pointer
-
Content Count
1,570 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
1
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Articles
Gun Dealer's and Fieldsports Shop's
Reloading Room
Blogs
Calendar
Store
Classifieds
Everything posted by pointer
-
I think it was around the end of March towards the end of their hunting season. If I remember right they hunt twice a week and the season starts and ends depending upon estimated rabbit numbers.
-
Waiting for the bolt
-
I'd been on holiday and had spent most days out fishing but on the day I was flying back I had breakfast and went for a walk on the hills. I spotted some goats running ahead of a few dogs in the distance and after watching for ten minutes realised they were hunting dogs not some farmers dogs. It took me about twenty minutes to make my way over to this guy and I got there as the dogs coursed a rabbit into a wall. I don't speak Spanish and he spoke no English but after a bit of dodgy sign launguage and me showing him pictures of my dogs on my phone he was all smiles and I followed him around for
-
A pic from a couple of hours I spent in Lazarote a few years ago. It's scary watching those dogs running over that land.
-
Fair enough, I'm all for trying something new and whilst the pointer cross is nothing new it's still rare compared to other crosses ( it never seems that way to me because I've been around them for 14 years ). Still I think if your going to try something different there has to be a good reason for it. I've only seen GWP, GSP and a Brittany out working never one of the other Hprs but I'd only think about using anything other than the GWP if another type had a better nose and more hunting drive. Some GWP crosses are as big as donkeys so I'd never want anything that could make a bigger lurcher.
-
Fed hundreds of mixi rabbits to ferrets, dogs and a hawk. My lurcher that didn't always retrieve out working will happily eat a complete ungutted unskinned one at home.
-
double post
-
All kinds of crosses can make good lurchers but if your looking at the pointer cross I personally cannot see any point in using anything but the GWP. They are a proven breed second only in numbers worked to the GSP. Now with the GWP being seen as a bit tougher with that wire coat it gets the nod ahead of the GSP for me for lurcher breeding where quarry that bites back may be involved. What can a Musterlander do that a GWP can't. There's not many of them about which says tells me that the real serious gundog/falconry lads choose the GWP over it. It's hard enough getting a good lurcher without t
-
My old lurcher bitch would catch a mixi rabbit but the really bad ones were left where they were. I've seen all kinds of dogs do the same. I've never taught my dogs to retrieve so if they don't want to they won't. I suppose a well trained lurcher or gundog would retrieve whatever you asked it to.
-
I think it's important to remember with these gundog cross threads that a Gwp cross is different to a spaniel or lab cross etc. Just like border, beardie, kelpie crosses etc may differ somewhat.
-
I have used my GWP to catch bolting rabbits and he can hunt up and take rabbit and whatever else that's sat tight. The only difference between him and my Gwp lurcher is that she could catch stuff on the run. A few lads have seen him catch rabbits running mind up the dales amongst the rushes. I have a lightly built Gwp bitch here and once she knows that when out with the hawk she isn't to run after or peg stuff will be allowed to do all sorts of hunting. A falconry dog needs to be able to mark sets and I have no doubt she would very quickly learn to select the right hole and snap up bolted ra
-
I've got a bitch out of Nell to the litter brother of the pointer cross on the DVD. The young pointer lurcher on Chippers DVD was out of a Simon Fayers bred dog to Sleights Boy Blue. I had the pleasure of seeing her out hunting and lamping many times. She was a quality bitch as was her brother.
-
Cheers mate, lines are tight I've just had a 21lb cat out on my little carp rod. The bugger took twenty minutes to land as it kept trying to get under an overhanging bramble bush. Considering she had a late moult last time and I lost most of September then to be injured I'm not complaining too much. As you know we often had time and rabbits to go at last season but the Hawks were soaked after a few flights. She now works over my dogs as does Steve's hawk so the season was a success for us.
-
She ended up on 92 kills. The best flights were over my pointer on your land so you saw the best of my season. The downside was her getting injured six weeks ago when we were starting to finally get a run of good weather. It was a tough season with the weather but she's started to use her foot again so that's all that matters. I'm down country now fishing on a 48hr session after catfish, I've only had one so far but these things help pass the time until the season starts again.
-
Gundog crosses do seem more prone to opening up than other types. In saying that I've seen all kinds of crosses happily yipping away after quarry. Still it's something to think about for those that find such things a fault in a lurcher, and no mine didn't make a sound lol.
-
All my pics are on memory sticks and I have nothing on this laptop but if you do a search on pointer/ spaniel crosses I'm sure she will be on them somewhere. I have a few hours video of her ferreting but that doesn't show her doing what gundog crosses are quite good at which is ranging out on hilly/ moorland areas and hunting up. A lot of dogs will do that the difference can come when your hunting an area that doesn't hold much quarry and you need a dog that won't sicken from hunting with no reward for severel hours.
-
I do regret spaying my bitch and I would have used Nuttalls Jack on her if I hadn't but theres no guarantee the extra running dog would have worked out for me. When she was younger and some stuff got away from her I thought more speed was the answer but I've seen stuff get away from all kinds of crosses. My quarry was and always will be mainly rats and rabbits with the odd fox chucked in. My bitch couldn't catch hares like a faster type can and maybe a 3/4 cross would have caught some of the hare, fox and deer she missed but if I ever want another lurcher I'll be more than happy to get another
-
I wouldn't keep a hawk if I couldn't get out with it 3/4 times a week and daily for some of the season but some weeks the weather makes that impossible. I wouldn't have kept a working dog that I couldn't hunt with regularly either so hawks are no different to other hunting. It is a fact that many falconers may take a hawk out almost daily but only have a short season with it where as others may only get out 2/3 times a week but go from the beginning of September until the end of March. Personally I prefer the idea of a longer season. Many Hawks are flown well and regularly for a couple of seas
-
My hawk injured herself five weeks ago and after medication and X-rays it may still take weeks before she uses her foot properly again. Thank the Gods for hawk insurance. If the worst happens and she doesn't heal 100% I'll have to obtain amother hawk.
-
My lurcher hit a stone pillar and once she regained full consciousness her eyes were out to the sides. Everyday they came in a bit but it took nearly two weeks before she looked straight again. She was 11 at the time and wasn't the same again. I had a vet check her eyes and she couldn't see anything wrong but after that night I knew she couldn't see as well as before. She's still here at 14 years old pottering about and taking the odd rabbit out the seat. She broke her neck at a year old so she's been lucky really.
-
Had an OK week with half a dozen rats caught around some farm buildings when it's been too windy to do anything else and a good day yesterday. Also been out with the lurchers and my young pointer marked a rabbit in a wall for the first time.
-
I remember seeing her catch her first rabbit that had ran down a hill. We'd had a few flights with my hawk and thought we'd bolt one for his young lurcher. She learnt her trade from a young age following my pointer about.
-
If you don't want another terrier then just about any other working type dog will kill rats. When I no longer did much with terriers but still wanted to go ratting I started using my Gwp bred lurcher and later my pure Gwp. I had just as much fun and now wish I'd always taken the bigger dogs. Out lamping rats my lurcher would get to rats running down byers and barns before the terriers got there. Alongside streams etc they would stand in the water snatching rats as they bolted whilst the terriers did the same in the surrounding cover. I loved it and wish I had the same ratting now.
-
It was good meeting up with fieldsporthunter yesterday. My hawk was overweight and lazy and the wind didn't help but that land is great. She caught a vole so we didn't blank lol.
-
Great thread, seeing how you've had a goshawk lamping has been interesting and something I haven't read about being done very often.
