Popular Post birddog 1,354 Posted September 16, 2013 Popular Post Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 decided to take a wee walk round a permission maybe half an hour away to check out how much cover was still there with a view to a ferreting trip next week. half way through the woods the mutts have picked up a couple of bunnies and a chap with a gundog comes walking toward me, i recognise him through work (i'm in the ambulance service) he's a police sergeant, we chat a while his dog sitting at heel my two are working through a hazel thicket.............crash bang a roe buck breaks cover with two hairy lurchers in CLOSE pursuit, fck me! i hope its gonna make the thick cover maybe 25yds away, belle dives in for a leg hold misstimes her strike and takes a kick, the roe stumbles and as it makes cover jazz hits it on the shoulder rolling the pair into really thick brambles, all the while i'm bricking it, about 30seconds of crashing through the thickest of cover and i'm waiting on a scream trying to act cool saying things like 'they're only rabbit dogs they'll never get that' and 'i've never seen a deer here before'...........thankfully the mutts come back tails wagging sides heaving....me..' i told you they wouldn't get it' cool as........he says ' pity that i quite like a bit o venison'.......b*****d! 20 Quote Link to post
nothernlite 18,077 Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 thats the problem deer everywhere you turn now never seen so many 2 Quote Link to post
Ideation 8,216 Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 .... And that's a problem? Send em down here! 1 Quote Link to post
P5HEN 168 Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 i wonder if there is any coppers what hunt theres gotta be 1 lol i wonder if theres any on here,apart from the ones scanning the site did that coppers dog get involved in the hunt? saying that probably only hunts stuff concealed in plastic bags lol Quote Link to post
Gaz_1989 9,539 Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 i wonder if there is any coppers what hunt theres gotta be 1 lol i wonder if theres any on here,apart from the ones scanning the site did that coppers dog get involved in the hunt? saying that probably only hunts stuff concealed in plastic bags lol There are more bent coppers than straight ones I reckon. 3 Quote Link to post
birddog 1,354 Posted September 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 i know a few that shoot or fish, used to know one that kept lurchers......in my experience most are just ordinary guys doing a pig of a job and following orders from above 2 Quote Link to post
nothernlite 18,077 Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 (edited) .... And that's a problem? Send em down here! you get fed up with the f---ing things cant have a mooch about here with out seeing them most public of places Edited September 16, 2013 by nothernlite Quote Link to post
TOMO 26,064 Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 Not necessarily bent copers gaz ,,, but there are a few that hunt,, I've met 3 of the top of my head that hunt or ferret or shoot,,, and I know one that courses,,,, 1 Quote Link to post
courseadog 231 Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 .... And that's a problem? Send em down here! you get fed up with the f---ing things cant have a mooch about here with out seeing them most public of placesPlenty down here can't say I'm feed up of um Good to watch Quote Link to post
nothernlite 18,077 Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 difference between feed up with them (they are nice eating )and fed up with then taking your dogs across roads into swing parks full of kids even seen them in school playgrounds Quote Link to post
courseadog 231 Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 difference between feed up with them (they are nice eating )and fed up with then taking your dogs across roads into swing parks full of kids even seen them in school playgroundsFair point Quote Link to post
birddog 1,354 Posted September 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 difference between feed up with them (they are nice eating )and fed up with then taking your dogs across roads into swing parks full of kids even seen them in school playgrounds aye, see them everywhere, one of my farmers see them as vermin they do lots of damage, it's not uncommon to see them in numbers, last winter we watched 11 cross a ride nose to tail, the thing that gets me though if people see a pet collie or spaniel chasing them its a wee jolly but because our dogs are capable of catching them the bambi syndrome kicks in and all lurchermen (and women) are barbaric hoodlums 3 Quote Link to post
nothernlite 18,077 Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 difference between feed up with them (they are nice eating )and fed up with then taking your dogs across roads into swing parks full of kids even seen them in school playgrounds aye, see them everywhere, one of my farmers see them as vermin they do lots of damage, it's not uncommon to see them in numbers, last winter we watched 11 cross a ride nose to tail, the thing that gets me though if people see a pet collie or spaniel chasing them its a wee jolly but because our dogs are capable of catching them the bambi syndrome kicks in and all lurchermen (and women) are barbaric hoodlums very true mate years ago when you seen one it was a rare sighting now you have to scan the ground before letting the mutts of the lead and thats you just walking the dogs no working them 3 Quote Link to post
pernod 466 Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 Where i am in ayrshire theres not many places you can let a dog(that knows the score re deer) off now. They are in most bits of waste ground/cover now. The novelty of seein your lurcher course them isnt long wearing off when under the public gaze. Pernod 3 Quote Link to post
gravedigger 87 Posted September 16, 2013 Report Share Posted September 16, 2013 the thing that gets me though if people see a pet collie or spaniel chasing them its a wee jolly but because our dogs are capable of catching them the bambi syndrome kicks in and all lurchermen (and women) are barbaric hoodlums.........well said mate !!! Atb gravedigger Quote Link to post
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