100 rabbits a night posible or not

[Ray Mears 272]

I HAVE MENTIONED THIS BE FOR BUT I WILL SAY IT AGAIN, TAKE A LOOK AT DOXHOPE WEBSITE

 

HE TOOK OVER 200 IN ONE NIGHT WITH 3 DOGS . TWO DOGS ABOUT AND THE THIRD GOT 50 SOMTHING .

 

HE USED TO BE ON THIS SITE, AND IS A WELL RESPECTED LURCHER MAN FROM THE NORTH EAST.

 

THURSO JACK WHERE EXACTLY IS THAT PLACE, I DONT MIND A 12 HOUR DRIVE

Tomo if you go could i come along? I dont mind 12 hours in the back with the dogs

David

:11: :11: you would get along just fine witton just make sure you dont sit in any of the sh*t or piss :11:

[macker 5]

have often got one hundred bunnys but over a season :11:

[Guest Frank]

[rusty 0]

i,ve heard many tales of big numbers being caught, i go out with these lads and never see the big numbers they talk about. but a lot will depend on the land you have to go on.

[Spike01 0]

Some of the ground that I have you could do it on, if you could stop anyone else lamping it for a while. We shoot well over the ton mark maybe twice a month and don’t make a dent. The only reason that we don’t shoot more is that they are just about as lamp shy as it gets. We can only shoot that many because these rabbits have to get out and feed. There’s not a lot of grass left with that many of the little buggers running about.

[juckler123 707]

big numbers are possible but only for the first few nights in an area 60s and 70s soon go down to twentys and thirties as for a dog doing the ton on its own ive seen it done on moorsides with the gameholes blocked in the stonewalls but not often 50s and 60s in the right area is poss but ive seen a few dogs ruined [blown] when attempting big numbers 20 bunnys a night and your dog should be able to go whenever the weathers right if you need numbers its better to get a couple of longnets its a lot cheaper in the long run

[Guest mush]

to the ones who say they've done a hundred were they all taken flat out on the run or a lot taken on the squat?or just after leaving the squat? as any dog that's good on squatters will carry on taking them all night long, as it doesn't take much energy just skill and rabbits.

[Guest lambrini]

My best was fortyone with a colliex, he slept for a week

[Guest Top Chalker]

I HAVE MENTIONED THIS BE FOR BUT I WILL SAY IT AGAIN, TAKE A LOOK AT DOXHOPE WEBSITE

 

HE TOOK OVER 200 IN ONE NIGHT WITH 3 DOGS . TWO DOGS ABOUT AND THE THIRD GOT 50 SOMTHING .

 

HE USED TO BE ON THIS SITE, AND IS A WELL RESPECTED LURCHER MAN FROM THE NORTH EAST.

 

THURSO JACK WHERE EXACTLY IS THAT PLACE, I DONT MIND A 12 HOUR DRIVE

 

 

TOMO IT IS TRUE THAT DOXHOPE TOOK HUGE BAGS , IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO , ON LAND THAT WAS CRAWLING WITH BUNNYS..AN OLD LAD I NO FROM ASHINGTON HAS PICS OF THEM TIMES

[Guest grubygrafter]

I HAVE MENTIONED THIS BE FOR BUT I WILL SAY IT AGAIN, TAKE A LOOK AT DOXHOPE WEBSITE

 

HE TOOK OVER 200 IN ONE NIGHT WITH 3 DOGS . TWO DOGS ABOUT AND THE THIRD GOT 50 SOMTHING .

 

HE USED TO BE ON THIS SITE, AND IS A WELL RESPECTED LURCHER MAN FROM THE NORTH EAST.

 

THURSO JACK WHERE EXACTLY IS THAT PLACE, I DONT MIND A 12 HOUR DRIVE

 

tomo there is a clue in his name

[whin 463]

Here is the link mentioning this tally below in the records kept by Doherty.

 

http://www.doxhopedeerhounds.co.uk/lurchers.htm

 

Frank.

early nineteen ninties i was pest controling a good bit of land in the scottish borders , i had abig strong beardie half cross and a dog out of m chapmans bob and dslieghts katie both took thirty odds each and maybe if i had stayed from 8 till 8 rested them all night etc you could have took alot more but after twenty or thirty i got fed up and chased a hare or roe , i dont think its possible plus what eejit wants to kill a dog for ,their own greed on a rabbit sep timedown the borders 14 or 15 years back you could have filled a van load easy had 28 clappers of a feild on the right nights and a good expiernced dog could have done a big bag that night but it was time to go , a hundred a night i cant see it,all the best

 

Here is the link mentioning this tally below in the records kept by Doherty.

 

http://www.doxhopedeerhounds.co.uk/lurchers.htm

 

Frank.

early nineteen ninties i was pest controling a good bit of land in the scottish borders , i had abig strong beardie half cross and a dog out of m chapmans bob and dslieghts katie both took thirty odds each and maybe if i had stayed from 8 till 8 rested them all night etc you could have took alot more but after twenty or thirty i got fed up and chased a hare or roe , i dont think its possible plus what eejit wants to kill a dog for ,their own greed on a rabbit sep timedown the borders 14 or 15 years back you could have filled a van load easy had 28 clappers of a feild on the right nights and a good expiernced dog could have done a big bag that night but it was time to go , a hundred a night i cant see it,all the best

thers easier ways than a dog to get a hundred plus ,any body who runs the dog till hees ,done not much respect for their jukel

[Guest smoothrun]

What would anyone want with 100 rabbits I gues its a numbers game for some people. that is not what our sport is all about. Its the same as people who would prolong a foxes death (pre ban) to get a good pic for a internet forum. These people do not love the countryside our our country ways they just want to make out that there dogs are the best dogs out there and they never smile for there pics.

[Straightline 0]

I HAVE MENTIONED THIS BE FOR BUT I WILL SAY IT AGAIN, TAKE A LOOK AT DOXHOPE WEBSITE

 

HE TOOK OVER 200 IN ONE NIGHT WITH 3 DOGS . TWO DOGS ABOUT AND THE THIRD GOT 50 SOMTHING .

 

HE USED TO BE ON THIS SITE, AND IS A WELL RESPECTED LURCHER MAN FROM THE NORTH EAST.

 

THURSO JACK WHERE EXACTLY IS THAT PLACE, I DONT MIND A 12 HOUR DRIVE

As previously said its in the name. Done it 20 years agoe when I went up there as a 16year old with some Cwmbran guys and yes it was crawling and yes they were dull. Id like to see the same dog catching regular up that way come to S.Wales and catch, it would have a shock. The first night there I put the lamp on before we nipped into Wick for a few beers and the field lifted, literally. Think of your best field then add some and the field was like that (and the surrounding area). I let my bitch go and she was running from one to another with excitement. Suffice to say we had some fun there. When Plummer told us his terriers and alsations regularly caught it was nothing to be impressed at. I reckon I could have gone into double figures myself picking them up.

[doxhope 2]

I HAVE MENTIONED THIS BE FOR BUT I WILL SAY IT AGAIN, TAKE A LOOK AT DOXHOPE WEBSITE

 

HE TOOK OVER 200 IN ONE NIGHT WITH 3 DOGS . TWO DOGS ABOUT AND THE THIRD GOT 50 SOMTHING .

 

HE USED TO BE ON THIS SITE, AND IS A WELL RESPECTED LURCHER MAN FROM THE NORTH EAST.

 

THURSO JACK WHERE EXACTLY IS THAT PLACE, I DONT MIND A 12 HOUR DRIVE

 

 

TOMO IT IS TRUE THAT DOXHOPE TOOK HUGE BAGS , IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO , ON LAND THAT WAS CRAWLING WITH BUNNYS..AN OLD LAD I NO FROM ASHINGTON HAS PICS OF THEM TIMES

 

Yip matie we did get huge bags of rabbits, hares and deer yes there was a lot of game about, and there was loads of lurcher teams going out to the same land, and carrying dogs back, not big hauls, funny how nobody else travelling there never got the same returns. It wasnt that long ago, up to the mid-nineties..Too many one for the pot men and part time poachers knocking about now to get the same numbers, and of course not the quality of dogs.

[doxhope 2]

I HAVE MENTIONED THIS BE FOR BUT I WILL SAY IT AGAIN, TAKE A LOOK AT DOXHOPE WEBSITE

 

HE TOOK OVER 200 IN ONE NIGHT WITH 3 DOGS . TWO DOGS ABOUT AND THE THIRD GOT 50 SOMTHING .

 

HE USED TO BE ON THIS SITE, AND IS A WELL RESPECTED LURCHER MAN FROM THE NORTH EAST.

 

THURSO JACK WHERE EXACTLY IS THAT PLACE, I DONT MIND A 12 HOUR DRIVE

 

Yes Tomo we got them numbers, and similar numbers regularly, after that night we were out 2 nights later, and after that, three nights off the trot. Our dogs got big hauls, and on the way back from lamping we would park up and wait for day light to break, to get a couple of course of hares before we went home. I am a numbers man through and through... respect for lurcherman Im affraid goes with how many times they have been caught poaching, how much they have paid in fines or the number of times they have travelled to the fens..What we did in the north east, and Minshaw did in the north west is now irrelevent.

I think a 100 per night is possible, but it would be one hell of an achievment for 1 dog..