Good Night Out With The Lurchers

[lofti 579]

Met up with Jim for a run with the lurchers earlier this week
we lamped some separate fields at the start and then met up a bit later .Most of the lower ground was very wet from the big thaw ,so i decided to hit the higher ground, the conditions were perfect the ground was nice and soft , the wind was blowing and the thick clouds were covering the moon.

I had 19 with Meg at the fist spot and went to meet Jim who had 23.
We left the rabbits in the motor and went to the next fields,
By this time the wind had really picked up and it was pitch black
both dogs were running great taking turns and hardly missing
Ern bagged another 25 and Meg 24 , 2 of them being her first black rabbits . Making the total 91.

I had to get back as i had an early start in the morn got home for 5.30am and was up for 7am ,could have carried on as the dogs were still good to go.
As i say the conditions were perfect all night just apart from when we went to do a pick at the end and it turned in to a monsoon !!

 

[digg deep 5]

Nice1 pal

[HIGHAM 47]

well in , good bag

[AirgunGuy 362]

Great work as usual. What breeding is in the dogs mate They seem to have bags of stamina

[torchey 1,328]

thats a cracking night i would have stayed for another 9 though

[TOMO 26,963]

Nice one chaps,, chased two black ones myself,, but cought neither, it's hard to believ but I ain't had one in ages, and Venus has never cought one.

 

Mind they bring out the worst in me,,, if I see one , all the other easier ones go out the window...lol. And I end up with nothing,, doh

[Celtichawk 5]

well you don't need me to tell you what a good result you had. I am interested in knowing more about those black ones tho only seen black ones in a pet shop.

[Ideation 8,216]

well you don't need me to tell you what a good result you had. I am interested in knowing more about those black ones tho only seen black ones in a pet shop.

 

 

Mutation of the agouti gene. Usually only seen in an area with a decent population.

[jamesmc 582]

 

well you don't need me to tell you what a good result you had. I am interested in knowing more about those black ones tho only seen black ones in a pet shop.

 

 

Mutation of the agouti gene. Usually only seen in an area with a decent population.

usually you get the odd ginger one too

[Ideation 8,216]

 

 

well you don't need me to tell you what a good result you had. I am interested in knowing more about those black ones tho only seen black ones in a pet shop.

 

 

Mutation of the agouti gene. Usually only seen in an area with a decent population.

usually you get the odd ginger one too

Aye, seen whites, gingers, rough coated ones, blacks, black and whites etc etc etc. Oddest i seen is a totally white fron half and a totally normal back half.

[jamesmc 582]

aye...ye get a lot of colours ....but i have caught blacks alot and 1 ginger one where no escaped pets could have been....wild rabbits,sorry for going on abit lads...lol, great bag as usual,cracking mutts,doing a cracking job.. ...atb...

[Celtichawk 5]

thanks to everyone for their answers, game so rare around by me the only chance I get to see colored ones what be in a pet shop. thinking about how many rabbits I have seen this year it would been long before I have to go to a pet shop to even see a rabbit never mind hunting them.

[nothernlite 18,089]

good bag well done use to say the keepers would put the black rabbits down to see if anybody was on there ground if they went missing they would notice them away who knows

[bird 10,004]

 

well you don't need me to tell you what a good result you had. I am interested in knowing more about those black ones tho only seen black ones in a pet shop.

 

 

Mutation of the agouti gene. Usually only seen in an area with a decent population.

 

 

never knew that,? good bag well done dogs+ men

[Ideation 8,216]

good bag well done use to say the keepers would put the black rabbits down to see if anybody was on there ground if they went missing they would notice them away who knows

 

There'd be a lot of very paranoid keepers around when the bops and foxes had killed the released, colourful, tame rabbits lol.