Dale Rabbits

[socks 32,253]

Come down south and run your dogs on short cut grass and flint and chalk its a world of difference to soft sedge grass ......

[socks 32,253]

I hunted in a place called hawes and the dogs were tripping over rabbits ... It honestly was easy ........

[jf1970 328]

you would have to define what you mean by Dales as well. The terrain varies massively, from really rough under foot stuff on the higher hillsides where some of the rabbits tend to squat/run/turn/squat/run to paddocks where the rabbits take off at full speed to where I live just on the edge of the dales with massive arable fields everywhere.

i imagined the dales to be rough moor land.

[jf1970 328]

I hunted in a place called hawes and the dogs were tripping over rabbits ... It honestly was easy ........

what was the land like there?

[lapin2008 1,587]

 

you would have to define what you mean by Dales as well. The terrain varies massively, from really rough under foot stuff on the higher hillsides where some of the rabbits tend to squat/run/turn/squat/run to paddocks where the rabbits take off at full speed to where I live just on the edge of the dales with massive arable fields everywhere.

i imagined the dales to be rough moor land.

 

 

Not all of it though the valleys will tend to be farmed, relatively flat, smaller paddock types

Its the numbers that make them easy to catch though IMO, all terrain has its own challenges at the end of the day

[jf1970 328]

 

 

you would have to define what you mean by Dales as well. The terrain varies massively, from really rough under foot stuff on the higher hillsides where some of the rabbits tend to squat/run/turn/squat/run to paddocks where the rabbits take off at full speed to where I live just on the edge of the dales with massive arable fields everywhere.

i imagined the dales to be rough moor land.

 

 

Not all of it though the valleys will tend to be farmed, relatively flat, smaller paddock types

Its the numbers that make them easy to catch though IMO, all terrain has its own challenges at the end of the day

 

sounds like a good test for the dogs then, all kinds of terrain?

[socks 32,253]

 

I hunted in a place called hawes and the dogs were tripping over rabbits ... It honestly was easy ........

 

what was the land like there?

Rough soft ground sedge grass all fields walled in .........

[jf1970 328]

 

 

I hunted in a place called hawes and the dogs were tripping over rabbits ... It honestly was easy ........

what was the land like there?

Rough soft ground sedge grass all fields walled in .........

 

that sounds alot easier?

[jf1970 328]

 

 

you would have to define what you mean by Dales as well. The terrain varies massively, from really rough under foot stuff on the higher hillsides where some of the rabbits tend to squat/run/turn/squat/run to paddocks where the rabbits take off at full speed to where I live just on the edge of the dales with massive arable fields everywhere.

i imagined the dales to be rough moor land.

 

 

Not all of it though the valleys will tend to be farmed, relatively flat, smaller paddock types

Its the numbers that make them easy to catch though IMO, all terrain has its own challenges at the end of the day

 

you said earlier they weren't easy?

[lapin2008 1,587]

 

 

 

you would have to define what you mean by Dales as well. The terrain varies massively, from really rough under foot stuff on the higher hillsides where some of the rabbits tend to squat/run/turn/squat/run to paddocks where the rabbits take off at full speed to where I live just on the edge of the dales with massive arable fields everywhere.

i imagined the dales to be rough moor land.

 

 

Not all of it though the valleys will tend to be farmed, relatively flat, smaller paddock types

Its the numbers that make them easy to catch though IMO, all terrain has its own challenges at the end of the day

 

sounds like a good test for the dogs then, all kinds of terrain?

 

Good as good a place to tire them out as any ..

[lapin2008 1,587]

 

 

 

you would have to define what you mean by Dales as well. The terrain varies massively, from really rough under foot stuff on the higher hillsides where some of the rabbits tend to squat/run/turn/squat/run to paddocks where the rabbits take off at full speed to where I live just on the edge of the dales with massive arable fields everywhere.

i imagined the dales to be rough moor land.

 

 

Not all of it though the valleys will tend to be farmed, relatively flat, smaller paddock types

Its the numbers that make them easy to catch though IMO, all terrain has its own challenges at the end of the day

 

you said earlier they weren't easy?

 

they are no easier than say an arable field with the same volume of rabbits per acre in it imo

 

Obviously in a field where there are hundreds of rabbits out its going to be easier to catch lots, regardless of where it is

[Rabbiting man 1,192]

Easy all not still take's a good dog to run on all kinds of terrain.

[Clipper 207]

theres a saying,,,,,,, if a dog can catch a rabbit in cheshire it can catch anywhere

[alan81 110]

Travel up an see....

Hot Meat I usually have a lot of time for what you say and I usually agree with what you have to say but some times you say fcuk all. it wasn't a trick question.

[Hot Meat 3,109]

Lol some will say they are easier, some will say they ain't, best way would be to go and see, I personally think this thread was a wind up but that's just me.... what I will say about the dales bunnys tho is, they may not be golf course bunnys or thin on the ground and wary. But they don't just hop in the motor for you, dog still needs to catch them, go and see that's my advice I did, loved the place went mad for it but I've now moved onto pastures New....

Edited September 12, 2013 by Hot Meat