Mick Douglas Norfolk Lurchers

[low plains drifter 10,676]

43 minutes ago, downsouth said:

Not that day mate.Had to put up with just Hares

You poor ickle thing 

[Systema 85]

Mick was a very good with his hands ,he had kiln where he fired all his pottery he made.

He was making knives to ,and explaining about carbon steel and holding there edge.

Its was interesting to me ,as most of my knives were crap,im a young  lad buying these fancy stainless steel ones

which i seem to put down and lose.

He was a wheeler dealer ,he  asked if i ever seen this lovely long handle narrow blade  type knife before ??

nope was his it i asked ? A gypsy  dualing knife ,it and a long narrow blade which locked in different angles for fight ing with 

looked very smart ,he said its for sale ... but i never had enough to bid on it .wish i had lol

He told me he helped locals at a school in craft work , special needs , which if my memory still working .

But please correct me if its a bit wrong ,but he always helped me and with hunting ,training lurchers ,just about everything

to do with field craft .sadly my memory can't recall it all .  was growing up around and Mick Said one thing

He said he had travellers round ,and some where really nice people and enjoyed the banter with them

on other hand he had others intent on nick everything which was nailed down.

He put up with this type of wasters .

One think for sure that bloody cold wind off the marsh es could freeze the balls off any monkey .

Im trying to find some more pics of this amazing man . please share if you got any .Happy hunting

 

 

 

 

[Systema 85]

After more years in hunting and rabbiting ,and some lurchers had been and sadly gone .

I found my training and learning much improved ,with help and advice by some local gamekeepers in hadleigh suffolk

Tim Cole he was bloody good at training gun dogs and sold part train ones to guns etc.

he passed on alot of good tips ..... but when i showed up to a gundog training class ,with all the other breeds 

i got some funny looks lol.

SHE was i guess 4 months to 5 i guess and we did a few classes.

She sat in the rabbit pen ,calm and taking it all in ,plenty of praise and unlike some of the others did a good job.

My thoughts was train like a gundog ,but get her to the best obedience  of all my last lurchers.

stop whistles ,hunting up ,and carrying birds and fur .Tim said get all the ground work in livestock steady ,socialising 

and recall ...But  THERES NO RUSH BOY,you got years ahead ,So it payed off .I could send her in and stop her chasing and all the right calm nature was in her breeding.Few moxies at 15 months old

My other dog mates thought i was mad lol

They just wanted a lurcher off a slip lead ,and spent all day trying to get them back (which meant all game was running away before we could get near them ?)

It paid off lamping one night when a rabbit bolted off towards a main road ,and my mate couldn't understand how i blew my stop whistle and she stopped and sit up.

Right before you saying her heart was not in it ,sadly she caught rabbits i never saw and hunting and quartering  as good as any gundog ...We all learn from each dog we have and hear feet was like cat feet tight and her working life had hardly any injuries  due to her high level of intelligence !!!

happy hunting and we all have our ways to bring up a working pot filler 

 

[Systema 85]

im not sure if im doing it correctly on here with my Blogs 

and can anyone put me right if its wrong 

Thanks 

[OldPhil 5,802]

On 27/04/2024 at 18:37, Systema said:

im not sure if im doing it correctly on here with my Blogs 

and can anyone put me right if its wrong 

Thanks 

 No right or wrong way to make a post,...just write from your heart and ye won't go far wrong...

 

 

Edited May 9, 2024 by OldPhil

[Waz 4,266]

On 27/04/2024 at 19:37, Systema said:

im not sure if im doing it correctly on here with my Blogs 

and can anyone put me right if its wrong 

Thanks 

Its good reading

[low plains drifter 10,676]

On 27/04/2024 at 18:14, Systema said:

Mick was a very good with his hands ,he had kiln where he fired all his pottery he made.

He was making knives to ,and explaining about carbon steel and holding there edge.

Its was interesting to me ,as most of my knives were crap,im a young  lad buying these fancy stainless steel ones

which i seem to put down and lose.

He was a wheeler dealer ,he  asked if i ever seen this lovely long handle narrow blade  type knife before ??

nope was his it i asked ? A gypsy  dualing knife ,it and a long narrow blade which locked in different angles for fight ing with 

looked very smart ,he said its for sale ... but i never had enough to bid on it .wish i had lol

He told me he helped locals at a school in craft work , special needs , which if my memory still working .

But please correct me if its a bit wrong ,but he always helped me and with hunting ,training lurchers ,just about everything

to do with field craft .sadly my memory can't recall it all .  was growing up around and Mick Said one thing

He said he had travellers round ,and some where really nice people and enjoyed the banter with them

on other hand he had others intent on nick everything which was nailed down.

He put up with this type of wasters .

One think for sure that bloody cold wind off the marsh es could freeze the balls off any monkey .

Im trying to find some more pics of this amazing man . please share if you got any .Happy hunting

 

 

 

 

Mick features in this video circa 24 minutes in 

 

[Systema 85]

Well what's going on nowadays , people wasting money on these so called dog dealers 

Telling you can catch 3 out of 3 winter hares in the fens ..??

And when you ask these dog dealers what cross you want ,as if by a miracle its got all of them in this breeding 

ha ha.

Some are easily fooled.Not able to learn and put in all the effort to train a lurcher and form the bond you need,

Want one ready made for lamping or what type of sport they do .

Mick said it simple to me.Why would you spend hours days and time in training ,and working your best lurcher and some one bids on it at a show and offers you a price ,sells it on.

Normally it got a lot of faults by being passed around to in experience owners, and the classic one is over working the poor thing..blowing internal organs ,damage joints and tendentious  run after run when the door bones and body are not fully grown up 

These types have no patience ,or a common sense to them its just a tool to  brag about ,and when it fails on a course ,up the road it goes to another home.

You know and we all know you would never part with your best worker ,well i wouldn't ..

Trying to correct a running dog that's been run into the ground is , a very very hard task indeed .

its a job i tired once ,and never again ...

I take my time ,put the bullshit filter on ,and look for a cross with some brains, collie x speed .and Good work lines

been lucky as most pups i got from good breeders are mostly all the same in litters ,(not 6 different colours size and markings) Like a lottery .

I  rather have more up top than a speed machine, which can use for lots of jobs.Made a big mistake going to Takely in essex to get a pup ,came out of a traveller greyhound coursing lines .Not much up top ,to sense to stop at barb wire

or jump and this sight hound i used  made the vet very very rich .Accident after accident.

Never again.

we all like different choices ,and it s great to see what can be done when a trainer is really good at this task

David sleight with his kelpie cross , i watched and listen to him and it did make sense .well done for sharing your advice to us learners

Making videos on his training too show basic needed , I think he good for the sport . And insure there are alot i don't know has help other people in training 

Always a school day and you get out the best bits of a dog if you take things slower and don't rush ,you got years of hunting ahead and why not wait it will pay off later ,my view .happy hunting .

I just only find small areas locally where the rhd2 has not been ,and no big numbers getting caught now .

but its sad to see the countryside without the humble bunny ,lots loads of contracts  once it hit us in sunny suffolk

[Black neck 16,066]

6 hours ago, Systema said:

Well what's going on nowadays , people wasting money on these so called dog dealers 

Telling you can catch 3 out of 3 winter hares in the fens ..??

And when you ask these dog dealers what cross you want ,as if by a miracle its got all of them in this breeding 

ha ha.

Some are easily fooled.Not able to learn and put in all the effort to train a lurcher and form the bond you need,

Want one ready made for lamping or what type of sport they do .

Mick said it simple to me.Why would you spend hours days and time in training ,and working your best lurcher and some one bids on it at a show and offers you a price ,sells it on.

Normally it got a lot of faults by being passed around to in experience owners, and the classic one is over working the poor thing..blowing internal organs ,damage joints and tendentious  run after run when the door bones and body are not fully grown up 

These types have no patience ,or a common sense to them its just a tool to  brag about ,and when it fails on a course ,up the road it goes to another home.

You know and we all know you would never part with your best worker ,well i wouldn't ..

Trying to correct a running dog that's been run into the ground is , a very very hard task indeed .

its a job i tired once ,and never again ...

I take my time ,put the bullshit filter on ,and look for a cross with some brains, collie x speed .and Good work lines

been lucky as most pups i got from good breeders are mostly all the same in litters ,(not 6 different colours size and markings) Like a lottery .

I  rather have more up top than a speed machine, which can use for lots of jobs.Made a big mistake going to Takely in essex to get a pup ,came out of a traveller greyhound coursing lines .Not much up top ,to sense to stop at barb wire

or jump and this sight hound i used  made the vet very very rich .Accident after accident.

Never again.

we all like different choices ,and it s great to see what can be done when a trainer is really good at this task

David sleight with his kelpie cross , i watched and listen to him and it did make sense .well done for sharing your advice to us learners

Making videos on his training too show basic needed , I think he good for the sport . And insure there are alot i don't know has help other people in training 

Always a school day and you get out the best bits of a dog if you take things slower and don't rush ,you got years of hunting ahead and why not wait it will pay off later ,my view .happy hunting .

I just only find small areas locally where the rhd2 has not been ,and no big numbers getting caught now .

but its sad to see the countryside without the humble bunny ,lots loads of contracts  once it hit us in sunny suffolk

The odd muntjac round them parts 

[low plains drifter 10,676]

4 hours ago, Black neck said:

The odd muntjac round them parts 

Any recipes you dosser?

[mC HULL 13,154]

12 hours ago, Systema said:

Well what's going on nowadays , people wasting money on these so called dog dealers 

Telling you can catch 3 out of 3 winter hares in the fens ..??

And when you ask these dog dealers what cross you want ,as if by a miracle its got all of them in this breeding 

ha ha.

Some are easily fooled.Not able to learn and put in all the effort to train a lurcher and form the bond you need,

Want one ready made for lamping or what type of sport they do .

Mick said it simple to me.Why would you spend hours days and time in training ,and working your best lurcher and some one bids on it at a show and offers you a price ,sells it on.

Normally it got a lot of faults by being passed around to in experience owners, and the classic one is over working the poor thing..blowing internal organs ,damage joints and tendentious  run after run when the door bones and body are not fully grown up 

These types have no patience ,or a common sense to them its just a tool to  brag about ,and when it fails on a course ,up the road it goes to another home.

You know and we all know you would never part with your best worker ,well i wouldn't ..

Trying to correct a running dog that's been run into the ground is , a very very hard task indeed .

its a job i tired once ,and never again ...

I take my time ,put the bullshit filter on ,and look for a cross with some brains, collie x speed .and Good work lines

been lucky as most pups i got from good breeders are mostly all the same in litters ,(not 6 different colours size and markings) Like a lottery .

I  rather have more up top than a speed machine, which can use for lots of jobs.Made a big mistake going to Takely in essex to get a pup ,came out of a traveller greyhound coursing lines .Not much up top ,to sense to stop at barb wire

or jump and this sight hound i used  made the vet very very rich .Accident after accident.

Never again.

we all like different choices ,and it s great to see what can be done when a trainer is really good at this task

David sleight with his kelpie cross , i watched and listen to him and it did make sense .well done for sharing your advice to us learners

Making videos on his training too show basic needed , I think he good for the sport . And insure there are alot i don't know has help other people in training 

Always a school day and you get out the best bits of a dog if you take things slower and don't rush ,you got years of hunting ahead and why not wait it will pay off later ,my view .happy hunting .

I just only find small areas locally where the rhd2 has not been ,and no big numbers getting caught now .

but its sad to see the countryside without the humble bunny ,lots loads of contracts  once it hit us in sunny suffolk

no bonding training or time will make a shitter any good lol

[Franks dad 874]

12 hours ago, Black neck said:

The odd muntjac round them parts 

 

7 hours ago, low plains drifter said:

Any recipes you dosser?

My favourite (tried and tested )  is give it to the dogs and ferrets and get a nice beef steak instead 

[low plains drifter 10,676]

1 hour ago, Franks dad said:

 

My favourite (tried and tested )  is give it to the dogs and ferrets and get a nice beef steak instead 

Dossers patter

[Franks dad 874]

2 minutes ago, low plains drifter said:

Dossers patter

Dossers have egg with it and gravy on their chips 

[Black neck 16,066]

8 hours ago, low plains drifter said:

Any recipes you dosser?

I gi it the dossers special