HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED

[Country Joe 1,411]

Great Days, I remember days out at Southerness and Brydekirk nr Annan with six Lurchers no saluki blood all on permission, no looking over your shoulder, plenty Hares.

[lurcher330 2,301]

Me and a friend of mine go down to a place near Ballinasloe a couple of time during the season to a man that keeps a few cattle and conamara ponies he has about 350 acres and he looks forward to use coming down to do a bit of digging in the day and then lamping that night and then puts us up as his house which is a B&B that is how we met him when we were at the horse fair down there with stead in the B&B but the best thing is that he is a retired Guard and his 2 sons are guards at the moment but anything goes with him and we are aload to work away at anything we come across and he likes to work the spade himself sometimes .Just wish they were all like that

Edited June 25, 2011 by lurcher330

[border lad 1,047]

  On 25/06/2011 at 13:25, Country Joe said:

I was out with John Brough years ago Im sure if my memory is correct he had a pure Greyhound which was an excellent Hare catcher, Blacko,well known Poacher, and the late Henry Marshall traveller were along with myself.

Aye a know both Lads, John only lives over in Kilpatrick-FL-----, I FOR GOT TO MENTION, there was a nice bit of frost lying on the ground that morning, another time, I was out, this was probably, about 1974/5 another dog I had, took 7 seven Hares, in about one half hours, and every Hare was layed at my feet, there was FATHER AND SON, sadly the old man has passed on a very good friend of mine, his son Robert, is going strong lives around Gretna, they are all related to the two you named, and again No Saluki blood, RUNNING IN THOSE DOGS, ALL WAS DONE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, yes those were the days,

[BORDERSCOT 3,816]

I can remember me and my mate catching rabbits basically wherever we wanted with my ferrets and his whippet. No one really bothered us and apart from the local gravedigger who ran us ragged when we were chasing rabbits in the graveyard. I can stil picture his wee face getting redder and redder as he jooked among the gravestones trying to catch us and getting more out of breath by the minute. He would roar "c'mere ya wee c**ts - ee've got nae respect for the deid now f**k off". We were left to our own devices really and no one seemed to bother. However, that was 35 years ago - times have changed. You don't see the same amount of kids into ferreting nowadays. I was first shown how to make nets when I was 14 and have never bought a net since. Even when we were in our 20s/30s we could lamp wherever and no one really bothered two hoots as long as you respected livestock and property. The police weren't that interested either. Aye changes days eh? Give the police half a chance now and your f****d!!!

[lazycunt 59]

  On 25/06/2011 at 14:10, border lad said:

  On 25/06/2011 at 13:25, Country Joe said:

I was out with John Brough years ago Im sure if my memory is correct he had a pure Greyhound which was an excellent Hare catcher, Blacko,well known Poacher, and the late Henry Marshall traveller were along with myself.

Aye a know both Lads, John only lives over in Kilpatrick-FL-----, I FOR GOT TO MENTION, there was a nice bit of frost lying on the ground that morning, another time, I was out, this was probably, about 1974/5 another dog I had, took 7 seven Hares, in about one half hours, and every Hare was layed at my feet, there was FATHER AND SON, sadly the old man has passed on a very good friend of mine, his son Robert, is going strong lives around Gretna, they are all related to the two you named, and again No Saluki blood, RUNNING IN THOSE DOGS, ALL WAS DONE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, yes those were the days,

border lad you must have had some good dog in your day did you ever hunt near calendar i use to live there in the 70s some nice ground their.

[BORDERSCOT 3,816]

  On 25/06/2011 at 14:10, border lad said:

  On 25/06/2011 at 13:25, Country Joe said:

I was out with John Brough years ago Im sure if my memory is correct he had a pure Greyhound which was an excellent Hare catcher, Blacko,well known Poacher, and the late Henry Marshall traveller were along with myself.

Aye a know both Lads, John only lives over in Kilpatrick-FL-----, I FOR GOT TO MENTION, there was a nice bit of frost lying on the ground that morning, another time, I was out, this was probably, about 1974/5 another dog I had, took 7 seven Hares, in about one half hours, and every Hare was layed at my feet, there was FATHER AND SON, sadly the old man has passed on a very good friend of mine, his son Robert, is going strong lives around Gretna, they are all related to the two you named, and again No Saluki blood, RUNNING IN THOSE DOGS, ALL WAS DONE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, yes those were the days,

 

What kind of dogs did you run in those days mate - what was the breeding?

[border lad 1,047]

  On 25/06/2011 at 14:00, Country Joe said:

Great Days, I remember days out at Southerness and Brydekirk nr Annan with six Lurchers no saluki blood all on permission, no looking over your shoulder, plenty Hares.

 

one of the best courses I have ever saw, was at Brydekirk, THERE WAS THREE of us my old lATE FRIEND Jimmy an Traveling man and Alex, two dogs, I HAD OWNED BOTH DOGS AND SOLD THE ONE that had killed and carried 7 Hares back to me to my old mate Jimmy, now the Black dog was about 4 year old rising 5 year old and my young dog 2 year old deer hound/greyhound into colliegreyhound, stood about 28" run for fun, and strike like a Cobra, we said we would run both dogs together, both dogs had taken a couple of Hares that morning single handed, and this was to see the two how they would race against each other, well the Hare got up a good 100 yards off us, and I said to my self oh No, my young dog is going to do all the work here and the old dog will take the glory, sure enough the young dog was up by at 4 lengths and the old dog made his strike at it the Hare went up into the air, and turned the opposite way, well if there was one bend there was a dozen, and the Hare was in the Air another time, but still lived, an he managed to get up into an old tree, that was lying on the ground, the center of the tree was hollow, as I got down to the tree and the dogs, here was the Hare, right up at the top, were the dogs could not get at him, I called the dogs to leave as they were milling around the fallen tree, that Hare deserved to live to see another day, that was in the first week of January. Jimmy and Family were camped on the Merse at Annan,

[TOMO 27,084]

  On 25/06/2011 at 14:49, border lad said:

  On 25/06/2011 at 14:00, Country Joe said:

Great Days, I remember days out at Southerness and Brydekirk nr Annan with six Lurchers no saluki blood all on permission, no looking over your shoulder, plenty Hares.

 

one of the best courses I have ever saw, was at Brydekirk, THERE WAS THREE of us my old lATE FRIEND Jimmy an Traveling man and Alex, two dogs, I HAD OWNED BOTH DOGS AND SOLD THE ONE that had killed and carried 7 Hares back to me to my old mate Jimmy, now the Black dog was about 4 year old rising 5 year old and my young dog 2 year old deer hound/greyhound into colliegreyhound, stood about 28" run for fun, and strike like a Cobra, we said we would run both dogs together, both dogs had taken a couple of Hares that morning single handed, and this was to see the two how they would race against each other, well the Hare got up a good 100 yards off us, and I said to my self oh No, my young dog is going to do all the work here and the old dog will take the glory, sure enough the young dog was up by at 4 lengths and the old dog made his strike at it the Hare went up into the air, and turned the opposite way, well if there was one bend there was a dozen, and the Hare was in the Air another time, but still lived, an he managed to get up into an old tree, that was lying on the ground, the center of the tree was hollow, as I got down to the tree and the dogs, here was the Hare, right up at the top, were the dogs could not get at him, I called the dogs to leave as they were milling around the fallen tree, that Hare deserved to live to see another day, that was in the first week of January. Jimmy and Family were camped on the Merse at Annan,

 

ive had a hare do that as well B.L streight up a hollow tree on its side, there was little holes along the length do to rot where you could see the hare.,,, we could have easily pulled him out,,but that would not have been fair

[border lad 1,047]

  On 25/06/2011 at 14:24, BORDERSCOT said:

  On 25/06/2011 at 14:10, border lad said:

  On 25/06/2011 at 13:25, Country Joe said:

I was out with John Brough years ago Im sure if my memory is correct he had a pure Greyhound which was an excellent Hare catcher, Blacko,well known Poacher, and the late Henry Marshall traveller were along with myself.

Aye a know both Lads, John only lives over in Kilpatrick-FL-----, I FOR GOT TO MENTION, there was a nice bit of frost lying on the ground that morning, another time, I was out, this was probably, about 1974/5 another dog I had, took 7 seven Hares, in about one half hours, and every Hare was layed at my feet, there was FATHER AND SON, sadly the old man has passed on a very good friend of mine, his son Robert, is going strong lives around Gretna, they are all related to the two you named, and again No Saluki blood, RUNNING IN THOSE DOGS, ALL WAS DONE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, yes those were the days,

 

What kind of dogs did you run in those days mate - what was the breeding?

bred from a working hill collie x to a champion coursing Greyhound, Cotton king, he won the Waterloo cup, back I think in 1956 and then another good collie/ grey, bitch, back to the same type and then you the next time you would add a coursing champion again, I was looking for the wonder dog, able to get up to his quarry, 3 to 4 tight bends job done, and then I done a Blunder, I bought a Pure greyhound HI-BLUE-ANGEL, LITTER SISTER

TO,, HI JOE, that dog was fancied so strongly for the English Greyhound Derby, HE WAS Kidnapped, any way the pups out of her were only speed machines, yes we live and learn, better just to breed from worker to worker, but some were you have to inject pure blood back into them,and just for the experts, a Lad bred collie grey to collie grey, sire was a decent dog, bitch would only have been average, I refused a pup in the beginning and when the pup was 6 month old he brought the dog pup down to me he looked a cracker, and turned out that way as well, I was working up in the Shetlands at this time, and that pup started catching his own rabbits, the Local butcher told me a few morning he come down to his shop he would see, the pup carrying a rabbit back home, that dog Bred from average stock turned out to be one of the best, I went to work over in South Africa, and I sold the dog, on condition, when I come back, I get a pup from ((( never got a pup,

[Country Joe 1,411]

Jim Black nickname Blako, had bought a greyhound Pup, but it never got any bigger than a Whippet, a bitch called Nell pedigree unknown, this was the first Lurcher I had ever seen,

what a hare catcher in small fields, she was killed by a car while chasing a Hare, but Jimmy had taken a litter of her, he kept the smallest, which was about the size of her Dam called Tesa, another great Hare Dog, all the Dogs at that time were lURCHER TO LURCHER MATINGS,

WITH THE COLLIE X GREYHOUND BEING POPULAR WITH A COUPLE OF LADS,

[Country Joe 1,411]

Border Lad tried to pm you, but it wont let me?

Talking about old days, do any of you Scots Lads know a lad called Shug O, Raw I think he was from Belshill or Wishaw, did a bit of digging, I sold him a Beddy X Whippet x Whippet 25 years ago, always wondered if he was still around?

Edited June 25, 2011 by Country Joe

[brenna 365]

  On 25/06/2011 at 14:21, BORDERSCOT said:

I can remember me and my mate catching rabbits basically wherever we wanted with my ferrets and his whippet. No one really bothered us and apart from the local gravedigger who ran us ragged when we were chasing rabbits in the graveyard. I can stil picture his wee face getting redder and redder as he jooked among the gravestones trying to catch us and getting more out of breath by the minute. He would roar "c'mere ya wee c**ts - ee've got nae respect for the deid now f**k off". We were left to our own devices really and no one seemed to bother. However, that was 35 years ago - times have changed. You don't see the same amount of kids into ferreting nowadays. I was first shown how to make nets when I was 14 and have never bought a net since. Even when we were in our 20s/30s we could lamp wherever and no one really bothered two hoots as long as you respected livestock and property. The police weren't that interested either. Aye changes days eh? Give the police half a chance now and your f****d!!!

feel sorry for you men across the water over here in ireland hunt away to your hearts content very rarely a farmer would get the cops im hunting 37 years mite have bumped into cops 3 times in all that time as for lamping you wouldnt see a sinner after 11 o cloick ov er here members of the public keep their noses out of orther peoples buisness good hunting this winter

[BORDERSCOT 3,816]

  On 25/06/2011 at 16:28, brenna said:

  On 25/06/2011 at 14:21, BORDERSCOT said:

I can remember me and my mate catching rabbits basically wherever we wanted with my ferrets and his whippet. No one really bothered us and apart from the local gravedigger who ran us ragged when we were chasing rabbits in the graveyard. I can stil picture his wee face getting redder and redder as he jooked among the gravestones trying to catch us and getting more out of breath by the minute. He would roar "c'mere ya wee c**ts - ee've got nae respect for the deid now f**k off". We were left to our own devices really and no one seemed to bother. However, that was 35 years ago - times have changed. You don't see the same amount of kids into ferreting nowadays. I was first shown how to make nets when I was 14 and have never bought a net since. Even when we were in our 20s/30s we could lamp wherever and no one really bothered two hoots as long as you respected livestock and property. The police weren't that interested either. Aye changes days eh? Give the police half a chance now and your f****d!!!

feel sorry for you men across the water over here in ireland hunt away to your hearts content very rarely a farmer would get the cops im hunting 37 years mite have bumped into cops 3 times in all that time as for lamping you wouldnt see a sinner after 11 o cloick ov er here members of the public keep their noses out of orther peoples buisness good hunting this winter

 

 

Envy you mate - bigtime! Let's move to Ireland eh? ATB

[staffs riffraff 1,068]

Keep them coming lads I was born In the wrong era lol

[shepp 2,285]

I was talking to an old guy and he said he would walk down Staines high street on a Saturday afternoon with a .22 centre fire rifle, uncovered just on a sling over his shoulder and shoot rabbits on the local moor.

I hate to think how things will be in 40 years time, I would imagine, no guns no dogs no hunting.

Unless we have to arn ourselves to fight a civil war against you know who!