Ferreter or Electronically Aided Rabbit Digger?

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

C'mon now lads,...Ditchshitter,..like myself,.. comes from a different generation to yourselves,...we was bred in 'another time',..some might say a better era,..who knows Whatever,..if he doesn't feel the need to buy a locator set and use it, as opposed to standing well back,.and waiting,...well that's his decision.

It requires no debate or silly bish/bash,...end of story really...

Mind you,..I was out with a fellow veteran rabbiter a few weeks back,..we have hunted with each other 'on and off',..twixt fist fights and arguments and marathon drinking sessions for nie-on 30 years,...and I would class TC as being a competent operative and fully capable of standing alongside you,...whatever happens

We were knelt up behind a deep chalk warren. Already had a dozen conies necked and sorted and in truth we should of moved on after the last bolt. Sometimes its best to cut yer losses and get off a bury, while you still can We were using a fair few pugs and all had been retrieved bar one, a jet black 'poley' bitch, a mean machine that would never leave an arsed-up coney. I saw TC hovering over the warren with his locator sweeping the area trying to find her, when all of a sudden the clicker went silent...The magic box had lost its magic,..it was in effect,. and 'ex box' I'll never forget the look of horror on my partner's face.

He turned back round,..ashen faced, white as a ghost, and said those immortal lines,."Locators fecked,.what we gonna do now mate "?....His concern was a shock to me, but I soon brought a smile back to his pate and replied,.."What did we USED to do mate,..for 30 fecking years "

The box has been a life saver, no doubts about it,..but there are many other ways of 'skinning a rabbit'

All the best to ALL crosses,.CHALKWARREN...

Edited February 22, 2007 by CHALKWARREN

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Ferreter No1.; Thankyou for that clarification. Fact is, as I'm quite sure I've already stated - probably above? - I've genuinely never even so much as held a Locator Box in my hand. Liturally. Not even picked one up at a Game Fair to see what it weighed. And I've only once in my entire life been out with a mate who insisted on using his (His ground. Do what he bloody well liked, obviously! :whistle: ) and was appalled by the tranformation it's use brought over him. It put me in mind of a Safe Cracker or Bomb Disposal guy. All he was aware of in the entire world was that little box he held in his hand as he myoptically gazed at it. Finger raised to forbid any 'distraction'.

 

Actually, it was thinking back to that incident which gave me the title for this very Thread. I mean, it may be a bit of an exageration to say so; But I could well see a comedy sketch based on it. Rabbits exploding into nets, like incoming shell fire, all around this guy. And he just wandering around in that bent over position, index finger pointing heavenward and muttering about, " Ah! She's two foot beneath me right now! "

 

Just not my way. All I thought I'd do, quite spontaniously too, as it happens, is take a straw poll to see how popular either method is.

 

 

Chalks; Ye do mean The TC??? As in; " I'm telling ye ~ I'm a f*ckin Plumber! ~ Ye'll never get That lot down That S Bend! " ( :rofl: Sorry, mate! Even just writing that set off such a bout of laughter as to almost finish me! ) So ye were out together, of late? Do hope so, mate. Life's too bloody short - especially when ye've used up as much of it as our lot have