a day out with yorkshirehunter

[jimster68 123]

last week i was browsing the fieldsport oppertunities section and someone was offering a days ferreting nr malton about 50miles from where i live ,so i maid a phone call and made plans for saturday meet at 8.30 am.the guy said theres plenty of rabbits to go at .so saturday morning came 6 ferrets boxed up 2 x 50yd longnets 50 pursenets and 20 quids worth of fuel,i left home at 7.30am and arrived just about on time as arranged ,luckily his permission was only about 1/2 a mile away .when we arrived all equipment was unloaded from the car ferrets collared up we then headed to a small field ,when we arrived i couldnt believe my eyes as there were rabbit holes everywere and not a a hedge or bush to crawl under ( my permission is all hawthorn hedgerows and hard to work) after a quick mooch around the warrens it was decided that we would long net around each warren and try to cover as many bolt holes as possible, i couldnt wait to get started as this was by far the easiest ferreting ive done and ive only ever seen flat fields bursting with warrens in pictures ,lol. the first warren we entered 3 ferrets and bolted 2 rabbits almost straight away and after the ferrets were given the run around for another 20 minutes a third bolted,so we were of to a flyer and i knew we were in for a good day .over the next 3 hours we moved around the burrows netting another 13 rabbits ,at this point we were joined by the land owner who was pleased to see a pile of dead rabbits and he sat and watched us put the nets around the next warren getting another 3 rabbits ,the next warren was to be our last of the day and it was a fairly large warren and was going to take a bit of time we entered the ferrets and over the hour we managed to bag another 5 rabbits 2 of these had to be dugout one at 2ft and the other at 3 1/2 feet but the ground was mainly sand and the digs were completed in a few minminutes and i was pleased as i now seem to have mastered the mk3 .the land owner was pleased with our result and i think hes going to put a good word in for yorkshire hunter with the other local farmers so hopefully hes going to get more permission .our total for the day was 24 rabbits a couple managed to get away from holes we missed .id like to thank yorkshirehunter for letting me on his permission for the day and i will defo be getting in touch with him again .ive added a couple of pics of the day but unfortunatley ive not got any of our final bag, i took one but for some reson its not on my phone ?

 

 

 

 

[just jack 998]

looks busy

[old timer123 367]

sounds like you had a good do mate

[barney rubble 12]

nice one

[lapin2008 1,587]

Nice one mate sounds like you had a good day. How is that pup of yours coming on that you got off Matt?

[theferreter 311]

good haul of rabbits lads well done

[storm323 191]

looks nice ground to hunt.

[simonrocco 175]

well done pal it looks like a good bit of ground to work with the ferrets nice easy sets to net up and a good bag of rabbits to. atb

[bryson 562]

well done lads

[whin 463]

good bit of land for fast dogs and nets , good write up , open burrows are great for skilled rabbiting dogs we used to a piece of land near biggar what sport , same as the land use done great sport

[yorkshirehunter 27]

good right up jim we had a good day fella ,ive managed to get that other sorted aswell now so more ground to cover for future i went lampin the other night that paddock was over run again ,keep intouch pal

[seany 54]

looks like heaven I have the same around here with hedges and ditches. you spend the rest of the week picking thorns out of your hands lol

 

ATB Seany

[richie198 28]

nice one lads looks like a great day was had.

i hate them god dam thorns to

[deanflute 550]

Well done mate, Is that the ferret you had off me? if so it's nice to see him working well