what a brilliant gale, for lamping tonight

[Guest FTBBTH]

hi all, im just wondering as im not massive into lamaping, but how do you lads operaate with a red filter? track the rabbits then take it off as you get close to them? and does anybody have a lurcher which seems to just turn the rabbits all over? my whippet bitch seems to turn turn and turn again, its not annoying but id like a quicker kill sometimes, she manages to get them back off of fences nd long grass so its not too bad.

 

atb FTB

[hellyer189 93]

walk as close to them as you can when they bot take they bolt take the filter off, and all dogs have there own way of dealing with game, does she have a confident strike?

[KittleRox 2,147]

hi all, im just wondering as im not massive into lamaping, but how do you lads operaate with a red filter? track the rabbits then take it off as you get close to them? and does anybody have a lurcher which seems to just turn the rabbits all over? my whippet bitch seems to turn turn and turn again, its not annoying but id like a quicker kill sometimes, she manages to get them back off of fences nd long grass so its not too bad.

 

atb FTB

your answers in your post as far as how the whippets performing, if you,re not massively into lamping your dog probably hasn,t had enough trips out yet to be snatching them up easily

[the big chief 3,099]

i spot them with the filter walk up to the bunny slip the hound when the rabbit starts to run take the filter of this is the way i do it and works fine for me mate

[paulus 26]

normaly spot with the filter then take it off, white light on it, walk it up and slip when it makes a move but if im being a lazy fecker i just slip as soon as i see it

[leegreen 2,153]

Does no one lamp with a filter? I more recently since I lost my filter use the dimmer.

[paulus 26]

Does no one lamp with a filter? I more recently since I lost my filter use the dimmer.

depends where i am

[undisputed 1,664]

I've never seen any difference in bags using filters so don't use them any more

[TOMO 26,067]

never yoused a filter

[TheWizard 6]

dimmer switch is just as good as filter.

[rocky1 942]

my dog can lamp with the filter on ,unless it goes a quite a distance but that rarly happens

[robert michem 314]

ME NEITHER, NEVER ADD NEED TO,, THERES TIMES WHERE I SMOTHER THE LAMP WITH MY HAND,, WHEN 1ST LAMP A FEILD, JUST SO I CAN WORK OUT IN ME HEAD,, WHAT THE PLAN OF ATACK HIS, WHICH 1 GETS IT 1ST, THATS IFF I CAN CATCH IT,,LOL,

[chartpolski 23,279]

Tried using a filter when I used a Clulite, but didn't find any difference; now I use a Blitz, I doubt I could be fussed messing about with a filter that size !! LOL !!

 

Cheers.

[Guest FTBBTH]

cheers for all the replys, and yes she has a confident strike, she gets lamped about once or twice a week, but they aint no big fields with big numbers, just ones or twos on paddocks and hills, she just seems to play about turning etc, but she rarely looses so i think thats why, and how do you use a dimer? i have a dimmer switch, do you just turn it right down walk up to it blast it up?

[nighteyes 275]

the thing with a filter its not all about dimming the light etc its that you can pick an eye up alot better,you get rabbits squatting out in stubble ect they take some spotting without one, with a filter on if its out there youll pick it up, myself could never lamp without one, i find by leaving it till the last sec as the dog gets out to the bunny then flicking it of the dog alot of the time can get very close before the rabbits lifts but everybody lamps different and what works for one wont for another

Edited November 26, 2011 by nighteyes