March is an odd month for on the calendar for me as it one which well and truly puts a stop to any proper hunting. With Game Shooting finishing in January, we hold onto February for dear life with many Saturday ferreting days and mid-week lamping sessions heralded as the last of the…
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Beagling In Ireland Dedicated to the Memory of John Shaw Brown Boxing Day 2009 and I was crawling along the dual carriageway in a deep drift of snow in my old van. I was heading about 2.5 hours away to a meet with the Hounds and had been looking forward to it for…
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First Published in Earth Dog Running Dog Magazine – 2016 Yesterday afternoon I was going out the door to exercise the dogs when I thought I would give Chipper a quick ring. I didn’t put it off because I knew I would forget by the time I got home and it had been a…
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First published in Irish Country Sports & Country Life Magazine, 2010 By the time you read this spring will have sprung and the season will be gone. My rabbiting work has almost finished apart from a few ferreting days still on the calendar, and a couple of nights ago I had what will probably…
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First Published in Irish Country Sports and Country Life Magazine, 2009 The Longnet has been in existence since the rabbit came to these shores via the Normans, and has been shrouded in mystery just as long. The skill of longnetting itself is looked upon as a black art, something which, if it really did…
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I missed the first Salmon report by the skin of my teeth last month, but was very pleased to hear The River Lennon in Co Donegal has, for the second time in three years, laid claim to the first wild salmon of the season in Ireland with a fine spring fish of 8lb on…
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Happy New Year! It seems only a flash since I wrote that in 2019 and he we are in 2020 the year of the Rat, a little less exciting than 2019 which was the year of the Salmon. The rat is not all bad, I suppose he is quite a sporting character…
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It sounds cliché, but were has the year gone. I write Irish Extra monthly as readers will know and each month it arrives through my letter box I read it and put it on the corner of my desk. I put each issue in a pile until the year end and then wrap them…
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October was a good old month. The weather started to cool as it drew to a close and I had some great hunting with the Teckels. Earlier in the month I had a few mornings hunting locally with usually two of them and my old Lurcher “Fudge” as her son “Reggie” was laid up…
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Fast Ducks, Swimming Teckels & Gun Law Changes It is unusual for me to bag a duck on the opening day but this year I bagged two. I don’t normally get any as I am usually not out, tending to leave the ducks until a little later and aside from that we usually…
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