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  3. Welly Boot Review

    in Hunting Boots & Clothing

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    After wearing Muckboots for last ten years or so Im at the point where I dont think Ill buy another pair.When I first got them I shouted from the roof tops about them but after a time Im never sure are my feet wet from the sweat or are the new ones leaking again already. Great for warmth but the continual wet feet leaves me with sore feet the next day. All this combined with cracking after a short time no matter how well you wash them down after every use. I have £10 wellies from Dunnes for 10 yrs that still havent cracked,I cant beleive Muckboots cant master a rubber that doesnt crack. Shit never buy another pair. Amm going for leather boots this year.

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  7. Rocky Wellies

    in Hunting Boots & Clothing

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    I was looking at them Pattstaff but figured they would get torn to shreds bramble bashing. After some good recommendations I went for the Dunlop Purofort, comfy and just about indestructible..!

    Was reading about them myself but was wondering are they as warm and comfortable as Muckboots,what do you think?

  16. Balmoral Show (Agri) 15-17Th May

    in Gamefairs, Meet Up's and Events

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    well i personally faver the wine tasting section! I used to love the poultry houses ...but i will say i have seen a dramatic drop in enteries of sheep and poultry...i have been going to balmoral since i was a child and went every year never missed...but the restriction on sheep ect are getting to be a hasle for farmers and exhibitors, a friend of mine that keeps zwarble sheep has told me she no longer shows them as she needs 2 different certificates before she can move her sheep from place to place...maybe over the top...my thoughts

     

    Government fxckwits,cant take a piss nowadays without some prxck standing with a clipboard. Northern Ireland now just a big open air prison.

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  19. Fox Disposal

    in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns

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    Personally I hate to use the word "Dump" in regards to something Ive hunted,it seems disrespectful. Corny as it sounds I try and "Place" them somewhere nice and out of the way,in a dump or bin just seems wrong. But maybe Im just a soft lad lol.

    I can understand where you are comming from mate,but let me ask you this,if you had shot 20 rats would you place them,or dump em?

     

    Id "Leave" them somewhere where I thought theyd be accessible to foxes lol. Still wouldnt feel right throwing even a rat in a bin

  22. Who Has The Better Deerhound X,s ? David Platts Or Cooklands..?

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    I think the way forward is if somebody has a deerhound bitch thats solid in a full range of quarry then they need to be getting in touch with someone with a solid dog and making sure the pups go to working homes. Any matings to produce a cross should also be to a greyhound bitch thats solid in a full range of quarry. I would never breed from a greyhound bitch thats not killing a fox. If you want a good fox dog then you want a pup from two dogs that are killing a fox and even then its not always guaranteed.

     

    Im a committed yankee fan but truely would love for there to be more dogs in the hunting world that were as committed and consistent as them for concentrated work on foxes. I think it can be done with a range of lurchers as long as both parents are killing foxes. A mate of mine recently bred a litter of collie greys and the greyhound and collie were both killing foxes,I think this is the only way forward. I would take on a full deerhound pup from two genuine fox killing dogs in a heartbeat.

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  23. Who Has The Better Deerhound X,s ? David Platts Or Cooklands..?

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    I think a DHXGH bitch with a full bull put over her would produce a more versatile deerhound lurcher.

    Thing is though, you shouldnt need to add bull to it for it to function as a versatile lurcher. If a 70+lb dog needs the addition of bull in order to function then the dhxgh used is not of sufficient quality to justify breeding from it in the first place. Also if you add bull you will probably reduce speed and add some bulk which may mean that some of the pups lack the length of leg and top end speed to cope well with some of the scenarios where these big dogs can excel. Dont get me wrong I have nothing against bull x, nor do I have any particular bias towards dh over any other cross. But a 75-85lb dog regardless of breed should not be struggling with much of what is running around the UK
    Your right a 75lb shouldnt struggle with much in the UK but the fact is an awful lot of them do.Its not the size of the dog in the fight and all that....My thinking was that alot of bullgreys can be a bit lacking in the leg but with deerhounds generally speaking being much taller than your average greyhound that this would produce a much taller racier bullDHxGH lurcher. This theory is aimed at people looking lurchers for heavy work not straight coursing men.
    A DH x GH is more than capable of handling any heavy work. In truth, adding bull to the dogs would do nothing to improve them. I'm seen some excellent bull x's run but I feel people are missing the point if they think a fusion of these two types would produce better workers.

    A lot of people would beg to differ about there aptitude for tackling stuff consistently.I would guess thats why there not more popular than they are for toothed stuff.

    With respect mate, there's plenty of people that would beg to differ who've never even seen a DH X, let alone run one! Every thread that's put up about them has someone talk about them being painfully slow to get started, this simply isn't true in my experience. Bearing in mind my experience started a long time ago before bull X's were about in numbers and when DH X's and Collie X's were the norm and used for everything.

    People are either rehashing what they've heard with no real experience or are watching/working poor quality dogs from questionable breeding.

     

    The belief that DH's don't like teeth is another THL misconception perpetuated by those that spend too much time on the Internet.

    What add bull blood to an already big dog and risk passing on bull feet, coat and wind?

     

    I got my 1st X when I was 17. I lived in London and was always out with my dogs. He killed his 1st fox at about 16 months and killed 100's after that. Foxes were more or less all he was ran on. He never had a problem with them. He's been dead 12 years now and in his lifetime accounted for foxes every week.

     

    If you want to run your dog at 6 months get a bull X, but don't dismiss a DH X because you have to wait until it's a year old.

     

    Your emotions are getting up Kranky and your losing the run of yourself. If you read the posts thoroughly alot of people have had direct experience of a genuine DHXGH and their first hand experience,which is as valid as yours by the way,was that they can start slowly and many not at all. Theres nobody stating that some dhx cant make good dogs or that some can start at the usual age, course they can but in a litter of DHXGHs a lot more will fail to make the grade than will regardless of what age you start them. I have had direct experience of them myself and it wasnt impressive in the slightest but Im not rubbishing them but would be very cautious about rearing one again for foxes and a lot of people feel the same because of a high failure rate.

     

    I was stating my own feeling that a bit of bull could add more fire and certainty into a litter and of course there could be a trade off as bull can add some not so great traits but some people wouldnt mind that. At no time did I say what age I start my dogs, for the record I prefer to start all my young dogs around 16mths regardless of their breeding and also because your started hunting dogs at 17 has no relevance. I too grew up and started hunting in the years when DH and colliexs were the norm and all there was, the failure rate in my dogs now is less so and the dogs of old couldnt live with the dogs I have now in terms of style,panashe and numbers.

     

    Too state that people spend too much time on the internet because they have an opinion that you dont like comes across as childish.

  24. Who Has The Better Deerhound X,s ? David Platts Or Cooklands..?

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    I think a DHXGH bitch with a full bull put over her would produce a more versatile deerhound lurcher.

    Thing is though, you shouldnt need to add bull to it for it to function as a versatile lurcher. If a 70+lb dog needs the addition of bull in order to function then the dhxgh used is not of sufficient quality to justify breeding from it in the first place. Also if you add bull you will probably reduce speed and add some bulk which may mean that some of the pups lack the length of leg and top end speed to cope well with some of the scenarios where these big dogs can excel. Dont get me wrong I have nothing against bull x, nor do I have any particular bias towards dh over any other cross. But a 75-85lb dog regardless of breed should not be struggling with much of what is running around the UK
    Your right a 75lb shouldnt struggle with much in the UK but the fact is an awful lot of them do.Its not the size of the dog in the fight and all that....My thinking was that alot of bullgreys can be a bit lacking in the leg but with deerhounds generally speaking being much taller than your average greyhound that this would produce a much taller racier bullDHxGH lurcher. This theory is aimed at people looking lurchers for heavy work not straight coursing men.

    A DH x GH is more than capable of handling any heavy work. In truth, adding bull to the dogs would do nothing to improve them. I'm seen some excellent bull x's run but I feel people are missing the point if they think a fusion of these two types would produce better workers.

     

    A lot of people would beg to differ about there aptitude for tackling stuff consistently.I would guess thats why there not more popular than they are for toothed stuff.

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