Hard day

[Baretta28 78]

Hey up lads, don’t really post much on here but I just thought I’d stick a pic on. don’t seem to be that many write up like there use to be, as the title says the going today was ridiculously hard nearly every one a dig. Managed to end the day on 23.

[Shefflad69 214]

Not a bad day better than drawing a blank like my day other day

[Baretta28 78]

Yeah I suppose when you put it like that mate, think I’ve just been abit spoilt tbh having easy days there with good number. A hard keeps you on ur toes

[Adampie8432 820]

Well done mate excellent day. I drew my first blank of the season today on new ground. You can't win them all that's for sure. If we don't try these new places we won't find the good spots.. keep up the good work pal. Atb Adam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guss33 375]

Well done , please don’t the one thing I don’t understand is why you guys over the other side of the world seem to be digging so much to get your ferrets back. In Australia we do a lot of ferreting we don’t use locators on the ferrets and we are unable to use the fibreglass rods on our long nets as the ground is extremely hard. We never seem to loos a ferret and they always seem to come out after they have bolted the rabbits out. Yes some times they will hold us up for a bit but for not a long time. Well done on your catch for the day. 

[micky 3,325]

Ain't a proper day without a few digs .......... some mornings you welcome them 

Well done on the bag.

[TOMO 26,067]

3 hours ago, Guss33 said:

Well done , please don’t the one thing I don’t understand is why you guys over the other side of the world seem to be digging so much to get your ferrets back. In Australia we do a lot of ferreting we don’t use locators on the ferrets and we are unable to use the fibreglass rods on our long nets as the ground is extremely hard. We never seem to loos a ferret and they always seem to come out after they have bolted the rabbits out. Yes some times they will hold us up for a bit but for not a long time. Well done on your catch for the day. 

thing is guss you will be leaving rabbits underground....of course thats not necessarily a bad thing.....but the locator defiantly puts more rabbits in the bag...for the most part digging a rabbit out is usually a simple affair....1 0r 2 feet job done.....of course there are places where digging them out is a real chore ....but make no mistake that locator and spade make the bag a lot larger..     

[Luckee legs 464]

In my ferreting which is virtually all hedgerow work, digging is usually a result of work by more experienced Ferrets, most hobs I've had and more aggressive Jill's will need the odd dig to from 2nd year onwards. I do it because we can and it definitely means more rabbits in the bag. Much as I hate the actual digging because roots etc make it tough, I really like the relationship between me and ferrets that will stay when being dug to. They back off when you break through, then look up and move to where the rabbit is. If it's only one backed up then once that's out they then shin up the hole you dug

[jok 3,227]

The only thing I can think of is that we have stop ends. Not sure if that makes sense but when a ferret backs a rabbit into a dead end then he/she will stay there. It may or may not be very far from the surface but will not move hence the dig. If the ground is particularly hard which is obviously the case with you guys, there may not be stop ends per se. I once had some guys over from Germany doing a film documentary about British country sports. I was able, on film, to locate a ferret and punched a hole through the earth exactly to where a rabbit was stop ended with my ferret on its arse. Voila, one rabbit. Jok.

[Baretta28 78]

Was the hardest day in a lot of years, most of my permission is hedgerows so the digging can be a nightmare.
 

The weather was not the best raining and windy as hell the land was also full of water so maybe not the best conditions to start with.

I was even digging to my small Jill’s there no bigger than rat  

[Franks dad 857]

5 minutes ago, Baretta28 said:

Was the hardest day in a lot of years, most of my permission is hedgerows so the digging can be a nightmare.
 

The weather was not the best raining and windy as hell the land was also full of water so maybe not the best conditions to start with.

I was even digging to my small Jill’s there no bigger than rat  

Out of interest , What sort of weight are your small Jill’s mate ? 

[Baretta28 78]

Just now, Franks dad said:

Out of interest , What sort of weight are your small Jill’s mate ? 

I’ll try put some photos up but they are small can’t believe I even had to dig to them 

[Guss33 375]

We have had the old time where we have been held up possibly from the ferret being blocked in by a rabbit as when the ferret does come out you can see it has dug it’s way out.  The longest time that we have been held up is maybe no more then half an hour. I did see one on you tube David white head called bring back the JCB where he brings in a large machine to dig down may be 10 or more feet deep. Lock it up and tell me is it possible or a set up ?

But with all the people I now that ferret none of them use the locators. 

[micky 3,325]

Rabbits  in Oz  are from our stock so it stands to reason they will act the same as ours so they will get killed  bellow ground as they do here and as for digging them out those old Abbo  birds  just grab a stick and dig a 3 foot  hole and pull a Turnip or something  and eat it .  the real reason they don't dig is cuz them Ozzy blokes are Puffters and they have Puffter Ferrets

[Aussie Whip 4,092]

I think we don't dig mostly because we couldn't be fckd