Foxes

[guns 13]

my 3/4 russel 1/4 staff normaly kills his fox but the last one took quite a bit of punishment as it was on a level. But I never seen a terrier killed by a fox

[valerio 32]

In my experience when a fox badly damage a terrier or kills it,is in a bad earth,with the fox over a rock or a level or behind a turn where the dog can't move.The biggest problem is the earth not the fox.Given some room even a small terrier can andle a big fox with only minor damage.

[BITCH 135]

Jack; Just to expand on ye point about " Badger Tongs " there; I own a pair of Badger Tongs, as once sold by a well known, West Country outfit of days gone by.

 

During my efforts to verifie their provinance I approached Mr David Harcombe. I asked if he'd ever have seen the exact Tongs, as supplied by the above. His reply was; " Badger Tongs? What the bloody hell would we have ever have needed those things for?! ".

 

I've seen a Welshman 'Dancing' with a Tailed badger, however. But all that relates to a time before " COSHH " appraisals. If Tailing a badger should have become a lost art, I'd hate to have to be one of the poor sods ever again to have to learn that art from scratch!

 

i imagine in them by gone days he owned a pistol

[JackWilliams 1]

Ditch thanks for the reply mate, i wondeering is all. In my mid if you havent got the bottle to grab your game by hand you have no right catching it. Ive sen big hard boys from the valleys jib on picking up netted rabbits!

 

Whippet boy - im not having a go but, im a a year or two older mate and iwas the same as you when i first started thishunting malarky, i was shouting out advice left right and center, an i think the others are right. I read every book there was, and i thought i new it all!! Untill my fist dig, on my own no locator, a tiny spade and a extremley pissed of charlie, th i realsied i knew fu*k all!! The mre you keep quiet the more you learn. Afterall, theyre only books!!