running on rape stubble

[poacher3161 1,766]

Only used to run it if they were deer in rape stubble as its not their fore long wouldent risk running it regular for lesser quarry tbh.

[WILF 47,354]

While I agree with CPs post and find it funny I won't run my dogs on rape stubble......mostly I don't give a monkeys but rape is a no no for me.

It don't soften up in the evening dew like wheat does......what is the point?.....it's ploughed under soon enough anyway.

 

[Guest long-tail]

a simple walk up the field and opinions are firmly stamped in print, i was hardly on a 4 hour lamping trip,

 

the pic was really to show a young bitch at 11 month picking a few bunnies up and i pointed out it was on rape stubble,corn stubble either side and at times they going to wonder.

 

i could stear clear of the area for our daily walks till the rains hit and its blowing a gale come sept but that hardly seems reasonable to me

 

and if i want a young dog picking up a few green bunnies in AUGUST so what,sure iv seen a few pics lately of dogs picking up a few bunnies on here lately with very little consequance, id be suprised if half the first season dogs in the country are not out doing a bit now because if they aint they should be.

 

yes during the day its been hot thats why i walk them out early evening cant not get them out because its a bit warm, not like im trying to knock the bollox out of them.

 

anyways you all have a good season this year once you feel the need to start getting them out and good luck to the young uns coming on

 

Edited August 19, 2012 by long-tail

[Moll. 1,770]

Hang on here a mo LT, no need to get arsey, no-one else is.

Firstly your writing style is hard for me to decipher but from what i gathered initially, your post was regarding rape, your dog accidentally ran into it, so you were going to avoid it.

Then you go on to say you have/want to run it.

Then you went on about but how on earth were you going to keep your dog fit all SEASON if you don't run on rape....hence my reply it is only August, the rape will be gone soon enough.

Make your bleedin mind up, either you want a discussion about running dogs in rape or you dont?

Remember no-one actually knows you, you could be 13yrs old with your first dog so people want to help.

 

In my humble opinion regarding running dogs in conditions likely to cause injury...

If your a go out now and then hunting type of person, pick up the odd prey on a walk with the dogs, then the chances are you can run your dogs on ploughed fields, rape, ice etc without picking up much injury. As the chances are dramatically reduced than someone who is out a lot with their dog.

 

Or as someone else put it, if you cross the road, you might get run over. But if you spend all week walking back and forwards across different roads you probably WILL

[Qbgrey 4,119]

wont run on rape stubble,if your dogs not had its dew claws off then your asking for trouble,run on wheat stubble until its ploughed in,which is not long normally.

[Guest born to run1083]

Hang on here a mo LT, no need to get arsey, no-one else is.

Firstly your writing style is hard for me to decipher but from what i gathered initially, your post was regarding rape, your dog accidentally ran into it, so you were going to avoid it.

Then you go on to say you have/want to run it.

Then you went on about but how on earth were you going to keep your dog fit all SEASON if you don't run on rape....hence my reply it is only August, the rape will be gone soon enough.

Make your bleedin mind up, either you want a discussion about running dogs in rape or you dont?

Remember no-one actually knows you, you could be 13yrs old with your first dog so people want to help.

 

In my humble opinion regarding running dogs in conditions likely to cause injury...

If your a go out now and then hunting type of person, pick up the odd prey on a walk with the dogs, then the chances are you can run your dogs on ploughed fields, rape, ice etc without picking up much injury. As the chances are dramatically reduced than someone who is out a lot with their dog.

 

Or as someone else put it, if you cross the road, you might get run over. But if you spend all week walking back and forwards across different roads you probably WILL

You wait now moll them lolly pop ladies are gonna want danger money if they get that into there heads lol, I wonder statistically how many of them get hit stopping cars every day???? Just a thought. Feck it from now I'm stating in doors it's to dangerous to leave my front door. While we on that motion feck it I'm staying in bed to many hazards down stairs, have to hire a maid haha hazards in everything in life take rough with the smooth, last season I had to pull a stick out me bitches eye very carefully, after hedge crashing when lamping grass fields, moll do you think because my bitches temp and her running style now I should avoid all fields with hedges ???????

[Moll. 1,770]

Hang on here a mo LT, no need to get arsey, no-one else is.

Firstly your writing style is hard for me to decipher but from what i gathered initially, your post was regarding rape, your dog accidentally ran into it, so you were going to avoid it.

Then you go on to say you have/want to run it.

Then you went on about but how on earth were you going to keep your dog fit all SEASON if you don't run on rape....hence my reply it is only August, the rape will be gone soon enough.

Make your bleedin mind up, either you want a discussion about running dogs in rape or you dont?

Remember no-one actually knows you, you could be 13yrs old with your first dog so people want to help.

 

In my humble opinion regarding running dogs in conditions likely to cause injury...

If your a go out now and then hunting type of person, pick up the odd prey on a walk with the dogs, then the chances are you can run your dogs on ploughed fields, rape, ice etc without picking up much injury. As the chances are dramatically reduced than someone who is out a lot with their dog.

 

Or as someone else put it, if you cross the road, you might get run over. But if you spend all week walking back and forwards across different roads you probably WILL

You wait now moll them lolly pop ladies are gonna want danger money if they get that into there heads lol, I wonder statistically how many of them get hit stopping cars every day???? Just a thought. Feck it from now I'm stating in doors it's to dangerous to leave my front door. While we on that motion feck it I'm staying in bed to many hazards down stairs, have to hire a maid haha hazards in everything in life take rough with the smooth, last season I had to pull a stick out me bitches eye very carefully, after hedge crashing when lamping grass fields, moll do you think because my bitches temp and her running style now I should avoid all fields with hedges ???????

 

No definitely not, but you could buy her some goggles, like the ones used for swimming But I'm sure you wont need them if you are planning to stay in bed forever

[Millet 4,497]

Some hazard's in a running dog's life are unavoidable at time's..but blatently running on rape stubble is avoidable..it's up to you lot if you want to run on it crack on with your russian roulette..

[birddog 1,354]

i'll gladly take the odd torn stopper or dew claw through running on stubble part and parcel of the job but rape stubble is a definate no no a wee bit of tape and gauze and a weeks rest ar'nt going to sort a punctured eye

[Guest born to run1083]

It's weird all the people who do run rape and have done for a long time seem to have had no troubles at all, but the ones who dont run it come out with all the claims like running on broken glass, as a few have said it does get plowed in quick in some areas so it not like your on it all season. Find alot of game like the rape fields. be good to hear off people who's dogs have actually lost an eye from it I think its as rare as dog who die out in the fields by hitting trees and such which I must admit my old dog died out right at 8 doing so but I wouldn't avoid those field types again with another dog as it's part and parcel and a rarity

[nighteyes 275]

9/10 its raked not long after being cut then ploughed etc so not a problem really ,but if it is left a couple of frosts and abit of weather gets to it it becomes brittle and aint a problem to run on , i wont run it deliberately when first cut when having a mooch about but some things never go to plan

[jezza 126]

i run my dogs on the wheat stubble, but definitely not rape stubble, not worth risking an injury when the fields are going to be ploughed very soon, and its still bloody summer! each to there own, atb

Edited August 19, 2012 by jezza

[jezza 126]

but good luck with that bitch, looks a quick 'un

[Millet 4,497]

It's weird all the people who do run rape and have done for a long time seem to have had no troubles at all,

Believe me i have run the dog's on rape stubble many times in the past and i have also had many injuries..knocked up toe's split pad's and i have an 11yr old retired dog here with barely any stopper's left..all from that lovely safe rape stubble..like i stated early i was mad keen on fox's many moon's ago and i would run the dog's on anything and think of the consequences later which on many occasion's was a dog laid up for three week..not very often it happened but it did and that was from me running them every night of the week not alway's on rape though..these day's i'm only interested in bunnies and a dog that has been raised and trained from a pup is a lot more valuable to me than a poxy rabbit on rape stubble..

[j1985 1,984]

It's like anything I suppose, you could come unstuck at some point but some will run on it and never get so much as a scratch. I used to throw sticks for my dogs untill my bull caught one that landed upright in the ground puncturing straight through his cheek muscle inside his mouth ending up lodged against his spine ten inches down his neck. Shit happens but although I tell people I see throwing sticks for their dogs what happened to me I bet they still have that "won't happen to me" mentality. Iv seen some rape stubble that would f*****g hurt if you so much as tripped over on it let alone go to strike a rabbit or take a tumble at 30 odd mph. Not something I'd run any of mine on!!