Starting Back!

[tommy.c 859]

So when do you start your season off? I would usally take the dogs out for few runs in sept depending on how the ground is still a bit hard so think ill hold of a bit dont want to risk any injureys better safe than sorry, what abouts yous ? Atb tommy

[Giro 2,648]

Aye still hard as a brick here..

 

Its a sunny day, i am hoping for rain. Will need a good few days if not a week..

 

I went lamping last week after a wet spell.. Ground was still hard and a lot of cover..

 

Its not for me this stubble bashing..

 

Been trotting and jogging them, hopefully be half fit when the weather comes in..

Edited August 26, 2014 by Giro

[nomoon 542]

end of sept ,depending on ground etc just general mooching about for now,might get a couple of nights on the lamp with me lurcher bitch and pups,nothing serious,plenty time,im more layed back than most i think, not going to ruin a dog for something i feed the ferrets on atb mc

[Dewclaw69 484]

the ground's nice and soft here. only thing holding me back is the cloud cover and temperature. both seem really up and down but given the right night i'm out

[tommy.c 859]

Another couple of factors is cattle everywere and also with them still being out is you have electric fences still on and anyone taking young pups out it can be very risky!

[Dewclaw69 484]

Another couple of factors is cattle everywere and also with them still being out is you have electric fences still on and anyone taking young pups out it can be very risky!

yeah i have bullocks out on some fields on my permission. i always check with the farmer where the stock is and i give those fields a wide berth. one of the farmers even rings me when they move stock around.

[tommy.c 859]

 

 

Another couple of factors is cattle everywere and also with them still being out is you have electric fences still on and anyone taking young pups out it can be very risky!

yeah mate i would do the same two of the farms i have they showed me were to turn the electric off witch is brilliant just shows what a couple bottle whiskey can do! Lol...

yeah i have bullocks out on some fields on my permission. i always check with the farmer where the stock is and i give those fields a wide berth. one of the farmers even rings me when they move stock around.

[templeking 775]

could be a late start in ireland this year,their is loads of grass an the farmers will try to keep livestock on the land for as long as they can,we will start mid oct. atb.

[tommy.c 859]

Yeah templeking farmers still waiting on second cut, gona deffo be a late one mate!

[fireman 10,917]

Leverets around my village still ,seen two this week no bigger than rabbits.

[hounddog3 744]

Near the end of oct same as any other year go any earlier and the farmers will withdraw the permission .there are a few who have allready started but it will be torture for them and not good for the young hare, s.

[Irishhunter14 89]

Hounddog totally agree, too many people out too early and ruin it for everyone, cattle getting put into ditches and breaking fences, that's a mans livelyhood at end off day, end Oct be plenty of time, cattle in, fences off and young dogs can get plenty of experience without worrying there going to get fried

[hounddog3 744]

Hounddog totally agree, too many people out too early and ruin it for everyone, cattle getting put into ditches and breaking fences, that's a mans livelyhood at end off day, end Oct be plenty of time, cattle in, fences off and young dogs can get plenty of experience without worrying there going to get fried

the cattle were I hunt are in every second firld it impossible to get around them and they run right through the fence to get at you .its not worth the hassle an the loss of the permission as once chased of you, ll never get it back and likely to loss the next farmer, s preno to.but for lads who get away with it fair play to you, s nothing aganist ypus just not for me. Edited August 27, 2014 by hounddog3

[charlie boy 85]

fences never turned off down my way , a lot of bulls still in with the cattle very dangerous

[Hareydave 1,214]

it the same every season there lads who have an understanding of countrylife an the seasons an there the idiotic that couldn't tell you when the grass needs cut