Lamping tips

[stormyboy 1,352]

Lamp them COMING home not GOING home.

[stormyboy 1,352]

Whats your best lamping tip for young lads coming into the game!!,,Mine would be, to try to get the dog used to running the quarry after a quick flick of the lamp,and not flick it back on until the dog has travelled a fair distance up to his target, wont happen over night , but worth it,,

one of the best things you can do is get rid of any switches on your lamp and run a wire strait through ,so it touches to metal on the handle that you can touch on and of with your thumb ,like i have always done since i started lamping with a home made lamp ie,lr9.you will never have trouble with a switch breaking when your out and miles from the car .

 

 

lr9! Thats going back a bit! Good lamp in their day-used to have a 48w one before the halogen one came out.

Re the switch,i used a doorbell button,quiet and reliable.

yes good old sold lamps the lr 9 .i tried the door bell years ago ,ok untill a bit of grit gets in ,then it stayed on ,and you had to pull it back up with the aid of a knife ,wire to wire ,never a problem ,

 

 

Thats the next top lamping tip-always lash plenty of tape around your doorbell!

you got a grudge against AVON LADYS

 

 

Once they know you wear make up they wont leave you alone. Apparently.

[Casso 1,261]

Dont lamp too pups together,,

[Trigger 26]

remember to take your dog.

Edited March 26, 2010 by Trigger

[bullmastiff 615]

If you have a larger/heavier dog, I've had a lot better success taking squatters when I've got round behind them, not necessarily between them and the hedge. They always seem to launch from their squat in the direction their facing then turn for home so if your between the rabbit and hedge, a heavier dog can struggle to turn fast enough if the rabbit gets up before your ready.

[Wild_and_Irish 11]

If a rabbit is sittin near the hedge and isn't lamp shy just put the lamp between where he is and wants to go I find it will try and avoid the lamp as much as possible so keep moving it behind him until you're close enough, also handy if theres a rabbit in the next field and you don't want to slip your dog through the wire