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    People have been using my stuff and pics since we began the site and personally I couldn't care less, if you think it is good enough to copy and make a couple of quid more power too you. Incidentally the piece you put up was one of the first things I wrote, it is so old anyone who wanted too read it long age just had a look on Google and you have written nowt, easy hiding behind a pseudonym and slagging others off why don't you show some balls and write something . Countrymans Weekly is a good place to start and they pay you
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    Hey my website has done 500 hits in the last two days thanks for visiting, you will get more about hunting there than this this thread
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    cragger's is cumbrian-lad who runs the Lakeland Hunting Memories web site and Gone 2 Ground books, yes he writes books and magazine articles for various publications all this began when I posted an appeal for help in finding a greyhound fox carcase to take DNA off Foxtrotter replied to it and to my mind belittled me maybe I'm over sensitive but there was no need hope this clears it up
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    I'm really sorry I can't tell you what they looked like for the simple reason no one has ever seen one alive or dead, when I started this it was to answer the question "did they ever exist" I managed to persuade Warwick Uni to do DNA on any likely candidate but despite some serious looking there is only one " We have DNA sequence from it and it is definetly fox but unlike anything in our database." It is a certainty that they bred with the smaller red fox hence the colour variations , size etc seen in today's fox. The trouble is no one is interested in research, the Prof and his friends in Br
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    we never claimed it was the size of an alsatian what is going to happen is when the DNA testing is done we will make the results and pics available to all be it a greyhound or not it just takes time
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    thanks for that don't think there is a lot of hope of shooting one (the true greyhound ) seems to have died off in the 1930's
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    sorry Foxdropper I'm not called Dave and as the greyhound went extinct in the 1930''s I think it unlikely you will shoot one unless of course you have a seance Anyway thats me done got nothing more to say, life's too short
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    The greyhound fox referred to in the previous article turned out to be a damp squib, the owner kept promising hair but not delivering it was only when I put a rocket up his arse that we got some, however things had moved on by then. There was the oddest piece of taxidermy at a car boot sale “darn sarf”, the vendor was adamant it was a greyhound fox and some chap despite strong objection from his wife bought it. At that point he knew nothing of greyhound foxes but soon after he saw a piece in the Countryside Alliance magazine I had written and sent some hair to Warwick. The e mail came back
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    Filmed at television quality this 50 odd min DVD attempts to capture the slowly dieing hunt sing song filmed at the 2016 Troutbeck Mayor making and with additional filming plus film taken pre ban this DVD captures the old post hunt atmospheric sing songs as near as possible Hi Ron, Contacts, me on 015394 32577 to order discs, enclose cheque for £10.00 if collecting or £11.50 including postage, £3 of each sale to the Coniston Hounds. Could order through you if OK and you could pass onto me. Hope this is OK, By post- Beechwood, 2, Borrans Rd. Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 0EN Thanks, P
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    actually they were few in number but found all over the place as the following reports will show ITONFIELD FOX HUNT A greyhound fox (the largest ever known to have been caught in this part of the Country) will be let off near to BROADFIELD HORSE, on Thursday 4th January 1821 at 11 o’clock in the Forenoon. The hounds of E Hasell and F Vane, Esqrs, will attend. CARLISLE PATRIOT 30TH DECEMBER 1820 The lovers of the chase among our good citizens and neighbourhood will learn with pleasure, that Mr C Cross intends catering for their amusement by turning out tomorrow (Thursday) at Chapel Farm,
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    Just an update we have found a Greyhound Fox authenticated by Peel no less killed in 1840 and have DNA from it tests are ongoing
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    Just been in loft and found a box of over-printed books, The History of the Ullswater Foxhounds 1863 - 1913 and Vol 2 1914 - 1965 GOOD RESPONSE TO ORIGINAL ADVERT ONLY A FEW COPIES LEFT Also Bowman (Auld Hunty) his life and times, the first book since 1921 The Flying Whip (Brait Wilson) Finally The Mardale Shepherds Meet ( the only book recording the history of the world-famous hunt and merry making in the now flooded Mardale Valley) will sign if required ASKING PRICE £10 PER BOOK PLUS £2 POST AND PACKING SPECIAL OFFER ALL 5 BOOKS FOR £55 INC P AND P MAKE GOOD ITEMS
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    Foxdropper I'm honored that a man of such experience finds time to comment On my posting thank you
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    Greyhound Fox DNA Project....... just been to Warwick Uni, we have received 27 samples................... sadly most are unusable but two (one from 1880 and the other 1906) are interesting but require much more work. The reason the samples are unusable is to do with the extraction of the DNA. it is not too late to join the project....................... if you have a mask or brush pre 1935 with a provenance and are willing to donate 6 - 8 hairs please contact me at cumbrian-lad@hotmail.co.uk
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    with dynamite you can move out !! was sent this pic think it is Frank Buck
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    FIGHT ON A NARROW LEDGE Followers of the Blencathra certainly have not before this winter beheld such a peculiar or stirring sight as was vouchsafed them on Saturday when a fox found in Yew Crag, in the Naddle Valley, declined to leave his fastness in the mountain side and climbed to a small ledge below an overhang of rock in the crag face. Hounds themselves, were unable to shift him and the fox paid little heed to the clamour they mad around him. A terrier, however, got so near that he was obliged to abandon his position, and he crept this time to a ledge where he appeared to be even safer t
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    GLAD YOU LIKE MY SITE LADS YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THIS ONE TOO http://www.lakelandhuntingmemories.com/Brait.htm
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    thanks for that,greyhound's are extinct but I bet the genes are not,this report is probably a greyhound FIGHT ON A NARROW LEDGE Followers of the Blencathra certainly have not before this winter beheld such a peculiar or stirring sight as was vouchsafed them on Saturday when a fox found in Yew Crag, in the Naddle Valley, declined to leave his fastness in the mountain side and climbed to a small ledge below an overhang of rock in the crag face. Hounds themselves, were unable to shift him and the fox paid little heed to the clamour they mad around him. A terrier, however, got so near that he
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    Not doing too well in our search for the "Greyhound" lads / lassies, got 8 samples but need more, we increased the cut off date to 1935 after some new research. so help us out.................. there is bugger all on tv, so have 30 mins in the loft or shed. you never know what you might find. pre 1935 , history if poss and need 6 - 8 hairs thanks
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    UNSOLICITED REVIEW BY HERDWICK Having read the other books written by Ron Black, when he told me that he was going to write about Joe Bowman I immediately asked him to save me a copy. It duly arrived a few days ago. I must say I have found it hard to put down! Many years ago, I read Skelton’s book about Bowman but this new one is riveting. It is research based, and many hours of research has gone into it. But it is something more than research that makes this book what it is. An excellent read, I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who follows, or has followed hounds, regardless
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    Available 12TH December from Gone2Ground books, approx 260 pages at A5, B AND W Illustrations, the story of Auld Hunty using referenced material, the first book on Bowman since 1921. Limited to 250 copies with no re-print. price £25 inc p and p
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    FROM THE "Flying Whip" book
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    The new book “The Flying Whip” the story of Brait Wilson Ullswater hunt servant 1911 – 1933 will be available from Monday 11th August. The life and times of a fell huntsman told using newspaper reports and other contempory material, Soft back, approx 200 pages at A5 with approx 50000 words. Price £25 inc p and p (UK mainland) other destinations please contact for prices) Note this book is a limited print run of 100 copies with no re print. The book is being launched at Lowther on Saturday 9th August by Countryman’s Weekly. Where yours truly will be available, between 12 – 2 in their tent. Exp
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    There is a tradition amongst the old hunters of these fells that here was formerly a race of great grey foxes even larger than those we style the greyhound fox in these days. Mr. Mayson tells me his father was in at the death of what he regarded as the last of these giants. It was killed at Bowder Stone in Borrowdale and weighed 29lbs. They are said to have been able to easily outpace the hounds of those days, and that the only way of having a successful hunt was to have a couple of dogs on each top or likely place, and when one of these great fellows got on the move they slipped them at view
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