Scouser - Coursing Dog

[Wild-Bill 500]

Good stuff bosun like the look of the pup .

[Busher100 739]

16 hours ago, Bosun11 said:

I've sat near a week on this...

Do i post, or do i leave it...

Because, any lurchers first lamped rabbit is hardly a big deal...

Well, i suppose it is, or more of a small weight that's been lifted, on the way to bigger and better things, when you've raised a pup from a ball of fluff...

And i know earlier i've said she's made an ok start but then she'd never been purposly taken her out to make a start on chanced things but though late, i finally thought she was ready and, maybe, because i'm older now, she was in reality more than ready....

My local semi permo ( semi because although farmer Dave always waived me hello, i've not got written permission) is pretty shite for rabbits at the best of times BUT of late, with the lockdown hordes tramping all over fields and local floods and the river bursting its banks, it's just about as bad as its ever gonna get.

But 'he who dares Rodney' and a job had to be done...

So night after night, i left the house and walked those rain sodden fields. Now as most of you know, starting a pup can be the most flustraiting time of things but this was to become something else...

I tramped wet field over wet field just to get to places i 'might' see a rabbit. Sometimes i seen one, most times i just didn't... Then when i seen one ( and it was almost always one!) it was on the worst field, in the wrong spot and as per usual that bloody pup just couldn't see it...

And that's how it went, night after night. The wind made little difference, the moon, or the lack of it, even less... And i could of run other stuff, because it was all there but no, the rabbit is the start, nothing else will do for a pup.

But then after what seemed an age, things started to click, i got to know the land by night as it is now, this year. I got to know how best to use my aged lamp, with its yellowing beam on that land BUT most of all, i got to know my dog...

I got a feel as to what she was looking for (nothing!!) And how to tune her into what i wanted her looking at (a bloody rabbit!).

Stop before you cast your beam. Sweep slower and stop and as I see better in the red, get that filter of asap...

That night, after so many nights followed by aching mornings, aching legs, flustration and worthlesness, we set off and tramped the same path to where maybe, we might get a run...

Nothing on the rough first field, nor the second and on to the third. The huge third field, that takes an age to get round but can sport a run, a flustraitingly fast and fruitless run but still a run. Tonight nothing.. My heart sank and as we trudged right round it my legs were in bits.

I followed the paths back through the wood to the second field again and bingo, three rabbits! I kept the red on and moved as fast as i could left, along the ditch. Trying to do the text book trick of blocking that bunnys path home. I stopped and took the filter off and that rabbit dropped to a squat. Happy days!

We moved slowly forward and as expected, that damn pup just couldn't see that rabbit... One more step and it was off, dog pulled and the race was on. The bunny went to the left and i expected it to cut back to the bramble covered ditch at any point but it didn't and then i realised it was being pressed too hard so it went straight, right along where we had come. There was a slight zig zag now, the bunny could feel dog breath and was in panic and then she struck. A good strike and i could see that rabbits arse lifted in the air and then they tumbled. That daft pup just didn't know its own footing with the elation and speed of catching its quarry. They rolled for a second and the rabbit was free and made the ditch. Leaving that poor pup so bewildered.

I called her back happy and was content to head for home. It really wasn't much but i felt it was better and progress had been made.

I'd just got her back on slip and then a light hit my eyes. Another lamper, on an amber filter. I watched for a few seconds, he was guiding planes in! Or thats what his wild sweepings looked like but then, i'm trying to get a green pup its first catch i must look even worse..!!

Anyways, one more lamper three big fields away is still far too much for me and i'm calling it a night.

I scurried in the direction of home, until i again reached that first ruff field and stopped. I looked into the dark, in the direction of my fellow nightwalker... Nothing!

I turned and ficked the beam and under a clump of rough grass a ruby red jewel shon bright. Off came the filter and we walked slowly toward our holy grail. Last step and the quarry was out from under the tuft. I slipped and with the ground being more rough my pup was on it in a couple of strides. Bingo! She lifted her prize, it was so quick and easy i almost forgot how hard fought the nights had been...

As is usual with all first rabbits, her retrieve wasn't text book, only about five circles of me but eventually the rabbit was in my hands, thank christ..!!

I suddenly realised i wasn't alone on those fields and, as is the done thing now, whipped out my phone and took a quick snap. So quick i didn't even straighten the rabbit out after i'd dispatched and dropped it.

So here it is, warts and all... By far the hardest won first rabbit i've ever taken. It was a fecking ordeal and i can only hope things can only get better... 

 

 

With a bit of luck be handy for most jobs that

[Liam96 0]

On 14/05/2020 at 07:15, Gilbey said:

Barney (Nipper X Kim) X Judy(Buddy X Molly)

 

There is a little bit of footage about, can't mind much about it

Do you know much about Barney brother benjie 

[Gilbey 1,429]

13 hours ago, Liam96 said:

Do you know much about Barney brother benjie 

No 

 

 

Ask away, someone might know/help

 

 

[RutlandLady 12]

Question re Northernlite's post. Could Holly he mentions be the dam of a bitch called Beast whelped in 2017/2018 ? Im buying a pup from Beast x Snowy and the "pedigree" is a bit short but pups look good and the claim they are "line of Merlin & Eve" seems fair but no line written down. Also if anyone knows more on Snowy of Drago x Mollie(Molly) Id be pleased to hear. My old dog's sire was bred by George Gaskin's cousin in Dublin so Im not a newcomer to "proper working" dogs - just new here. TIA.

[mC HULL 12,098]

1 hour ago, RutlandLady said:

Question re Northernlite's post. Could Holly he mentions be the dam of a bitch called Beast whelped in 2017/2018 ? Im buying a pup from Beast x Snowy and the "pedigree" is a bit short but pups look good and the claim they are "line of Merlin & Eve" seems fair but no line written down. Also if anyone knows more on Snowy of Drago x Mollie(Molly) Id be pleased to hear. My old dog's sire was bred by George Gaskin's cousin in Dublin so Im not a newcomer to "proper working" dogs - just new here. TIA.

Get a pup from a lad knows the breeding and dogs mate  

[Moocher71 4,049]

3 hours ago, RutlandLady said:

Question re Northernlite's post. Could Holly he mentions be the dam of a bitch called Beast whelped in 2017/2018 ? Im buying a pup from Beast x Snowy and the "pedigree" is a bit short but pups look good and the claim they are "line of Merlin & Eve" seems fair but no line written down. Also if anyone knows more on Snowy of Drago x Mollie(Molly) Id be pleased to hear. My old dog's sire was bred by George Gaskin's cousin in Dublin so Im not a newcomer to "proper working" dogs - just new here. TIA.

Old George passed away   not so long ago ,not many like him left now .