handling game

[vduben 55]

just curious how you guy handle your game, ive read stuff about lads on here getting them out the hole after breaking through.. not my thing really

[Big bald beautiful 1,231]

dispatched in the hole as the law states

[alimac 882]

Where does it state that?

[poacher3161 1,766]

Terrier work has never been my game but i was fortunate enough to grow up around some of the old boys now from s.yorks and not one of them feared handling their quarry and some find it amuseing the title of the terriermans lurcher to do something that some are afraid to do.

[vduben 55]

thats all very well but how the hell do you get the fox out the hole, when i break through its hardly welcoming my hand going in the hole lol

[MOO 730]

It is easy enough just grab it before you either let it run or dispatch it ....This is a trick I learned from an old lad that had dug and handled many foxes over the years is to stick a finger in its cheeck what he called fish hooking it causes the fox no harm if done gentley but firm but it calms the animal down ....some foxes will just stay still but you get some real frisky criitters that will twist and turn on you but if you fish hook them it calms them down straight away .....he said always do it on the left hand side of the fox and that seems to work best ...dont ask me why...anyone struggling to keep a fox still should give it a try

Here is a real frisky vixen that was bolted to the net ...she was a real handfull but the minute she was fish hooked she calmed right down .

This fox was humanely dispatched for the protection of game birds on my shoot

If my memory serves me rightly it was a right fanny boy that took this pic ....eh WILF

bbb sometimes its nigh impossible to shoot a fox in a hole

Edited April 29, 2012 by MOO

[dillydog 8,463]

just curious how you guy handle your game, ive read stuff about lads on here getting them out the hole after breaking through.. not my thing really

 

If you can't or won't handle your game then i'de say it's time to learn or time to change your chosen sport young man.

[WILF 46,786]

It is easy enough just grab it before you either let it run or dispatch it ....This is a trick I learned from an old lad that had dug and handled many foxes over the years is to stick a finger in its cheeck what he called fish hooking it causes the fox no harm if done gentley but firm but it calms the animal down ....some foxes will just stay still but you get some real frisky criitters that will twist and turn on you but if you fish hook them it calms them down straight away .....he said always do it on the left hand side of the fox and that seems to work best ...dont ask me why...anyone struggling to keep a fox still should give it a try

Here is a real frisky vixen that was bolted to the net ...she was a real handfull but the minute she was fish hooked she calmed right down .

This fox was humanely dispatched for the protection of game birds on my shoot

If my memory serves me rightly it was a right fanny boy that took this pic ....eh WILF

bbb sometimes its nigh impossible to shoot a fox in a hole

 

That was a lively vixen mate, I heard her hit the net away over my shoulder and had to jump the fence.....she sure was a wriggly wee f****r.......

That was the first time I had seen " the fish hook" but now B won't do it any other way, they just calm right down......

[WILF 46,786]

thats all very well but how the hell do you get the fox out the hole, when i break through its hardly welcoming my hand going in the hole lol

 

The big fat lad in the yellow dungarees in the picture I have seen many times reach in face on to some very lively customers and he thinks nothing of it.

[hedz31 1,308]

Bullxryno of here is the best ive seen handling a fox ER AH IT'S GOT ME :laugh:

[the big chief 3,099]

i tend to just scruff the fox, place the round mouth on top of the fox then just grab it

[Dillon 53]

Haha I remember that day well !! theres no better way of calming them down

[moonlighter 1,163]

Shoot them in the hole. No chance of dropping them in front of the game keeper then! Lol

[socks 32,253]

just curious how you guy handle your game, ive read stuff about lads on here getting them out the hole after breaking through.. not my thing really

 

If you can't or won't handle your game then i'de say it's time to learn or time to change your chosen sport young man.

 

That's the exact line I was going to write ..... Fukc me it's like getting in a ring as a boxer but you don't like getting hit .... Take balet sweetness ..............

[fat man 4,741]

Shoot them in the hole. No chance of dropping them in front of the game keeper then! Lol

I would prefer to shoot them in the head,lol.