Guest anonymous Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Personally I hate when my dog picks up sitters, I have a lurcher for chasing and if I want to kill unmoving rabbits, I'd go out with my air rifle!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wild rover 548 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 I'd keep taking the prescribed dosage of pills the doctor gave you LOL What !!!! Lost me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wild rover 548 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Personally I hate when my dog picks up sitters, I have a lurcher for chasing and if I want to kill unmoving rabbits, I'd go out with my air rifle!!! We all do things different for our own reasons, to me part of lurchers skill working on the lamp is picking up sitters, I dont lamp nowadays but spent over 20 years doing it and trained all my pups to lamp dummys before going lamping, it trained them in all aspects of lamping ready for their first night. [bANNED TEXT] sort of air rifle do you use, I use a Air Arms TX200 hunter carbine .22, heavy but decent gun. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
matty73 4 Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 it does work mate ive used them i used car body filler to make an eye at back of them to sew onto rabbit skin only trouble is sometimes when you throw dummy it lands without eyes visible but hey nothing perfect .works wonders to start pups on lamp without having to worry about them getting overmatched by the real thing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest anonymous Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 it does work mate ive used them i used car body filler to make an eye at back of them to sew onto rabbit skin only trouble is sometimes when you throw dummy it lands without eyes visible but hey nothing perfect .works wonders to start pups on lamp without having to worry about them getting overmatched by the real thing I canny believe how far people go to train a lurcher When they are too young to chase quarry, all you want to train them is to take simple commands, jump and retrieve a ball. Once they can go into the field then you can teach them all the other good things which usually means the early work like retrieve, stay, etc goes out the window anyway lol. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lamp+battery 98 Posted May 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 I'd keep taking the prescribed dosage of pills the doctor gave you LOL i was on them when i thought ov it mate :crazy: and anonymous i have a gun but like my dogs to take sitters as well as run rabbits, some people are diffrent than others,but i think i takes a skilled dog to take sitters my pups dam wont take sitters she will stand and wait till they run and it gets on my tit, so i want my pup to take them, cheers lamp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lamp+battery 98 Posted May 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 i do mate but need to travel a few miles, just thought i would keep her keen during the summer months mate, ready for the comein season atb...........lamp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
matty73 4 Posted May 9, 2009 Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 it does work mate ive used them i used car body filler to make an eye at back of them to sew onto rabbit skin only trouble is sometimes when you throw dummy it lands without eyes visible but hey nothing perfect .works wonders to start pups on lamp without having to worry about them getting overmatched by the real thing I canny believe how far people go to train a lurcher When they are too young to chase quarry, all you want to train them is to take simple commands, jump and retrieve a ball. Once they can go into the field then you can teach them all the other good things which usually means the early work like retrieve, stay, etc goes out the window anyway lol. im talkin bout a pup of around 10 months running out to a dummy with cats eyes sewn onto it( thats not going to run away) to retrieve it, i do this in an area where i know there is no quarry like my local playing feilds and is treated as a game helps the dogs to work with the lamp i spend as much time training as i can with variation being the key so as not to bore the dog each dog is different and have to adapt training to suit there individual personalities for instance i have one bitch that will only retrieve footballs apart from live game her sister will retrieve literally anything i throw.im not talking anything strenous its mainly mental stimulation linked with gentle exercise and praise .training is the building blocks for the foundation of your working partners future and helps strenthen the bond between you. like everything in life you get out what you put in ,maybe your just happy with a mediocre trained hunting partner anonymous but i enjoy training and know ill reap the benefits of time well spent with a dog thats a joy to be around be it bushing ferreting lamping or shooting this one loved to play find the dummy i leave couple rabbit skin dummys in bag with fresh killed rabbits to get some scent on the dummys then go hide them in different sites on wreck near my home before taking her out to let her hunt for them and retreive them not rocket science but great fun with a bit of rough and tumble to follow this was the tricky one wouldnt play games for long had very short attention span and low confidence so it was very much little and often being the key couple minutes here and there but her favourite is retreiving the football.both these pups are now 13month both were taken out with dummy and lamp like i previously mentioned and they both take sitters well, not overshooting them or standin lookin around halfway up the beam both have there individual strike style but end result is the same Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lamp+battery 98 Posted May 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 my pup is 10 month old and she is doin well on the lamp but the fields are gettin long now and just want a bit more trainin like sitters as i haven seen that many when im out at night, and the pups dam will not play fetch with anything but live game, and she is not interested in dummies she will run the beam and sniff it then walk away, but the pup will fetch them when i throw them and she can see where it has landed, but just want to walk the field place a few dummies with something that resembles a eye as sitters that are close in there eyes dont shine as good as a long distance 1 if you no what i mean, and then shine the lamp then send her away when she pulls, i wouldent try this on a field where there is rabbits as i dont want her gettin any sent ov rabbits on the way over to the dummie, all i can do is give it a try and if it works then great but if it dosent then i will think up something els to keep her keen over the summer months cheers lamp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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