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On the theme of your golfing analogy....suppose you were playing golf and noticed that your partner was knocking the ball around the course with various clubs as per the rules of the game whilst you were carrying your ball in your pocket and dropping it onto the green beside the flag. Would you expect him to congratulate you on getting round with the least shots? I realise that for some there are no rules, just results, but there will be many other opinions just as valid as yours or mine.

Yes that dog is a real cruncher by all accounts.

I won't argue with that Ice!

The Black bull cross?

You know he was well tested at them to satisfy that man Ryan. I'll give him a nod from you when we're out this week.

As I said in my post I wasn't taking sides but offering my opinion. Personally I wouldn't consider any pic of a hare taken with the aid of a lamp worthy of a fanfare....but each to his own. And each to his own opinion.

You got it in one Ryan

A mate of mine, Millsy R.I.P., bought a 3/4 greyhound 1/4 beardy off Handcock about 25 years ago. By the time Tanner was around a year old he decided he wanted to sell the dog and he gave a trial. The dog jacked after a short run at a hare but inexplicably another pal who was there on the day bought the dog. Tanner went on to kill a load of close range hares....he had a great mouth and accelleration....but after a couple of seasons he had every toe pointing in a different direction and eventually pulled up on another occasion in the exact same field as he had that first time. That was in the

Not taking sides here except to say that it looks like either a milky doe or a packed up doe. From that picture!

This got me thinking so I did a bit of checking and found this graph from Rutger University which shows that the past decade has been the snowiest in the northern hemisphere since they started measuring and recording it. Since the graph only starts in '67 however, I assume the big freeze of '63 would have helped bring that decade up to and maybe beyond the present one.

Looks a bit like borzoi influence in the head.

True Arcticgun, I had a dog in the eighties that I've never seen bettered over here.....his name was Fly, an Irish terrier/greyhound x whippet. Killed 3's and 4's regular over here and most of the time I leaded him up and came home when he'd caught all I needed for that day, or he would have had more. But I know he wouldn't have made a match dog, much as I loved the wee tyke. On big land they can't kill everything and on the open ground what else can they do but Jack?

Never measured him but Would say he was 28" judging by comparison with my bitches. Below is another half bred owned by the same pal aged about 12 months last winter. Killed the first ever rabbit he saw bolted but, I have to ad, would have killed my ferrets just as handy. He has been doing foxes too over here but is a nightmare to house....so has been shipped out to a country location.

Well he didn't reach 7 years old by messing about. Jump anything, tackle anything and even took Irish hares when he was younger. Half bred Wheaten x greyhound. A first rate fox dog.

Please point out in my post where I said if it wasn't big land it was no good! All the criticism seems to come from those who have no experience of big land. I live and have hunted most of my life among small fields and dairy pasture. When I first got the invite to run on fenland I too thought I knew it all. But after a very short time, and with an inquiring mind, I realized that there was more to the game than I knew. The dogs that were killing hares week in and week out in Ireland's smallish fields were being straight lined to the horizon, because the slips were longer due to the di