bushing

[Guest lurcherboy2008]

it wasnt aimed at you,

id collar every terrier up,when bushing more than one terrier can go to ground and it can turn fecking terrible.

the b and f is a great bit of kit and lets you know if more than one dog is still kicking about.ive had a dog go to ground on a few occasions and the locator has found the dog no-where near where i would have been looking with the old mk1.

 

plus the b and f collar is waterproof,i used to ptfe tape the old deben threads up and cover the whole thing in insulating tape but if bushing around rivers etc water nearly always got in and killed the batteries.

 

bushing is good fun but very dodgy.i lost a bitch a few years back when she hunt a fox line to a water filled drain.it took a long time to find her as i only had the old deben one which i had to fix to drain rods but even though we covered the thing in bags and tape etc the batteries didnt last long.the last couple of holes stank of fox and we recovered my dead dog which was marked up.an extremelly sad time and i still feel very guilty about taking her out to that place.i have no excuse................i could make out that it was just a tragic incident but lets face it any terrier worth the name is going to go looking for fox if taken out bushing.

 

there is only one place locally i can take my terrier bushing feeling fairly safe that nothing is going to happen and in weather like this with foxes going to ground i wouldnt take him out.dont get me wrong i dont always have a collar on a terrier but thats because i never learn and should know better.

 

oh and a few times whilst ratting ive had terriers go into bale stacks and bolt fox out so maybe ratting terriers should be collared up aswell

ive spent loads of days running rabbits and a few fox about in cover but now i just use a pointer and the lurchers.that way when a fox brakes cover i can just watch it rather than panicking about bloody terriers.i only used to run into about a dozen foxes to ground a season and most of these quickly bolted but looking back perhaps i was lucky to only lose one terrier

 

its 100% true everyone will lose a bushing terrier once or more than once in a lifetime if working them regular, thank feck iv never lost mine infact i lost them to a fox a few months back 9 hour wait no collar or feckall on and it resulted in a 9 hour wait, now im definetly investing in a B&F the old deben boxes are ok in shallow places iv never used the B&F but many mates have and told me they well worth they weight in gold