last night

[hunter1989 91]

hi lads

 

i meet up with to other people of this forum and ste last night,

 

we was running a dog and shooting,didnt get any but the dog had some amazing runs

 

there was a few bunnies i could of shot at but thought i would let the dog show me how its done

 

the dog was inches away from the rabbits every time he was slipped,

 

and the dog is very calm around rifle which is a good thing and bloody fast

 

thanks for a good night ste,mike,steve

 

ste we are of out again sunday see you then buddy

 

atb steve

[garfield 23]

Edited March 9, 2011 by garfield

[hunter1989 91]

just flushing buddy

[garfield 23]

[gurtwurz 792]

i thought you could still course rabbits?

 

cheers, wurz

[Parabuteos lad 878]

Illegal????

[garfield 23]

sorry my bad got it mixed up found this and stand corrected ... Hunting mice, rats, rabbits, and haresThe Hunting Act bans activities that Parliament believed to be cruel sports and permitted activities that it believed to be necessary for land managers. Parliament accepted the view that, where rats and rabbits were pests, hunting them was legitimate.[36] MPs did not believe that there was any necessity to use dogs to hunt mice[37] and believed that hare hunting was cruel, which is why these activities were not exempted from the Act.

 

These two exemptions do not make it possible for "traditional" hunting to continue. Rabbits tend to stay very close to their warrens and will go underground at the sight of dogs, thus not providing the chase that hunts need

[hunter1989 91]

so the truth is the dog was chasing rabbits and flushing

[mike1458 14]

Nothing illegal about coursing rabbits. We were shooting some, and running the others.

 

ATB Mike

[hunter1989 91]

was a good nite mike

[gurtwurz 792]

youre hard pushed to beat a night lamping rabbits with a half decent lurcher, i'd sooner do that than go lamping with an airgun to be honest. i've had some cracking nights with my mate and his dogs running all over the place, simply brilliant

 

cheers, wurz

[secretagentmole 1,701]

My mothers German Shepherd hunts mice, catches the buggers and all! Sometimes brings them back in the house, last one was a field mouse, very much alive, but bewildered and very very wet from a 30 foot journey in the gob of an imbecilic Shepherd. He is not the sharpest tool in the shed, more like a hide mallet in terms of sharpness!

[davyt63 1,845]

is this the dog section