how long you been hunting for

[martync1967 64]

just wondering how long members have been hunting for and how did you get into the hunting game,and what was your first type of dog

[all.rounder 3]

been at this game about 25 years, my first dog was a 3\4 gray x collie

[wild rover 548]

First started with a terrier and air rifle rat hunting on the local Tip, aged 7, nearly 51 years ago, been in and out for a few years, been into lurchers , terriers and ferreting for last 29 years, just learning the crack now, learning all the time.

[Irish Lurcher 1,013]

Well it all started back for me in 1978, my first introduction into hunting came in the form of deer hunting. The local chipper owner was mad into his deer hunting and I tagged along with him one night and that was me hooked. Did that for a number of years, also did a bit of bunny bashing with the shottie.

 

Then one day I discovered that the girl next door had two big lumps on her chest, went a stray for a few years , then got into a bit of ratting with the jackers, then went astray again, which I wont go into . Took up pike angling for a number of years, then got back into it many years ago when a mate of mine got a whippet, it had been a great life for me. So thanks to the local chipper I am now enjoying the country way of life

[lawrence 657]

about 25 years,, i kept bulls which always put up rabbits during excerise, so got myself a whippet and reading Plummer books i suppose, wasn't fortunate enough to have any history of keeping dogs in the family.

 

[cumbrian-whippet 1]

In 1997 when i was 12 I got a call off a fishing mate of mine one day asking if i wanted to try something called "ferreting"? he didn't give me many details and at first i wasn't sure about the whole thing and was more interested in playing with the ferrets, i tagged along a few more times and quickly got in to it. got my first ferret 6 months later, and another 6 quickly followed. then a year later i landed back to my mums house with a rescue ex raceing greyhound (which i was quickly made to return), about 6 months after that i was allowed to buy a lurcher pup, then another, and another, and another then a russell then a whippet and here i am today.

[Guest Bennybhoy]

kept lurchers for 29 years now and according to some on here i still know feck all first dog collie/gray x whippet

[bigkiel 7]

started with mi brother and mi dad yaers ago always used his dogs and he had bedlingtons at the time and mi dad got mi a beddy whippit

[martync1967 64]

i met a couple of lads one day they were rabbiting with a lurcher and terrier i got talking to them and tagged along that was over twenty years ago and since then ive always had terriers or lurchers of some type havent looked back since and i still go out with the same lads now every so often

[bedwhippet 164]

Wont seem long to lots of people on here but i have been hunting for 4 years now and well love every second im out. My first trip out a lad i no said fancy comin lampin so i was like. whats that then. but i went none the less. We took 2 dogs one caught 3 the other caught 4. i was buzzing when we got back and went just about every week after. I got my first dogs nearly 2 years back. I got 2 bedlington whippets and now also have a 5 month old bull x pup which hope to be working good this time next year.

[martync1967 64]

its interesting to know how other people started out thanks for the replies so far alb martync

[6foot 1]

its interesting to know how other people started out thanks for the replies so far alb martync

when i was 13 i started ferreting.got my first lurcher at 14 he was a first x collie greyhound he was one of the best dogs iv owned.iam 30 now and still as keen now as i was then

[martync1967 64]

just wondering how long members have been hunting for and how did you get into the hunting game,and what was your first type of dog

 

hunting has been a tradition in my mother's side of the family since world war 2, my papa was off a family of 9, couldn't live off the rations, he had 2 lurchers and lived off the land as well as their rations, he passed his knowledge onto his son and basically he showed me a lot of lurcher and terrier work, a started ferriting from about 8 upwards till i was allowd my first lurcher and it was a wee beddy whippet 1st cross, great rabbiting dog so that's how i got into the hunting game and i hope to pass it onto my daughter,nieces and nephew

 

Atb Keano

have passed it on to my lad and funny enough his first dog is a beddyxwhippet

[artful212 394]

[bANNED TEXT] i was bout 8 or 9 me and mates used to go wondering round fields builds

huts and lighting fires and bumped into fellas out coursing and ferreting all the time

then we tagged along eventually got a greyhound bitch that killed rabbits

and tried more than once to kill a sheep now im 25 and a

jack of all trades and master of none learning every hunt

atb artful

[jimbobsweeney 0]

just wondering how long members have been hunting for and how did you get into the hunting game,and what was your first type of dog

been pooching since was a wee gasur. always a few hounds around the caravan . killing hairs an rabbits.