point and slip merchants

[watchman 256]

regularly hear this term thrown around as some kind of snide comment but for the lads that only lamp is this not exactly what we are because taking into consideration what i want and need from my dogs then i certainly fit into this category.

i expect my dogs to run the lenth of the beam toward said rabbit weather it can see it or not just trusting my judgement that there is something there,run it and catch then retrieve to hand if it misses lamp off and without so much as a whisper from me the dog return to my side.

so why dont you all just fill in the gaps as to what i seem to be missing out on being the "point and slip merchant "that i am

Edited September 16, 2011 by watchman

[Ideation 8,216]

Hunting?

[watchman 256]

Hunting?

 

go on then enlighten me

Edited September 16, 2011 by watchman

[arcticgun 4,548]

I reckon most dogs do far more than 'point and slip' yeah it maybe that they are lampers or coursing doigs which traditionally are slipped at quarry, but I'd wager they spend more time hunting up and moochingt than lamping or coursing over the years, everytime they off the leader and in the right enviroment Id wager instnict takes over and thery hunt up

[watchman 256]

mine will readily work with terriers when out bushing,it dont just feck off and do its own thing 300 metres up the hedgerow,unless its on something obviously, i know what your getting at but as for just getting out lamping then they are nothing more than what iv described

Edited September 16, 2011 by watchman

[paulus 26]

i must be missing something, but mine are expected to hunt and mooch during the day and work as said on the lamp, i also use them to rough shoot and pickup pigeons from the hide.

[watchman 256]

i must be missing something, but mine are expected to hunt and mooch during the day and work as said on the lamp, i also use them to rough shoot and pickup pigeons from the hide.

 

well i must be missing something as well as mine work during the day mooching about and will retrieve shot game so i suppose the question really is what constitutes a "point and slip merchant"

[paulus 26]

greyhounds, waterloo cup and all that perhaps

[Malt 379]

i must be missing something, but mine are expected to hunt and mooch during the day and work as said on the lamp, i also use them to rough shoot and pickup pigeons from the hide.

 

well i must be missing something as well as mine work during the day mooching about and will retrieve shot game so i suppose the question really is what constitutes a "point and slip merchant"

 

For me it would be someone with a dog with no basic training other than chasing, catching and killing something on the lamp.

[paulus 26]

you could have hit the nail on the head there malt

[mick01 36]

i suppose i would fit this category also. me and my mate get out when we can, when work allows and weather allows, we travell 45 minutes an hour to our permissions so we dont waste our time when the conditions are shite, though often when we turn up they have turned shite! we get out once a week twice max and its all lamping. if that makes me a point and slip merchant i can live with that, atb

[wharrier 39]

I think the words point and slip merchant get used by these people who think they r better than they are think some people try to over complicated lurcher work

[DottyDoo 500]

i agree, point an slip means fook all, if it ment what it said we would all have disposable dogs, cos surely after they missed game, they would be long gone, after all no c**t calls them point, slip an recall dogs

 

i dnt care what anybody says, my dogs which are happy to be pointed an slipped at nite are also happy using there noses during the daytime whilst bushing/mooching/or ferretin....

an all those folk that say dogs cannae do both, aint put there dog in them situations enuff time to let dog relise it dont need its nose for the lamp...

 

 

[DottyDoo 500]

i must be missing something, but mine are expected to hunt and mooch during the day and work as said on the lamp, i also use them to rough shoot and pickup pigeons from the hide.

 

well i must be missing something as well as mine work during the day mooching about and will retrieve shot game so i suppose the question really is what constitutes a "point and slip merchant"

 

For me it would be someone with a dog with no basic training other than chasing, catching and killing something on the lamp.

 

 

what about the recall??? or the lead training that was taught so the dog could be on a slip in 1st place, so noo we have lead trained/point/slip an recal dogs lol

[bryson 562]

a good lamping dog [point and slip] will get more rabbits at night than any dog through the day if you do pest controll a dog like this would be invaluble i cant understand why they get made to sound like lesser of a dog than a daytime one surely what is described is what you want in a lamping dog