First Fox

[Macky 227]

can you remember your first fox you caught with a lurcher (pre ban ) and what breed was it ?

[DeerhoundLurcherMan 997]

Yep, Arctic fox

[the big chief 3,099]

Ye with my old dhxgh x colliexgh after his 1st fox he would pick them up and slam them on the ground so he didn't get bit

[South hams hunter 8,937]

Yes mate, had it stuffed and still have it. Could take you to the field today, 90 miles from home as a kid.

 

Stood at the bottom of a sloped field in the middle of December on a cold still night, the driver called and called and the little Gems appeared on the brow .

She slowly zig zagged down the field, carefully trying to taste the wind as the breeze fell on our faces.

 

Out of sheer excitement Both me and my brother slipped the dogs early, as soon as we released the dogs the little vixen heard them and turnt tail. The vixen reached the brow just before the dogs got behind her. As they went over the brow, the lamp was turnt off and we awaited there return, after a few moments and no sign the field was scoured and on the brow could see the eyes off the dogs as they were both trying to retrieve but in slightly different directions.

 

The dogs where a mongrel lurcher to a whippet and a 3/8 bull, 3/8 whippet, 2/8 grey

[Chid 6,624]

Remember my first with my own dog as it was only 5 yr ago

Taken in northern ireland

[Wales1234 5,562]

Remeber mine I was 9 in was day time with two black lurchers don't know the breeding but remember the names rose and jet !! Hunt caught and killed in the south wales hills ! Carried that one all the way home !!

[pip1968 2,490]

mine was with a good mate of here,their was a few of us who used to travel over to the wirral with a pack of bushing dogs we were around 14yrs old at the time working all the cover in factories along the docks in birkenhead.we gets in the factory fence and found dead pigeons and bits of bone lying around a bramble bush the dogs going mental then all hell broke loose we thought it was a factory cat at first but it a young fox the smiles on our faces said it all

[aaron01 739]

I remember mine like yesterday me an the mate were only 14 or so caught one on the lamp with two borrowed lurchers we carried it the whole way home to show the older lads we hunted with they weren't too amused having the doors banged at 2 in the morning with too young headers waving a dead fox about proclaiming to be the best hunters god ever put in a green field lol

[j316 119]

collygrey beddywhip 25years ago bateon worcs

[Bosun11 537]

I can relate to Pip's tale, as loads of Scouse kids of a certain age served a fox apprenticeship on the Wirral back in the day. I did...

 

But my first was a bit closer. I was about 14 and with my mate were heading back after lamping 'over the wall'. We'd cut across a high, disused field on Kirkby industrial estate, motorbike batteries long dead. So two lurchers off leads, my old whippet grey and my mates beddy whippet thing.

Suddenly they shot after sommat in the dark, rabbit was the first thought. Then commotion on the connection, I thought cat and we raced up to them. In the bit of light that the car spotty managed to shine, both dogs were giving a fox a hell of a bad time!

 

That walk home down the East Lanc's was the best ever... Real hunters us..!!

[sandymere 8,263]

feild by an old railway siding, beddy/whippet x colllie/grey got stuck in so did I lol.

[bird 10,013]

carnt remember the 1st with my other dogs in the lamp, but can with my old bitch lurcher to lurcher bred bess, was walking on my norm walk with her in the day. was walking past house that got bit of land with it, the couple of acres of it is rough ground with cover where you get the odd coulpe of rabbits. had bess of the lead as normal, she went throught a gap in the edge where the rough ground is, thought no more of it.Then heard right noise in there , thought bloody hell maybe maybe bumped into a cat , as she was fiery bugger with anything on 4 legs and at 25in was quite strong bitch.lol .Shouted out of there , as I was not going in there as they (people ) didn't like dogs on there ground. she came out with a 3/4 grown fox in her mouth , and brought it to me she was good old dog had her for 14 years, she was like a brindle greyhound bit of collie,whippet, and god knows lol.

[blue staffy 145]

I was 18 year old so 19 years ago , had a collie / grey x whippet / grey called Bob took rabbits and hares no problem and i decided to try him on a fox so dog on the back seat of my escort rs turbo away a go get to a big stuble feild gets myself into the middle and start sqeeking like a loony after about 2 mins i catch the eyes in the lamp comeing strait for me so heart pounding like it's going to pop out my chest i keep sqeeking the young fox keeps comeing to about 30 feet and that was it slip the dog 1st fox in the bag big smile on my face away home with 1 very smelly dog getting my car ( pride and joy ) stinking but i didn't care i had taken my 1st fox

Edited May 13, 2014 by blue staffy

[pip1968 2,490]

I can relate to Pip's tale, as loads of Scouse kids of a certain age served a fox apprenticeship on the Wirral back in the day. I did...

 

But my first was a bit closer. I was about 14 and with my mate were heading back after lamping 'over the wall'. We'd cut across a high, disused field on Kirkby industrial estate, motorbike batteries long dead. So two lurchers off leads, my old whippet grey and my mates beddy whippet thing.

Suddenly they shot after sommat in the dark, rabbit was the first thought. Then commotion on the connection, I thought cat and we raced up to them. In the bit of light that the car spotty managed to shine, both dogs were giving a fox a hell of a bad time!

 

That walk home down the East Lanc's was the best ever... Real hunters us..!!

thats it bosun we all must have been like the railway children many years ago it was nothing to jump a bus and a train with a pack of dogs in them days and no one would bat an eyelid, how times have changed hey

[leewalters 53]

I remember my first like it was yesterday I was around 9 years old ,I was out with my uncle exercising my dad's two lurchers which where bedlington crosses ,we walked this route my times before as it was always good for a run or two on the rabbits but on this day there weren't any which I thought was strange.my uncle said "something must have been through".not knowing what he was on about I asked him a he explained that it could have been a fox in the area so he suggested that we worked the hedgerow one either side with a dog each.we the hedge maybe a 100 yards or so,then BANG the fox jumps out of the hedge in front of me(I shite myself) with both dogs now chasing it across the field I watched what I thought was the most amazing course with twists and turns what seemed to last forever eventually they court it in the next field by time I got to the dogs with there kill it was stretched I was so excited I wanted to take it home but my uncle wouldn't let me so I had to make do with it's tail . I couldn't wait to get home to tell my dad which I did a thousand times I still walk my dogs that way now and had some good sport there