Squirrel_Basher
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Steady on ,think of your blood pressure.I do work lurchers actually and in the past have taken my fair share with the dogs.These days I have to keep within the law ,job wise .I shoot roe as part of a management scheme and no longer hunt indiscriminately killing whatever is in the beam.Ive no objections to anyone doing this as we all have to start somewhere .You must be a proud man to have killed more deer than me .I dont pick at everybodies post ,just those that I feel need picking at ,like you say its up to me!.Ive seen several thousand heads displayed but never in velvet .Still, looks lik
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The trouble with saying nothing to something you know is bollocks is that young readers take things at face value and think its the way to go.By putting forward an objection or statement to the contrary about a thread then at least the youngsters have a chioce to make.
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The killing of cubs is necessary where the vixen is taking livestock or gamebirds to feed them.Some people carry on digging fox the whole year round whenever they come across them but they are only doing themselves out of sport later on .Years past we used to move cubs to a more suitable place :ph34r: ,where they were fed and nurtured but alas no more :ph34r: The only cubs I dig these days are those where the keeper/farmer has shot the vixen.This forum is exellent but its easy to take a topic out of context or too seriously .This is why I dont post pics.
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i don't believe this is going to court
Squirrel_Basher replied to a topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
During the foot and mouth situation,a lot of the killing was done with bolt humane killers as well as .32 pistols.I was on a couple of the culls and we had an inspection one day by the maff and local firearms dept. as they were concerned about the safety of the operators?Such was the panic about getting these beasts shot that licenses were seldom checked.The firearms officer did say that a firearms licence was needed to purchase the blanks for one of these contact pistols and the OWNER of it needed one too.A person could use it as part of his or her job without the license. Never used or seen -
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Having read these replies I feel I jumped in too early .Those of us that work their dogs regular and bring on pups probably do not realise we are training the dog as it comes second nature to encourage or chastise as it occurs.Ive been lucky in that I have a very good rapor with the dogs and need not do much shouting or encouraging .I believe the opening up starts in all dogs when they are frustrated at not being able to get up to their quarry.This is especially so with terriers and rabbits which outclass them on speed.Ive gotten to know what a dogs on by the sound its making ,either in cover
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patterdale a show dog a worker ???
Squirrel_Basher replied to pickaxe's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
Excellent .No hard and fast rules on size in this country.As long as what you have does what you want it to do. -
All I can say molly is that the terriers you associate with are worlds apart from the black stuff I work . If a TERRIER does not instintively throw tongue then I would instintively part company from that type molly. As to hunting cover properly,letting a pup run wild is what is done ,providing it has basic training and can be recalled .If its to work with a lurcher it will realise soon enough what the game is .Good luck with the- not to ground- training though.If its used to bush rabbits in cover then sooner or later it will want to follow one to ground ,in a big bramble thicket and out of s
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Seriously now-To say he did more good than harm is a lie.Someone said before that at the time his books were being turned out ,we had little or nothing else to compare it to .As a young lad I WAS TAKEN IN BY IT AND THOUGHT WHAT A GREAT BLOKE THIS WAS .The basis of his stories were truth but broadened to fill a book and most were not of his own experiences.This was explained to me some years ago by a bloke who writes regular in E.D.R.D .Several of plummers aquaintances noticed snippets of there own hunting ventures in his books,which he blatantly denied ,and many distanced themselves from him
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Cant believe what Im reading .Any terrier past its jabs will work cover and throw tongue if it gets excited . Try keeping any of mine out of cover, and keeping them quiet is a no hoper. Are we running out of topics or what .
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A good bloke would know by the slots.
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Jay its easy to say you wouldn't hand things over, I feel the same way...but the more sensible people consider the idea of this blokes got a knife in my face and he wants my mobile, is it worth my life???? Just give them the phone you can always buy another one, you can't buy another life... And you can buy a bigger knife later . :ph34r:
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I expect you will have a lot of people confused here mate ,me included.I never knew there was a jab for dogs to bring them out of season.
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not bad coming from somebody who thought that coursing greyhounds will piss all over lurchers on the lamp and will still be on there feet on a night long after a lurchers spent its self good post WHICH i HAVE APOLOGISED FOR ,ASSHOLE.
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Sorry to rock the boat but-If someone puts 100% into their hunting ,takes it seriously and wants to do a good job of it ,sooner or later they will make a decision to specialise in a quarry. They need to own specialist dogs as no dog is the perfect all rounder as some would have you believe.The gamer breeds and crosses are a must for foxing, despite what the all rounders say.I agree that there are some twats about ,tatoos and bull dogs,boasting about their dogs BUT there are also a lot of people who dabble in it all but get good at nothing .Some of these think their dogs are excellent at the f
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SIR-the night you describe is indeed the all round ,rabbit killing night -Lurchers,longnets and rifle. ps Hope the other pesters arnt put off by having you aboard.Certainly make them think before posting. foxdropper.
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IMO the term greyhound ferret came from the old ratcatchers who would keep a ferret on the thin side thinking it would work better.We now know different and so the ferret is its normal healthy size .Forget dreams of greyhound ferrets .If you want 1 for ratting try to get hold of a small couple of jills .
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Personally I dont see the point of shooting them in velvet if a trophy is required.Yearling bucks are the only thing I would shoot in velvet and there is no trophy to take. Mik- You missed my point mate -velvet is living tissue .It cannot be left on antlers without it rotting to some extent.Who wants to look at a set of velvet antlers anyway.Leave them on the beast til its shed .
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If old Bri is looking down on this ,hed be well pleased with the full 7 pages of shite on the subject.
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. Kye,.. people have the wrong idea when it comes to collie greyhounds,i own a typp ratcher bred three quarter fell collie a quarter greyhound bitch which stands at 20.5 inches at the shoulder.this bitch is clever,but she is game, she has pulled many a rabbit and hares out of hedge bottoms has no fear of cover is a excellent day dog with bags of stamina and is a excellent lamper who cuts rabbits of hedgerows,by going out of the beam, has ample speed to catch hares of which she as had forty in two seasons.it just depends on the type of collie you use,your better using a proper working f
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Personally ,I tell my vet what I want done and not the other way round.Good luck . Personally ,I tell my vet what I want done and not the other way round.Good luck . You have to know when to cut your losses.
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Ive heard it said sheep are better against a fence as you can kiss them first
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Dont blame you for not setting nets -nettles-hands -not good.