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yes paul barnes is well know over here, wifes name is peggy i think, had a bit to do with him a few years back with his kite fishing, small world.
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howzit paul, welcome to the site.
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the pointer is a great dog,like the setter, but as tom says born to point only. the gsp is the jack of all trades and master of them all if given enough work, there temp of some gsp's is not for everyone including myself as they are lacking in guts and whine around the house, hence my pick of the gwp, a much stronger and even temperment breed. not knocking the shorthair at all as they hunt awesome.
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yeah i agree dude, serious injury and death is always part of pighunting but most hunters only get one or two dogs killed in a lifetime of pighunting. the glory side that alot of guys on the net take as fact is of more concern, a pigdog does not have to be 3/4 pit with the heart of a lion to catch pigs/boar. using holding type dogs in the uk with it's current anti hunting stance will only make the papers the same way as a busted dogfighting ring. rifles and bailing type dogs is the only way to go for you guys. the days of running straight holding dogs in nz has been and gone for alot of
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bit less hairy than my last one but he's bloody keen.
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well i have a gwp dog as of this morninng, nearly two with a season and half under his belt on birds, very easy going temp and hunts well. he's a bag of bones at the moment so i'll put a bit of weight on him til i give him a run. has a few aussie dogs in pedigree as well. post a pic lata.
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gotta love them creekbed pic's dude. good bit of ivory showing on that pig too nah we get the odd lost dog or pigdog in nz, and have had wild packs living in some areas in the past but they soon die out or are shot. aussie does have it's native dingo which is a dingo not a wolf, wolves live in the northen hemesphere. and if wolf type x breeds where liberated in aussie and nz after a few hundy years i'm sure they would have breed back to a surviving type of wolf suited to the local conditions. the pigs released to aussie and nz where never in a pure bred state and carried the wild boar blood,
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well i guess all that video footage must overide anything else on the matter if ya let two white female domestic rabbits go into the wild population how many hundreds of years would ya have to wait before ya can call any of the offspring rabbits?????
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:11: think the term sows is more like it countryman, if thats [bANNED TEXT] is passing as wild boar in cornwell ya don't need any dogs at all mate a bucket of maize and a 'here pig pig pig' should put them in the pot. the true capatain cooker is black with a huge front shoulder and small arse end, they bred ture to type and have done for many years. kane mate ya need to stop branding the aussie and kiwi pig as just a hog gone wild, they have bred themselves back to a wild boar that has adapted to it's new country hence the differents in weight. the fight would still be the same regardless of
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haven't got the plesure of one just yet but i plan on running two on everything when the puppies are born, been waiting for a while now for the right line. thats sam my last gwp, great dog but had to be put down, epilepsy. they are good for all game on our shores, from quail to pigs and deer .
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:11: yep jessdale i think thats [bANNED TEXT] i was trying to say in my post, once ya get the basic's set in concrete they never stop, hence the bells i used on mine.
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yep ya got a machine there mate that tail is a bit odd, but all good
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do ya use her on rabbits, i simple set of dummies made up with a dried bunny skin or some phesant wings attached to weighted sock will help with the picking up, treat it as a game and pratice every nite, simalar to training a lab, use shot game as well. the retrieve must be completed to hand, all my britts ended up good retrivers but they where high maintence on the game to hand bit, i was a bit lazy on it as i was running a lab at the time and he picked up most of [bANNED TEXT] the britts pointed. 21 months is still young enough. do ya have a bell on her collar?????? i hunted mine with one. i
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yeah mate had a few of the little fire crackers, how old is she first and hows her basic training, is she an inside dog? if she is it is alot easier to get her to start picking things up. the basic retreive should have been next on the list after sit/stay/heel and the all important stop. the retreiveing is something that needs a bit of fine tuning before ya start them hunting, which they need no training for at all.
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looks very smart indeed
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yeah it is a good read mate i have done a heap of hunting up that te tuhi valley and it's still as wild and inhospitable as when the book was written. the little terrier punch in the book is the reason i bought my first foxie :11: a great little dog with a heart of a lion and the body of a mouse. here's a fallow shot up there, he mentions they where just starting to appear in his book, this is from the same herd. note the injury wound his old farm is up this road lol
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just a test to see if it works
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top man, ya getting ya self the best allrounder depends on where ya hunting ya dog to worry to much about it's tail, however if ya can find a vet that will dock it when it gets older say at a year old it will be sweet. if ya hunt in alot of blackberry the tail will soon get scratched and infected after a few solid days hunting. am waiting still on my new pups as well and plan on using them on everything including pigs they make awesome deer dogs as well with only very basic training, unlike it's shorthair cousin. [bANNED TEXT] part of oz are you mate??
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very racey looking lab mate
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great pic's mate welcome to the site and don't be shy posting up some more pic's of ya hounds. we get the odd sandleback pig in nz too.
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shit a hundred will increase ten fold within a year or so. yeah stabs those mountain pigs grow some good tucks and take some stopping at times. the comment about wild pigs and wild boar is not vey different in my opinion, reload.
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ya need to know ya pigs to say that sort of thing kye. i had a 20lb foxy that would hold a pig as well but a 120 pound boar is still gonna kill ya staffie sooner or later, a smaller fast boar is gonna hurt even the hardest dog if it's been dogged before and has a few inches of ivory sticking out to cause harm. or was it a sow that the staff was holding. 2oolb of fired up pork is not something to be taken lighty and they don't get to that size unless they are wise to dogs around these parts. all pigs/boars are different and are alot smarter than dogs.
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nuffing wrong with dogs with a bit of heart sushie it's the brains that go with the muscle that makes a good pigdog. a bit of working dog added to a bull x will serve ya well. kane the pigs over here have almost if not already breed back to the european boar, and only require time and feed to gain the size of it's european cousin. the hunting pressure keeps the population at a certain age bracket but plenty of good boars are caught most weekends. the bull x will be alot better than running straight bulls, how ever the amount of greyhound would have a bearing on how they would contain a pig,
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end result would be a bull cross mate
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shot dude is that crete following you out or that big white pup?
