Times Change

[wickenuk 40]

I recently moved back to the village that I lived in until I was 19 , during my early teenage years I owned a small lurcher bought from a pet shop as a staff bull cross , I don't think that it had ever seen a bull terrier its legs grew and it became a brindle strong whippet type lurcher. Almost every evening I would walk up the village with my dog often on the way I would be joined by two other dogs a corgi x alsation about a yard long and 12 inches high and a stocky little jack Russell ,with these dogs in tow I would head off to the hillside above the village a mixture of rough grazing thorn and gorse with some large rabbit warrens , the three dogs would work the cover with the two smaller dogs pushing through the gorse and the lurcher leaping around the outside looking for bolting rabbits I would often catch two or three, four was regarded as a very good hunt . thes.e rabbits would be gutted and legged and hung on my belt for the walk home . I would walk through the village rabbits hanging off my belt blood soaked into the side of my jeans ,no one would bat an eyelid sometimes I would meet one of the locals walking down the road with a broken shotgun over his shoulder off to try and bag a couple of pigeons no one bothered it was just part of country life .Fast forward to today I don't think that half of the youngsters in the village today would know how to gut and leg a rabbit , the police were called out because someone was shooting at crows and there's a court case because a new resident is trying to shut a footpath that has been in use for at least a century.Life in this village has certainly changed and not for the better .

[dazbrowne 13 334]

I think the country as a whole is f****d pal try to keep up traditions with my lad showing him the ropes

[Francie 6,368]

Thats the spirit daz, im doing the same wi my boy an girl.

[j j m 6,533]

hard to keep old traditions going in this day and age

[AXUM 255]

real touching story.

[Nik_B 3,790]

Sounds like a fantastic youth, wish I'd had one like that.

 

My mate and I did used to go fishing all the time, either that or taking our unbelievably useless gat guns into the woods where no matter how hard we tried never hit a single squirrel lol.

 

After dreaming of moving more into the sticks we finally did it and I am quite surprised how almost no one is in to hunting and shooting. There aren't that many who like fishing. As this is a seaside village it's got a huge population of retirees from England here but I'm yet to meet anyone from the village who shoots although I have met one guy with working terriers.

[socks 32,253]

I would often walk up the road with few rabbits or a fox slung over my shoulder and again nobody would bat an eyelid ... if a poor squirrel got slightly lost and ended up on my street there would be a dozen of us kids out with air rifles trying to kill it as it ran along the electric cables with all the parents shouting us on and half the village dogs following it underneath waiting for one of us to hit it lol .......

[terryd 8,373]

same here christ I even set fox snares on the side of the main road. Probably not the best idea going though but no one cared. When we had heavy snow one year couple fellas just strolling up the main road blasting pigeons.

Slowly but surely we are sinking

[Fieldsporthunter 1,864]

It's changing that's for sure, we used to hunt, fish and shoot from being 10/11 years old. We did it all in the open and was no need to hide, remember some of the real old boys that used to stop and have half hour with you and maybe learn you a bit of summit, Was just the norm.

The other week me, fourtrack73 and eddytom where lamping, to cut a long story short we ended up getting lamped up by a townie that moved to the country, shouting and screaming about tearing fury fluffy creatures apart, that would never of happened.

Another lot near me have put a locked gate illegally across a ancient woodland foot path after moving there from the city because they don't like people walking next to THERE house, footpath was there before the house.

Village I grew up in we used to ride around on our bikes as kids, all the old biddies used to watch out for kids offer them pop and a biscuit, don't recognise anybody now c**ts don't even look at you.

[Daniel cain 44,992]

Used to run around with an old bsa snipe and a dog or 3,pocket full of cartridges doing as we pleased,nothing was safe-we used to jump onto the coal trains and have a day at the beach lol, ride for miles on push bikes with fishing rods,scrumping apple and damson trees,nesting,peg guns and dutch arrows-taking home flea ridden hedgehogs and getting a clip off mam-owls,jackdaws,buzzards in the shed without her knowing-oldman would just laugh and say leave him to it.my own children's friends have been in the garden when I'm chopping up various bits and bobs for the dogs-screaming at the sight of a dead rabbit-little f***ing faggots that are molly cuddled by their weirdo parents.I make sure all 3 of mine are out and about-down the farm riding and mucking out-ferretting,fishing,shooting,building fires and toasting mash mallows etc,pond dipping anything to keep them off those brain draining computers lol.type in 50 things to do before your 10-great way to get the little ones out and about-collecting frogspawn,build a rope swing over a river loads of stuff we all did and took for granted.atb dc

[lanesra 3,994]

It's all I-phones , computers & £££££ these days . . had none of them as kids but had great fun & great memories !!

[Nik_B 3,790]

MY daughter waited up for me because she was dying to get hold of the tail feather from these pheasants he he. This is a few years ago.

 

I gave he lots of different types of feather including a woodcock to take in for show and tell and the teacher rushed her through it and didn't let anyone ask questions

 

[BGD 6,436]

Great pic that Nik, her face says it all

[Haiddheliwr 1,911]

Some lovely memories there guys! Remember the BSA Snipe well DC! Thanks for sharing lads!

[neil cooney 10,416]

There is hope folks and we as parents bringing up our kids as we do will know that when they're older ,whether they hunt or not, will be head and shoulders above their associates if an emergency or such should ever arise.

They''ll be stronger for it.