ijf 111 Posted November 11, 2021 Report Share Posted November 11, 2021 On 27/10/2021 at 19:41, Maximus Ferret said: All dairy and beef near me with electric fences everywhere. Some dogs can't cope. A wee bit further afield is rocky mountain and forestry. Those fences mean green fields though! Ill be down that way later Quote Link to post
Maximus Ferret 2,062 Posted November 11, 2021 Report Share Posted November 11, 2021 1 hour ago, ijf said: Those fences mean green fields though! Ill be down that way later Good night for it. I'll look out for you 1 Quote Link to post
ijf 111 Posted November 11, 2021 Report Share Posted November 11, 2021 7 minutes ago, Maximus Ferret said: Good night for it. I'll look out for you Great to be back at it. Hopefully the cattle in now this weekend. I will be out all day with my own dogs saturday and with hounds Sunday 1 Quote Link to post
ijf 111 Posted November 22, 2021 Report Share Posted November 22, 2021 On 11/11/2021 at 17:26, Maximus Ferret said: Good night for it. I'll look out for you Plenty foxes about Maximus but plenty of lads making them wide to the lamp Quote Link to post
Maximus Ferret 2,062 Posted November 22, 2021 Report Share Posted November 22, 2021 43 minutes ago, ijf said: Plenty foxes about Maximus but plenty of lads making them wide to the lamp Always the case but I'm not that bothered myself. I'm more into catching stuff I can eat. Edible stuff's a bit thin on the ground too after the two lockdowns. Quote Link to post
Saltmoon 2,208 Posted November 25, 2021 Report Share Posted November 25, 2021 On 27/10/2021 at 18:11, SheepChaser said: I was out lamping last night, having a good few runs and it made me think. . . . . So I’d better say first that this isn’t a dig at anyone or me trying to say my dogs are great, thought I’d better get that clear before someone got butt hurt ...... So pretty much all of the ground I run is big arable with thin hedges about the place, woods, rough patches etc but not a fence or wall in sight. If stuff is out in the open on these big fields it is usually all just down to the quality of the dog and the quarry as to whether it ends up on the deck or not. However a lot of the time the quarry are near wood edges etc and a hell of a lot of slips end up going into it through the woods, sometimes the dog wins and sometimes it doesn’t. When I go elsewhere and we are in smaller fields which are fenced or walled (especially those which are double fenced with a big thick hedge) it makes some quarry a lot easier and some I think harder .....a friend of mine once said “fences make hero’s”. When I lived back in Wales I was running a lot of small fields (20/30 acres being a large field) with fences and although sometimes you got done by some thing getting through the fence into the hedge and needed a fast dog to turn it off, the bigger quarry would generally be pretty well screwed. This obviously makes a big different to catch rare and what dog suits. Im just curious as to what other members have on their ground and what they prefer to run etc etc My lamping is in smaller type fields where the hedge line is close so the dog must be good at turning none of this cruse ship turning alot of the rabbits caught are on the hedge line after being turned a couple times better when it's turned back out into the field though, I think it all comes down to having the right sorts for the land you hunt, like if your dogs are use to running massive open land then maybe they wouldn't fair so well in smaller fields and same with my dogs they might not fair so well at your type of land . I feel this should be tested properly for science so what's the postcode? I'll get the dogs preped and ready Quote Link to post
SheepChaser 8,083 Posted November 25, 2021 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2021 5 minutes ago, Saltmoon said: My lamping is in smaller type fields where the hedge line is close so the dog must be good at turning none of this cruse ship turning alot of the rabbits caught are on the hedge line after being turned a couple times better when it's turned back out into the field though, I think it all comes down to having the right sorts for the land you hunt, like if your dogs are use to running massive open land then maybe they wouldn't fair so well in smaller fields and same with my dogs they might not fair so well at your type of land . I feel this should be tested properly for science so what's the postcode? I'll get the dogs preped and ready You’re welcome to come visit. 1 Quote Link to post
Moocher71 4,049 Posted November 26, 2021 Report Share Posted November 26, 2021 She got a thing for walls Quote Link to post
stevemac 421 Posted November 27, 2021 Report Share Posted November 27, 2021 Rich dairy farm land to scrub and wide open plains 11 Quote Link to post
Saltmoon 2,208 Posted November 27, 2021 Report Share Posted November 27, 2021 1 minute ago, stevemac said: Rich dairy farm land to scrub and wide open plains That's some pack you have there Quote Link to post
stevemac 421 Posted November 27, 2021 Report Share Posted November 27, 2021 1 minute ago, Saltmoon said: That's some pack you have there Thanks they could handle most 1 Quote Link to post
dodger 2,751 Posted November 27, 2021 Report Share Posted November 27, 2021 9 hours ago, stevemac said: Rich dairy farm land to scrub and wide open plains Nice team your deerhound crosses sure look a cut above what's over here these days 1 Quote Link to post
Thefieldsaredark 19 Posted November 28, 2021 Report Share Posted November 28, 2021 On 27/10/2021 at 22:03, dogmandont said: 10 acres is a big field round these parts, it's like a patchwork quilt all divided up with a mixture of hedges and ditches, barb wire is everywhere and sheep netting with double barb wire on top is getting more and more common as lowland farmers change from beef to lamb. Need a dog with a bit of pace that can jump and push on or you'll not get much. Plodders are worse than useless. Same around me the fence helps bounce rabbits back in to play so to speak but only if dog has a bend on them first Quote Link to post
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