Foxes - Single handed and pairs (Pre Ban)

[Macky 227]

I've been asked and people have been moaning about doubling up and why not running single handed.

 

put 10 foxes in front of a single handed dog, between 60 and 100 yards how many would that single handed dog catch? that's run catch kill. and would that dog be able to do the same thing the night after.

 

 

Now the same question about doubling up, put the same amount of foxes amount in font of a pair of dogs and one or both of them would be able to run the night after.

 

what im trying to say is in my opinion, if a single handed dog caught a decent amount then it wouldn't be able to run the night after.

 

this is just a debate not an argument.

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

DEPENDS HOW THE DOG TAKES THEM

had a straight greyhound bitch that loved a battle but she wasnt fit to run after 3 or more a wk, she was too cut up.

had a lurcher that took them and hardly got bitten and yet was as fired up.

 

[toffee 76]

WHI AYE MAN ,serious mate a good suluki bull grey should be able to carry on,rest inbetween for the injurys an ticker but will never be putting them of by the injurys an thell show you that mate. all the best,,, .

Edited September 24, 2011 by toffee

[Simoman 110]

Pre ban you would catch more with a pair, and it would probably mean you could be out more. I know many folk will ONLY run single handed, personally in the good ole days i would almost always run foxes doubled up, the reason being that i was either lamping with a mate or running two dogs of my own BUT the one thing i did expect was for my dog to be able to run them single handedly and did test them at that.......Also the thing about running a dog singly night after night is COULD the dog go out night after night, or WOULD the dog, two very different things......

[toffee 76]

totally agree with you simoneman i,ve doubled up on my tod with pup an dam for last 2 month an its to much but worth it, mate he,s done a high number way her,so hes now doing a bit of both single an sired,an timings a factor to sliping did you go or hold 1 back???

[brigg 54]

i do both but if im whanting numbers il double up. alot of the feilds about here are to small for single handed. if the dog's not cought his fox in 2 or 3 turns its off. but as if i run the 2 together. there more of a chance of 1of them turning it into the other.

[dymented 2,220]

back when it was legal all my dogs were tested and could do them single handed but i used to go out between 3 and 6 nights a week with lads from 4 or 5 different areas we had some awesome numbers but always ran them doubled up after a good night out the dogs were sore They would go out the following night if i asked them to and do it again and again night after night i did have a few dogs and did rotate them. Its far easer for two dogs to do it than a single one and at some point you have to rest the dog or it just wont have anything left to give

[rocky1 942]

i,m normaly out with my mate with 2 dog so run doubled up because ne point arguing who has first slip as you don,t if ya going 2 see another 1 in the same night but once we got a few we then start running them single as we not realy out for the numbers just for the joy of watching the dogs work ,i,m talking preban off course

[Bootsha 1,306]

Its ok to double up on them if your circumstances / needs dictate so, but , I would always expect any dog doubled to have proven over and over that he or she was a proven single handed fox dog over and over befor treating them to the job in company. Just my thoughts on the matter.

 

And yes, I do think it's a sensible thread to put up and ask the question, but as you said, the ammount some are out in a week, and numbers accounted for, it will ease the burden on one dog for sure. Good topic.

 

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[MOO 730]

A fox would be despatched quicker by a single dog as it becomes a tug of war when doubled up ...imo if you gave a deer a hare and a fox 100yard law charlie would be the easiest caught ....but thats if the dog wants to catch it

[bedlinton 2]

my beddy cross would and go again the night after i only put him single handed dont see the point in sliping two dogs like all these videos show you just show the dog cant cope with one on it own

[alan626 305]

A fox would be despatched quicker by a single dog as it becomes a tug of war when doubled up ...imo if you gave a deer a hare and a fox 100yard law charlie would be the easiest caught ....but thats if the dog wants to catch it

ha ha law charlie would be first to get away i think

[Simoman 110]

my beddy cross would and go again the night after i only put him single handed dont see the point in sliping two dogs like all these videos show you just show the dog cant cope with one on it own

 

 

Its about being a responsible owner, if your dog is out night after night and catching numbers and you keep taking the dog out sore and bitten you'd be a bellend, that was my earlier point, would or could the dog go out............

[North east finest 105]

A fox would be despatched quicker by a single dog as it becomes a tug of war when doubled up ...imo if you gave a deer a hare and a fox 100yard law charlie would be the easiest caught ....but thats if the dog wants to catch it

ha ha law charlie would be first to get away i think

but you no jack shit

[chartpolski 24,555]

A fox would be despatched quicker by a single dog as it becomes a tug of war when doubled up ...imo if you gave a deer a hare and a fox 100yard law charlie would be the easiest caught ....but thats if the dog wants to catch it

 

 

Interesting that, Moo. I'd of thought that two dogs that knew the game, and could do the job single handed, would dispatch a fox far quicker doubled up than single handed. But I think you're right with the law scenario.

 

Cheers.