NO GROUND SETS ONLY HEDGES

[trapper123 7]

i havent been a member of THL long,but been hunting for years,every post i have seen from fellow ferreters makes me green with envy.every pic i see is of ground sets i cant remember the last ground set i done,all my life i have done hedges and not clear hedges brambles,blackthorn nettles eveything,when i come home from a days ferreting i have cuts and stings everywhere,i am picking thorns out of my hands and legs days later just as they are going septic but i love it,i am thinking of going further afield to ask some for some new permission like up the preseli mountains.you guys are so lucky so keep the pics coming i still like looking at them even though i am :sick: and green with envy.

[ferreting 22 22]

me to i am from liverpool find it hard ner home

[John-B 4]

i havent been a member of THL long,but been hunting for years,every post i have seen from fellow ferreters makes me green with envy.every pic i see is of ground sets i cant remember the last ground set i done,all my life i have done hedges and not clear hedges brambles,blackthorn nettles eveything,when i come home from a days ferreting i have cuts and stings everywhere,i am picking thorns out of my hands and legs days later just as they are going septic but i love it,i am thinking of going further afield to ask some for some new permission like up the preseli mountains.you guys are so lucky so keep the pics coming i still like looking at them even though i am :sick: and green with envy.

 

 

HAHAHA, think we have all been there mate, I used to do a lot of ferreting in amongst brambles and nettles while being cut to ribbons and stung do death, however I used to love the feeling when I got home and jumped in a nice hot bath, ground burrows, also have their disadvantages as they can quite often be deep whereas hedges tend to be quite shallow and from experience bunnies in hedges bolt a lot harder and easier, I'll stick to ny ground sets for the time being though

[lurcherchavvy 3]

i havent been a member of THL long,but been hunting for years,every post i have seen from fellow ferreters makes me green with envy.every pic i see is of ground sets i cant remember the last ground set i done,all my life i have done hedges and not clear hedges brambles,blackthorn nettles eveything,when i come home from a days ferreting i have cuts and stings everywhere,i am picking thorns out of my hands and legs days later just as they are going septic but i love it,i am thinking of going further afield to ask some for some new permission like up the preseli mountains.you guys are so lucky so keep the pics coming i still like looking at them even though i am :sick: and green with envy.

exactly what i have been thinking mate....and when it is a ground sett its not clear its thick with stingers, brambles and very awkward

[The one 8,467]

Think we all have a bit of permission like that matye but instead of netting it i just shoot them if they bolt damm site easier than netting it up

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

I know what you mean about hedgerows all my permish as hedgerow warrens,some thick some nearly clear like this one.

 

Others are a bit more overgrown like this one.

 

Sorry about the big pics can't seem to get them smaller

Edited November 23, 2009 by MR TEA POT

[lawrence 657]

in the same boat mate, crawling under hawthorn hedges every week, hands in tatters. the only ground setts are play setts, with rarely anything in them. better than nothing but eh !

[FightTheBan 1,147]

Mate, what you need is a shotgun lol.

I shotgun all my hedgerow/rough ground rabbits,using a team of ferrets to bolt them. if you wait till the cover dies back enough to see bolting rabbits it is not only great sport but very effective.

I then leave all the open burys for netting and the lurchers, great set up.

[j davies 8]

i havent been a member of THL long,but been hunting for years,every post i have seen from fellow ferreters makes me green with envy.every pic i see is of ground sets i cant remember the last ground set i done,all my life i have done hedges and not clear hedges brambles,blackthorn nettles eveything,when i come home from a days ferreting i have cuts and stings everywhere,i am picking thorns out of my hands and legs days later just as they are going septic but i love it,i am thinking of going further afield to ask some for some new permission like up the preseli mountains.you guys are so lucky so keep the pics coming i still like looking at them even though i am :sick: and green with envy.

 

one farm i go to is all hedges good fun to and i get loads of rabbits out of them rather do them than the feild ones another i go is all bracken. some sets are over 40 holes night mare to do rather do the hedges

[Leeview 791]

since moving south all the warrens are hedgerows and they do hold a lot of rabbits I cant remember putting a purse net down since I came down here,much more efficient to use a couple of 10yds stop nets through the hedge either end of the warren,when you've finished move one net up the hedge and carry on like that till the end of the day or hedge

Y.I.S Leeview

[theferreter 311]

luckly most of are permission is all good ground setts but sometimes we come up against difficult hedge row setts nightmare for getting nets tangled

[all.rounder 3]

luckly most of are permission is all good ground setts but sometimes we come up against difficult hedge row setts nightmare for getting nets tangled

can i go with you the next time you go out

[cumbrian-whippet 1]

Mine is all gorse bushes, a nightmare to net up and retrieve caught rabbits have to rely on hearing the rabbits hit the net. One day i didn't hear a rabbit hit the net and waited half an hour for the ferret to emerge and found it devouring a rabbit which was still alive and not making a sound!

 

Before i get hold of some more ferrets im going to go up there with some loppers and cut all the gorse round the holes back so i can get to them!

[Malt 379]

i havent been a member of THL long,but been hunting for years,every post i have seen from fellow ferreters makes me green with envy.every pic i see is of ground sets i cant remember the last ground set i done,all my life i have done hedges and not clear hedges brambles,blackthorn nettles eveything,when i come home from a days ferreting i have cuts and stings everywhere,i am picking thorns out of my hands and legs days later just as they are going septic but i love it,i am thinking of going further afield to ask some for some new permission like up the preseli mountains.you guys are so lucky so keep the pics coming i still like looking at them even though i am :sick: and green with envy.

 

:clapper:

 

I've lost count of the amount of times I've posted the same after reading a thread containing pictures of nice, open warrens!

 

Our rabbits aren't daft round this way, are they? That second picture of Mr. Tea pot's looks like an easy bury compared with the shit that we try ferreting!

[theferreter 311]

luckly most of are permission is all good ground setts but sometimes we come up against difficult hedge row setts nightmare for getting nets tangled

can i go with you the next time you go out

yes john mate no problem that dog of yours been out ferreting yet