Amazed how in the last few years how people are coming back to the collie xs an bedlington xs

[trenchfoot 4,243]

These days I prefer to walk alone, just as I did when I first started out. I guess thats why I've gone back to the type that I first started with. 

[nothernlite 18,080]

1 hour ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Honestly , 

as a younger man I lamped the small hilly fields of Cumbria, hillocks hedgerows ditches , 

I was lucky enough to spend a few seasons hunting exclusively with the lad who made the Kiera goes lamping videos 

kiera was exclusively collie greyhound, and was ran hard for a few seasons, show me a beddy that can handle that amount of work , you can’t as none can or could on that terrain . Fact. 

Kiera was powerful quick hardy intelligent and three pups better than her in the opinion of her owner , incidentally Kiera is still alive at nearly 20 

theres not a beddy blooded dog in the country to lace her boots imho 

Put some of the videos up are they on you tube be I interesting to see this testing ground that no beddie cross can run 20 years old and still alive  some going 

[Gilbey 1,434]

don't think the beddy and collie types have ever been away to make a comeback

Edited June 23, 2018 by Gilbey
phone has a mind of its own

[Black neck 15,947]

2 hours ago, vin said:

It all went downhill when they started with 4 channels instead of the usual 3...lol.  

I remember the days when you could bob down into the dykes and run a couple of fields away and that was the end of it. . . . Now they get the helicopters out and road block the area....  sod that for a game of soldiers.

Thanks fekk some of us have actually lived through the golden years. . . .  Halford's little square halogen inspection lamp £7  was the turning point for me and the mates... lol. . . From that day,the ferrets became redundant for years.

I had 1 a them lamps mate it were the bollox 

[Black neck 15,947]

59 minutes ago, nothernlite said:

Put some of the videos up are they on you tube be I interesting to see this testing ground that no beddie cross can run 20 years old and still alive  some going 

f***ing hell sounds like triggers brush that dog

[two crows 3,342]

8 minutes ago, Black neck said:

I had 1 a them lamps mate it were the bollox 

we made ours for years lumax with big bulbs in I was still using that when every one else had a blue eye.

[Black neck 15,947]

34 minutes ago, two crows said:

we made ours for years lumax with big bulbs in I was still using that when every one else had a blue eye.

I had a halfords job mate then bought a home made contraption off me grandad next nieghbour now that wor really good car head light wi some pipe and a lath nail for a switch it were great 

[Black neck 15,947]

Tbf i still use fairly old kit now just wi a lithium battery laser lite and blazer tried the led couldnt tell a rat from an owl lol

[poxon 5,731]

1 minute ago, Black neck said:

Tbf i still use fairly old kit now just wi a lithium battery laser lite and blazer tried the led couldnt tell a rat from an owl lol

I still occasionally use a laser lite converted to blaze lite tough as old boots little lamp there good as they’ve got the little walking dim beam

[Black neck 15,947]

1 minute ago, poxon said:

I still occasionally use a laser lite converted to blaze lite tough as old boots little lamp there good as they’ve got the little walking dim beam

I got both but need a gate lite bulb for me lazer to stop me falling over so much

[Phil Lloyd 10,738]

Halfords saved my life...their wee lamps helped to pay the mortgage.....

 

[Black neck 15,947]

37 minutes ago, Phil Lloyd said:

Halfords saved my life...their wee lamps helped to pay the mortgage.....

 

Thats 1 for the wall 

[two crows 3,342]

55 minutes ago, Phil Lloyd said:

Halfords saved my life...their wee lamps helped to pay the mortgage.....

 

like the womble

[Caravan Monster 323]

4 hours ago, terryd said:

Much as I think the world of him I wouldn't have a bull cross again I just don't need that amount of umph. I just want to catch a couple of rabbits not take out any game with in a ten mile radius every time I set foot out the door and he can't shoot for shit

Not sure if a collie cross would fit the bill but if I have another I want some thing a bit more laid back 

Same here, much as I like her, something a little more pedestrian for me next time

 

[dytkos 17,793]

The halcyon days, when you got home after a session poaching without any hassle.

The "tingle" isn't quite there on permission and I sometimes feel that I'm not being as stealthy as I would be if poaching?

Cheers, D.