WHY DO YOU HUNT

[keepitcovert 842]

Ever been asked that question, funny how a lot of guys that hunt when asked that question seem to get embarrased or start making excuses all depending on what company their talking to, why not nail your colours to the post. A couple of seasons ago i was out ferreting on some land that borders about 8 houses well out in the sticks, anyway had the longnet out and was just setting some purse nets when i glanced round to see a woman and a lad about 15 with her. Straight away i recognised her she runs a stall on the local market selling christian books and other jesus memorabilia shit i thought raving bloody anti just what i need. What you doing she asked, rabbiting i replied, oh do you mind if we watch she said, no i replied but be quiet, anyway collared the ferrets down they went and a couple of minutes later one in the net the dog pinned it i went and dispatched it the woman seemed fascinated that the dog took the rabbit but was totally indifferent to the ferrets, training i said, before long one came out of a pop hole and she saw the dogs course it catch it and retreive.Now her interest really came to the fore asking how the locater worked did it take long to train the dogs how did the nets work, and finally do you do this as a job, no i replied i do this as pest control but the main reason i do it is because i bloody well enjoy hunting. Postscript a couple of days ago i bumped into her lad and he asked me if i was up that way again would i like to see his ferrets, just proves you can convert the unconvertible. YIS KIC.

[STAFFY poacher 90]

i hunt because i love the buzz of it...getting out in the country with a pal or 2 and your beasts, you cant beat it

[Ideation 8,216]

The honest answer is probably because i have always done it, and never known any different.

[reddawn 2,173]

its in my blood, even when im grounded i hunt spiders an earwigs in the hoose

[huntmad. 67]

Believe it or not I've Had a similar experience I knocked for permission and a woman appears and lord to behold she was a child of the lord as they say but to cut a story short the church bought the farm to be close to some statue and I thought I might as well ask so it just come out any chance of doin some rabbiting please and the first thing come out of her mouth was yes as long as I can come and watch an show me how to gut them , I couldn't really believe wat this erdaly woman just said to me so showed her the crack and she was sound as a pound ended up havin a Alotment on the farm cause she wasn't usein the land , the reason I hunt is cause its a second nature and a way of life to me I love it

[milliken 791]

for me its been a way of live my father hunted his fatherhunted all my uncals and so on but why do i do it to tell you the truth i get great pride out of it i eat sleep and dream about it so much so i dont know how the partner puts up with me but my rea lenjoyment comes when starting to train a pup you grow a bound with that dog give it the best training you can then you enter it to it quarry and watch it progress season after season the joys

 

 

robert

[Rabbiting man 1,191]

It's in my blood and I love it.

[Ideation 8,216]

I also do it because i really enjoy it. And i got feck all mates, so it passes the time

[J.DOG 1,355]

I hunt because of my great grandad

 

When I was 7 yrs old I started going to his house for the weekend , he was one of those old time hunters , you know the ones , the ones you seen with scruffy looking lurchers in tow , pipe in his mouth snd flat cap on his head I'd go on the Friday night and he would take me out lamping with his what I now think was a beddy whippet I got hooked , then on the Saturday morn I'd go ferreting with him he would wake me up nice and early hed tell me to go out and get the ferrets ready , so I did , we'd be out hours catching a huge bag of rabbits , on the way home he'd stop by his mate house and drop afew rabbits off for him, we'd go home and he'd show me how to gut/skin rabbits, we'd then go into his house and sit by the fire having our tea I still remember the wee lurcher curled up by the fire at my great grandads feet such a loyal animal, then on the Sunday we'd go out to the allotments and I'd help out what fun I had all those years I kept going to his , I went from age 7 till when he passed away when I was 12 I stopped going hunting after he died ,no one to go with, hunting reminded me of him , and I couldn't go without him I then stated going hunting again aged 14 and got myself a pup I'm now only 16 but feel I've learned alot from my great grandad over the years he taught me how to train lurchers how to hunt correctly and he taught me to respect the quarry I hunt and taught me how things should be done I owe alot to him and I feel he's taught me something that I can enjoy hopefully for years to come .

[iworkwhippets 12,543]

I hunt because of my great grandad

 

When I was 7 yrs old I started going to his house for the weekend , he was one of those old time hunters , you know the ones , the ones you seen with scruffy looking lurchers in tow , pipe in his mouth snd flat cap on his head I'd go on the Friday night and he would take me out lamping with his what I now think was a beddy whippet I got hooked , then on the Saturday morn I'd go ferreting with him he would wake me up nice and early hed tell me to go out and get the ferrets ready , so I did , we'd be out hours catching a huge bag of rabbits , on the way home he'd stop by his mate house and drop afew rabbits off for him, we'd go home and he'd show me how to gut/skin rabbits, we'd then go into his house and sit by the fire having our tea I still remember the wee lurcher curled up by the fire at my great grandads feet such a loyal animal, then on the Sunday we'd go out to the allotments and I'd help out what fun I had all those years I kept going to his , I went from age 7 till when he passed away when I was 12 I stopped going hunting after he died ,no one to go with, hunting reminded me of him , and I couldn't go without him I then stated going hunting again aged 14 and got myself a pup I'm now only 16 but feel I've learned alot from my great grandad over the years he taught me how to train lurchers how to hunt correctly and he taught me to respect the quarry I hunt and taught me how things should be done I owe alot to him and I feel he's taught me something that I can enjoy hopefully for years to come .

 

Enjoyed reading that.. good lad

[bird 9,889]

well to be honest, i only got into hunting by chance . Ive been into bull breeds well before lurchers, as a kid we had staffs, which were like pits of today, and heinz 57's lol. was out 1 day with bullmastiff bitch, saw what thought was greyhound, jumping fences and chasing a rabbit in a field by me. Spoke to the bloke and said you dont see many greyhounds doing that, he said its not a greyhound its a lurcher, its a collie grey x salui grey.The dog was smooth+brindle, and i used to meet him few times on the walk . And i thought i would like a lurcher as my next dog , and that was 25 years ago, so thats how i got in to these type of dogs for hunting.

[troter58 1,711]

for the buzz of it all i started going hunting at 11 years old with a pack of four dogs all mongrels of the street great times always had a running dog i am now 54 years i have ran rabbit dogs hare dogs on the fens in the 70s/80s liked the lamp better i now have a rabbit dog still can not think of any thing better than a walk with the dog to see what we can pick up along the way as its breaking light or the last hour atb troter

[jcm 2,327]

I hunt because a love being out in the fresh air for a start, not like all the other people my age sat playing on xbox and shit like that going out drinking and blowing all there money on drink and drugs.

Secondly i enjoy catching rabbits with dogs guns pr anymothod to hunt rabbits.

Tbh if never started hinting i think i mite of had a few run ins with the law as i used to be a little fecker, geting in trouble all the time

[coonboy 160]

I hunt because of my great grandad

 

When I was 7 yrs old I started going to his house for the weekend , he was one of those old time hunters , you know the ones , the ones you seen with scruffy looking lurchers in tow , pipe in his mouth snd flat cap on his head I'd go on the Friday night and he would take me out lamping with his what I now think was a beddy whippet I got hooked , then on the Saturday morn I'd go ferreting with him he would wake me up nice and early hed tell me to go out and get the ferrets ready , so I did , we'd be out hours catching a huge bag of rabbits , on the way home he'd stop by his mate house and drop afew rabbits off for him, we'd go home and he'd show me how to gut/skin rabbits, we'd then go into his house and sit by the fire having our tea I still remember the wee lurcher curled up by the fire at my great grandads feet such a loyal animal, then on the Sunday we'd go out to the allotments and I'd help out what fun I had all those years I kept going to his , I went from age 7 till when he passed away when I was 12 I stopped going hunting after he died ,no one to go with, hunting reminded me of him , and I couldn't go without him I then stated going hunting again aged 14 and got myself a pup I'm now only 16 but feel I've learned alot from my great grandad over the years he taught me how to train lurchers how to hunt correctly and he taught me to respect the quarry I hunt and taught me how things should be done I owe alot to him and I feel he's taught me something that I can enjoy hopefully for years to come .

 

Enjoyed reading that.. good lad

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[J.DOG 1,355]

I hunt because of my great grandad

 

When I was 7 yrs old I started going to his house for the weekend , he was one of those old time hunters , you know the ones , the ones you seen with scruffy looking lurchers in tow , pipe in his mouth snd flat cap on his head I'd go on the Friday night and he would take me out lamping with his what I now think was a beddy whippet I got hooked , then on the Saturday morn I'd go ferreting with him he would wake me up nice and early hed tell me to go out and get the ferrets ready , so I did , we'd be out hours catching a huge bag of rabbits , on the way home he'd stop by his mate house and drop afew rabbits off for him, we'd go home and he'd show me how to gut/skin rabbits, we'd then go into his house and sit by the fire having our tea I still remember the wee lurcher curled up by the fire at my great grandads feet such a loyal animal, then on the Sunday we'd go out to the allotments and I'd help out what fun I had all those years I kept going to his , I went from age 7 till when he passed away when I was 12 I stopped going hunting after he died ,no one to go with, hunting reminded me of him , and I couldn't go without him I then stated going hunting again aged 14 and got myself a pup I'm now only 16 but feel I've learned alot from my great grandad over the years he taught me how to train lurchers how to hunt correctly and he taught me to respect the quarry I hunt and taught me how things should be done I owe alot to him and I feel he's taught me something that I can enjoy hopefully for years to come .

 

Enjoyed reading that.. good lad

me to

 

Thanks lads