SUPER POACHERS ??????

[MickC 1,825]

Difference with Lurchers from 80s till now is unreal.No anpr cameras letting them know you are in the area,no unmarked 4x4 with anpr sitting in lay-bys clocking every reg as you pass,no rural Police/wildlife officers hiding in 4x4 in hotspots with thermals waiting to pounce. The amount of times that Blue Navarra pulled me over up on the Borders even when travelling back from Offshore in the car . 

Edited December 16, 2019 by MickC

[dytkos 17,819]

1 hour ago, NEWKID said:

Its turned into Last of the Summer Wine on here...lol

When I was a lad .....

Cheers, D.

[Daniel cain 46,150]

[keepitcovert 842]

10 hours ago, Arry said:

I used to love the smell of them cardboard cartridges back then and the smell that hit you when you went in ironmonger stores which stocked cartridges, wires, purse nets and trusty old lambs foot pen knifes.

Them Biakal cartridges we used to buy in boxes of 10 from secondhand shop and I didn't like them. One would go bang the next fut, the shot was all sizes in and miss shaped.

Cheers Arry

Aint that the truth i once shot a pigeon in a tree and the shot had balled up poor sod was blown apart.

[TOMO 26,742]

5 hours ago, MickC said:

Difference with Lurchers from 80s till now is unreal.No anpr cameras letting them know you are in the area,no unmarked 4x4 with anpr sitting in lay-bys clocking every reg as you pass,no rural Police/wildlife officers hiding in 4x4 in hotspots with thermals waiting to pounce. The amount of times that Blue Navarra pulled me over up on the Borders even when travelling back from Offshore in the car . 

cars not registerd in your name....no insurance ...no tax ...no mot .....they were all luxuries I didn't need.....lol

[THE STIFFMEISTER 16,163]

On 15/12/2019 at 18:41, steve66 said:

think the art of stealthy poaching went out the window when people started lobbing bull crosses out of subarus and tearing up fields , then plastering catch pics all over facebook , I count myself lucky to have been taught by someone who was not just a poacher but a country man who respected his quarry and loved the wildlife around him 

Let’s have it right. 

Its very easy to go in about that aspect of lurcher work. 

But not many in reality are genuine poachers. 

We can all play the “ ive walked where I wanted “ crack. Anyone can ditch a dog out a van at a hare or jump a gate with a lamp for a spin on a few deer. 

But whose really going and cleaning estates out of pheasants and partridge ? 

That stuff has been dead since the 80s at least. And it was a handful of professional poachers doing it .

this great game bollocks belongs in the realms of fiction 

 

[tatsblisters 10,270]

On 15/12/2019 at 20:38, NEWSBOY said:

It was, had a reputation as a right c#nt

Funny thing is a lot of keepers who I have come across who had that reputation have also been former poachers.

 

[steve66 3,561]

2 hours ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Let’s have it right. 

Its very easy to go in about that aspect of lurcher work. 

But not many in reality are genuine poachers. 

We can all play the “ ive walked where I wanted “ crack. Anyone can ditch a dog out a van at a hare or jump a gate with a lamp for a spin on a few deer. 

But whose really going and cleaning estates out of pheasants and partridge ? 

That stuff has been dead since the 80s at least. And it was a handful of professional poachers doing it .

this great game bollocks belongs in the realms of fiction 

 

Fully agree , never once claimed to have took great numbers infact 4 brace a night would be the norm came and went without really any drama , however when people started driving across the land damaging gates ect it obviously brought a lot of attention and made things harder  , answer to that was to move onto easier sites , like you said all in the 80s long gone 

[fred90 3,288]

11 hours ago, TOMO said:

cars not registerd in your name....no insurance ...no tax ...no mot .....they were all luxuries I didn't need.....lol

tax in post. 

[MickC 1,825]

13 hours ago, TOMO said:

cars not registerd in your name....no insurance ...no tax ...no mot .....they were all luxuries I didn't need.....lol

Tank full of red back then,no one batted an eye lid,now there dipping all the time . Anything they can get you for now to keep you out there patch. 

[Greyman 28,914]

1 hour ago, baker boy said:

My old man used that scam for years and OHMS (on her majestys serice) written on letters instead of a stamp

Believe it or not I once drew a tax disc and had it in my window for over a year, my mate took the piss until one day I got waved through a roadside checkpoint while he got stopped behind me and had his van turned over, also had several good years when the laser printer first came on the scene as you could just print out tax discs that would pass 99 percent of checks,

[Greyman 28,914]

4 hours ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Let’s have it right. 

Its very easy to go in about that aspect of lurcher work. 

But not many in reality are genuine poachers. 

We can all play the “ ive walked where I wanted “ crack. Anyone can ditch a dog out a van at a hare or jump a gate with a lamp for a spin on a few deer. 

But whose really going and cleaning estates out of pheasants and partridge ? 

That stuff has been dead since the 80s at least. And it was a handful of professional poachers doing it .

this great game bollocks belongs in the realms of fiction 

 

Mate the truth is we were just criminals, and taking game just carried a lesser risk than robbing, walking into a trout farm in the middle of the night and netting out all the fish at a quid a piece was very lucrative and very low risk, I would drive over a hundred miles in my mk1 escort van for a night on the trout, most lurcher  work was more for fun than money unless you were constantly on the deer and fox’s, but snares were much more effective and less lightly to get you caught, so yes there is a lot of romantic nonsense written about it but people that were willing had some good years in the game but it was just a job we enjoyed and cash was still king  

[big sid 1,127]

newcastle brown ale label often used as a disc in the seventies

[ftm 3,357]

Used to do a lot of lamping foxes /deer just over border  (80.s)  got pulled over one night 5 fox in back of motor  .thought "were f****d here lol".2 cops  strolled up one of them a lass and she used to be a barmaid in my local!  1st cop took one look in motor and  said " bloody hell you got more than the local hunt gets in a season lol"  they were sound with us  .2 mins later another cop car pulls up  with a very anti english approach and told us to f**k off back over border or risk arrest .  Vroom we were gone  in a jiffy 

[THE STIFFMEISTER 16,163]

No one seriously after the money side of poaching would contemplate a running dog surely 

what can a lurcher possibly do that you could definitely achieve with  a .243 from the side of a woodblock ? 

I don’t know many lurchers that can install a salmon trap or gaff line