Can you remember.........

[Guest anonymous]

Can you remember how you got into hunting? I went fishing with my dad since I was four but I don't count that. I remember the first time I went ferreting was when I was 7. Can't remember much apart from meeting up with this stranger who had ferrets, funny how the memory works? It must have been enough to get me hooked cos I can remember nagging my dad and getting my first ferret when I was 9. Me and my mate thought we were the dogs bollocks, walking the hedgerows with a pocket full of nets and a ferret in a money bag. Ahhh bliss.

[woolyback rider 0]

MY LAW got me in to hunting(poaching) many many years ago was great fun then not so much now abit risky in my old age :nea:

[Guest anonymous]

crunch...................... crunch crunch...........

[wild rover 548]

Can you remember how you got into hunting? I went fishing with my dad since I was four but I don't count that. I remember the first time I went ferreting was when I was 7. Can't remember much apart from meeting up with this stranger who had ferrets, funny how the memory works? It must have been enough to get me hooked cos I can remember nagging my dad and getting my first ferret when I was 9. Me and my mate thought we were the dogs bollocks, walking the hedgerows with a pocket full of nets and a ferret in a money bag. Ahhh bliss.

 

On the tip hunting rats with my mate and his terrier, my airgun if you could call it that, 47 years ago !!

[wonkylegs 4]

WHEN I WAS ABOUT 6ish MY GRANDAD HAD A FARM AND HE USED TO PAY ME AND MY BROTHER ABOUT 5 PENCE FOR EACH RAT WE CAUGHT IN THE STABLES AND PIG STY'S.WE USED PITCH FORKS AT FIRST BUT SOON REALISED THAT HIS TERRIER WAS ALOT BETTER AT IT THAN US.

[polecat 1]

Can you remember how you got into hunting? I went fishing with my dad since I was four but I don't count that. I remember the first time I went ferreting was when I was 7. Can't remember much apart from meeting up with this stranger who had ferrets, funny how the memory works? It must have been enough to get me hooked cos I can remember nagging my dad and getting my first ferret when I was 9. Me and my mate thought we were the dogs bollocks, walking the hedgerows with a pocket full of nets and a ferret in a money bag. Ahhh bliss.

sounds about the same as me poached rivers and burns way my old man then hedge rows then heart attack and since the big c took my old man from here now do it with my old mate and his boy now mine not intrested sad but thats life

[lofti 579]

my dad has always had lurchers as far as i can remember

he mated his deerhoundxgreyhound rabbiting bitch with my friends dads salukixgrey fen dog "BOY"

and bred my first lurcher the "rammy rocket" which i lamped, ferreted,and caught hares on the backs with

when i was 15yrs old.

Edited November 30, 2008 by lofti75

[dean 29 27]

Nearly all the men in my family (on my fathers side that is) are lampers. It has been passed on from generation to generation, my father took me at a very young age as did his, ect ect. Its something ive always done and always loved.

[Guest mickyrich]

i fell in love with hunting 19 year ago my dad and i got invited out from WARREN off here and he had a dog called TWIG at the time and ever since that day i've lived for country sports so cheers warren

[desertdog 149]

i started off fishing when i was about six with me granfer, and av hunted ever since, im hoping my grandson will follow,

[whin 463]

had ferrets since 10 and had running dogs since twelve and a terreir , all miners villages localy and all hare and roe land witht he odd rabbit here and there live a hundred yards from the ocean or north sea so hunted in winter and fished in summer , alawyd had greyhounds family in donegal haad greyhounds so we used to course them as boys met guys from other villages with hare dogs and it went on from then , then got into salmon pheasants roe but no body showed us we just found out through natural hunting and learning, were alot of hares localy growing up, so hares and the odd lamping trip and once 14 we ventured to estates first lite slipped them on a roe and well, nearly 23 yeatrs ago and things havent changed apart from the law and alot wiser , dont run dogs to they drop now , as kids dogs used to say fech it as we were mad keen , had a few norfolk type good dogs but would fech of home if they had been run to death , but you learn , so easy to run hare afterhare when young with no adult guidance , lucky the dogs were cleverer than us at times after a few years only gave them three hares on a walk then graduly got lamps and went lamping , met other young guys ,but chaseing hares iss not poaching for gain as they did were i was brought up salmon was gain phesis of trees gain roe gain , rabbsa o pound apiece gain hares sport in day time , we used snares 4 10s airsporters , webley mark 3s , locayl you can snare big game in some woods but not always the best but times were not plentiful espec in the miners strike anything was fair game woolly backs or antlerd game it taught me lessons thta no comps or books could at ayoung age

[luke 2]

about a 11 years old seen a dog behind a hare hooked for life

[paddy.t 5]

Not long ago realy. but have always been around farms, cattle etc.

Old farmer on my road used to pay me for collecting eggs and helping clean cattle sheds out and milking, my grandad used to take me from being able to walk.

Nans cousin has a farm up north yorks that breed shetland sheep, they used to have a few beef cows. so ive always gone up there.

 

Been beating for about 4 seasons now and got to know people there that showed me hunting methods and so on, so then i started poaching where-ever and when ever. Got invited to my 1st clay shoot 1st season and got hooked since then... But now a family freind who i clay shoot with introduced me to a keeper down lincon i go down there every sunday ferreting, air rifle or whatever.

Not got myself much permission just lincon and another shoot.

Would like more but its so bloody hard to get now, especialy me being a young lad no-one seems to trust us, just usual drug taking abuseive stero-type.

 

 

 

Happy hunting

 

Paddy

[garthy08 0]

i start when i was about 7 my dad took me out for the first time with a whippet greyhound bitch which was only put to sleep and age 14 about 4 years ago because of ill health and 2 ferrets and i have been hunting ever since

[Cannyboy 34]

when i was 14 i wanted a gsd but my dad said he would get me a dog but only if i had a lurcher! im pleased to say it was the best thing that happend cauze ive bin hooked on lurchers ever since.thanks dad you did know best!