Ausnick
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like the look of all your dogs. what heights are they? hard to tell from the pics
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haha well bugger me I'm only over at nathalia! do most of my hunting around kotupna area though
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looks and sounds like where I am. where abouts in vic?
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Dogs came up empty handed but IMO it's a good example of dogs working as a team... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyY3wfzBRs0&feature=plcp
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Catch rate on 1st hare (pre ban)
Ausnick replied to Rogue and running dog's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
9 months and she didn't see it till it was about 150 metres away. I thought it was a fluke then she did the same thing in pretty much the same circumstances a week later and she never looked back -
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A lot of people go on about what crosses for what quarry, it really does depend on the terrain you hunt, if you were chasing them on big open areas you would want a big leggy dog not a small whippety thing...
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I had my best dog go after a couple of hares by jumping out the window of the ute when we spotted some, she never ever made a sound, even when she plays she doesn't bark, her pups are the same, I was driving one night and my mate was working the cage and kept letting my pups out at the time they were 5 months old. they never EVER yapped. One night one of them started yapping, he came back with his foot up and in severe pain, he stopped limping after 6 weeks, seemed all good, no pain, started running him and sometimes he would yap. he ended up doing it again a couple of weeks ago full on when i
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Do you hunt all that game with dogs? Australia sounds like a amazing place to hunt dogs!! Hope i can visit that part of the world someday.. Only the last 4 are legal to hunt where I am...
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Good work mate.... what other breeds are in your lurchers? Borzoi, irish wolfhound, greyhound
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you hunt feral dogs with dogs? So are you dogs dog aggressive? (I'm not being a clever b*****d just curious) The three dogs I have now are the best on feral dogs that I've had, plus they're the only ones that aren't dog aggressive. More just a prey drive thing, if they go after a dog and it submits they won't kill it... gets frustrating sometimes but no they aren't dog aggressive.
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I run two ridgeback crosses, great endurance, heat tolerance, noses and they have high pain thresholds and no reverse gear. Mine will catch the odd hare in the day, retrieve rabbits, dispatch foxes and cats quickly, definitely don't care if they get bitten! I've had mine on feral dogs, foxes and big feral cats and are crazy good. They smash deer and other big things too. This was a purpose breeding unlike those shit ones you other people are talking about. The father was half ridgeback and the only reason I got rid of him was he was a hint too slow in the day but at night he was heaps fast eno
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The dogs I have now. Lol
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I know a bloke that uses a generator and floodlights at night ferreting. He reckons ya don't have to dig to the ferrets as much and the rabbits bolt better.
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I've seen some dogs jack after running 20 metres or just look at something when they're in top condition. That's a true jacking IMO.
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Right on the first day of the holidays, it didn't go through the muscle really so it should heal really quick hopefully! Down around Melbourne is a totally different landscape (if that's where you were hanging around?) and has totally different quarry than where I am, here we have a lot of emus, fallow deer, kangaroos, goats, pigs, wild horses, foxes, cats, hares and the odd rabbit, the ground is hard clay here and as flat as a tac. There's mostly dairy farms and the farms are all around 100-600 acres then there's some that are around the 10 000 acre mark (broad-acre farms) which I'm luc
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I went out tonight to see where the deer are hanging around but before I could do that one of my dogs ripped her gut up jumping a barbed wire fence, skin stapler soon fixed that up but this is what I got before the accident...
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From first hand experience I can say they're as fast or faster than a hare in a straight line!
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I can do it for hares, dunno how to explain it though lol. I don't do it on my hand I just pout and inhale while holding my lips together tight.
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seeing these pics makes me wanna have a go at some dingoes.
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if you make friends with the farmer it's so much easier. try to find common ground between you two and start a good conversation, relate to them. I've had a guy say I couldn't go on his place with the dogs, I told him how they do it and everything about them. He came over one day (supplied our farm with feed) and he said he's going shooting on the weekend and invited me to come with the dogs, he saw how they had no interest in sheep and cleaned up the vermin well. He said I could go spotlighting there whenever I wanted from then on just to ring him. Got to the point where I was the only person
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I've got one dog that seems to show agression to fox, he will kill them and bring them back to the ute and if i go to move it a little bit he like growls and gets stuck right into them again and it's hard to get him off...
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she saw 2 big fallow bucks about an hour ago and was whining to go after them, didn't have permission to go on that place though so it was a no go.
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This is the pup I bred in july last year, she was exactly what I wanted out of the litter and has turned into a great bitch, she turned out a lot bigger than I expected but the bigger the better! Her mum was 28tts 28kg and the father was 23tts 21kg and she turned out being 29tts and 40kg. In the last 3 weeks she's caught 18 big fast ones, 4 foxes, 10 rabbits, a cat and one daytime hare! This was her 1 year ago today Her on the left On the left again
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Presa Canario x Saluki Bull Grey for stud??
Ausnick replied to Cunners's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
mate you realise rabbits are the slowest quarry to run? (well over here anyway) they're just agile, you do know that yeah?? the land over here is big and vast, giving the bigger dogs more time to wind up. the person that started this topic said his dog "has started to take rabbits without any training or encouragement and is very game" and you're saying he's onto something because it's half presa, I'm sorry but I don't see anything special about it. and how do you know my dog got lucky? the holes are few and far between, when my jrt got onto the rabbits they all ran away from their holes and k
