New Season In France

[Lenmcharristar 9,873]

Brilliant posts again blaise, very honourable the way you rever your terriers over there, you lot could do us in the uk a favour by promoting your ways of hunting and getting the whole village involved

[stop.end 4,082]

Thanks for that Blaise, I'm sorry to hear about Comete it seems like she was a useful bitch for the hunt, very unfortunate. I've lost you slightly on your last sentence, sorry for my ignorance in advance. 102 hunts with a result of 69 badgers could you please explain further as I was expecting the tally to be more than the amount of hunts and not less. Also do yous not stumble across foxes in earths from time to time when checking them for badgers ?

I was just thinking the same things... I have seen blaise post on here were 1 hunt and they have had 2-3 in a stop! so have yous been out searching 102 times and that has produced 69 digs? or 69 badgers?

[Blaise 2,324]

Thanks for that Blaise, I'm sorry to hear about Comete it seems like she was a useful bitch for the hunt, very unfortunate. I've lost you slightly on your last sentence, sorry for my ignorance in advance. 102 hunts with a result of 69 badgers could you please explain further as I was expecting the tally to be more than the amount of hunts and not less. Also do yous not stumble across foxes in earths from time to time when checking them for badgers ?

 

Fail !

The way I hunt here, I can fail.

If a Dog hunts one or two hours without a stop-end, I retrieve the dog. 1 hunt 0 badger.

On a large place, If I uses 3 dogs one after one during the day, I count 3 hunts. Each work of a dog is a hunt.

More than 50% of hunts are failed.

Those who succeed give one or few badgers together.

[Blaise 2,324]

Concerning foxes, I can find them in badger's set in december or january. Usually dogs dispatch them.

[Blaise 2,324]

 

Thanks for that Blaise, I'm sorry to hear about Comete it seems like she was a useful bitch for the hunt, very unfortunate. I've lost you slightly on your last sentence, sorry for my ignorance in advance. 102 hunts with a result of 69 badgers could you please explain further as I was expecting the tally to be more than the amount of hunts and not less. Also do yous not stumble across foxes in earths from time to time when checking them for badgers ?

I was just thinking the same things... I have seen blaise post on here were 1 hunt and they have had 2-3 in a stop! so have yous been out searching 102 times and that has produced 69 digs? or 69 badgers?

 

 

102 hunts of the dogs (dog is barking in earth = one hunt, whatever the following)

 

I you want more concerning my statitics 2015 :

38 days

102 hunts (average 2,7 dogs are working each day out)

108 meters digged (average 2,9 meters per day)

dog's work 145 hours (average 3,8 hours each day)

[Lew 111]

It bet your percentage would go a lot higher if you had a collar on the dog.

[THE GENERAL 1,982]

Thanks for explaining that Blaise, I understand you now.

[Blaise 2,324]

It bet your percentage would go a lot higher if you had a collar on the dog.

I don't think so because our failures are mostly explained by the lack of stop-end on large places, the hunt is moving side to side until the dog withdraws or the badger escapes. As the badger moves, no need to locate precisely.

When I fail, I try with another dog. And I come back another day until the luck arises.

During the whole season, the failure due to my inability to locate my dog is just 2 or 3 times. Thus we are clearly powerless.

I'll never change my way of hunt to boost my catchs from 69 to 72... Our great pleasure is searching.

[Lenmcharristar 9,873]

 

It bet your percentage would go a lot higher if you had a collar on the dog.

 

I don't think so because our failures are mostly explained by the lack of stop-end on large places, the hunt is moving side to side until the dog withdraws or the badger escapes. As the badger moves, no need to locate precisely.

 

When I fail, I try with another dog. And I come back another day until the luck arises.

 

During the whole season, the failure due to my inability to locate my dog is just 2 or 3 times. Thus we are clearly powerless.

 

I'll never change my way of hunt to boost my catchs from 69 to 72... Our great pleasure is searching.

amen, if it's not broke it don't need fixed

[fat man 4,741]

If as you say the dog with draws and the quarry is still within then would you not call that dog a jacker-spewer for coming of its game,i understand you say lack of stop-ends but if the terrier is up to its job it should eventually push its quarry to a stop not come away.Pre-locater days i have had terriers to ground all day and also through the night until next day until eventually dug to.

[Blaise 2,324]

If as you say the dog with draws and the quarry is still within then would you not call that dog a jacker-spewer for coming of its game,i understand you say lack of stop-ends but if the terrier is up to its job it should eventually push its quarry to a stop not come away.Pre-locater days i have had terriers to ground all day and also through the night until next day until eventually dug to.

 

When I hunt a place that could be dangerous (deep, stone...), I prefer to use a dog who come back.

According to me, it's useful to have few dog like this in your kennel.

When It's evening and you are tired, you can put a dog able to hunt two hours. But if the dogs in the car are all long-term hunters, you have to renounce.

[Blaise 2,324]

I met a Master who was using some barker jack russell terriers in a stone place the Friday in order to prepare saturday hunt. Dog was barking few hours. Man was waiting in silence.

The saturday, he hunted another place easy to dig 200 meters away. According to this man, badgers had migrated during the night.

No proved, just heard about.

Edited September 28, 2016 by Blaise

[kirstysdad 827]

Yes you can move them from a undiggable spot to a better one near by use a little Bauer in the bad spot day or two before just to upset them or another old trick was to dip some papers or rags in creosote or old oil and stuff in entrances couple days before this is all historical as you can't go near one now

[Mary 352]

Is it not strange that these dens/setts have no stop ends, or am I reading it wrong and it's that the quarry will not go to them? Instead chooses to keep going round and round. Or is the dog not able to hold them there?

[fat man 4,741]

Is it not strange that these dens/setts have no stop ends, or am I reading it wrong and it's that the quarry will not go to them? Instead chooses to keep going round and round. Or is the dog not able to hold them there?

I have yet to come on a set-earth that has not at least 1 stop in it,especially concerning badgers[pre-ban] as they like to lay up in a nice bed of grass or such.I am not knocking Blaise's dogs,horses for courses but i reckon its the dog that is not able to drive-push the quarry into the stop.Years ago pre-ban if an animal was dug and released it would take a good terrier to get a result the next time it was entered to the same animal as it would not be pushed to a stop so easily 2nd time around and the terrier had to really work and presure it to get it in a stop,big difference in diging animals that are seeing dogs for the 1st time than an animal that has seen it all before,anyway them days are well gone now so we have to be happy with what we have.