100 rabbits a night posible or not

[Guest joe ox]

Doxhope i was getting £1 a rabbit back then there worth no more than that now. £1 back then was a lot more money then than it is now, Especially for someone who was on the dole. What iam trying to say is killing big bags of rabbits back then was more appealling financially than today!

[doxhope 2]

Doxhope i was getting £1 a rabbit back then there worth no more than that now. £1 back then was a lot more money then than it is now, Especially for someone who was on the dole. What iam trying to say is killing big bags of rabbits back then was more appealling financially than today!

 

Definately mate, I couldnt agree more, there was some days when selling some of the rabbits, hares, deer, fish or feather made the difference in us having a meal..and Im not fecking joking...No one now could imaging a married couple splitting the back of the settee open to collect the money to go and get 2 kit kats to go with a cup of tea, I can, becauase me and the wife have bloody done it.

Yes, I forget, times have changed at times. I was only trying to be constructive in my input, as I avoid arguments about dogs now like a Geordie avoids a spelling test..

If anyone has picked me up wrong, I appoligise

I hope 100 rabbits still can be done, and someone genuinely posts a post on here to that effect, it dosnt so much over build a persons ego to get these sort of numbers, but it must make them feel very proud of their dogs indeed, just as much as a coursing lads dog killing 3 out of 3 makes them proud, or lads with bull crosses killing foxes, or ferreting lads having a good day out

Ive seen most things in my time, including dogs coursing on the fens doing things that I would never have thought possible, and would have always bet against.

Good hunting anyway

[juckler123 707]

We all went for big bags during the seventies what with the strikes and high unemployment and the decent profit margin hard times make for hard men and better lurchers i can believe theres worse dogs about now theres always been shite out there if you want it just more shite than ever now as the dogs are more popular and bred for looks now instead of abillity but theres a few old strains knocking about that fit the bill.

Who knows whats down the line them days may come again sooner than you think

[Guest hiaker2]

reading the countrymans weekly they were asking possible or not that a lurcher could take 100 rabbits a night on the lamp. i think it would take some kind of dog to do so .i was wodering what you lot would think and what cross would be best for this kind of work and with the stamina to do the job

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[woodga 170]

a good population of rabbits is needed first and the numbers are just not the same as they were years ago imo.

we regularly kill upwards of 40 to one dog but the ground covered to acomplish this is huge if the rabbits are there and the conditions are right i would say its well with in a good dogs capabilitys provided the man using the lamp knows the score

a large proportion would be squaters out of the seats and you know how you can build the bag up if you get them sitting in a gale force wind sadly i just dont have the density of rabbits in one place but iv seen places that would produce the ton around perth and forfar so i would say it is possible if all the coditions were perfect

[Guest BIG FRANK]

reading the countrymans weekly they were asking possible or not that a lurcher could take 100 rabbits a night on the lamp. i think it would take some kind of dog to do so .i was wodering what you lot would think and what cross would be best for this kind of work and with the stamina to do the job

THATS ONE F###KING FIT DOG INIT! :clapper: :clapper: :haha:

[inan 841]

Why Can't it be done now?? Why doe's everyone seem to think dogs from " back in the day" were better that dogs now just look at hare dogs for example back in the 70- and even the early 90 3 out of 3 was the bench mark. But today you need to be killing 5 or 6 to call it a good dog. I think peoples understanding of diets and conditioning are better today than back then the only reason not as many lads are doing the ton these days is what do you do with 100 dogged rabbits??

 

Youve brought up a few points there matie, yes hare dogs for the fens have improved immesly, no one would argue with that, but for me yes the dogs that were around 20-25 years back that were bred for all round ability, that were suited to the heavy duty lamping game were better and Ive seen nothing over the last 10 years to change my view, The lurcher world is not exempt from fads and fashions, and the present scene is for saluki, bull and smaller whippet crosses, these all open new horizons for the lurcher world, as you say, such as better hare killers as with the saluki bred dogs, but, Im affraid they are not the best for producing dogs that are consistent takers of very large hauls of rabbits, as well as being above average all rounders on everything else, and Im not knocking any of these crosses, they will all readily fit the bill for someone. Youve got your 5 out of 5 hare killing mechines, what more do you want

 

Its not just the dogs, its also the lads who hunt them, if someone in my day were stumpted as to what they had to do with 100 rabbits they would have been laughed out of Ashington..

Not enough of the right dogs, too many part timers and one for the pot men

On a different tack are you from Ashington?I beleive its produced some good hare dogs,doesnt Sankey come from there.

[higgins 75]

can't believe this post hasn't come to a conclusion yet,the more experienced people on here say it can be done,if all the perfect combination of conditions and dogs are present,how simple was that,

happy Magic 100 all,

Higgins.