chartpolski 29,665 Posted Friday at 19:42 Report Share Posted Friday at 19:42 8 minutes ago, TOMO said: Did the same when I went to OZ...just asked a couple of chaps on here...good times 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 lived in Victoria so I had three months there and took up as many opportunities as I could . Cheers. 11 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 30,351 Posted Friday at 19:44 Report Share Posted Friday at 19:44 Always fancied travelling Europe running hares and deer... and as a young chap dreamed of Going round the middle east with the bedouin tribes and running there salukies...give that a swerve though now..lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
harryshounds 1,754 Posted Friday at 19:55 Report Share Posted Friday at 19:55 (edited) Good pack of Irish harriers and no deer about to riot on is my favorite day tbh. Im very happy with that, couple of good marks n dig or two..... that's my ideal day out but life doesn't allow for that these days so im happy just to be out mooching n ratting. I'm as happy as pig in shit to hunt away here in Ireland in good country with good bogs n cover but I would love a day out with a Fell pack across the water without any hassle from cops or antis etc....obviously. Edited Friday at 19:56 by harryshounds 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chartpolski 29,665 Posted Friday at 20:00 Report Share Posted Friday at 20:00 1 minute ago, harryshounds said: Good pack of Irish harriers and no deer about to riot on is my favorite day tbh. Im very happy with that, couple of good marks n dig or two..... that's my ideal day out but life doesn't allow for that these days so im happy just to be out mooching n ratting. I went out with the Barwon Hunt in Victoria, Australia; They had a mixed pack of Irish Harriers and English Foxhounds . Cheers. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Halfhound 1,060 Posted Friday at 20:21 Report Share Posted Friday at 20:21 20 minutes ago, chartpolski said: I went out with the Barwon Hunt in Victoria, Australia; They had a mixed pack of Irish Harriers and English Foxhounds . Cheers. Did they fight much? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chartpolski 29,665 Posted Friday at 20:24 Report Share Posted Friday at 20:24 2 minutes ago, Halfhound said: Did they fight much? No , and the Ozzies weren’t as anti English as some make out either They made me very welcome Cheers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Halfhound 1,060 Posted Friday at 20:40 Report Share Posted Friday at 20:40 14 minutes ago, chartpolski said: No , and the Ozzies weren’t as anti English as some make out either They made me very welcome Cheers. I’m sure they did fair play. Never been one for travelling and I hardly will at this stage. Great to see the pictures. What’s the hunting country like in Australia? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chartpolski 29,665 Posted Friday at 20:51 Report Share Posted Friday at 20:51 2 minutes ago, Halfhound said: I’m sure they did fair play. Never been one for travelling and I hardly will at this stage. Great to see the pictures. What’s the hunting country like in Australia? Big and flat, no hedges and few fences. Some rock piles. Cheers. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Halfhound 1,060 Posted Friday at 20:56 Report Share Posted Friday at 20:56 4 minutes ago, chartpolski said: Big and flat, no hedges and few fences. Some rock piles. Cheers. More about the hounds than the horses then. As it should be. Great pics. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackmag 6,818 Posted Friday at 20:57 Report Share Posted Friday at 20:57 3 hours ago, Bakerboy said: Badger digging, did it legally back in the day, would love to live somewhere it's still legal A proper test of a terrier you soon find out what you have like you would love to do it legally again bb 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lenmcharristar 10,643 Posted Friday at 21:28 Report Share Posted Friday at 21:28 2 hours ago, waltjnr said: Mussies in any UK town Hard target uk edition, if you get to the river you get a british passport Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 31,897 Posted Friday at 21:28 Report Share Posted Friday at 21:28 Ive always preferred what we used to call the old 45lb v 45lb but in terms of pure hunting for me the ultimate would be man against animal like those San people in the Kalahari literally tracking and pursuing an antelope or something,using their physical advantages in order to exhaust it until it drops,persistence hunting i think they call it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stavross 20,229 Posted Friday at 21:34 Report Share Posted Friday at 21:34 (edited) For me it would be foxes on the lamp, it was one of the first things I was introduced to when I was a kid, squeaking them in before lighting them up and letting the dog ( s) go, it was proper exciting for a young lad id love to do driven wild boar as well Edited Friday at 21:47 by Stavross 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jukel123 10,306 Posted Friday at 22:01 Report Share Posted Friday at 22:01 (edited) I make no distinction. I just love hunting. Started off chasing beetles, earwigs and centipedes which I found under grass sods when I was 3. I've been obsessed ever since. I progressed as a kid onto frogs, newts, perch, pike, birds' nests in bombed buildings, butterflies, rats, rabbits anything. I've snared, netted, shot, coursed, and catapulted quarry. If I go on holiday, I'll spend my days chasing butterflies, lizards and geckos. I remember a holiday on a Greek island when one of my sons was about 20. We spent the days spearfishing and hunting anything that moved under rocks and discarded sheets of corrugated iron. It was one of the best weeks of my life. I've fished commercially, fished for course fish and caught salmon, sea trout and stalked red deer. I've coursed and stalked roe deer. I just love hunting in whatever form. I've often wondered where it comes from. There must be something in the genes. I was brought up in the original smokey old town , Salford. I only saw the countryside when we were taken there once a year by a bloke from Salford Lads' Club. But that experience of the countryside stuck and I was determined to live in the country, away from the slums, the violence, the low life round the docks and the factories belching eye watering smut and lung busting acrid smoke. For me, a day's ferreting is as good as stalking. A day on the pigeons as good as a morning flight of geese. And If I'm really stuck, I'll go pond dipping in my wildlife pond.lol Some men are techies, some are farmers, some shopkeepers, some warriors, others sportsmen. Me? I'm a hunter. Edited Saturday at 13:13 by jukel123 7 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bendigo 2,180 Posted Friday at 22:23 Report Share Posted Friday at 22:23 My choices if st Peter sends me back for one more day of my choosing... New forest hounds hunting fox in the big woodlands Hunting roe deer with a full pack But if I could have one thing back it would be one more morning with the Pennine hounds on the edge of the local moors on the rocks. Rattle a couple of cubs around early season, a mark, a dig and the mixed smell of crushed bracken, wet hounds and fox and a sip of whiskey from my hip flask.....but most of all the people who were there but are no longer with us. Just one more morning with those once familiar faces. 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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