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More of Chad and the serious Belgian malanois...
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This is Chad, the ex Iraq/Afghanistan military attack dog trainer. Top man. Full-on dog.
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Everything at the gun show was camo of course, the Hidden Antler people (a camo company) had a display and the whole truck (an F250 I think) is painted in their camo pattern. The other pic is of a Bad Boy Buggy that will carry about seven people and 259 rifles...and runs on batteries, really.
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More weapons from the gun show I attended... IMG]http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/8746/p3060088.jpg[/img]
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More to come...
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Couple of pix for the shooters. More to come...
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Heaps more pix to come but forum still struggling to cope...I'll keep trying. Cheers.
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One of my hosts Krystal with a decent sow. More to come...
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G'day everyone, Here's a few pix from my visit to Texas representing Game Council NSW and the APDHA. Mission River near Refugio (pronounced Refurio). Pigs and alligators... The Discovery Channel film crew and sundry people who filmed my hosts and I hunting for their show, Hogs Gone Wild. More to come...
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I'm trying to post pix but the forum keeps ignoring them so I'm trying to work that out... Cheers.
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I'm back in Oz and there are many many pix to put up. Caught a few pigs, saw a couple of jagd terriers on a raccoon (big fight that one) and was filmed by the Discovery Channel. And as I said the Texans were incredibly generous people who love hunting with dogs and were more than willing to swap information. I'm still seven hours from my home but I am in Sydney and my accent is not so unusual any more. Watch this space for pix... cheers.
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Sorry for the slow response but I have been run off my feet. The TV show has been filmed. The pigs have been caught, killed and cut up for the Hunt for the Hungry (about 17 tonnes of pork...). And I have to say some of the ladies here are gorgeous... The people have been incredibly generous to me and I have almost had to fight blokes to pay for anything. Unreal. I'll get my pix organised when me feet touch the ground again. Cheers.
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I'll post a few pix while I'm over there... I'm sitting in the deaprture lounge in Sydney right now waiting to fly out. Amazing to me that pig catching can become a matter of international significance ha ha. Cheers.
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I'll land in San Antonio and I'll be at the Texas Dog Hunters Association Hunt for the Hungry I think that's in Halletsville, then to the head office of Texas Parks and Wildlife, then off to see Douglas Mason's set-up and down to Three Rivers to look at some curs for a firend of mine. Cheers.
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Been a little while between posts so I thought I'd better give you an update. I'm still working as a Game Manager and I've been given some extra duties in developing a dog training program for pig catchers. I am also off to the US tomorrow to going hunting with a Texas pig catcher, talk to a few wildlife/hunter managers and maybe get a bit of TV time ha ha. There's talk of a TV show being interested in doing some stuff on me having a hunt so we'll see what happens there. I'll post some pix of what we catch and what i see and let you know if the TV thing comes to pass. Cheers.
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Fasting your dogs? Do you do it?
Ned Makim replied to vld's topic in Working Dog Health & Training Talk
I give mine a day of their tucker a day a week or a fortnight. Allows them to empty fully. Closer to a natural way of functioning and that's what I prefer. Cheers. -
Masturdation? Nice work Einstein. Cheers.
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In the right country, dead cattle are great bait to bring in a boar. Seems to be more effective in some areas than others and we think it is a mineral deficiency thing. In some country it is automatic that if you drop a scrub bull you will get a boar on it when the bull is 'ripe'. Boars don't open up a bull (or a cow) like you think they might. They wait for it to decay to super soft or it is opened up by something else. The trail cam footage is of a boar on one of our baits a while ago. Note how the dingo just waits its turn... Cheers.
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G'day, just a couple of things... Cattle dogs in Oz are not always known as heelers. That is a regional thing. In northern NSW and southern Qld they are simply known as cattle dogs. Everyone and I mean everyone treats someone else's cattle dog like a snake. They are renowned for biting people if they come within range. Plenty aren't biters but it is best here to assume they all bite. They are extremely popular as guard dogs for tradies' (tradesmen's) vehicles to look after tools. I am not exaggerating, a ute with a cattle dog in the back will be left alone. In the past they were very very po
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Thanks again everyone. Mikey there are no real seasons for pigs but you might have to move around to get onto numbers... For instance in our district we get fafr more pigs in the winter because the need for food and the general l;ack of water forces the pigs out of the national parks and places like that and into the farmland. However, west of here about three hours summer time is when they harvest wheat and other cereal crops and the stubble paddocks can provide some relatively easy pickings. If you've got the country to hunt you can hunt all year round but the tactics have to change because
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This is Monday morning's effort. It's self explanatory... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKZEu6eHHHE
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Understanding What % of cross is in my Lurcher
Ned Makim replied to shushyjukal's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
It actually doesn't work like that. Each pup is a different 'percentage' and even if they all look the same, there are variations in the temperament, intellect etc. Sorry guys, it is just a myth. Each time there is a cross the dog is a new animal, not a per cent of this or that... Cheers. -
Ned what are the finding and stopping capability's of your dogs? Do they prefer to wind or ground scent? Do they have a good back end bite to pull pigs up or do they just go straight for the head? The only reason I ask the questions Is I've noticed from u tube and talking to guys a lot of the outback pigs tend to turn and fight rather that run until they have been pulled up hard by a bight to the arse? And often the pigs are spotted then the dogs are let go or a close find from the back of the truck/bike. You guys over there use very different dogs to what we use here, and the guys in t
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Cheers Dom. Struth you're a long way from home. It's worth having a look around this forum. Different world to Oz. The blokes who comment on this thread will be interested in anything you've got to post on Oz hunting. (And don't tell the Game Council I'm posting on forums ha ha)
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A mate of mine is in the process of importing a few of those. They look like a well put together dog. Cheers. PS Machine, I think I know a couple of the blokes you've alluded to in the US catching pigs for a living. One bloke in particular is looking at geting a couple of pups from me. Small world...
