SEASON SO FAR

[Rugersrob 38]

this season hasnt been so good for me certainly not a patch on last year,my big dog brock has had between 10 - 15 neally all digs he is in to his 4th season now and for some reason has opted to bay less and less almost mute on some digs which has ment a lot of time in sik bay. last year he totalled 37 digs and bolts but dont think hes going to see them sort of numbers again. i have year old bitch in and i had a good dig to her on new years eve, i have been doing a lot of diggin with mates this year so the pups getin to see a lot of work watching and dead rags so i will bring her on slow no rush. ive also been concentrating on a halfbullx pup that i recently so next season i have high hopes for. finnaly ive been beating ni on everyday grouse pheasent and partridge but has resulted in some brilliant permision were foxes are plentiful. and the odd callout on another big pheasent shoot which i had one hell of a dig to this season,

 

was called up early one morning (still in bed) to be told a fox had been tracked to ground. half an hour later on some treachures roads i was there. really wasnt expecting to a see cross between a rock pile and one of them horrible earths you stay away from anyway let brock take a quick look on the lead and by his reaction was pretty obvious charlie was home. so nets went on (a lot) and we stood back the keeper with the 12 bore half an hour passed could hear a little bit of baying at the start and then silense so i proceeded to get a mark. 16 foot!!! made as much racket as i could to try and get it to move. this wasnt going anywhere. reluctantly i began really easy soil this and i made steady progress got to about 4 foot and i hiit the stoneface shit! by this poin he had been in a while and couldnt hear a peep out of the dog. realising this was futile i made out some dints on the bottom of the ledge which when uncovered was stone that had been pointed in to block entrances the keeper went on to tell me that this was a bad place that foxes would always take residence in and had been destroyed over the many years by numerous keepers. gritted my teeth and began to smash my way in as the dog was situated 4 ft in. after the stone was all cleared i had to deal with expanding foam, sheep netting and you name it was there. finnaly got there to find brock with a dispatched dog fox in his prime . to say the keeper was happy was an understatement, isnt it nice when the first time you go out a new bit in front of new people things go to plan. will never forget that one atb jamie and heres one of the big lad when he was a pup

 

mate loving the dog how is he bred? :clapper:

[jamie2004live 163]

cheers, ralph duggan stuff

[bigron 1]

Nice dog mate would say hes not as pretty looking now.

[superkeeper 0]

well iv only found one this year so all you boys are doing really well compared to me lol.

[Rugersrob 38]

jamie2004live been trying to send you a pm think your inbox is full..

[jamie2004live 163]

still plenty space, i think theres something wrong with the system as it wont let me pm anybody either

[jimmys shop 182]

HEPHER im joining your gang lol .Have i to wear

NIKE AIR MAX or can i wear my old wax barbour and

my digging boots with oul smelly moleskins i stole

in weston pk 20 yr ago ha ha .

Fair play to yous getting loads of digging ,its good

country down there .That other bro of mine m had some

great permission down there ,we never failed ,even got a

tug one day by the RUC and they thanked us for killing two

fox,s . Great to hear that your pups have came on well .

KEEP DIGGING .

[Hepher 86]

YEAH J.S WE HAVE SOME GREAT GROUND DOWN HERE, I THINK WE MIGHT HAVE HAD YA BRO DOWN HERE WIY US LAST SEASON . MY PARTNER ACCOUNTED FOR ANOTHER 1 ON FRIDAY AND WITH THIS WEATHER WE HOPE TO GET A FEW MORE BEFORE WE QUIT FOR THE SEASON.

[jonesy 111]

Havent had the best of seasons,as i gave a gamekeeper a bitch which wasn,t making the grade,he only wanted it for rats,so that left me with one young dog and a younger pup,picked up a bit when i was given a dog from a friend,had a couple of digs to him but he has messed about aswell,had a couple of digs to a mates bitch but she has broke down now.

[rocket_man 6]

nice stamp of a dog that jamie me and my mate run over a few shoots doing the terrier work your more then welcome to come down for a days digging with us

[gizmo 1]

every thing going good young lakeland dog started on the 17th december

has had three digs so far so give him another one or maybe two

before the end of the season but happy so far and some digs with the bonny dog

so so far so good

Edited January 12, 2010 by gizmo

[johnrussell84 2,831]

I envy anyone with a digging dog just now i had to retire mine 2 weeks ago which has left me with nothing but a nine month pup thats dun nout gutted is an under statement just now