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    Hi Countess, compliments of the season to you. We are from Hexham.
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    We were invited over from Northumberland to the Lake District to have a joint meet with Bowderdale and his hounds to join forces and and thin some Rabbits out with the explicit instructions from his numerous keeper friends to shoot foxes as well. We set off at 6-30 in the morning and arrived about 8-15 and then forwarded to the venue which took another 30 minutes. 7 of us and around 20 of Bowderdales friends assembled and discussed tactics surrounded by some of the most stunning scenery imaginable. A large patch of gorse adjoining a cover was surrounded by the guns and then the hounds loosed i
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    That certainly sounds like us. I never like to speak on anyone elses behalf but i know foxmad very well.
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    They are VERY keen, are into there 4th season now and know the score, very fast in the cover , doesnt matter how thick or how big it is, they scream there little heads off, the guns have got to be sharp there're usually about 20yrds behind matey They certainly look in good hard fettle.
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    thank you for your interest. Ours are not K.C. registered and are a far more streamlined type than the hush puppy Basset as people know them. Ours are the shape they should be which is what they were initially bred like. About the only book you can get on the old type Bassets is called "A bother of Bassets" which shows and explains far more. Their hunting technique is basically to draw of their own accord and raise the roof once they find a fox obviously we are doing it to the new laws of flushing to guns so they tend not to tire themselves out too much, but they are far faster than you would
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    Hi Compo, I suppose you might call us a bobbery pack although we are registered as a pack by the English Farmers Fox Control Association with our own registered hunt country. Although for whatever reason the MFHA. seems to think they have sole rights to fox control.
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    He's one hell of a dog that when he finds a fox he doesn't speak he roars! Frustrating my god they can be ignorant but so long as you can keep on top of them, that is why we all have a cheapie wireless so we can see what they are hunting and get too em quick before they get settled on the wrong quarry. When asked what they hunt we can only reply that they will hunt a fox sooner than anything but they will hunt anything sooner than nothing and that about sums them up.
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    We were out again today the weather was pretty miserable, not a day for hanging round. We put a fox up in the first cover but he ended up going to ground in a whopping great awkward place so we tried to evict him for a few minutes then decided to give him best and move on. A couple of small covers proved blank but the next one held a dog fox which was duly accounted for and then we all made a swift exit to get our feet up in front of the fire.
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    Hello Hendy, good to see you on here. Should you not have called yourself "franks pal"
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    Hi Brockbart, We try where possible to ensure the woods etc. are well covered with guns so that hopefully Hounds don't get away on us, but they are pig headed and don't take too much notice of anyone once they are past you. We all have a cheapie wireless so we can communicate with my son who hunts them to let him know if anything breaks cover and what it is etc. so he can hopefully get to them before they disappear into the sunset
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    We were out again today, just over the Scottish border so we could take more than our normal two hounds so we took three! we did a vast expanse of gorse, which took us all morning, but although there was fresh sign everywhere we just couldn't raise a fox anywhere, i suspect they were underground, so we went back and had a sulk and some bait and then went and tried a biggish block of windblow which came up with the goods and 2 big dog foxes were shot, they weren't keen to show thereselves to the guns so there was a bit of nice music until they lost their bottle. We then moved to the other end o
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    We are a group of lads who have formed a small fox control unit using two Basset Hounds for flushing to shotguns with AAA shot in England, we do have a bit of permission in Scotland and use up to 5 Bassets for flushing, we act strictly within the new laws and in actual fact find it a very successfull method of control causing very little stock disturbance and we can target specific areas as requested by the farmers and gamekeepers. Providing my pictures come on, i thought you might like to see a couple, please note this fox has been flushed and shot dead prior to hounds and terriers ragging it
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    Thats one big strong fox, presumably a dog fox? in the top picture.
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    We are all squabbling amongst ourselves yet again. Have you boys ever stopped to think who got us in this mess in the first place! We all went down to London at great expense to support the Hunting ban, filled up with the usual Countryside Alliance hype. Terriermen, Coursing clubs, Lurcher lads, standing by our sides was the vast support of the shooting fraternity we were all there and we have all lost our sport and have to look over our shoulder all the time and who got us into this mess the bloody Foxhunting with its arrogance and refusal to go with the times, have they lost their sport have
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    Jason Polo is on the Lucas Terrier Club website at www.lucasterrier.co.uk/polo.htm so no need to fight with uploading photos. His descendents through Mark's line - when he bred the Sealyham Lulu to Polo - are still working in the Essex area in a small pack. Mark currently has an outcrossed Lucas bitch, Tink, as his line had become too interbred, that he has mated to Polo's grandson and I am sure some of these will go to working homes too. Lucas terriers have no Plummer/Raggengill lines in them as all these dogs were de-registered by the Club in 1999. The Lucas is Norfolk/Sealyham and n
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    Why have you got fox cubs?????????? Dug a vixen last April for a gamekeeper, despatched her and found 2 tiny cubs probably 4 days old didn't have the heart to despatch them so brought them home, as i live on a large country estate, missus reared them, they now live totally wild making a grand job of keeping the Rabbits down, haven't seen the dog cub since last November, but the vixen appears regularly and joins in for a walk with the Bassets, the same ones we flush foxes with every weekend, and i have over two hours of video recording to back up what i'm saying. And yes Minion mine
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    Yes i know Tommy well and his bitch was a good little worker, and it was as a result of seeing his at work that i decided to opt for that breed. Tommy himself is a lovely, quiet unassuming man, a credit to fieldsports.
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    J.R.B mine are going back to Hillhead Dotty Patch, William Box (who may be known to others under a different name), Raggengill Pippin, Claytons Tip and Claytons Fairy, which are the parents of Claytons Teddy which i think Minion would be referring to, Raggengill Samantha. I no longer keep terriers as i now have no need for them since i came out of hunting, I now keep working Basset hounds and flush foxes to guns which is proving to be very effective and great sport!
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    Provided they come out, as i haven't posted pics before, i thought you might like to see a picture of one of my Sporting Lucas Terrier bitches with a couple of young fox cubs
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    Some very wise words from JRB. a well respected terrierman. I was a professional terrierman for 21 years with a 4 day a week pack and for the last 6 years i used nothing else but Sporting Lucas Terriers which all revert back to J.R.B's Polo. I needed a bolter not a digging dog, something that would shout out even if at a fox, with sometimes as many as 100 mounted followers waiting for a hunt, the pressure was on and invariably the fox would bolt after a couple of minutes sitting quiet once the dog was out. I needed a dog that would work, sometimes, half a dozen times a day for 3 or 4 days a w
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