Mick C. 229 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Another one of those hand me downs that doesnt wear out. Hunting is to be part of the natural world. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nothernlite 18,083 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 watching jack hargreaves 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
toby63 1,236 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 watching jack hargreaves i use to watch him aswel when i was a kid he did some good stuf.i think it was on sun morning wurnt it mate Quote Link to post Share on other sites
the_stig 6,614 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 got done for shop lifting when i was 12 -- a long hard chat from my dad and grandad meant i had to find some new mates--my new mates were a whippit and a jack russell ..i got the russell off a fella called alan dodds he took me and my new found mates ratting and digging my mate cookie got the bug and by the time we were 14 we`d got between us a decent little ratting team did the local farms the sewage works and allotments for pocket money .. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nothernlite 18,083 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 watching jack hargreaves i use to watch him aswel when i was a kid he did some good stuf.i think it was on sun morning wurnt it mate dont have things like that on anymore was a education watching it his fishing and ferreting stuff was great Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnipper 6,467 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Always liked nature and animals and wanted to be a vet then progressed to wanting to catch them, I got my first ferret 20 years ago and my parents finally gave in when I was 16 and let me get a dog so that was the best 105 quid I ever spent and the rest is history. Rip gnash Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J.DOG 1,355 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Well i grew up round salukis and saluki lurchers as my dad and uncle were best mates used to keep lurchers mailnly salukis and saluki xs had other lurchers but maily saluki based ,when I was about 6/7 yrs I used to go with them but when my dads final lurcher had to be pts he called it a day and said he was no longer working dogs i said to my dad i wanted to go hunting but he said he wasnt going no more but let me go with my great grandad who I hadn't seen much an old fashioned man ruff tweed clothes , pipe in mouth , flat cap and Raggy lurcher in tow used to go ferreting , mooching and abit lamping with him I remember his house old and dark just used to sit by the fire no radio nothing just sit eating dinner with a cuppa used to have terriers but they were too old to work he showed me the way to train dogs how to understand them and tought me to respect the land and quarry I hunt , I got we'll into it straight away , loved it every weekend I'd go out with him and on the way back he'd send me round Afew doors dropping off rabbits for some elderly folk , he died when I was 12 leaving behind his old lurcher at the age 13 I took the dog on to live with me used to take it out with me walking and at the age of 13 it would catch rabbits and bring them to me and set off mooching again to find more loved the wee dog only had it a year and it past away but after that I knew I'd not look back waited till I was 15 to get myself a dog as at that point I had time to give it work I'm 17 now and got three lurchers and walk the land everyday glad I'm into the lurcher scene an hope I'll be in it till I die 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terryd 8,421 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Remember trying to shoot pheasants and rabbits with a home made bow an arrow when I was about 8 unsuccessfully. To many westerns I think 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BIGLURKS 874 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Best friend and he's family got me into it then kinda took a dif path too them leaning more too the dog side of hunting while there still shooters Quote Link to post Share on other sites
graham4877 1,181 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 was brought up round hunting, dad/ granddad more so granddad as i got/get on better with him. he was more into ferrets/ beating old man was in to shooting and we had JRTs... gun dogs and long dogs, i loved digging as a kid with my old man, and fishing, but even from 4 year old we clashed to much.. so now i just carried on with long dogs and springers.. would love a nice digging dog. but i could not give it the work it needed Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dytkos 17,793 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 When I was seven or eight, there was an old boy who lived in the bottom house on our street and he had a big pen (allotment) behind the terrace. He used to spend more time in his cabin there than at home. Me and a mate used to sit in the cabin by the stove listening to his tales of ferreting, ratting and rabbiting. Wasn't long before I was old enough to go out with him and his lurcher ferreting. I then got a Cairn X Corgi pup for my birthday that looked and acted like a bandy JRT. Started ratting up the brook with the old boy and since then progressed to digging, coursing and lamping and I've been hunting over 40 years now R.I.P. Jimmy Tattersall, and thanks Cheers, D. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JohnGalway 1,043 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Not so much hunting as pest control like Moxy. Was minding my fathers farm one year while he had a hip replacement done. Just my luck that year there was a severe problem with foxes killing lambs on me. 32 ewes in one field only walked out with something like 16 lambs in the end. Had no gun or anything at the time so met a local lad who had a bit of a reputation as a pure looper at the time. Didn't know much about him except he knew how to solve fox problems. Very obligingly he came in with me that same night, handheld DIY shop lamp and a SxS 12 gauge, and me following along with a heavy self contained Clulite rechargeable torch. First fox spotted he told me to stay put and make no noise, while he circled around and met the old vixen head on. f**k me if I wasn't hooked from that point, I was bursting out of my own skin wanting to shout shoot, shoot! Lol. After that fox we crested a hill and shone the lamp over the problem field. 6 foxes in among Dads ewes at the very same moment, no wonder I was having such a problem !! In the 7 nights of that week, he shot 13 foxes, and all of them in just 200 acres right out on the very end of an island joined to the mainland by bridge. That was in 05 or 06 I guess, we still head out together shooting regularly now 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scothunter 12,609 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 used to be a poacher stayed over the road from me.kept ferrets and was always skulking about at weird hours.he started to take me away woth him setting traps and snares,and running hares.prob would have been frowned on today,him taking a young lad away into the woods lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
j j m 6,539 Posted January 5, 2013 Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 i first got in to it through a next door neighbour when i was 9,been shooting and hunting ever since Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mrspinguu 35 Posted January 5, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2013 Some really great stories, im hoping that Mr P and I can give our kids a good start and get them interested in hunting too. Would be tragic if this way of life died out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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