coursin / trip wires

[Leeview 791]

lived on the fen now 18yrs, several years ago between nov/march the farmer/keeeper always put up trip wires in some plough fields but mainly wheatfields though, obvoius to prevent peeps hare coursing an stop peeps walkin there fields. but i havent seen any tripwires for along time now. just wondered if any lads/lasses come across signs/wires or even had dogs injured becaue of this in the fields. cheers

 

What did the signs say exactly? they were nt put up by farmers/keepers they were put up by the Calendar coursing club on their permission to keep others from poaching their permission.All along the A47 Peterborogh through to Wisbech both sides of the road and as gonzalez mentions slightly further north on the fens

Y.I.S Leeview

[Leeview 791]

Absolutely disgusting behaviour. I can imagine the damage a taunt wire would do to a longdog, never heard of it before now, but doesn't surprise me. Keepers / land owners were able to get away with horrendous traps / devices all in the name of "Protecting game", which in the case of hares, whatever the law says, are no mans property, they are wild game.

 

Going further back in time but still on the subject, don't know if you guys have heard about the trip wire guns, (not alarm guns, but actual pistols, with a trip wire to the trigger)they used to be really common as late as the 1800s. and man traps marketed as "Thigh crackers".....makes you shudder.

 

G

The law says the landowner owns the land and all game on it wild or released thats why you need permission from the landowner

Y.I.S Leeview

[baldockbanks courser 598]

i heard round my old way in lincs they used to put dummy hares in that were concrete inside and dogs would come back with bottom jaw hanging off etc, nasty stuff

get real mate.

1. how many coursing dogs are used in a way that they run and pick hares up before they move?

2. due to my own mistake iv sent my lurchers to "rabbits" in the seat only to find they were bricks or rocks that the dogs struck and they certainlie didnt break there jaw.

3. Most the time when you see "sighns" for trip wires as I did at wisbeach 10 year ago they are put there by lads who have permission to course the land and dont want there hares poached.its a bluff theres no wires We dont live in the victorian times now.

 

too many wives tales in the lurcher world.

[fidodido 30]

lived on the fen now 18yrs, several years ago between nov/march the farmer/keeeper always put up trip wires in some plough fields but mainly wheatfields though, obvoius to prevent peeps hare coursing an stop peeps walkin there fields. but i havent seen any tripwires for along time now. just wondered if any lads/lasses come across signs/wires or even had dogs injured becaue of this in the fields. cheers

 

What did the signs say exactly? they were nt put up by farmers/keepers they were put up by the Calendar coursing club on their permission to keep others from poaching their permission.All along the A47 Peterborogh through to Wisbech both sides of the road and as gonzalez mentions slightly further north on the fens

Y.I.S Leeview

they dont course at brigg scunthorpe an i seen em here

[guyliath 15]

Hi leeview,

I understand fully that the law says the hares, rabbits,and deer are the property of whoever owns the land. but I was saying that law is a joke. How can you or I "own" wild animals. I was having a little rant at a ridiculous law, not saying that they were in effect no ones property.

Sorry I wasn't clearer.;-)

 

All the best,

YIS

G

[longarm 2]

last year 1 of my dogs ran through the hedge on some local farm land, public right of way i might add, as she past through she let out a real yelp, when i cheched her she had a cut on her chest, not to bad , but i thought ile have a look in the hedge to see what caused it, to my horror the farmer had put 16" metal spike all along a run through the hedge, hangled and about 10" apart, i found 11 sets of these along the hedge rows witch i pulled out , a week later i saw the famer so i thought ide have a word, all he had to say was its my land and itle keep you c***s from coursing and if your dog gets killed its your fault now fcuk off, :censored: i told im if he does it again ile phone the rozzers and if they wont do owt ile come back and kill every 1 of your fcuking live stock to witch he just laughed, toser

Edited February 8, 2011 by longarm

[guyliath 15]

Sounds a friendly farmer.....sorry for your dog.

[scothunter 12,609]

i heard round my old way in lincs they used to put dummy hares in that were concrete inside and dogs would come back with bottom jaw hanging off etc, nasty stuff

get real mate.

1. how many coursing dogs are used in a way that they run and pick hares up before they move?

2. due to my own mistake iv sent my lurchers to "rabbits" in the seat only to find they were bricks or rocks that the dogs struck and they certainlie didnt break there jaw.

3. Most the time when you see "sighns" for trip wires as I did at wisbeach 10 year ago they are put there by lads who have permission to course the land and dont want there hares poached.its a bluff theres no wires We dont live in the victorian times now.

 

too many wives tales in the lurcher world.

 

its certainly no wifes tale.the keepers were doing this on hopetoun estate around 10years ago,with the wire.

[Simoman 110]

Wires are common around Connigsby area north of Boston, about 10 years ago found a dead saluki lurcher in a dyke with a severed front leg, nasty........

[watchman 256]

last year 1 of my dogs ran through the hedge on some local farm land, public right of way i might add, as she past through she let out a real yelp, when i cheched her she had a cut on her chest, not to bad , but i thought ile have a look in the hedge to see what caused it, to my horror the farmer had put 16" metal spike all along a run through the hedge, hangled and about 10" apart, i found 11 sets of these along the hedge rows witch i pulled out , a week later i saw the famer so i thought ide have a word, all he had to say was its my land and itle keep you c***s from coursing and if your dog gets killed its your fault now fcuk off, :censored: i told im if he does it again ile phone the rozzers and if they wont do owt ile come back and kill every 1 of your fcuking live stock to witch he just laughed, toser

so you went back and killed all the livestock then?

[terrierjohn 49]

theres a wood near me that has barb wire from tree to tree all the way through the wood with a ditch surrounding the woo wich has a fence either side and one in the middle

 

i've had a few close calls with the dogs going towards that wood

 

never came across wires in the fields though but the odd pile of barb wire left hidden in the heather and had a dog plough right over it just small nicks but the dog was covered in them worst one was a 2 inch long slice

 

but up here theres 2 or 3 local farmers that are more than happy to shoot a dog on sight

[Penda 3,341]

i remember back in the old subaru lamping days when i was a youth i remember this 1 spot we used to lamp regular had a wire straight through the middle of it wernt there long snip snip ha ha ha ha ha mind you it aint nothin to the old medieval coursing trapps that they used to make with giant spikes on them that would impale the dog straight through the chest not nice

[ALL HUNTING 5]

What did the signs say exactly? they were nt put up by farmers/keepers they were put up by the Calendar coursing club on their permission to keep others from poaching their permission.All along the A47 Peterborogh through to Wisbech both sides of the road and as gonzalez mentions slightly further north on the fens

Y.I.S Leeview

Leeview. . the signs said "beware tripwires" on a board that was staked down, also the land there were on the owners were anti coursing. only hunting they done on land was shooting in which no 1 had any coursing permission. i had permission further up the road which we use to hold 8 dog stakes. . some top coursin lads were invited. . even then we notified the police in case they got numerous of calls. . also the keeper saying we were out on certain days. hoping he took up his wires incase the dog\hare ventured near or on his land.

[lamping-lad 160]

if my dog got injured on a wire the farmer/keeper put out on purpus, be the last thing he ever done

[Leeview 791]

What did the signs say exactly? they were nt put up by farmers/keepers they were put up by the Calendar coursing club on their permission to keep others from poaching their permission.All along the A47 Peterborogh through to Wisbech both sides of the road and as gonzalez mentions slightly further north on the fens

Y.I.S Leeview

Leeview. . the signs said "beware tripwires" on a board that was staked down, also the land there were on the owners were anti coursing. only hunting they done on land was shooting in which no 1 had any coursing permission. i had permission further up the road which we use to hold 8 dog stakes. . some top coursin lads were invited. . even then we notified the police in case they got numerous of calls. . also the keeper saying we were out on certain days. hoping he took up his wires incase the dog\hare ventured near or on his land.

Those boards were put up by the Calender CC who had permission to course there How did they get permission? by telling the landowners if they were given permission they would sort the poaching out next time the police stopped them they were nt poaching the landowner had given them permission

Y.I.S Leeview