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Minshaw/Saluki crosses were popular with a few local lads a few years back, Obo lined a saluki/grey and the pups made decent dogs, a couple of mates still have bitches from that first lining, old dears now but still put in the odd night.
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That would make more sense Selwyn, I too had a subscription. Though the tale I got was off GJ when talking about it on his stall at a show a few years after. I was connected with the old Wigan dog club back then and Glyn asked me if I knew anythin about anti's at the office for the mag?
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When you say tickets Sheamus are you talkin programme cards or the actual tickets? i've got a full set of cards from 1980.
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I thought Lucy was just Deerhound/Grey, that dog on the cover does look to have a drop of collie in it, it looks different from other pics of Lucy i've seen??
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Thats a real shame Joe, was looking forward to the book more than anything written for years. Don't get that womans problem, whilst ASD seems a real nice bloke his Mrs seems to stir up shit out of nothing, almost evertytime? For all i've read on these forums, she seems dedicated enough to the dogs and what Andy does with 'em but could cause trouble in an empty house! I guess its she who wears the trousers in that household?? As I said, a real shame.
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Dunno if you'd call this a prank but it was feckin stupid!! :stupid: Our school was a five story orrible rectangular block. Every year a firm would come in to re-paint all the windows. Using one of them contraptions on pulleys to stand in an get the work done. Fixed along the roof, 3 blokes would move up and down between floors doin their work. The steel cables to run the thing were weighted at the bottom with huge cast iron weights. I remember the workies challenging lads to pick 'em up, whilst setting up their kit, no one did more than a few inches. :showoff: We waited about 3 weeks t
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I remember them Stabs, have copies too, a good read. On the remember thing.... There was a mag out before EDRD called The Working Terrier and Lurcher, if I'm correct? A glossy mag of similar type, published by two ex-coppers in Wigan. If i'm right they wern't dog lads but used the boom around that time to publish the mag an make a few bob. It was a crackin read, and looked a damn sight better than the first EDRD did. I think they were closed down by anti's giving them a hard time. I had all issues and done the decent thing and loaned them to a mate doin a stint in hospital, never seen 'e
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A great little book, one i've always treasured, with Speckle on the cover. I bought my copy off P.L. at that years Waterloo Cup, when he had a little trestle table stall up selling them and we chatted about a litter of his that was due. Be interesting to see how many still have 'em and what value they make.
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Thanks, I take your point Dave, though I pm'd SS earlier today about the same thing. Sounds like you have a good game whippet there. For all the times i've lamped those dunes, about 25 years, thats the first time that has happened. Yes, it probably will bring back that night if I go back because I/we know what happened BUT knock's, bangs and injurys are all part of the night game, we just hope they don't happen too often and are not too serious. It's all about perspective. I lost a young promising dog last year to a broken neck whilst lamping, so i've had my share of bad luck of lat
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Firstly, a big thanks for the kind words above and the expieriences given. Good to read that one eyed lurchers can still do well in the field, though if their were no replies on this, i'd ensure Ox would be the first! As he ain't goin anywhere and while he still has a heart beat he'll graft. Skycat, your bang on about removing a foreign object, though at the time we all thought it was stuck through the lower lid and not nearly as long. Took Ox back to the vet yesterday, he was really pleased with the progress, though he said it would be a long haul of a few months before its look
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Take a look on Wolfys profile, he also advertises in EDRD, he uses Bulldogs then welds them up to your own speck.
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:clapper: You'd need some balls to pull that off and the straightest face as you deliver the lead up, what a way to bring the house down.
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Billy Connelly is by far the best this countrys produced for stand up IMO. Over the pond Bill Hicks.
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Ok, to be honest I really don't know if Ox is going to loose his right eye but it's looking very likely. I was out a week last Sunday with Strong Stuff & TimmyK and we were again heading to the dunes for a night on the bunnies (and whatever else pops up). I wasn't my usual speck but farther north along the coast, though i'd done it plenty of times 5 or 6 years previous. Tim had been there a few nights before and had a respectable 14 within an hour and a half and so we set off hoping to do well. Running SS and Tim's young dogs I took along my halfx dog Ox for the longer slips and anyth
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They did quite well in the Russell class at Crufts last year!!!
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5/8 3/8 bull greyhound - what would you line her with?
Bosun11 replied to a topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
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** Merseyside leads the way on hunting crackdown **
Bosun11 replied to akton's topic in General Talk
Dead right JD , though thats never taken into account when they are looking at them in black and white and deciding that 'their' county has some sort of problem. Things have always been a bit 'warm' round these parts and it's gonna get a wee bit hotter! Mind how you go people.... -
So if it was one dog and must be a first cross.... I've always loved my first cross Bulls but I know their limitations (although they are few!) especially in todays climate! If it was to be all sighthound, though I much admire those match dogs, i'm not too struck on a first cross. I do like The sound of Dox's Deerhound/Whippet though. Then if it was to be Pastoral, i'd give the usual Collie types a miss, not that there ain't good 'uns, there are, i've owned one and seen enough! Just that the search for 'my' type of dog would be too difficult. Think i'd look to a Malinois or a A
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I've been lucky enough to take out a mates terrier x springer x beagle team of late whilst he's been laid up in Hospital. Seen these dogs work over the past 15 years but it's been the first time i've hunted them. Your dead right Whitser, once out, stopping 'em is a nightmare, especially as they wern't used to my commands! Fantastic dogs for the job, almost machine like to their work and tough as feck if you are looking for a bushing type dog i'd recommend this type highly.
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I'm with Dev on this one as I would expect a dog to stay, that would be priority. Don't confuse hard/game with 'gassy' and 'reckless', wanting the job done to quickly then spewing when it didn't get its own way. Sure, if you know your dog and its style of working quarry then you know when its settled and get down to it sharpish. If I owned a dog that everytime had me 'on pins' to get down to it before it came off, i'd be looking for a different worker!
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I had dogs either off John, or out of his stuff a few years back. To be honest Simo I couldn't fault 'em, though the dogs did take a while to settle down to start, they took a bit more stick than I'd like as youngsters. Wolfy off here still keeps the line and if you want to know the caliber of his stock his last post should answer that!
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Some good answers to this very interesting post. In Ted Walsh's L&L Dogs he talkes about breeding from scratch and it'd be a good man to follow that programme! Ok Stabs, for what its worth heres my two penneth.... For me, the three main questions that'd have to be answered before the start would be... 1) Do I have the time and honesty to take this programme all the way? 2) Can I justify breeding that ammount of dogs soley to satisfy MY need for a 3/4 from MY stock? 3) Is my foundation stock THAT good to justify this undertaking and produce the/my ultimate dog (if thei
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Looks like your mooch paid off WR, three ain't a bad tally when out for a walk. Good pics too. This post reminds me that i'll have to give ASME9 a bell and sort a day out with his ACDx.
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This numbers game really sticks in peoples throat from what I've read on here but Bosun11 summed it up perfectly people asking why would you want to do these numbers? Why do the coursing lads rate 5out of 5 dogs so highly? Because it puts the dog beyond an also ran and proves it can be done Y.I.S Leeview The thing about the numbers game is when you reach that magic number of 5 out of 5 or a 100 bunnies what then? someone states they got 6 out of 6 or 101 and it all starts again. What I have noticed is the vast majority who bang on about the ton havn't actually done it.....it's alw
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This numbers game really sticks in peoples throat from what I've read on here but Bosun11 summed it up perfectly people asking why would you want to do these numbers? Why do the coursing lads rate 5out of 5 dogs so highly? Because it puts the dog beyond an also ran and proves it can be done Y.I.S Leeview The thing about the numbers game is when you reach that magic number of 5 out of 5 or a 100 bunnies what then? someone states they got 6 out of 6 or 101 and it all starts again. What I have noticed is the vast majority who bang on about the ton havn't actually done it.....it's alw