how did we all get in to it?

[Chubs 0]

Personally i've grown up with hunting , but my first taste of running dogs was when i was around 9, The local game keeper had two pure greyhounds & we ran & caught one hare on the lamp, I can honestly remember every second of that run & it was 18 years ago I can remember carrying it back on my shoulders too! although we as a family always had running dogs my first that was all mine was a little whippet cross when i was 13, the rest is history. How about you????

[Guest ripstop]

Personally i've grown up with hunting , but my first taste of running dogs was when i was around 9, The local game keeper had two pure greyhounds & we ran & caught one hare on the lamp, I can honestly remember every second of that run & it was 18 years ago I can remember carrying it back on my shoulders too! although we as a family always had running dogs my first that was all mine was a little whippet cross when i was 13, the rest is history. How about you????

I GREW UP WITH IT AND ALWAYS HAD A TERRIER FOR BUSHING AND ME BROTHERS HAD DOGS AND FERRETS. THEN MY DAD GOT ME A TERRIER FOR DIGGING AT THE AGE OF 7. I THEN GOT A GUN AT 8 BUT LOST INTEREST WHEN ME DAD DIED WHEN I WAS 11. THEN I GOT PISSED AND HIGH TILL 2 AND A HALF YEARS AGO IM NOW 34 AND GOT 2 LURCHERS 2 TERRIERS AND 3 FERRETS AND LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT SO YOU COULD SAY IVE BOILED MY OWN BLOOD BACK UP AND AM FIRING ON ALL SEVEN CYLINDERS

[TerrierLad 0]

grown up with hunting like you, but when my mum & dad split up i had a good 4 years without hunting but just moved back in with my dad this year and ready to hunt again, just bought a bedlington and looking into a beddy x lurcher now.

[the fezz 44]

grow up in the middle of no where my dad was a keeper , started ferreting when i was 6 with me dad and his dog ,colliex grey , got my own dog at 11 a whipxgrey then at 13 got a bullx . and never looked back

[porkypowell 2]

My old man was a ferreter and would net any hole he was at my birth with a purse net you can guess the rest

[sureshot 0]

Listening to the storys about my grandads poaching days during World war 2

[gunner1966 0]

IV BEEN BORT UP WITH HUNTING ALL MY LIFE.AT TO STOP FOR A FEW YEARS TO HAVE MY FOUR CHILDREN MISSED IT LIKE MAD.BUT MY YOUNGEST SON WHO LOVES THE SPORT HAS BORT IT BACK IN TO MY LIFE I LOVE EVERY MINUITE OF HUNTING.(MY SON IS A MEMBER OF THIS SITE)WE ARE BOTH LEANING MORE ABOUT HUNTING FROM THIS SITE.ITS GREAT TO BE ABLE TO EXPRESS YOUR FEELINGS ABOUT HUNTING WITH OUT HAVING TO WATCH WHOT YOU SAY.

[Giro 2,648]

I was a lurcher in previous life...

[Ricky-N.p.p 0]

I was a lurcher in previous life...

 

 

RUNNING DEER IN A DEER PARK !

[Giro 2,648]

:crazy:

 

Na just a humble rabbiting dog

[jigsaw 11,866]

I was 11 years old and always ventured into the woods near home with my boxer/lab cross.I came upon two lads that had a warren netted up,they told me,keep me dog tied and be very quiet,in moments a pair of rabbits hit the nets,mesmerised.I met up with them a few times after that and at 14 persuaded my father(who was anti hunting mind)to let me get a ferret,I got hooked from that moment on.I used to walk out 5-7 miles from home to get decent rabbit country and then hunt for the day and walk 5-7 back.In the shop buy a mars bar and bottle of fizzy orange,no worries,just simple pleasures of life.I found out my grandfather was an avid hunter and it skipped a generation till i came along,back big time now though

[Guest john2007oliver]

Don't know i've had so many "introductions" Think the first was with goshawks at about 9. Didn't really like it too much. Ahh well. Then i use to go shooting just targets in the woods with my dad after that for a few months and pure luck shot a magpie in flight Then a few years passed and i was mithering for an air rifle but wasn't allowed one and not old enough to buy me own. But the internet doesn't ask for ID So 2 weeks later i had my first own air rifle. Bought a few more over the following year then got a ferret about 10 months ago followed by a running dog a couple of month later. Think i like the dogs most and its a t*at poaching with the gun coz the risk out ways the reward. Anyway 17 now and still not allowed to shoot legally f*cking shitty laws.

[B moocher 0]

i remember the first time i went with my dad 20 years ago when i was 5 up on the mountain were my dad sat me on a wall well he dug to one of his terriers we had a kennel with good knows how many dogs from lakelands to lurchers . Didnt have my own dog beleive it or not till i got married i had a little tri colour jr which was a excellent dog but did not get on with the wife so she went. Then a lakeland same problem again and now ive switched to lurchers which i have two a 15 month old collie x and a bull x pup i just bought off terrier boy . And cant get enough of it ill go out twice a week with out fail.

[Guest The Shaman]

As a lad I was more or less pushed out the door when breakfast had finished, and wasn't expected back until teatime. Before all the crappy estates sprung up around here there was miles and miles of fields, most of them with pigs in. Old barns, copses, ruins and heddges as far as the eye could see. My dad (rest his soul) didn't do sport, or hunting but he did pass on a passion for wildlife and mooching around the woods. I made catapults till I was a teenager and could afford a Milbro. I became a damn good shot with it too. Spent a lot of time on my own as a kid, and I wouldn't change it one bit, I'm 40 now with a wife, kids and mortgage, but I sometimes wish I was a lad again.

[Chubs 0]

jesus nikey that's some bag for a ferret!