! Lol some of them would make you laugh others you would either have done yourselves or you might disapprove off 

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[byron 1,093]

your right there ftm....i think the eighties were the coming of the end of the old time's..thing's we got up to..walking the brussells up under the moon, after the wild fen pheasants,,whilst fowling down at wrangle....sunday mornings shooting pheasant out the car window on nickersons estate..and any other.getting dropped of by me mates brother,doing the pheasant wood's..he  used to feck of to louth for a bag of midget gems,then the twat forgot were we were..lol...shooting.. one or two sheep after a night out [booze eh]..at the local nighclub.using a noisy terrier when fox pelts were fetching good money.feck me i used to sell fox cubs in local paper for twenty five quid a go..  these were before mobile phone's etc..then that maniac went mad down in hungerford,and that tightened/ended the shooting up. i just like to watch these days..memories eh...

[shaaark 10,112]

32 minutes ago, byron said:

your right there ftm....i think the eighties were the coming of the end of the old time's..thing's we got up to..walking the brussells up under the moon, after the wild fen pheasants,,whilst fowling down at wrangle....sunday mornings shooting pheasant out the car window on nickersons estate..and any other.getting dropped of by me mates brother,doing the pheasant wood's..he  used to feck of to louth for a bag of midget gems,then the twat forgot were we were..lol...shooting.. one or two sheep after a night out [booze eh]..at the local nighclub.using a noisy terrier when fox pelts were fetching good money.feck me i used to sell fox cubs in local paper for twenty five quid a go..  these were before mobile phone's etc..then that maniac went mad down in hungerford,and that tightened/ended the shooting up. i just like to watch these days..memories eh...

Like you say mate, I think by 1995 the whole game really, was literally over. Was getting a bit silly for a good few years before the ban. 

And I've said this a few times on here, but, like you say, mobile phones, technology and the internet IS the final nail in the coffin for lurcher and terrier work.

Most people now with lurchers and/or terriers, can't even take their dogs just for a walk without every do gooder, tree hugging looney accusing them of allsorts, and threatening to call the law etc. f***ing world's gone mad. Glad I had the good years in it. 

[byron 1,093]

2 hours ago, shaaark said:

Like you say mate, I think by 1995 the whole game really, was literally over. Was getting a bit silly for a good few years before the ban. 

And I've said this a few times on here, but, like you say, mobile phones, technology and the internet IS the final nail in the coffin for lurcher and terrier work.

Most people now with lurchers and/or terriers, can't even take their dogs just for a walk without every do gooder, tree hugging looney accusing them of allsorts, and threatening to call the law etc. f***ing world's gone mad. Glad I had the good years in it. 

quick injection to make the dog throw up and curtains..yep,,like every thing else, the good/ exciting time's are gone forever..

[leegreen 2,099]

20 minutes ago, byron said:

 the good/ exciting time's are gone forever..

Not for everyone.

[byron 1,093]

things have moved on for me mate.65 i am today..i have not the stomach/need for the killing anymore..the last three years have been my worst..as you know mate my time is/has gone into the ds/bs..she keeps me occupied.lol...that does for me.and a fine bitch she is becoming..[no more chewing]...

[Elchapo 3,094]

I’m not old enough to have met any old time keeps and I’m thank full of that , however these days there’s nothing more I like than too sneak in to woods I’m not meant to be in and take couple pheasants , I admit I also drive the lanes and spot the odd bird up high in the head lights and take acouple but also like to have a slow walk through a wood in dark trying to spot them long tail feathers , also set acouple snares and body grip traps to catch couple three quarter grown rabbits for the pot , truth of it is I like all kinds off nocturnal sports bee it shooting birds trying to net rabbits and just found a perfect field with two hares in and two gate ways so hopefully try bit gate netting, I must admit I have been caught couple times but manage to talk my way out of it and I’m glad I didn’t get a cudgel over the back my head.

would I do it again if I had got caught back in the day ,,,,

probably so as im a  bit of a gluten for punishment lol 

[tatsblisters 7,915]

15 hours ago, ftm said:

Most of us "oldies" could write a fair few chapters in a book .I certainly could! Lol some of them would make you laugh others you would either have done yourselves or you might disapprove off 

I am only a footpath man these days and I some time's think did I realy do that or did that realy happen even though I have hundreds of old photos and a few paper clippings I have been tempted to put a match to them on the odd occasion as I would not want my grandkids to take an interest in poaching or any other criminal activity for that matter.

[ftm 3,357]

40 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

I am only a footpath man these days and I some time's think did I realy do that or did that realy happen even though I have hundreds of old photos and a few paper clippings I have been tempted to put a match to them on the odd occasion as I would not want my grandkids to take an interest in poaching or any other criminal activity for that matter.

I know poaching is illegal  but if you not robbing farms /buildings and  wrecking the fields I can think of a lot worse crimes going on at the minute. If my grandson follows the path I took I be quite pleased. If it keeps him from drugs knife crime robbery etc then I'm ok with that .but I see where your comming from mate

[Elchapo 3,094]

51 minutes ago, ftm said:

I know poaching is illegal  but if you not robbing farms /buildings and  wrecking the fields I can think of a lot worse crimes going on at the minute. If my grandson follows the path I took I be quite pleased. If it keeps him from drugs knife crime robbery etc then I'm ok with that .but I see where your comming from mate

Must admit I’d much rather my lad be out with me shooting couple birds than sat at home melting his brain behind a computer screen or on street corner smoking weed and rolling round streets in gangs