white fox Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 Pheasant shoot today, last drive of the day. Scenario - we were beating through a maize game crop next to a wood. Mary, another beater some 10 yards from me, and between us to one side a black lab just standing and looking a bit tired, nothing unusual about that your thinking. Next - a rabbit runs between Mary and me heading towards the lab and the wood. The lab didn't move and the rabbit jumped straight over his back and continued into the wood. The dog didn't even notice. Mary and I couldn't believe our eyes, doubt we will ever see the likes of that again. Made our day. Anyone else seen similar antics? WF (day's bag = 23 brace of pheasant) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trussym Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 Slightly different but! me and a mate ferreting on some allotments, when a rabbit flushes from under a shed and misses the net. My mates jack russel set off in hot pursuit, but is hopelessly out classed till a taut wire catches the rabbit under the chin. It flies up into the air about 8 feet doing backwards somersaults and comes down straight into the dogs mouth! dog trots back like it happens everyday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 I would love to have seen both incidents. Did it pour dog on you all day WF? It did where I was LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white fox Posted December 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 I would love to have seen both incidents. Did it pour dog on you all day WF? It did where I was LB Yup LB cats 'n all morning, used my spare coat this afternoon WF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted December 3, 2005 Report Share Posted December 3, 2005 I would love to have seen both incidents. Did it pour dog on you all day WF? It did where I was LB Yup LB cats 'n all morning, used my spare coat this afternoon WF It was the same here mate. We didnt think the birds would fly well as it rained up to 3-30am. Managed to bag 43 brace of Pheasents & 5 brace of Woodcock. Which was nice, then to the Duck inn for a large amount of the blackstuff, spicey sausages and roast potato's. LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilbe2 Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Slightly different but! me and a mate ferreting on some allotments, when a rabbit flushes from under a shed and misses the net. My mates jack russel set off in hot pursuit, but is hopelessly out classed till a taut wire catches the rabbit under the chin. It flies up into the air about 8 feet doing backwards somersaults and comes down straight into the dogs mouth! dog trots back like it happens everyday! love it! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catamong Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 Rabbits jump pretty high when you hit them with a .22 bullet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Earlier this season I was walking a field of neeps and kale and several rabbits flushed but were sitting tight until we were only a yard or so from them. The fellow next to me is in his late 70`s and was having probs as his spaniel was working too far ahead so he made it sit,we walk on a wee bit and a bunny dashes in front of me towards old Ally.I shouted to him and he goes to hit it with his flag and it neatly sidesteps him and jumps over a few big neeps straight into old Ally`s spaniel`s mouth. We had to laugh as this made his day and he told everyone guns,keeper,beaters,pickers up even the tractor man at lunchtime I have to say it was a neat catch and the bunny must have thought he was home and free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old rooster Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Had an odd one while ferreting recently. Had netted up a bury on an ivy covered low mound under some fir trees, put in a couple of ferrets and a rabbit bolted almost immediately, netted well and was soon in the bag. Put another net on and waited, another rabbit soon bolted from a hole I'd missed, ran off about 10 yards and abruptly stopped and sat up. It didn't move so I looked away from it and walked slowly round behind it to try and flush it back into one of the nets. It stayed put while I got right round the other side of it and just hopped a yard as I ran towards it to try and bolt it. Made a grab for it but it just moved a foot or two out of reach. I then walked calmly closer to it, drew back my right foot and gave it the Georgie Best right on the napper. Picked it up expecting it to be mixy but it was a perfectly good three parts grown rabbit, stone dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Having only started out in the field at the end of last year, I have seen alot that has inpressed me. Walking out is a true eye opener indeed, i'll share two moments that I found amusing. First was back in the summer, two of us were stalking rabbits and I found myself held up over a table in an enclosed 4 acre natural setting. I had already got one for the bag and strung it up from a low branch on a small tree. I was watching a particluar area for rabbits when I noticed a hawk (not sure what type) sat on a branch about 60 yards out. It took flight straight for my rabbit, grabbed it, then wrestled with it as it tried to fly off, finally giving up as it realised it was tied to the tree. The second was a barn owl, just recently out with Sussex Lad on a golf course. We had parked the Landy and were podded of the bonnet using a piece of polystyrene on the mirros. All of a sudden we heard the slight woosh of wind from a bird. Looked up only to see we had called in a Barn Owl. It was quite literally about 10 feet above us. Poor thing must have had a heart attack when he realised how big the mouse was! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BountyHunter Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 These are classic stories guys, it is incredible the things that you see once you start walking around with your eyes open! The strangest thing that I have seen so far was the Perry followed by the Buzzards who all fancied mating with a deek. BH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubs Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Hi I shoot and beat on a small pheasant/partridge shoot nr Barnsley.About a month ago tha lads were knocking a long piece of game strip out ,as you can imagine early season, birds everywhere. Two partridge flew straight into each other both of them stone dead. I have never seen this in the 15 years Ive been shooting. Cheers Aubs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Hi I shoot and beat on a small pheasant/partridge shoot nr Barnsley.About a month ago tha lads were knocking a long piece of game strip out ,as you can imagine early season, birds everywhere. Two partridge flew straight into each other both of them stone dead. I have never seen this in the 15 years Ive been shooting. Cheers Aubs Both hen birds mate, just like women drivers LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubs Posted December 9, 2005 Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 (edited) Hi, I thought LB spotted rabbits at 200 yards with his owl vision and immediatly broke into a sprint so the rabbit spotted him coming to give it a sporting chance. He would then close in on the rabbit and dive like a rugby player about to score a try grasping it by the neck. How do you thinks his Lurchers learnt. Last weekend me and my Dad had just arrived at my Grans house. At 10:30am he went to see if there were any hens eggs. I went to warm my hands by the fire and get out my rifle. Instead he saw a huge dog fox which just had jumped some stock fencing weighed down by the soaked vegetation on it tanking it towards a chicken. Now my Dad the saviour of all chicken kind lept into action pulling open the gate and running towards the fox which now had a very much alive and protesting bantam in it's mouth. My Dad didn't have running or kicking boots on just a 20 year old pair without any laces. He started chasing the fox towards a copse with a 8 ft wall surrounding 3 sides of it. He was gaining on it when he put his foot down a rabbit hole and fell flat down on his face in chicken and goose **** losing his glasses. Undetered he got up found his glasses and resumed the hunt. He cornered the fox and went to give it a good kick when it dropped the still alive hen and jumped the 8ft wall. The first I hear about it is when my Dad comes into the house with a hen in his arms saying there is a bloody fox about and would me and my mate ensure it wouldn't come back. Later on that day he was linesman at a rugby match and you could still see all the chicken and goose **** smeared up him. Priceless. The fox came back later but the geese saw it off however we are now missing a duck. :< But the hunt are up this weekend and have full permission on our land. TALLY HO! FM Edited April 2, 2006 by Ferret Master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
game_boy Posted December 16, 2005 Report Share Posted December 16, 2005 Cracking stories. This didn't happen to me but on my mates farm about latish afternoon his dad walks out into the yard to go and do what ever he has to do and before he opens the door he looks out and there's this fox casually trotting down the yard. So he went back in got the .270 and shot it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted December 20, 2005 Report Share Posted December 20, 2005 You cheeky guttersnipe (check out the clash) I would give a scutail 4 mile allowance before I even put down the communal pipe. Then, if I felt like it, I would break into a gentle trot followed by the LB pack (struggling to keep up) If I felt the quarry was suitable ie, big rabbit with abnormally big ears resembling horns, I may allow them to chase that legal suitable quarry. FM, you remind me of Pike from Dads Army the only difference being your daddy that looks after your needs. Dont go out without your scarfe son I dont know, kids today, you have to wipe their **** in case they get dirt on their hands. LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P03 Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 Had a couple of odd occurences my poor departed springer once decided to chase bunnies ( I was not Impressed :*) ). The bunny ran through a cows legs dog followed cow just kept on munching and recently I was out flighting duck in the evening and a buzzard fancied a taste of my camo hat. Didn't need the toilet for a few days after that :*) P03 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted December 21, 2005 Report Share Posted December 21, 2005 These are classic stories guys, it is incredible the things that you see once you start walking around with your eyes open! The strangest thing that I have seen so far was the Perry followed by the Buzzards who all fancied mating with a deek. BH Understandable if it was a blow-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikky Posted December 24, 2005 Report Share Posted December 24, 2005 i was sat among some gorse bushes surrounded by rabbit holes,waiting patiently for the little ******* to come out,when a rabbit bolted three foot in front of me,i did'nt have time to bring the gun up,just pulled the trigger hit the rabbit,at the same time a mink which was chasing the rabbit,inches behind it,at the point of impact the mink shot up in the air did a 180 and shot back into the gorse. it all hppened a split second,i had my right eye watching the rabbit get bowled over and my left eye wtching the mink,i must have looked like marty fellman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodmedod.one Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 A few years ago I was beating at a Hare Coursing meet. We put several hares up all at once. They were all running parallel to the beaters line trying to find a gap. Two of them collided head on at full speed. One was killed instantly, I finished off the other which seemed to be paralysed. The sound and the way they flew into the air when they hit each other was amazing. Golden moment. Many thanks to Tony ******* Blair and his cronies for banning a good sport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 When I was about 12 years old I was out walking our dogs with my mum. Our springer started working up the hedgerow alongside the road we were walking and he flushed a Hare about 50 yards in front of us. It ran straight down the road at us, while the dog was still working the hedge. The Hare must have been paying more attension to the dog because it ran straight at my feet and I clobbered it on the head with the stick I was carrying, perfect shot, stone dead! I was well chuffed to be carrying a hare home without even taking my gun out. Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magman Posted December 28, 2005 Report Share Posted December 28, 2005 looked it in field and there was a load of illegal coursers swearing at us lol..... wish we had of hit the dog instead watch this space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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