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At least, according to my Jim. He's been coming out with me after Sambar with the hound team. This was his first official "kill" . He'd seen a few dead'uns, but this was the first he'd seen on four feet. He was the other side of a blackberry bush when I heard him bark aggressively, so I was ready when this little stag stepped around the bush into view. It bolted at the shot and Jim took off after it, to pull up 70 yards later. I found him scruffing it and defending his end from the pair of Harriers that had been on the scent. He is very proud of himself, convinced that he ran
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Link. APDHA Forum .... including a subforum on running-dogs and terriers. http://www.ozziedoggers.org/forum/
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Skycat... My bad for failing to clarify the target. I was referring specifically to hunting Sambar deer with scent-trailing hounds. The sport involves using hounds to locate and push the deer while we hunters try and get ahead for an "ambush".... or until the deer bails an we can walk in on it. We nearly lost the ability to do this some years ago when some rocket-surgeons used larger dogs to pull down deer, then allowed video of their pack killing deer slowly, to get out in public. We managed to save the sport by arguing that we should be allowed to continue using dogs that were not ph
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Tusker.... It's the closed season for that game here at the moment. Not that we would hunt anyway, as the heat is too hard on the dogs and there is too much risk of snakebite. We are legally restricted to three breeds of hounds, which must be assessed as true to type and registered with te authorities. It's a pain in the neck, and most unreasonable, but we came within a whisker of losing the ability to hunt with hounds completely. The legal breeds are Beagle, Bloodhound and Harrier. No crosses. The Harriers have only become legal this year, so the number of blokes hunting with th
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Hound season approaching, so it's time to let the deer rifles out of the safe for a play. This red-tail was spread out on a rock in the deep shade on a hot afternoon. .444 is almost enough gun.
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Young "Jimmy" is coming on well. He and my little whip bitch sorted this one yesterday while I was fixing a fence. Even after I'd hung it up, he insisted that it was HIS fox, that HE had caught and HE was the one to say whether it was dead or not. Ended up with 2 out of 3. The third beat us through the rocks and ended up in a big, solid white-box with a trunk too vertical for the Jacks to climb.
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The RSPCA was founded at a time when people were flogging horses until the dropped dead on the public streets. Arguably, 99.9% of what the society was established to do, has been accomplished.... however if the society were to admit that publicly, their primary sources of funding would be greatly reduced. Hence we see their shift in focus from genuine animal cruelty, to activities such as hunting which are far from the genuine cruelty that the was their original purpose. Call them activists in search of a cause, or simply a group of people desperate to justify their own jobs, it is very ap
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I'm afraid you'd have to explain what a "Flighting Club" is...
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sunset/sun rises pictures feel free 2 add
Tsayad replied to rocky1's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
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It's an oddity, but the semi-arid zone of southern NSW has a significant rice industry. Irrigated, of course. Ducks are a serious pest, grazing the young rice and creating open patches that allow weeds to flourish. Hence we have an anachronistic situation in which very common game species are protected, yet can be hunted without regard to bag limits or open seasons whenever they are being a pest. Anyhoo,,,, I went for a run out that way last Thursday evening, with a couple of mates. The big flocks that we've seen there previously weren't at home, but in the late evening there was an almost
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sunset/sun rises pictures feel free 2 add
Tsayad replied to rocky1's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
Took this with the phone while chasing rice-eating ducks. -
Four JRT. 1 old bitch, one young bitch, a 12mo dog and a 2 day old dog pup. The three adults hunt. The old bitch is my good den dog. 2 staghounds and 1 whippet.
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I've run them. On foxes they worked best by, tipping them over on the run or biting them on the bum until the fox bailed and reinforcements arrived. I didn't run them on their own, always with a pack that included something harder.
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I agree with you about size being an issue.... However it seems to me that size of the chest is far more relevant than the length of leg. By my reckoning, a 12" stumpy will have a bigger chest and greater difficulty in tight earths than a 12" "balanced" dog with more leg and less girth.
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I run my whips young and in rough country so that they learn to run with their eyes open. Helps reduce vet bills if they learn what it's l;ike to crash and burn before they can run fast enough to do the worst kind of damage. Terriers, I work from 10-12 months. IDepends on the kind of work. I wouldn't put a 6 month terrier to ground, but I have no problems with it learning to hunt rabbits at that age.
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You've got me a little confused, altho some would say that that is easily done. A heavy-set 13" Jack won't fit into many of the dens that I see here. let alone the tight logs. This lad is around that size and just spannable, but I have larger than average hands. This old girl is 12" and spannable with a knuckle to spare. She'll go just about anywhere that an adult fox will go. Like the Reverend Russell, I like well-proportioned dogs that can cover a lot of country, rather than the stubby-legged type. I've not seen it handicap them in tight spaces. They go anywhere that
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Post with pics back on my own thread. http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/212465-another-ruddy-australian/page__st__60
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Like I said, nothing outside Australia or the US. Generalised shooting, hunting with dogs or shooting politics would be worth considering. http://australianhuntingpodcast.com.au/ The host of this one is not - IMHO - a competent interviewer, but he tends to have interesting guests. http://ausvarmint.com/podcast/?p=211 http://ausvarmint.com/podcast/?p=202 Are two excellent interviews from another Australian source.
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This is disappointing. Can you imagine what a steady diet of American material is doing to me? Have mercy on me, please!!
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can an undocked terrier still go to ground?
Tsayad replied to man o kent's topic in Earthdogs & Working Terriers
I'm hunting one older docked (halftail) bitch and two young undocked terriers. I can't recall seeing significant tail-damage on any of them. AFAIK, the issue with terriers is not so much damage to the tail, as the potential to restrict their ability to manouvre in a tight spot or when faced by an aggressive fox and needing to retreat a little. The payoff may be in a few more bites to the muzzle, but you're unlikely to know what was the cause. Mostly, if a dog is getting bitten it's because the dog wants to get in the fox's face. and that isn't always a bad thing. So the answer from me -
I spend a lot of my time alone, often on tractors. In order to keep myself sane - and the local radio stations are NOT helpful in this regard - I tend to download material that is worth listening to. Audio-books are good, but so are some podcasts. Bonus is that they are often free. I am subscribed to a few, either from Aus, or the US, but surely there are some coming out of Britain on the subject of hunting, shooting or country pursuits? Can anyone give me some suggestions as to what's worth the bandwidth.? With thanks.... Peter
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Another feral down. Mystey
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Probably goes back to the days when there was no such thing as recognised "breeds". There were terriers all over Britain, which varied from one locality to the next. Mostly, people bred from dogs that worked and used or culled the results, but the average bloke would get his dogs locally and would not think of travelling far to get something different, so localk differences often stayed fairly distinct. So most breeds are not a "cross", because they have existed for as long or longer than the breeds that some people credit as being their ancestors. One example is the myth that the
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Weight? Length? Put it over the lie-detectors.