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  1. Deerhunter1
    Yeah of course it is but how many pure Salukis are killing hares every week over here?
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    Greyhound blood is hugely under valued, people don’t realise how important it is. Back in the days before the ban you wouldn’t be having much success on deer either with a pure saluki that’s a fact & I’ve never heard of one that would do a turn on foxes.
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    Without greyhound blood very few hares would be killed at all
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    I had a dog a few years back now he was fairly tightly bred, all the usual names in there, would’ve said he was as well bred as you could get, what a useless object it was, couldn’t get it anywhere near fit every time it ran it came back lame, didn’t know which leg to limp on half the time. First and only time I tried that particular line of dogs I won’t mention any names at the risk of offending anyone but definitely not for me
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    Some people swear by line breeding I’ve never tried it myself but I can vouch for that I’ve seen it first hand on more than one occasion, dogs that were too tightly bred getting injured repeatedly
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    Yeah it’s because of people like that though driving land and filming everything to show off, it’s rife with them down this way, anyone with an ounce of sense would be condemning them not praising them like heroes
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    Hare coursings not my game really mate I’ve done my share and seen plenty of the coursing breds run but I’m no expert. I’ve been involved in working dogs a long time though. ”believe none of what you hear & only half of what you see” stick to that and you won’t go far wrong that’s all I’ll say
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    Not really mate even on a video anyone that’s spent a bit of time chasing hares can see a good un from a bad un. I’ve seen a few videos of that sandman people say it catches a lot of hares but doesn’t look anything flash to me. Again just my opinion I’ve not seen it run in the flesh so I might be way off & I’ll stand corrected
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    Dog can only run what gets up but couldn’t judge him off that run, was a poor hare could see that from the first turn. I’d have rather run them roe deer but that’s just me ?
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    Some of these protection/guard dogs are very impressive when trained right but no denying they’re a fashion trend now, plenty people got them that don’t really need them. Same people trying to make a few quid of them and if we’ve learnt anything from lurchers & terriers they’ll start to go downhill quick & lots will appear with pretty serious behavioural faults. Dangerous in the wrong hands
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    Nice to hear of dogs bred like that doing the business among purpose bred types, reminds us never to judge a book by its cover a lot of kennel blindness has done the lurcher world no favours
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    Can’t be sure mate never bothered with ferreting, if I was out for rabbits it was always lamping
  13. Deerhunter1
    Some nice dogs on here lads never seen a kelpie in the flesh but look handy sorts
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    Yeh they don’t have the stamina of line bred coursing type but turn their hand better to all rounder jobs, have a go at a fox, more suited to deer job when lads were busy at it. Jack of all trades where your line bred coursing stuff are specialists
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    Saw few genuine first crosses back in early 2000s, impressed me they had plenty speed and a bit of grit about em
  16. Deerhunter1
    Good litter of pups these, best of luck with the one you’re keeping
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    Every hare on a spot won’t be a good un mate it’s impossible, yeah some places got higher percentage of good uns but there’s strong and weak everywhere you look. I heard this years ago about fens then you go up and some hares being killed in 30/40 secs but if you listened to lads that run it weekly then every runs a 5 minute. Didn’t seem that way to me and I went enough times to have an opinion
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    Just from what I seen over years dogs with lot of greyhound in the make up won’t waste a chance to end a run, but go other way round 3/4 saluki a lot happy to run them round for a bit, no offence meant to anyone that keeps 3/4 Salukis just what I’ve seen
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    3 mins is a long time if you time your runs I bet not many go over that with a good killer. Land on a real good hare then yeh fair enough but lot of courses that go 4/5 mins is down to the dog being happy to run it round a bit
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    All my dogs always been ran as all rounders but agree with what you said there, small fields plenty of outs don’t matter what you’re running you need a killer not a chaser
  21. Deerhunter1
    A friend had a real good 3/4 bred with all the wind of a half x, bit of a freak maybe but made plenty catches because it had the aggression & desire to kill that a lot of the line bred stuff was missing.
  22. Deerhunter1
    A 3/4 grey could kill hares regular, just because it’s only 1/4 saluki doesn’t mean it won’t throw that way, anything’s possible in dogs you can’t work out a dogs capabilities based on percentages
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    I had similar experience, had a pup out of him to a decent bitch and whole litter were scrap, no gears or drive they just wanted to be at home on sofa. He produced some quality dogs Buddy but all this about him throwing champions to poor bitches was just fairytales to bring the stud fees in
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    Hit the nail on the head why there’s so much rubbish about men lining shite bitches for a few quid but it’s all in the past now.
  25. Deerhunter1
    When people talk about stud dogs producing nobody ever pays any attention to the bitches. If a dog gets put over a selection of top class bitches it’s a no brainer that there’ll be good offspring sired by that dog, but is the dog producing the goods or is it getting a name about itself off the back of what the bitches are throwing? I think if lucky lined some of the bitches Buddy/Romeo/Bulldozer have been to then people would be talking about him in a different way today.
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