night time

[ribb 15]

hi boys just wondering is there any of you got your dogs that educated and familiure with the ground you work that it can do it in the dark without a lanp to a level where if you go back a 100 and odd year you would still be able to fill the pot without too much fear of getting hung or deported to austrailia or some other god forsaken place.i ask this question because if you put a lamp on where i stay you will go to prison but i am a great believer that man can overcome any problem that is put in front of him

[bradaz2009 9]

yeah get a good little collie x or summat with plenty of brain i used to have a dog that would catch in the dark but i did use a lamp as well with him why dont you just snare whatever your after

[villebones 4]

From what I've seen, dogs don't even have to know the ground

[Mick C. 229]

I have worked dogs in the dark without a lamp.

 

They hunt by scent,althgugh they will see their quarry if light enough.

 

Didnt catch as many as you would on the lamp,due to all the hunting up.

 

Never the less it was more than you could eat.

 

Recall/ retreive have to be spot on.

 

One particular dog had a bad habbit of dropping the rabbit once it had made the kill

[juckler123 707]

Used to be a chap out in a notts pit village that worked his dogs after dusk or into dawn he lived at side of a large estate and it was the only way to hunt it without getting bother.

The dogs adapted to it very well ive done it on full moons on big fields

[Simoman 110]

Never tried it to be honest, my dogs have caught plenty of times out the beam but i wouldn't choose to do it