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After reading many varied and interesting posts of hunting exploits it comes across to me that very few people hunt alone nowadays and rather than being a one man solitary venture has become more of a

I think maybe it,s a generation thing , too many nowadays equate hunting with lamping , catching big numbers , having super dogs . They don,t have the hour at dawn and dusk experience , the patience

I dont understand your post, what has hunting in company, and using digital cameras got to do with perversion, a lack of respect and all the other negatives you wrote. Do you really think that people

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I see at what your getting at in a fashion! there are 3 types of dog men that i have noticed there are them that just like a good day out catch a few, them that like a good day out with a new dog every other week (cos someone told them it court 50 in one night but they still sold it to them for £150) and them who give the rest of us a bad name driving fields killing anything and leaving it for all to see.

 

I like to hunt with mates just in case we bump in to the 3rd kind lol

 

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ive been lamping alone scince i was 14 years old and there nothing i find better than being out in the feald with a lurcher on the slip on permo............. but in the past few years ive been going out with all different people and seeing all shapes and sizes of dogs work some good some bad and then there are the ones that just stick in your mind and will always do so ...... but after a few years of that ive gone back to it just being me or me and the boy and on the odd time i will invite somebody on to my permo its been a very good night and ive made some good frends alone the way and hope to do so in the future atb rj

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When I did a bit of pest controlling it was by virtue of the gig, a numbers game, and that led me on a certain path, one that made me adjust my natural inclination to keep inappropriate dogs around me and become a whole lot more professional. I was under the microscope and had to be seen to be delivering a result - being conspicuous when every fibre of me longed to be the opposite. But when I wasn't on the clock, I loved nothing better than dodging along hedgebacks looking for opportunities, be it a kicked up bunny, a stray pheasant, a tub full of raspberries or a puffball of two. That was and has always been my raison d'etre.

 

Now that pest controlling is just a memory, I have reverted to type and just wander around my local countryside these days. I hunt alone or with two close mates and that's it. As it's no longer a numbers game, the guns and rifles have long gone and all that's left are my two mutts and a pocket knife. Hunting for the table and the freezer makes me happier than when I was under scrutiny and pressure to produce the numbers - not that I didn't enjoy it of course.

 

As for digital cameras....before them I used to have to take my rolls of film to a little Indian bloke who ran a kiosk on Knightsbridge Green to develop. He didn't care what the pics where of just as long as he got his cash. As soon as I got my Fujitsu I was like a pig in muck. It was essential part of my kit when I was out on the geese and foxes.....dog, 686, shells, camera....happy days and lots of great pics to serve as a memorial to dogs that are sadly no longer with us.

 

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Good post Stabs.

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Before the ban id happily go out with total strangers,we used to head up the Dales with a full Sherpa mini-bus,lampers and bunny carriers,ive done days on the Fens and plough in company,trailed the terriers about taking my go on the shovel.When the ban came so came to an end the more cavalier attitude,ive mates with no dogs and criminal records because of the company they kept,now i choose my company and prefer to walk alone,its the safer option.I feel for the genuine lads starting out now,if they stick to it with the problems they face,then i hold my hand up to them.

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Only some one who as hunted alone will know the true feeling of being at one with his dogs and surroundings or in my case poaching alone.

 

Good innit eh :bye:

Sure is mucker though they has been a few times [bANNED TEXT] its come on top a bit of company would have been helpfull lol.
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