I’ve always been a oddball but yeah I know what you mean. I only know of a couple of lads that hunt with lurchers and a few that walk a lurcher (pet) but when we were younger everybody hunted one way or another….. Times have changed.
It’s f****n ridiculous Fred , a animal/ bird makes a move it’s photographed and stuck on one of 15 local farcebook groups. My pup has a tendency to push larger things from wood to wood and I’m just waiting for a few ( nice) pics of him doing it ?.
I bought one from Jim chick years ago and as he said it’ll cut out ( bleeping) when you get nearer the collar, it did at 10” and was a right feckin pain… if these pick up inches away from the collar then I’ll buy one.
Never seen one worked other than the videos from the USA . I’m sure that you can’t get one from the wild in the uk and train it to hunt freely as if you don’t get it back then in the eyes of the law you have released a non native species…. Something on those lines. But hey…. What the eyes don’t see ?
Think I’ll have to do the same, I have a old dog cage hanging around. Walked up to allotment this morning ( 5 mins away) and counted 13 of the buggers.
I seem to have found the right combo Fred.. 8.7mm steel and 1842 tubes. I can shoot 9.5mm steel with the tubes but they are not as fast or accurate imo. I’m hitting most i shoot at with ttf so won’t change for a while… 4 jays in the last week + a couple of squirrels ain’t bad.
Another for gzk . .9 cut at 16/12 with 8.7steel . They last a long time . I’ve also started using 1842 double tubes with 8.7mm steel (ttf) to good effect.