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I was on Ozziedogs and Boar Dogs forums, both closed down now. I got loads of offers for coursing , working lurchers and terriers to fox and going out with the local hound pack.  My daughter li

For me I think it was the hunting instinct that never goes away. Being able to outwit the target quarry whether it be animal, bird or fish.  Probably started by catching birds with a garden sieve

Started off with air rifles, then ratting with terriers, then ferreting, then foxing with terriers, then lamping lurchers. Did a few years rough shooting and wildfowling but for me it was all abo

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24 minutes ago, Rickshaw swami said:

 

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Have you ever put a dog on an otter mate ?

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5 hours ago, WILF said:

Have you ever put a dog on an otter mate ?

They changed our laws a few years back so otters can only be trapped nowadays. Any encounter I have now is accidental.  Taken preban.

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4 hours ago, Rickshaw swami said:

They changed our laws a few years back so otters can only be trapped nowadays. Any encounter I have now is accidental.  Taken preban.

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I’d imagine they are one rough deal for a dog ? 

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I’d love to have been a PH in post ww1 era Africa or to hunted with Corbett in India for empirical man eating leopards 

I’d love to have , in another life , driven the plains of the mid west with a truck loaded with hard and cold bloods to drop onto coyotes and hares and watch them disappear into the horizon 

id like to have walked the frozen forests of Canada with a bow with chuck Adam’s in search of the next pope and young record specimen 

but mainly , I’m thankful that I’ve had some great crack with some great people and some fantastic animals in an era when it wasn’t such a f***ing naus to get out with a running dog 

something my boy , will sadly never experience 

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I can see the appeal of hunting exotic quarry in far away lands, less appealing the older that I get, but for me it would just be the British Isles. No better "country" in the world, no better range of quarry for the sporting dogs that we developed and perfected. So a time machine, rather than a large bank account or sense of adventure needed. 

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Id love to hunt a mink along a river and put him to a hole and scratch him out with my terrier....Ive never seen in the wild but I'm sure my lad has given tongue on one a couple of times when hunting along local streams and I think he marked a hole before that something bolted unseen from. Like a rat hole but had bones n feathers in it. 

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8 hours ago, harryshounds said:

Id love to hunt a mink along a river and put him to a hole and scratch him out with my terrier....Ive never seen in the wild but I'm sure my lad has given tongue on one a couple of times when hunting along local streams and I think he marked a hole before that something bolted unseen from. Like a rat hole but had bones n feathers in it. 

The dogs have to live in the shed for at least a week if they kill. The buggers stink and you cant get it off.

Cheers Arry

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18 minutes ago, oxo said:

Threads a great read but it shows how much times have changed. Makes you yearn for the past.

It certainly does mate . I remember in the 80s and 90s working down the pit and hod carrying on building sites and nobody would bat an eyelid when bringing and selling game i had caught with my dogs wether rabbits hare's or venison i dread to think what the reaction would be now in the workplace place probably some idiot putting it on social media or phoning crime stoppers. 

 

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1 minute ago, tatsblisters said:

It certainly does mate . I remember in the 80s and 90s working down the pit and hod carrying on building sites and nobody would bat an eyelid when bringing and selling game i had caught with my dogs wether rabbits hare's or venison i dread to think what the reaction would be now in the workplace place probably some idiot putting it on social media or phoning crime stoppers. 

 

You would be up the HR office. Yeah different world now gone are the days when you could walk down the high street with a shot gun under your arm and pop in for a pint .

Cheers Arry

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