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    At about a year old Twiggie caught her first muntjac, my Dad, every now and then got invited to a friends driven pheasant shoot in the midlands, just a small shoot but it was great fun. I was standing with him and the guns were circled around a small circular wood that was situated at the end of a cover crop. I had Twiggie on the lead when a muntjac squeezed under the fence and made a run across the line of guns, right in front of us, (there was a no ground game rule at the shoot don't worry!) she leant on the lead with her ears pricked, being inexperienced I didn't know of the harm a muntjac
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    Twiggie and I started taking a few hares but on the grass fields we didn't course them so much like a proper coursing dog rather we straight lined them, she was just short of 24tts and had plenty of speed, I would spot one, then we would walk towards it, I would whisper to her, "oos" and her collie ears would prick up and she would be looking aswell, If she saw it there was no messing about, straight after it, however if the hare started spinning she would get left behind, If she could stick for a few turns then 50 percent of the time she would get it as it crashed through a hedge or into a wo
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    I got my first lurcher when I was 10 years old, I had been bugging my parents for ages for a dog and I wanted a lurcher, I was fortunate to have been brought up in a rural environment in suffolk, regularly I would be out shooting pigeons or rough shooting but no one in my family had running dogs. My lurcher was a lurcher to lurcher cross, collie greyhound of unknown percentage and she became my absolute best friend, now of course I was totally unexperienced in lurcher work and so we learned as we went along, from a young age she was walked of the lead with our family labrador and got to chasin
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    Hi, Im thinking of doing a paragraph of some outings that I had with one of my dogs - both current and pre-ban - fairly regularly im doing it for my own pleasure of digging up some nostalgic memories, its not going up so that people can tell me i was wrong or that i am a lier its just there because you might enjoy reading it however as always its open to discussion if you want to.
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    Had a lurcher to lurcher, collie blood in there but racy she did everything I can think of but foxes, only had a chance twice, first one just got through a fence before she caught it and the second she rolled over but it bit her in the mouth and she left it, like i said not a fox dog that one! fair to her she was bleeding a fair bit. She took daytme hares regularly, over 4 or 5 working years she caught about 250 of them. rabbits muntys roe game birds even partridges out of the sky! magic that! loved squirrels would retrieve pigeons and pheasants for me worked at night all though back then i di
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    nice pup, best of luck with him
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    Bedlington Greyhound all game sept maybe fallow and above. flushes to the gun beautifully - like a spaniel, swims like an otter, retrieves fur but not feather - im sure someones beddy does just not mine lol, can follow scent pretty darn well.
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    My first cross bitch is at 10 and a half months and she is 21tts dont think shes gonna grow as sheen been that height for a bit now, absolutely chuffed, first daytime long ear yesterday. just walking towards a wood rough shooting and it got up she was straight of after it caught it after a relativeley short course!
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    so one up in Sutherland, nearly stepped on it, it must have been exhausted and only just arrived
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    9 month old first cross beddy grey here, shes doing great, showing great drive on rabbits so far and shes been great as a rough shooting dog, putting pheasants up infront of me! when shes a bit older ill be putting more infront of her cant wait! one thing is 1st crosses are not big dogs, mine has not yet made 21 inches, it doesnt seem to affect her though, fast as anything.
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    I knew a bloke that said, as long as the fox pelt was in good nick that he knew a guy who would buy for £100 but that was a few years back. What my point is is that they dont all go for the same. Get the right buyer and you'll be making some money!
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    Im not a fox man and wont pretend to be but pre ban my old lurcher was a racy type and could catch the odd fox very easily but she wasnt so great at killing them we only killed two or three and we weren't looking for them we just came across them. It is great watching her run them though really enjoyed the few runs we had and id agree that a single handed dog is great to watch but surely doubling up dogs is a different sport and the enjoyment is watching them run as a team and working together? its just an opinion so make what you want of it but i think it is both good sport but different game
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    i put a thread up of mine just the other day mate, shes coming on great!
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    from what I've seen 1st crosses but no harm asking. just get a racey one!
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    pm sent mate
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    ty guys. nar northernlight, she was from Neil Bacon near Birmingham. Bshafto that looks pretty similar to mine mate! same cross?
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    looking well them
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    hahahaha
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    i reckon put a greyhound to that cross and things might get interesting?
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    i like to cycle a push bike with mine, means we can go pretty far at a canter 5-10miles
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    any photos of that?
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    I dunno mate, they are very easy far any half descent lurcher to get up to but it then takes a fox dog to kill it? from my experience not every dog can kill them but every dog can touch them?
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    dont normally like salukis but that is a beautiful animal!
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    my old lurcher x lurcher was 23" and she took hares on a regular basis, not a proper coursing dog but I lived just shy of the fens and the fields weren't much different, a bit slopey but just as big and she would catch day after day, she never caught more than two a day but she could have 5 or 6 runs and stick to them well and then catch another the next day. by all means not a star coursing dog but she certainly kept me happy. pre ban oc
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