Quick walk with Old Real Tree last night.

[Ideation 8,216]

I was working late yesterday and just as i was finishing up at 8pm i got a text from ORT asking if i was up to much, and if i fancied a quick hour out local. Had a look out the window and saw it was cloudy, windy and raining hard so drove home, got changed, grabbed some food and then headed off to meet him at our usual spot.

 

I took Finn a long, with very little intention of doing much other than giving him a walk, as he had only just been allowed off lead the day before, after recovering from his latest collision (mad little fecker that he is) and as a result was unfit and a bit wild. But thought i might give him the odd slip if we could get a squatter out in the middle. As i've said before he is pretty much just a daytime dog, but i have fancied giving him a chance to prove himself on the lamp of late, despite the fact that he hunts up like a beagle on crack and is well on his way to being a cripple, after being put back together numerous times.

 

Got to the farm, and as usual, the wind had stopped, the clouds had gone and there was no rain. And to top it off the brightest half moon i have seen in a while was lighting the place up like daytime. It always seems to be the way.

 

ORT arrived with his bitch Milly, and we set off.

 

We have lamped this farm over the last couple of seasons quite a bit and it has also been raped by mixi this year, so we know it's never going to be a huge night, but that's pretty standard for local to us anyway.

 

The first few fields there was either nothing out or what was there was sat by the hedge and dived for cover at the first touch of the beam.

 

We kept on going, and were pretty much across the farm before we managed the first few decent runs, albeit very long slips, which resulted in a couple of very nice catches on the trot for milly and a couple of misses into over grown ditches, which to be fair the dog deserved to catch.

 

Came into what was to be the last field and a rabbit got up in front of ORT who slipped milly, then the rabbit decided it was going to hide behind me, so i ended up lying on my back, finn standing on top of me, as ORT lamped over me and Milly chased the rabbit around me several times, was a very good front row seat and another rabbit in the bag.

 

As the farm was pretty much done, we decided to have a little look to see what had been cut across the road at another bit i have, and after almost getting run over by a milk tanker in a narrow lane, saw that most of it was still standing, but managed to pick up one rabbit that was hiding in the hedge with a ridiculously long slip.

 

As Milly was retrieving it back, at the other end of the field we saw a black fox skulking in the hedge, but it wouldn't come in for the shotgun, and just fecked off into the maize.

 

Just then, the weather suddenly changed, wind, rain, cloud, the lot.

 

We made our way back across the same fields we had just lamped and what a difference the weather can make, suddenly there were rabbits, still long slips, but rabbits none the less.

 

On the way back through these same fields to the car, milly managed to pick up another 8, only missing a couple, including one rabbit that deserved it's freedom, that went up and over a wire fence like a pole vaulter. Another tired a similar trick but was caught about 3 foot or so up the wire.

 

Saw another charlie that again refused to come in close enough for a shot.

 

Unfortunatly no real opportunity to run my idiot dog, due to the distance of the slips, however with milly returning them live to hand we did give him a half dozen runs from the middle of the field, which he caught all of, and his strike on the beam seems to have sorted itself out, with him, by the end, picking up the rabbits without breaking stride.

 

Got back to the car on an even dozen, for a couple of hours, of which the first hour was mainly chatting and walking about empty, moonlit fields.

 

As usual good company, and a real pleasure watching MIlly run, she is a cracking bitch, both in terms of running ability and her steady nature, and is a real credit to ORT.

 

ATB

 

 

 

 

[donnydigger 12]

not bad nice looking dog's

 

ATB

[malc1 544]

well done lads and well done milly shes a real credit to you all that hard work is paying off now shes looking realy well atb malc

[TOMO 26,142]

nice read that, and a good night out, well done fellas

[Rabbiting man 1,191]

Well done lads good going

[martync1967 64]

well done lads thanks for sharing your walk out and it wernt a bad result in the end was it

[hogs head 19]

Well done mate you had good night the dogs went well for yous fair play to yous and a good read

Edited October 10, 2011 by hogs head

[NEWKID 27,152]

Enjoyed the read mate, sounds a good night, I know what you mean about the moon though out tonight I could've left the lamp home it was that bright.

[bryson 562]

nice dogs lads

[donkdaniel 236]

well done lads im busting to get out cant wait till tomoz

[KittleRox 2,147]

Good read, well done lads

[carp man 1 219]

well done lads and 2 nice dogs u got there

[trigger2 3,145]

well done lads, sounds like a fun couple of hours. millie seems to be doing well

 

ort i will give you a shout next moon down mate and we will take the dogs for a run. i will take the pup.

[skycat 6,173]

Nice to hear about the dog's temperaments as well: great read and a cracking looking bitch. I'd imagine she's pretty damn fast too with that build.

[frankel 2,123]

well done fella keep at it