If This Dont Improve Going To Give It Up

[Guest vin]

Only thing you can do is what a lot of us have to do and thats .. Travel.

 

As most of you know Tomo off this site goes out and does big bags up on the dales etc etc... I have the honour of accompanying him a lot of the time..But we also have to travel to many many other spots to keep the dogs and ferts ticking over throughout the year.

I have a few good permissions myself now which we swop about on visits ..also a few good mates with thier permissions come with us and then we go out with them etc etc..

I never stop looking for spots to try and gain permission...and over the last few years I have had at least 90% knock backs from most places I try..but the law of averages says If you keep trying etc etc.

We did a trip of around 200 miles last thursday to a spot where we though we might get a bit of ferreting permission..and we knocked on loads of doors on route..we eventually got a couple of possibilities for a few days out in January after the shooting season finishes. . . by the end of that day we had 6 bunnies in the bag and a big fuel bill...

My nearest permission is 40 miles from home. . . but most are around 100 miles away.. you have to catch a few in order to make a bit of fuel money back..Plus Tomo eats them Ginsters Pies 2 at a time. .

 

Dont give up or give in. . .

[Hot Meat 3,109]

Nobody can say you don't put the effort in vin. That's for sure

 

 

 

neal what you get to replace the kelpie?

[oakey 57]

Just got back had a fantastic time 6 rabbits bit of digging (not too much ) had a bag of veg off the farmer to

[threelander 81]

things looking up then mate

[foxtails 272]

Theres one or two hunters about who get even keener as the years roll on.

 

Numbers arnt that important to this type.Its all about the challenge of finding something for the pot.

 

The excitement of catching a single rabbit is still there after decades of good times in the field.

 

Mates, dogs , woman and rabbits have come and gone.

 

These types were born to hunt and will no doubt carry on in exactly the same way

i used to walk 4-5 miles rabbiting atleast 3-4 times a week, back a couple years ago and very rarly came home with a rabbit, but it used to spur me on even more just to get out there and work harder ect ,....when id finally get one it was like winning the lottery, i could see medium/ numbers in the night with the lamp go back in the day and litrally 2 buryies in 10 acres, i just couldnt grasp where they were going/living ? i just love being out away in the countryside doing what i love.....rabbiting....weather i catch anything or not ! (in all weathers)

[Neal 1,875]

Vin, a forty mile journey to my nearest permission would be no good to me...I don't drive! That's one of the reasons I now have kelpies and used to have collie crosses...I wanted something which could keep up with me!

 

Hot Meat, I've booked another kelpie. My oldest has recently turned fourteen and "the pup" is now six...won't say anything else about the pup yet as I don't want to take the thread in a different direction.

[johnrthrfrd 223]

Well off out tomorrow to have a hour on 6 or 7 holes where the farmer is going to dig a reservoir so if i dont take the few that are there they will be buried . The last few years if i look back on my posts all of the rabbits round here have gone i had hundreds of acres of permission that now doesn't have any rabbits on it . I said to my wife the other night that when my current ferrets die off i shant be replacing them . What as gone on we talk about it in the pub and the only thing that we can think of is that they have drown because all of my permission is in the vale of Evesham which is low land ?

 

Feel the same mate my permission has been wiped out by mixy not a bunny left tried all over to get new permission but the land owners have all been pxxxxd off by idiots and don't trust honest blokes any more all you seem to get is no let somebody on and they left gates open and we're driving about the fields in a 4x4 wrecking every thing it's not just mixy that has spoilt it for the proper hunting guys but the idiots who call there selves hunters so after to many years I care to remember ferreting and working the dog think they will all be going and calling it a day.

[stealthy1 3,964]

There's plenty of land with rabbits about, you just have to find it, sometimes you get it given on a plate like I did this morning, other times its by word of mouth, if you see a rabbit at the side of the road while your out and about, or see some rabbit damage, find out who owns the land and leave your name and number, some will call you, some wont, but its out there, believe me

[terryd 8,731]

Don't rule out around the edges of built up areas I have noticed a lot of rabbits in some of these places. Permission is a bit tricky because a lot of it is council land or railways but there is the odd farmers field here and there I am going to try get permission on.

1 rabbit is a major success for me and the buzz is the same now as twenty odd years ago. I was a right noisy ferreter as a kid if a rabbit bolted out of open hole I would start legging it after it shouting rabbit and going whoop whoop and the dogs would come belting along ( not the way to ferret i know )

Got back into it few years ago out with my 2 daughters first rabbit un netted hole and goes off along the ditch well I took off giving it large like I was sixteen again.

My youngest said to me why were you making that noise dad I have managed to calm down a bit but only just

[goldfinger 135]

I just enjoy the the sport and watching the jills work, and the harder they are to get the more you appreciate the hunt,sometimes as you all know they can be bloody hard to get but I still enjoy the day or few hours out,I will always go out whether no rabbits one rabbit or a dozen it is a great country sport,and it keeps the farmer happy as well.

[nighthunter. 13]

rabbits move a lot mate when its like that wet same on my perms when the weather gets very wet they will move on the higher ground