lurcherboy Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 Saturday 21st I had my the first day of the season on Saturday as a picker up. It seems like 12 months since the last not nine and I was really looking forward to it to say the least. We met at 08.30 for coffee and a briefing and set of at 09.00 for the first drive. The guns are all invited by the shoot owner as they are friends or work associates and in keeping in with the trend of the last couple of seaons, they were pretty poor. Well most of them were as two guns were what I would call shots and pretty much made up the whole bag along with the owner who was a back gunner. Unfortunetly the young lad in front of me on the first drive spent 22 carts for on cock pheasent I really wanted to shoot out BUM BELLY BEAK BANG!!!!!!!!! but refrained from my usual yobbish behaviour. Fortunetly the guns managed to hit enough birds to keep me, Sweep and the other dogs busy, but sweep was very hard work. It took two drives before he settled down and even then he was keen to run in on every shot, early days I suppose. The bag was 63 birds including 3 partridges, 2 jays and a woodpigeon. Had a nice bottle of vin rouge and a good helping of sheperds pie in the shed after whilst taking the **** out of everyone there and generally having a good time. I got home at 15.45 and fell asleep still in my recliner still wearing my wellies Then I drank lots of alcohol to sort out my dehydration problem Sunday 22nd I was up and at them at 05.30 to walk the dogs and get the nets and frets ready. My driver, and one of my partners is crime, was seriously suffering from the previous night and only got out of bed by me phoning him and then he forgot his bloody ferrets. We got to our spot and met the farmer and his son. He indicated were we were to work and let us get on with it. The long nets were laid first, 300 yards worth, and then we started laying the purse nets. As soon as 50 yards of bank were covered the frets were introduced. These buries were on a bank that had mature trees every 30-40 yards or so and apparently it was over 150 years old so the holes were interwoven with the roots and the scuts led us a merry dance. There was small groups of hole that would seem to be single sets but many frets went down a hole only to emerge well away. It was a sunny day and we were glad to be protected by the mature trees as we would have been burning in the sun. The action wasn't frantic and we ended up with 29 mixy free scuts of which two were carrying young most of which will be going to a local farm shop. Can't wait to get back out next weekend as I belive we are doing a blackcurrant field for the same farmer and it will need lurchers to herd them in LB LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasshopper Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Sounds like a cracking time was had LB Had our 1st shoot day on Sat and got a fox tonight so i too have enjoyed the w/end...also drank lots of falling down water too.Crows are hammering a freshly sown field and i,m off till thursday so my weekend ain,t going to end yet GH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth Stalker Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Nice one LB sounds like a cracking weekend We had 7 healthy bunnies yesterday experimenting with the longnet SS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natures_son Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Good going Lb get some pics of the lurchers if you get the chance nothing better than lurchers in action Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 Good bag LB. FM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Sounds like a good weekend. Hopefully the hard ground frosts we have been having lately and the colder weather promised, will stop the rabbits breeding for a couple of months. New born kits can cause long lay-ups in my experience, not something you want as the days get shorter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tosspot Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 what you need Cranfield are some specially trained ferrets that do not lay up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natures_son Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 what you need Cranfield are some specially trained ferrets that do not lay up :lol: Cheers mate that has cheered me up no end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 I`m first in line for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted October 24, 2007 Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 Henry, if they have kits be a sport and stick one in an envelope for me. My Mum will come round to the idea after a month or two. When we went out Saturday we had no nests or young rabbits for that matter. Just 10 fully grown adults. FM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted October 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2007 I am feeling a bit left out here chaps. It's my third year with the ferretting team that resemble the cast from the last of the summer wine and there has only been one lay-up We have no electric fangle dangle locating collors and we are all wondering why we have no problems bolting rabbits Perhaps the newest and the bestest ferreter in the world who has joined the PW ranks recently can put us all straight on our particular problem despite not posting on this thread as yet Please tell us what we are doing wrong as we would like to spend hours doing **** all while we could be bolting scuts. LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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