John Macnab Challenge

[YOKEL 2,229]

Getting rid of a grand wee little Stafford. I had my reasons at the time, the main one ( with hindsight) was being a daft c**t!

Yoke

[jackthelad 1,893]

That's the toffs macnab, read that book years ago an me an my mate been trying our own macnab since with the dogs , rabbit , hare, fox , an roe in 24 hours , haha anyone ever done it ?

[scottish lurcher 185]

That's the toffs macnab, read that book years ago an me an my mate been trying our own macnab since with the dogs , rabbit , hare, fox , an roe in 24 hours , haha anyone ever done it ?

nice one ?

[gamerooster 1,179]

That's the toffs macnab, read that book years ago an me an my mate been trying our own macnab since with the dogs , rabbit , hare, fox , an roe in 24 hours , haha anyone ever done it ?

Fox dogs aren't fast enough for hares and hare dogs are cowards on teeth..... unless we're talking about Irish hares, then they're about as fast as rabbits

[eastcoast 4,118]

I wish I'd photographed the dogs of my youth. Not necessarily my own, I have some photos and drawings but they are indelibly etched into my memory anyway. It's the dogs that belonged to other people and in some cases didn't really belong to anyone in particular. On council estates at the time dogs ran riot. Packs of dogs roamed the streets more or less and bred freely. Survival of the fittest. Not crossbreds, mongrels. But some of these where top class hunting dogs when taken out on what was left of farmland and industrial sites surrounding the estates. Rabbit, hare, fox, stoat, weasel, no badgers, grey partridge, woodcock at times. And the lovely rat.

 

One of the best of these mongrels looked like an all black heavy coated appox 26" Border collie. He could hunt. He accidently mated a racing whippet. One of the resultant offspring became the best lurcher I have ever seen. He could catch but more importantly find any game. We had a wide spectrum to go at but not in great numbers. If it was there he would find it and catch it. I wish I had a photograph of him but don't. Took him for granted.

 

Another street mongrel looked like a rangey black n tan beagle. Again a fantastic hunting dog. Too big to go to ground but managed to work fox well many times in the two local sandstone quarries. As above, any game that was there he would find it and the hunt was on. I wish I had realised at the time how much I valued him and had photographed him.

 

Lastly I regret not photographing the taken for granted terriers that were around at the time. Before they all became standardised and smart. The nice sorts already existed when I started out, and that's the sort that I aspired to own, but I wish that I had photographs of the ugly primitive types that are not around now but I witnessed doing a job of work.

[Tiercel 6,986]

In my younger days where ever I went the lurcher went with me. One evening I went for a flight on ducks on the river Cothie I got there early so got the fly rod out of the moggie 1000 van I had at the time and had a few casts down the river, I had not been fishing long when I hooked in to a fish a nice Sewin of around 6lb she was pretty coloured so I put her back.

 

Walked back to the van and got the gun out and managed one mallard on flighting. On the way home I got to thinking about the Mcnabs and though well if I could catch a hare with the dog that would be a poor man's Mcnabs. On the way home I knew where there were a few fields that held the odd hare,so I called in a few of them but nothing at home. It then started to become a fixation, I just needed to catch that hare I tried place after place where I had seen hares in the past, and no luck. I had walked the top of the last hill and had given up when on the way back to the van a rabbit was sitting out in the middle of the field, two turns and it was in the bag. Not what I wanted but I still maintain I have done a poor man's Mcnabs, Seatrout, Mallard and a Rabbit in the space of 4hrs.

 

TC

[budharley 945]

My biggest regret is being a knob in my younger years , eventually getting a sgc to have it taken off me in a year to getting it back 3 yr later , to getting bad depression before renewal . Now I've not even bothered renewing .

[South hams hunter 8,921]

That's the toffs macnab, read that book years ago an me an my mate been trying our own macnab since with the dogs , rabbit , hare, fox , an roe in 24 hours , haha anyone ever done it ?

done it several times, right place and it's easy

[Chid 6,519]

 

That's the toffs macnab, read that book years ago an me an my mate been trying our own macnab since with the dogs , rabbit , hare, fox , an roe in 24 hours , haha anyone ever done it ?

Fox dogs aren't fast enough for hares and hare dogs are cowards on teeth..... unless we're talking about Irish hares, then they're about as fast as rabbits

Irish hares fast as rabbits?? You obviously ain't seen an Irish hare run id put them on par with a dead mouse , you can lift them out their seats if your quiet enough

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

 

That's the toffs macnab, read that book years ago an me an my mate been trying our own macnab since with the dogs , rabbit , hare, fox , an roe in 24 hours , haha anyone ever done it ?

Fox dogs aren't fast enough for hares and hare dogs are cowards on teeth..... unless we're talking about Irish hares, then they're about as fast as rabbits

Plenty of hare dogs will tackle teeth

[gamerooster 1,179]

 

 

That's the toffs macnab, read that book years ago an me an my mate been trying our own macnab since with the dogs , rabbit , hare, fox , an roe in 24 hours , haha anyone ever done it ?

Fox dogs aren't fast enough for hares and hare dogs are cowards on teeth..... unless we're talking about Irish hares, then they're about as fast as rabbits

Irish hares fast as rabbits?? You obviously ain't seen an Irish hare run id put them on par with a dead mouse , you can lift them out their seats if your quiet enough

 

I didn't want to be over harsh mate, I know how easily them poncy leprechauns can take things to heart.... I also heard they're faster if they run backwards

[gamerooster 1,179]

 

 

That's the toffs macnab, read that book years ago an me an my mate been trying our own macnab since with the dogs , rabbit , hare, fox , an roe in 24 hours , haha anyone ever done it ?

Fox dogs aren't fast enough for hares and hare dogs are cowards on teeth..... unless we're talking about Irish hares, then they're about as fast as rabbits

Plenty of hare dogs will tackle teeth

Until they get bit, then they let go quicker than a hot poker

[j j m 6,539]

not having time to shoot all the land i have

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

 

 

 

That's the toffs macnab, read that book years ago an me an my mate been trying our own macnab since with the dogs , rabbit , hare, fox , an roe in 24 hours , haha anyone ever done it ?

Fox dogs aren't fast enough for hares and hare dogs are cowards on teeth..... unless we're talking about Irish hares, then they're about as fast as rabbits

Plenty of hare dogs will tackle teeth

Until they get bit, then they let go quicker than a hot poker

In your experience ?

[ginger beard 4,652]

 

That's the toffs macnab, read that book years ago an me an my mate been trying our own macnab since with the dogs , rabbit , hare, fox , an roe in 24 hours , haha anyone ever done it ?

done it several times, right place and it's easy

 

yeah it's easy at night,got to be daytime though and the hare given fair law,