cooper101 86 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 i know most of us look to catch the large bags! but surely theres only so much you can catch and do things with?? i love to hear the tales of dogs catching huge bags but surely if this is done on a regular basis your going to end up with wastage?? the butchers can only take so many,your freezer can only hold so many and on top of this if you go out to catch these huge bags on permission you'll run out of runs sooner or later!! im only asking as i like to go out and bag about 10(not this season mind its been poor for me) somtimes more if i have people for them but as a rule im happy to go home after ive reached this amount!! when do you feel you've caught enough to take home and be able to use?? Quote Link to post
danw 1,748 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 I think it depends on if you are hunting for sport or pest control fella Quote Link to post
jimmy100 48 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 when my game bags full!! Quote Link to post
natter79 17 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 this was my dog's first season and i genuinely don't think i've been in double figuers, however i'm in it for the sport and what the dog catch's he and the terrier eat (they're fookin starvin ) i would like to go for the mythical BIG bag's just to see if my dog's got it in him but they will now have to wait till next season!!! atb natter Quote Link to post
Top Lamper 2k10 169 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 it wont be long when paddys starts catchin double figures Quote Link to post
natter79 17 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 it wont be long when paddys starts catchin double figures i live in hope bud, how's the grizzly bear? Quote Link to post
Foxgun Tom 75 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 No such thing as overkill if your doing a job of work ie: pest control! big bags are fine if your into the numbers game, I'm not! some circumstance's its about controlling no's not eradication why decimate the rabbits on your permission and then have to go further afield for your sport That should apply wether you use gun, ferret, dog or hawk! breeding seasons, eg Rabbits!! especially if their being a specific pest on crops etc, should still always be controlled even during the summer months if the landowner requests it? Tom Quote Link to post
cooper101 86 Posted March 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 No such thing as overkill if your doing a job of work ie: pest control! big bags are fine if your into the numbers game, I'm not! some circumstance's its about controlling no's not eradication why decimate the rabbits on your permission and then have to go further afield for your sport That should apply wether you use gun, ferret, dog or hawk! breeding seasons, eg Rabbits!! especially if their being a specific pest on crops etc, should still always be controlled even during the summer months if the landowner requests it? Tom thats why i said when does sport become overkill? totally agree theres no overkill in a pest control perspective!! Quote Link to post
kill um with crisps 7 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 Look at it this way, if your dogs can eat 1 rabbit a day each and you have 3 dogs that 3 rabbits a day, 90 a month you can get rid of. Yes they need to be frozen for 3 weeks before feeding them (the rabbits not the dogs! Lol!) so yes you will need a decent sized freezer. My freezer can hold 50 rabbits. The butchers should be able to take 10. If you have 5 butchers on your books thats 50 rabbits, 140 a month total. And your going to eat say 4 a month and give away to friends and family a further 50 a month, 190 a month total. Thats without 2 ferrets eating 1 rabbit a day. Now lets assume your like me and dont go out after rabbits all day every day (if only! Lol!), it fair to say your going to have to work bloody hard to have a surplas! But yes its possible AND to be fair if you eat rabbit once a week you WILL get to not wanting it sooner or later as will your friends and family. I must admit i have never had more rabbits than i have wanted, in fact most of the time i dont have anywhere enough! Quote Link to post
pie 10 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 im in itfor the sport so actual catches can be a bonus,i would rather have several good runs and no bag than plenty easy catches,or to meet in the middle i would call that a good night. Quote Link to post
cooper101 86 Posted March 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 (edited) i know most of us look to catch the large bags! but surely theres only so much you can catch and do things with?? i love to hear the tales of dogs catching huge bags but surely if this is done on a regular basis your going to end up with wastage?? the butchers can only take so many,your freezer can only hold so many and on top of this if you go out to catch these huge bags on permission you'll run out of runs sooner or later!! im only asking as i like to go out and bag about 10(not this season mind its been poor for me) somtimes more if i have people for them but as a rule im happy to go home after ive reached this amount!! when do you feel you've caught enough to take home and be able to use?? you make it sound like big bags are easly come by , its competition mate and we all like to think our dogs can do it, but its not that simple sorry you lost me there????? explain were i make it sound easy???? actually after reading it back i can see were your getting that from but i dont mean it to sound easy!! i just hear lads round me going out and catching as many rabbits as they can find staying out till all hours and then not doing anthink with them!! i class this as overkill and i was just finding out when others feel they caught enough to satisfy themselves!! Edited March 8, 2010 by cooper101 Quote Link to post
shaver 0 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 " recreational rabbiting,..Saturdays and Sundays," I'm sorry to tell you moderator but your braking the law by killing rabbits on a sunday, we got told this when we was arrested a couple of weeks ago for ferreting, then said it was against the law to kill "game" on a sunday, i replied with we are in search of conie, but aparantly since labour has been in party then have changed to game..... Quote Link to post
poacher3161 1,766 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 It all used to be down to pound notes years ago so every rabbit caught was a bonus it was never realy a sport to me just a method of poaching that i could do by myself and my dogs without having to split the rabbits though i did enjoy it bar the one life threatning incident I would rather see a good course on hare than 20 lamped rabbits atb dell Quote Link to post
Swift 0 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 Lol, well when we at the station pal they got the document that showed us that the rabbits were apparantly game, dont u think we argued our point thar rabbits we not game and were quite clearly pests. soooooooo. Quote Link to post
watchman 256 Posted March 8, 2010 Report Share Posted March 8, 2010 if it was all about large bags would not be in this game mate,hardly ever get into double figures when lamping the dog round here,just not got the numbers,and very poor ground(flint a plenty)to run them on,just like to see the dog work and when it catches want it retrieved,a few for the pot a few for the ferrets im happy,think it makes the whole thing more special in a funny kind of way, Quote Link to post
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