Hunting anywhere in the UK?

[gaza 508]

If you wanted to run r/h/f/d in the UK preban where would you most like to run or ideally live, where the quarry is in volume?

Or maybe youd like to live there for other forms of hunting and not just the running of lurchers.

[Richie10 345]

I can put this topic to bed - where there is all the UK quarry and plenty of it.

 

Can't really see people saying ' a place with nothing to run'.

[fitchet 788]

norfolk for me.

[Guest madman]

yorkshire dales

 

some fantastic high birds up there,

Edited December 21, 2010 by madman

[mossyh07 64]

Would love a trip to the fens someday, looks terrific sport

[rocky1 942]

scottish borders ,round carter bar and kielder ,had some grat nites up their and west coast scotland

[collie daft 15]

AROUND LAUDER, SCOTTISH BORDERS. HAD SOME GREAT DAYS AND NIGHTS THERE!

just wat i was about 2 write love the scottish boders, took some great bags of game...

[Romany 1,065]

AROUND LAUDER, SCOTTISH BORDERS. HAD SOME GREAT DAYS AND NIGHTS THERE!

 

Excellent place, some of my best numbers were around there..Hillhouse at Carfraemill was mint until they put the drop in traps in..

[brambo1938 9]

Salisbury Plain for me.From 1955 to 1990 I hunted at least twice a week every season in an area just east of the "live firing area"- a place (several sqare miles ) that the Army had set aside for infantry maneovers.Wiki describes it as a wildife haven , and so it was.There were rabbits,hare,foxes and a very scrawny ( but still tasty )strain of wild pheasant there.You would sometimes see a roe or fallow there but I think the noise of rifle fire on the rare occasions (2 or 3 times in a season) that the army held maneovers there frightened them into the "tamer " areas.

 

The place was so untouched that there was a very clear "preditor/prey cycle" in evidence.Every five years or so the rabbit population increased to the point that it could support a large number of foxes. In those years we hunted foxes all year and hares in the winter but I dont believe we made that much of a dent in their numbers. There were perhaps five lots of gypsies and maybe a dozen or so of my mates that coursed there.I like to course solo and more often than not I could hunt all day and never see a soul.

 

The foxes lived mostly on rabbit but they also took leverets that crouched too long and ran down the slower ones so the hares that survived there were fast and nervous. Hardly ever saw a "kick" up and it was no disgrace if a dog did'nt even get to turn a hare with an yd start especially when you remember that there are hills and valleys and small copses to provide escape routes.

 

 

No-one ever bothered us there until about 1990 at which time the police started to take an interest,stopping our vans and the like. At this time I began to suffer from chest ailments,my saluki x bitch was too old to work or breed

and the guys who bred her had not turned up to their usual wintering place so I packed it in. They tell me the police put up a helicopter now if a local farmer gets one whiff of whippet shit.

 

I just mooch after rabbits now in the scrubland at the edge of the Forest but if I had just one wish.......

[pikesta 54]

got to be the fens for me... just love it up there. hunted alot of the country and found that is the place for me.. shame bout the ban, but ar we'll.

[boyo 1,398]

fens are great parts of wales are great salisbury plains were great .but for me from lambourn uop to oxford there is whatever game you want to run in abundance ide love to live there if i had the wonga never had a bad days sprt in that area noo matter what was being run

[rocky1 942]

Salisbury Plain for me.From 1955 to 1990 I hunted at least twice a week every season in an area just east of the "live firing area"- a place (several sqare miles ) that the Army had set aside for infantry maneovers.Wiki describes it as a wildife haven , and so it was.There were rabbits,hare,foxes and a very scrawny ( but still tasty )strain of wild pheasant there.You would sometimes see a roe or fallow there but I think the noise of rifle fire on the rare occasions (2 or 3 times in a season) that the army held maneovers there frightened them into the "tamer " areas.

 

The place was so untouched that there was a very clear "preditor/prey cycle" in evidence.Every five years or so the rabbit population increased to the point that it could support a large number of foxes. In those years we hunted foxes all year and hares in the winter but I dont believe we made that much of a dent in their numbers. There were perhaps five lots of gypsies and maybe a dozen or so of my mates that coursed there.I like to course solo and more often than not I could hunt all day and never see a soul.

 

The foxes lived mostly on rabbit but they also took leverets that crouched too long and ran down the slower ones so the hares that survived there were fast and nervous. Hardly ever saw a "kick" up and it was no disgrace if a dog did'nt even get to turn a hare with an yd start especially when you remember that there are hills and valleys and small copses to provide escape routes.

 

 

No-one ever bothered us there until about 1990 at which time the police started to take an interest,stopping our vans and the like. At this time I began to suffer from chest ailments,my saluki x bitch was too old to work or breed

and the guys who bred her had not turned up to their usual wintering place so I packed it in. They tell me the police put up a helicopter now if a local farmer gets one whiff of whippet shit.

 

I just mooch after rabbits now in the scrubland at the edge of the Forest but if I had just one wish.......

1955 to 1990 ,not been cheeky but you must be getting on

[brambo1938 9]

lol I was 17 years old in 1955 and had owned a running dog for 5 years.I'm 72 now but weather permitting I'm still out mooching for an hour or two each day with my saluki x.

[lurcherman 28]

lol I was 17 years old in 1955 and had owned a running dog for 5 years.I'm 72 now but weather permitting I'm still out mooching for an hour or two each day with my saluki x.

 

 

brillient mate, ,forget the lads with hundreds of post these are the men that have seen and done most things, 60 years of lurchers/longdogs , outstanding mate merry xmas,

[brambo1938 9]

lol I was 17 years old in 1955 and had owned a running dog for 5 years.I'm 72 now but weather permitting I'm still out mooching for an hour or two each day with my saluki x.

 

 

brillient mate, ,forget the lads with hundreds of post these are the men that have seen and done most things, 60 years of lurchers/longdogs , outstanding mate merry xmas,

Cheers mate Merry xmas to you