Oldest lamper in town.

[chartpolski 25,493]

Enjoyed reading your stories I hope I'm still at it at your age but I think the world will be a different place in 40 years

 

It will be a different place mate.... but dont forget, they hated us dog lads way back when I started ! The first time I was up for "Tresspass in pursuit of Game or Coney" was in the 60's, and they fined me £60, and my weekly wage was £53; fairly severe for a young man with a wife and kid, but it was a hare that I took off a Lords land, and that couldn't be allowed !! LOL !!

 

Next time, they shot my dog, but that's another story !!

 

As I said. I'm 60, and still at it, so you young'uns should keep at it !!

 

Cheers.

[chartpolski 25,493]

Perhaps we could have an "Over 60's Club" section on here, Ian ? I bet the likes of me, Bezza, Romany, Chalkie, and a few others would like to be members ??

 

Cheers.

[Cleanspade 3,324]

its a short life. you have to use as much of it as you can for as long as your able. i'm a lot younger than some of you but im worn out

[iworkwhippets 12,872]

68 and still at it, im at it now

[chartpolski 25,493]

68 and still at it, im at it now

 

Yeah On the PC !!

 

Cheers !

[iworkwhippets 12,872]

im on top of the wardrobe at the moment

[poacher3161 1,766]

im on top of the wardrobe at the moment

Safer than them cold lakes old lad .lol

[the big chief 3,099]

i am 31 hope i am still at it at that age fellas

[northern lad 2,292]

Can see you all now SAGA holidays fens,dales and scotland,bus full of dogs,stopping every hour for pee breaks

[Sherlock 42]

At 56 you lads make me feel young, I still get a buzz every time I go out and I enjoy as much now as I did when I was a kid. On a different note Thursday night at the Rifle Club , I was the youngest out of eight blokes by six years. Their ages 62 ,67, ?, ? , ?, 78 and 82, and that old chap still shoots like John Wayne. Keep taking the pills Sherlock.

 

 

 

 

[sam007 34]

I am 65 but never been a lamper always been a ferreter

started in 1953 with my father .

I still love the game and have no prob getting on my gut(plenty of it)

to lay nets but some times need a crane to get back up.

Sam

[desertbred 5,490]

Can see you all now SAGA holidays fens,dales and scotland,bus full of dogs,stopping every hour for pee breaks

your dead wrong about the pee breaks we all wear incontinence pants or in the wost cases wet suits and waders

[sowhat 1,572]

im on top of the wardrobe at the moment

 

It's not as easy jumping onto a single bed, is it Keith

[border lad 1,047]

born in 1945, were the Scottish national coursing was held, Hares were plentyful,for all to course, just had to avoid the keepers,

I was out this morning waiting for the dawn to break so my dog could have a good run,, had some decent dogs down through the years and some not so good, and had my Hairy moments, like the one, we were out netting a few silvery ones that run in the end of june and july, with the sheckle net, this night we had a nice catch, put the fish in the van, we decide to have a walk around the back of this old slaughter house, there is a few nice rabbits there, the dawn is just breaking, I see the dog catch a rabbit ok, I am walking looking at the dog, and WALK STRAIGHT INTO THE SLURRY TANK OF THIS SLAUGHTER HOUSE, down I go, Rats Jumping every were, I come up out of that tank like a launched, missile, hands on the side and straight out, the STENCH WAS THE MOST VILE you could ever encounter, ran back to the river, ((( I COULD RUN THEN,, washed my self down underpants off washed and rinsed them, and I drove home in my underpants only no boots nothing, left the sticken rotten clothing and boots behind, and that stench stayed with me for days well I imagined I could smell the rotten blood guts, rats piss and shite, and that memory is as fresh in my mind,as yesterdays walk,

the dog I have at the moment is Handy, can do all edible

but the problem is carrying some of it,, keep huntin Lads ((((( THE SPIRIT IS STRONG BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK,, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU TRY AND LUG A 60LB CARCASS Half a mile or so,

[sowhat 1,572]

I'm 64 and still go out mooching 5 days a week, only problom is, you do tend to get your bollocks caught on the barbed wire :D