oldred58 340 Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 lamping with car battery on your backs, I have the acid burn scar on my arss today, digging to terriers no locators, and all hunting lads met in the pub and have a pint and chat, 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
devon flighter 421 Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 car battery jeeze ! i used a motorbike battery and a hand held spot out of a car spare shop ! used to tape it to my air rifle late 70's remember my first shotgun early 80's trying to shoot rabbits bolted from ferrets "not a positive memory!" ,remember the end of season fox drives well on the shoot i used to beat on "best sport of the season " load of lads even more dogs of various parentage and the keepers and their terriers digging anything that went to ground, steve t http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/354024-digging-kit/page-2 said : my mate always brings bucket and rope, terrifies me, lol recon it could have been the same keeper lol early to mid 80's. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cragman 2,763 Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 I used to walk the river hunting rats with a menagerie of different breed of dogs and a couple of mates. After four miles we'd cross and do the other side back to home. I also used to hunt on a animal by products works (my dad worked there) and dug my first fox there in the early 70s to a short legged JRT, Buster was his name. Bought an air rifle in '74 from the local sports shop and walked through town with it to the canal to shoot maggies. Afterwards I got on the bus home with it. No cover or bag. Nobody batted an eyelid. None of my old mates hunt now.? 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
devon flighter 421 Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 used to sneak out up the canal when i was a kid probably early 70's with an air pistol" i bout of a mate and hid in the shed" shooting cans and other bits then graduated to an air rifle that i was only allowed to use in the garden "well untill i was left alone in the school holidays then off over the fields up to mischief " 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oldred58 340 Posted February 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 When I was 9/10 would go to the gas works with all the street mongrels I could muster lifting old corregated sheets hunting mice 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cragman 2,763 Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 (edited) A place I hunt on now brings back memories. I was in the barn climbing up to a swallows nest (68/69) when the old farmer came in and grabbed hold of me and a friend. He shouted at us then locked us in the barn opposite, saying he was going to phone the police. I was very skinny in those days and we both managed to squeeze through a small window hole in the wall. The old timer had filled our wellies, (which he had removed from us and left outside the barn), with cow shit just to slow us down. In turn we catapulted all his windows at the farm a week later. He died not long after and now his son farms there and has become a good friend. The original farm lies in ruins due to a family dispute? Edited February 18, 2016 by cragman 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darbo 4,774 Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 (edited) As kids in the 70s used to try and catch pheasants with the collie dog used to have a go at rats with air rifles at the nearby sewage farm and tried to dig them out with a couple of russels on standby just messing about in reality. Got into the lamping/coursing ferreting early 80s. A couple of us had diana sp50 air pistols anyone remember them and shot jack shit with them happy days. There was some very good roach in the brook a run of from the canal. The sewage farm is behind the trees. Edited February 19, 2016 by darbo 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oldred58 340 Posted February 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 I done my apprenticeship back in the 60s when a young lad, carrying spades bars rabbits, had many a kick up the arss, was gutting rabbits when i was 6/7 and these clowns today have forum on how to gutt rabbits, if you did not have a knife i whould use barbed wire fence,some clown on here put up going old school and put up a pic of lop scouse and a tent ffs,some of the comments make me cringe,if i come out with half the shit years ago whould have had my arss kicked so hard i whould not sit down for a week 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
socks 32,253 Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 What's a lop scouse ......... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
devon flighter 421 Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 As kids in the 70s used to try and catch pheasants with the collie dog used to have a go at rats with air rifles at the nearby sewage farm and tried to dig them out with a couple of russels on standby just messing about in reality. Got into the lamping/coursing ferreting early 80s. A couple of us had diana sp50 air pistols anyone remember them and shot jack shit with them happy days. had one similar ,think it was the sp10 that shot bb or pellets with a tilt up front to hold the bb ,also had a gat "didnt everybody?" and a wooden handled gat look alike, cant remember its name similar to a gat but more rounded and much more desirable then because of the wood "to me" that got confiscated by the school (it seemed a good idea at the time to take it so i could shoot on the way home along the canal !!!!) then i progressed to the premier league and got hold of a webley ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pesky1972 5,217 Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 (edited) As kids in the 70s used to try and catch pheasants with the collie dog used to have a go at rats with air rifles at the nearby sewage farm and tried to dig them out with a couple of russels on standby just messing about in reality. Got into the lamping/coursing ferreting early 80s. A couple of us had diana sp50 air pistols anyone remember them and shot jack shit with them happy days. Had a Diana. Graduated to it from a Gat gun. Before that I had a peg board ? Killed fcuk all with any of them! Edited February 18, 2016 by pesky1972 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
socks 32,253 Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 My first gun was a Diana 177 ... Wish I had kept that now for posterity ....... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ftm 3,357 Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 being shot with frozen peas for poaching - work all day then pedal 4 miles with "small lurcher" inside coat to go to pig farms [ratting] get home at stupid oclock then few hrs kip and back to work -and do it all again next night lol -those are times I will never tire of reminissing over Quote Link to post Share on other sites
oldred58 340 Posted February 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 What's a lop scouse ......... what are you doing on a hunting mans forum, 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
socks 32,253 Posted February 18, 2016 Report Share Posted February 18, 2016 What's a lop scouse ......... what are you doing on a hunting mans forum, Trying to learn from experts like you ....... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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