Col_c88 41 Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Just sat here and my misses asked why I started hunting, she thought I was brought up around it.. got me wondering how many people have been brought up in the hunting background and how many have started it off on there own.. I started because I got medicly discharged out of the army, I was sat in my parents for a good 6 month both recovering and feeling sorry for myself. I loved every minut I had in the short time I was there, but when not being able to continue I felt I let my parents (who didnt want me in anyways but just wanted me to succeed at something I really wanted to do), my grandad (who was also a Rifle) and the lads I trained with down. Coming up to the 6month mark I gave myself a slap, told myself I've had enough of sitting on my playstation/computer wasting my life away in my bedroom... and i didnt want to knock around with all me mates who, at the time.. wernt doing much with there lives.. if you know what i mean I always loved being outdoors and after a bit of research, and after going behind my mams back i bought myself a gun, the best bit is my dad came with me.. after about 2 weeks of me having a gun he got himself one which i was overjoyed with as the only thing we did together was work (I joined his business after getting better)...our first permission was a farm that we had tiled both the farmer and his sisters house and my dad had kept in touch with the farmer.. lukily... I then wanted a dog, I always loved terriers and couldnt get enough of the Patterdale terrier... I wasn't aloud to get one to work but i loved going to our local forest so i figured whats a better excuse to go down there to walk a dog!.. once i met my misses and moved out of my parents I got ferrets and started breaking my then 2 year old patterdale to them, alot of lads told me i couldnt do it, "2 year old is too old especially for a patterdale" etc... well he is now a very good part of my ferreting team! Im on the sick now but when im off im getting myself a lurcher to also work along side my ferrets.... when my daughter (3.5month old) is old enough i hope she wants to join my "team" of hunters (me, 2 dogs, my dad and ferrets(air rifles every now and then)) so basicly i started hunting to give me something to do, keep myself out of trouble.. it then esculated to spending time with my dad.. it really helped our relationship as we argued alot!... and I've loved it ever since! Im all self taught (except getting tips off lads off this forum) and its something I will never quit! Sorry that was long and sorry if it was boring.. her question just got me thinking. thanks! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
revij22 113 Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 started going rabbiting and fishing in early teens and stopped when got in my twenty,s kept on fishing mainly game and this is my job as well.I have allways kept shooting when i could and couple of years ago started going out odd times rabbiting again Quote Link to post Share on other sites
spartan_ferret 6 Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 i got in to hunting when i left the army. I love the outdoors and i love cooking so i decide to catch my own fresh wild food in the great outdoors. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JohnGalway 1,043 Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Foxes killing my lambs. Crows and magpies picking the eyes out of anything on it's back. Shoot first, ask questions later. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martnmagik 68 Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 curiosity. an old fella that lived a few doors down from me as a kid always silently wandered in and out at all different hours with a pair of to me at the time was SKINNY dogs and an old pillowcase with something in, and when he came back he always had a hessian sack with something in..........one day around 10 years old i asked him one day what he did...and was told GO ASH YE OLD MAN IF YE CAN COME N AL SHOW YIZ BOY. so in i rushed and asked and was told to get warm clothes on......looked out my window and saw my dad and this fella talking and i flew back down and said to mum im ready and went back out side and was warned by my dad DO AS YOUR TOLD, KEEP YOUR TRAP SHUT AND LISTEN, any way i couldnt believe what i was shown...and that was it....I HAD TO GET MYSELF A SKINNY DOG lol, and 3 years later(and more trips out) for my 13th birthday was a knock on the door from this old chap (bruce) and he said HERE YE ARE BOY YE OLD MAN SEES YE CAN HA ONE.....SHES A GOOD BITCH AND WILL SEE YIS ALREET. well from then on i had my own SKINNY dog and was out with her and bruce every night and day i could. and have kept lurchers and ferrets ever since. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PlasticJock 539 Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 Same as why I joined the army, I couldn't tell you! I think some of us are born to do something, whether it's brought on by a mentor or natural from birth, I love nature and knowing that I can look after myself with no one else around. Nothing like being out on your own, even when I don't shoot anything I just keep walking... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Col_c88 41 Posted March 6, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 lol "Skinny dog" nice one lads thanks for the replies! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fat-Ferret 857 Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 When my father came in the back door one wet windy afternoon, with a pair Hares over his shoulder....I was about 6 years old That sparked the fire that never went out... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martnmagik 68 Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 lol "Skinny dog" nice one lads thanks for the replies! lol i was that wrapped up about being out doing it that it didnt cross my mind to ask what sort of dog it was, i was just shy of 14 before i found out Quote Link to post Share on other sites
undisputed 1,664 Posted March 6, 2012 Report Share Posted March 6, 2012 None of my family were into hunting....I just sort of fell into it as a kid...went my first ferreting trip as an 8yr old (in my slippers) and that was me....it just seemed a natural extension of what we did as kids ie bird nesting collecting frogs and tadpoles. We had a lot of freedom as kids to do what we wanted as long as we didn't cause trouble. I also remmber seeing some guys coming out of the local estate with a long stick on their shoulders with what looked like a dozen or so rabbits..that struck me as being very cool and I wanted to emulate it.....long time ago but still makes me smile Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poacher3161 1,766 Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 My grandmother telling me tales about her father and brothers poaching and then bumping into then a young gamekeeper called Tony Mottram [bANNED TEXT] i was nine with my father who was showing me the moseleum on the wentworth estate more or less made my mind up on the path i would take. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Sorley Boys clan Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 dont ever remember making the choice everyone around me hunted my da grandfather 3 brothers uncle always had lurchers terriers an ferrets Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bryson 562 Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 i can always remember my father coming in with all different types of game we had an alsation x greyhound called rocky a beast of a dog i must of only been about 5 year old anyway my dad had 6 strokes in a short space of time so any forms of hunting was extremely hard for him so instead he done the next best thing and passed his knoledge on to me lol so i kind of started off ferreting about 6 years ago and have had lurchers all through my life but its only the past few years i have started taking it seriously my dad trys to get out with me once in a while and the smile on his face when a rabbit bolts or the whippet picks one up is like he just forgets all the shit he goes through on a daily basis so a very big thank you dad for introducing me to this wonderful way of life 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bird 9,948 Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 well for be, was brought up with bull breeds (staffs,pits, bullmastiffs) and your old heinz 57 lol . I used to take the dogs good walks any where, most times in fields where you shouldnt be lol. And started to bump into Gypos with there lurchers. There were knocking rabbits out cover with jacks, and lurchers were catching them, or somtimes they would run hares with there lurchers they were like mid+big deerhound xs. I was blown away with the lurchers speed+agilty, when you walked staff or bullmastiff that just likes to shit+ piss all day lol. So that if you like that planted the seed in my mind, as i came from a council estate and only dogs i ever saw were what we had. And my dad wasnt into hunting, he worked his balls off for his 5 kids, no time feck about in fields after daft rabbits . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 20,667 Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 our family business was a maggot farm so because my mum worked the weekened as a mental health nurse i woud go to work with my dad this could be pritty boring so i would just go of and explore i soon started to notice the rats so i knicked my brothers gat gun and for weeks tried to shoot one i never did get one with it .then one weekend i went to work with the old man he said go and look in the office theres somthing for you and there it was a old relum tornado that he had got of one of his mates but to me it was the bees knees after a few pratice shots at a dead pig i went on the hunt i nailed two rats on my first day and that was it i was bitten by the bug and even though there has been periods in my life i never hunted the urge has never left me and never will. R.I.P dad x kanny Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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