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[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

I'm talking about CONTROLLING something whin, I've been out with lurchers thousands of times, and anyone with common sense knows they are excellent fun, the best...I'd rather work them than anything.... BUT they are no way in the same league of controlling rabbits as snares...if you think otherwise your a complete clown... that is a fact...Anyway I'll tell you what I'll put you up in a caravan come down and you can pick some fields, we'll check them overnight see what the population is like... you go at them with dogs and I'll go at them with snares and lets see whats the best method...Some of the thick hedgerows, woodland, you wouldn't have a chance never mind if you fancied the dales, some areas will be pretty lamp shy now, but you know its the mecca for rabbits..... It would make some good footage with the camcorder too....

 

I'd also like to see your dogs run, plenty of land to go at should be fun....I've never seen any good ones.....I'm sure yours could help clear some land for me...

 

 

Don't you want to see my poor ancient lurcher dogs run some rabbits?

 

I'll stay in the old caravan... err,.has it got a television :

 

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[IanB 0]

Chalkwarren yours aren't a patch on whins...now his are the holy grails of the lurcherworld... I'm actually thinking about paying him to let me watch them..... Hes very MODEST mind about their ability... plenty phessies, veni,rabi's etc,etc to go at ...could be fun

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Chalkwarren yours aren't a patch on whins...now his are the holy grails of the lurcherworld... I'm actually thinking about paying him to let me watch them..... Hes very MODEST mind about their ability... plenty phessies, veni,rabi's etc,etc to go at ...could be fun

 

 

Fair enough,...I know my place,....

 

[J Darcy 5,871]

Big Stubbles. Don't forget the big Stubbles......

 

Chalkie, beleive me you don't want to spend a night in his caravan. He makes you a night cap of funny tasting coffee and you wake up with a rather sore bottom.

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Big Stubbles. Don't forget the big Stubbles......

 

Chalkie, beleive me you don't want to spend a night in his caravan. He makes you a night cap of funny tasting coffee and you wake up with a rather sore bottom.

 

 

Umm,..that is nothing new,..

 

 

[whin 463]

ile be down that way shortly hopefully pm [bANNED TEXT] number ian as i have bizness down there ,dogs will not be fit but will be fine for a few rabbits ,sitting getting burnt and hunting in a better climate against a more testing qaurry and not a do gooder ,anti goverment shepherd in site ,al tequiala jacks, yotes and prhonhorn antelopes,saluks mexicano ansd mescarellos got some gret pictures

[pegandgun 52]

Hi all,a very interesting post and to be honest i can see both sides.Personally i very much doubt that snares and body grip traps(and fenns in spring and summer) can ever be matched for controlling large numbers of rabbits.BUT this totally depends on the experience and skill of the trapper.Traps and snares in the hands of a beginner are less than useless and i think thats were the confussion about the best methods comes in.Armed with no more than 100 pegged wires over a week period ive taken over 600 large winter rabbits.I can do this week in week out as can a few other people on this site.What dog can take that number of rabbits week in week out.I can up the snares to 500 set or 1000.These numbers leave dogs in their wake.As ive mentioned put these snares in the hands of an average country moucher/hunter they would be useless so really the only answer is to do what you enjoy and what your good at...Thanks...P&G

[IanB 0]

Agree P&G, theres areas with high rabbit populations that have been overlamped by guns, dogs and poaching..... You can't touch them by lamping, there gone as soon as the beams on, then theres the difficult areas like dense woodland, bramble strips, embankments,etc.... Think Its probably better to get a pickup anyway and 100 cage traps and a ton of carrots in a dumpy bag... then borrow whins great white sharks to mop up the survivors