Spring time digging

[gavmac 0]

Has anyone else noticed that the past month or so lads you never hear a peep out of all through the winter all of a sudden are putting up posts about this dig and that dig when there are cubs .

Dont get me wrong I know there are a few keepers on here that is there main work at this time of year out and out vermin control but what about these other lads do they only dig when vixens are easier to find to ground at this time of year ?

[jessdale 416]

  gavmac said:

Has anyone else noticed that the past month or so lads you never hear a peep out of all through the winter all of a sudden are putting up posts about this dig and that dig when there are cubs .

Dont get me wrong I know there are a few keepers on here that is there main work at this time of year out and out vermin control but what about these other lads do they only dig when vixens are easier to find to ground at this time of year ?

When they are talking in the beer tent in the summer the vixen and 4 cubs they dug become 5 foxes they dug over the winter

Edited April 23, 2008 by jessdale

[Bryan 1,362]

same every year here

[Guest pip]

Fellas stopped me the other day asking where he d get a run at a hare,in April???Was talking to lad last year in May looking me to go for a dig with him,when i said we leave the stuff to breed he reckoned it was only fellas with no good dogs who stopped hunting

[Guest rio]

in my area you get alot of summer lampers who lamp all summer and sell thier dogs in the winter we only go out if farmer asks us to have a look around we have had 4 call outs so far delt with 3 on the lamp and 1 with the terriers if you get asked to deal with a problem you cant say no but im not for going out digging cubs for the sake of it

[Guest Eamon.Mc]

I had the luck of falling in with a shooting syndicate in March both them and a lot of the surrounding farmers are wanting stuff moved on, went out for a few weeks moved some stuff went out last week but never entered the dog anywhere, the syndicate were out setting snares the other day and were out with rifles and lamp last night, they shot 2 foxes don't know if they were vixens or dog foxes. I've tried to put my argument accross without being to condemning or cheeky but they've said they don't want any pheseant thieves about when they bring in their new birds for next season. In some ways I see their point, they are paying money for birds, paying for feed and the right to shoot them, I've been lucky to get my permission for free, but if they find something to ground and want it gone then I'm afraid I'm gonna have to do it. If I don't they will just get someone else who will. Hard fact but that's the way it is. Personaly I don't like digging after end of Feb beginning of March never have this is the first year I have dug on that's due to the nature of the permission.

[gavmac 0]

We have all had to do it there is no lad on here that works terriers can say they havent like I said out and out vermin control but some lads just seem to dig when theres cubs in the ground.

[mouse 282]

summer time is for hunting mink and resting dogs.and getting really pissed in the back garden.cold wet horrible days are for digging.

[Guest pip]

Time to start thinking like the Englishman inside you Eamon .You have to do it in that case rather than lose your permission.

I d dig pests when asked off course but hunting for sport ,for me,ends when the first cubs arehit,end of feb mostly.

[Guest whitser]

  scent said:

a lot of lads wont go out and dig in the cold elements of winter.Sunshine diggers i call em .Personally i only dig from september to march and stop to leave the vixens have cubs

im the same. but as long as they not digging on my permission they can dig all year round for all i care. they only ruinning their own sport by not giving the young a chance. its nice to have a start and end to a season as well,gives you something to look forward too.

[J Darcy 5,871]

  jessdale said:

  gavmac said:

Has anyone else noticed that the past month or so lads you never hear a peep out of all through the winter all of a sudden are putting up posts about this dig and that dig when there are cubs .

Dont get me wrong I know there are a few keepers on here that is there main work at this time of year out and out vermin control but what about these other lads do they only dig when vixens are easier to find to ground at this time of year ?

When they are talking in the beer tent in the summer the vixen and 4 cubs they dug become 5 foxes they dug over the winter

Classic.....

Theres loads round us like that. During the winter they are always "Busy working". Springtimes here its time to dust off these boots!!

[alimac 882]

  gavmac said:

Has anyone else noticed that the past month or so lads you never hear a peep out of all through the winter all of a sudden are putting up posts about this dig and that dig when there are cubs .

Dont get me wrong I know there are a few keepers on here that is there main work at this time of year out and out vermin control but what about these other lads do they only dig when vixens are easier to find to ground at this time of year ?

 

it was only a matter of fecking time i was just thinking we had got past this controvertial time with out a thread like this.....

 

pest control and sport ...

 

so come on then gavmac who you on about????? over the last 10 pages in this section i can find 7 people who have posted regarding digging at this time of year.. my self, ragumup, rio, sounder jnr, tommy1967, eamon mc, and farmer.... in there to my knowledge theres 2 keepers, and a hunt terrierman in that list, so i look forward to your replie..

[Guest shay]

  jessdale said:

  gavmac said:

Has anyone else noticed that the past month or so lads you never hear a peep out of all through the winter all of a sudden are putting up posts about this dig and that dig when there are cubs .

Dont get me wrong I know there are a few keepers on here that is there main work at this time of year out and out vermin control but what about these other lads do they only dig when vixens are easier to find to ground at this time of year ?

When they are talking in the beer tent in the summer the vixen and 4 cubs they dug become 5 foxes they dug over the winter

 

Heard it many times, your not wrong there Jess.

 

 

  mouse said:

summer time is for hunting mink and resting dogs.and getting really pissed in the back garden.cold wet horrible days are for digging.

 

 

And fishing and fondling young women in the countryside

 

 

  pip said:

Time to start thinking like the Englishman inside you Eamon .You have to do it in that case rather than lose your permission.

I d dig pests when asked off course but hunting for sport ,for me,ends when the first cubs arehit,end of feb mostly.

 

 

Youve all got a bit of English in you Pip

[Guest Eamon.Mc]

No english in me unfortuneatly lads apparrently I've abit of scottish blood in me viens??? And that's from 400 yrs back!!

[keg 1]

they only do it to mark there dogs up for the show ring fukcin idiots