Spectacular Failures. . . Ones That Got Away.

[Maximus Ferret 2,063]

Good bull x would have took the fence up hill with it lol.

 

I can see it in my minds eye now.

[blackmaggie 3,376]

i wish i had a pound for every time a mutt should of connected or a owner jumped about saying thats dead or go on my son/ girl owhoooo fecking hell

[s.e.s.k.u 1,893]

Could be a long thread this if folk are honest lol.. I haven't any footage but this Saturday I was in West Wales at a mates...We was out lamping foxes with the rifle also took my lurcher for a few bunnies if the opportunity arose..we got 4 runs..2 made the dog look daft and the 2 that she caught both hit sheep mesh and were caught lol.. hardly a great performance from her first time in my pals company ...

[skycat 6,173]

Isn't it sad that our dogs' performance affects our status within our group. How we all want to be accepted, applauded, even respected, and the poor old dog has to carry that burden alone. For me, competitive coursing was the very worst thing in the world. I had a little white bitch who could course all day, superb strike, but man, was she weird. She'd jack for no apparent reason, and on the most important days. One day she stopped not 15 feet from a hare she was running; running it well, strong hare, but oops, there was some pheasant cover in the distance OK, when she stopped it was about 20 yards from cover, but she had a nose, didn't she?

Then she went on to run later in the day, on bottomless ground on a fast good hare, and ran it into the ground, killing it in style. She taught me firstly to never run her in competition, and secondly, to appreciate what she did when she was showing brilliance.

 

And fox? The only dog I've had who could gallop backwards in mid air having realised that what had come out of the bramble along the dyke wasn't a rabbit Or who could spot one miles away, run towards it until she realised what it was, then turn round, put her nose to the ground and act like she'd suddenly found a great scent and hadn't actually seen the fox in front of her: great levellers, dogs When she got old, double figures, she'd actually bowl them if she knew that back-up was coming up fast behind her: she was still unbelievably quick in reaction and early pace even then. Lunar: like the moon, ran in phases and nutty as a fruitcake.

[mattyg 1,862]

I thought the title of this topic was just about my dogs, but it seems that everyone else owns useless pot lickers aswell.

Matt

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Personaly,..I think a few lads take themselves a wee bit too seriously...

They sometimes expect their dogs to possess noble qualities, that they do not have themselves ,..indeed,..more than a few want a dog, to be a lean, mean, killing machine.

 

Some folk are just too keen,...possibly far keener to get the prize than their jukels are.

 

It would be hypocritical of me to say, that I was never like that, because I was,.. maybe one of the worlds worst.

 

Facts are, all dogs feck up,...as do all hunting men,...shit happens....

Edited December 1, 2014 by Phil Lloyd

[skycat 6,173]

How true Phil: at one time I was obsessed with foxes, to the extent that I'd walk through an entire field of feeding rabbits when I spotted a pair of yellow eyes in the beam Happily time passed and my obsession died a natural death when I realised that they were a damn sight easier to catch than some rabbits, providing you had a dog with an equally obsessive attitude towards foxes

[weasle 1,119]

How true Phil: at one time I was obsessed with foxes, to the extent that I'd walk through an entire field of feeding rabbits when I spotted a pair of yellow eyes in the beam Happily time passed and my obsession died a natural death when I realised that they were a damn sight easier to catch than some rabbits, providing you had a dog with an equally obsessive attitude towards foxes

Wouldnt be many left if that was the case,A fox was never dead till he was dead.

If you were into rabbits,fox ,deer even lamped hares,You would get times when dogs failed for no other reason than they were total and utterly outclassed,at least mine did

When a fox was the prey he was still able to think like the predator.

Edited December 1, 2014 by weasle

[skycat 6,173]

Weasle: a fox in the middle of a big field has no chance against a kami-kaze dog that really wants it: now near cover I'd agree with you completely. But I've had more 'careful' dogs than fox mad lunatics: I can count on the fingers of one hand those who would sooner have cut off their own heads than lose a fox, but then again, I never bred particularly for fox.

[DEERMAN 1,020]

Weasle: a fox in the middle of a big field has no chance against a kami-kaze dog that really wants it: now near cover I'd agree with you completely. But I've had more 'careful' dogs than fox mad lunatics: I can count on the fingers of one hand those who would sooner have cut off their own heads than lose a fox, but then again, I never bred particularly for fox.

I disagree

Edited December 1, 2014 by DEERMAN

[weasle 1,119]

 

Weasle: a fox in the middle of a big field has no chance against a kami-kaze dog that really wants it: now near cover I'd agree with you completely. But I've had more 'careful' dogs than fox mad lunatics: I can count on the fingers of one hand those who would sooner have cut off their own heads than lose a fox, but then again, I never bred particularly for fox.

I disagree

 

So do i,

The runs i was thinking of were foxs in the middle of fields.While a dog may well know to drop a gear on rabbits ect,a dog that was good on foxs would just want them to much to do that,seen foxs wait till dogs on top of them and lie down dog going over the top,a fox could turn and knows when too.

3or 4 of these missed strikes and fox is suddenly in cover Might have been my dogs but ive seen foxs that seemed to know the crack.Would have defiantly been more like hares than rabbits

Sorry for going of topic.

[skycat 6,173]

Not denying a fox can turn like a hare, and especially difficult on the lamp unless the ground is dead flat drilling or grass. Maybe I just got lucky with either dopey foxes or brilliant dogs but I did have a bitch that never missed a fox during her life, either by day or by night, but she didn't die of old age and was crippled by the time she was 6 years old. Ditto her daughter: both died in action. Collisions with immoveable objects.Took suicidal risks and ultimately paid the price. Also, at the time, no one lamped or shot the foxes in the area I ran, so they were greener than those which we meet nowadays.

[Wales1234 5,512]

Love hunting but I'm not overly serious I like to have a laugh when I'm out and usually take the piss out of my own dogs !! But one time stick in my head when a rabbit bolted straight across a field my two Young lurchers behind it it went through a fence bitch Jumped dog hit the fence and done a backflip couldn't stop laughing

[blackmaggie 3,376]

sorry penny but not having that on both accounts on the foxes any dog thats run foxes has missed its a fact or they havent run many maybe bolted with a terrier when imo there at there easiest but even then they can still miss

Edited December 1, 2014 by blackmaggie

[DEERMAN 1,020]

Not denying a fox can turn like a hare, and especially difficult on the lamp unless the ground is dead flat drilling or grass. Maybe I just got lucky with either dopey foxes or brilliant dogs but I did have a bitch that never missed a fox during her life, either by day or by night, but she didn't die of old age and was crippled by the time she was 6 years old. Ditto her daughter: both died in action. Collisions with immoveable objects.Took suicidal risks and ultimately paid the price. Also, at the time, no one lamped or shot the foxes in the area I ran, so they were greener than those which we meet nowadays.