lambing call old dog

[old dog 210]

It's that time of year with me that i get lambing call outs,this is the first one this year,jack phoned to say he had 4 lambs taken,the problem jack has got is a big plantation of cover right next to his fields,we had been there a month earlier and shot 2 but we missed a few because of the shortage of guns available on the day,i was met that morning with jack carrying a lamb under one arm and holding a bucket in the other,he showed me the lamb he was carrying had puncher wounds around his neck and on top of his head,this one was lucky he would survive, but the one in the bucket had been beheaded he was number 5,unboxing hounds in the field above the cover,hounds found a line and were in full cry by the time they hit the fence jumping over and entering the cover,because we were down in a valley the music was bouncing of the opposite side,it sounded great,the hounds had gone into a dense patch of bramble and pushing they're quarry hard,a single shot rang out and i though that was it,but hounds continued on down the cover to a river,turning left handed and heading back up into a forest plantation,through that and headed back into where they had first started, going down the middle of the cover, where this one was also stopped by the same gun.We moved on then to a fern bank where hounds found another one,but they struggled on this one,they were going at some pace but not speaking only the odd times,they would lose the scent have a check find it again,and go racing off at pace again,this continued for about 20 minutes until in the end they had very little cover left to work,she had no option but to break cover and run the field,where she was accounted for by one of the farmers,hounds were entered then back into the cover where after a time put another one off,good scent on this one and hounds were pushing him hard,out of the fern back into a foresty block around that and out on to the fields above,i could hear some shouting, then i was told on the cb, that gareth's lurchers had caught him going across the field,4 accounted for and one happy farmer,happy days.

[old dog 210]

[pointer 543]

good going mate.

[Doglost Co-Ordinator 4]

Good to see the hounds doing what they do best. There's no place for foxes around lambing fields.

[sp.w 41]

Good to see the hounds doing what they do best. There's no place for foxes around lambing fields.

thats a good days sport you had.well done

[Guest GoneToGround1]

well done again old dog lovely fox on the right i love a nice bright orange 1

[victor 10]

lovely fox on the right, nice and bright, id have keeped the skin from her top days aye

[cramp 4]

it gets mad now lamb every where

[Dave C 63]

Good tally mate, bet that music in the valley was magical.

 

Dave.

[craigyboy 1,274]

well done old dog,your posts are the bollox,id love to come an see em in action 1 day

[BenBhoy 4,706]

looks like good day out. i was part of a group of us up in north wales who were a gun pack, even pre ban. always busy this time of year, one fox can make huge dents in flock if left to it. good work.

[blackpack 70]

cracking post again sounds like a good day had by all especially the hounds well done

[indiana 1]

Great write up. Sounds like a wonderful time.

[old dog 210]

thank you for your comments boys,the hounds are having a good season,and everybody's having a bit of sport as well-old dog

[darrell jnr 16]

good going old dog fair pack of hounds there mte.atb.darrell.