oh ime far from kennel blind young man, and I have run all over with and without permission, with a good selection of lads and dogs, but what I like suits me, the coursing world is full of dirty twisting fuks and good lads alike, and is no place for naïve impressionable souls I am afraid.
all dog breeds are a combination of breeds to start with, but as these were the product of working men striving to create a faster sporting dog from what was at hand, we should applaud them, but further additions surely make them something less, in my eyes anyway. I agree about the wind thing, I always think whippet has more than a greyhound.
why has this thread turned into a hate coursing men thread from a rabbit dog thread, lol, the biggest problem with getting a good coursing dog is the brown hare is harder to catch consistently than people think, so the failure rate will always be high, regardless of breeding.
that gets done as well and photose in the morning lol, with regards to rabbiting dogs if that's what they are bred for say so in your selling speal, nothing wrong with that, it seems these days if a dog cant or wont kill a fox its somehow inferior , even when clearly not bred for such tasks.
you get that all the time in the coursing job, talking dogs up, how good they are in cover, cos they cant kill a gooden on the seed, most dogs on the dvds get dragged all over then kill in the dyke, ffs, top class.
when I was a kid there were lots of mongrels and they would all work pretty much, and were free mostly, sweep was 10 bob and caught hundreds of rabbits far more than the runners.
so can I make my own wooden one and use the bands being talked of, and which are good ones to start with, any pics of what you lads use would be lnteresting, ta.
I was thinking of making a catapult the other day its been 40 odd years, but you lot make it sound very technical, can you still get ordinary square lastick