ArbDogs? Pics!

[Rich Rule]

How’s the old boy doing after his little fight?

 

All healed?

[Mick Dempsey]

Good as gold thanks Rich, back in his routine, loving life.

[AHPP]

Sailor made his beating debut today. Acquitted himself impeccably and had a smashing time. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Never seen a GS on a shoot, well not since Schindlers List anyway.

Edited November 16, 2024 by Mick Dempsey

[peds]

Holy God. 

[AHPP]

14 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Never seen a GS on a shoot, well not since Schindlers List anyway.

I shall pass that off as my own next week. 

[Mick Dempsey]

Just now, AHPP said:

I shall pass that off as my own next week. 

Be my guest, close to the bone I’ll admit, but at least it’s original.

[AHPP]

His breed was remarked upon but with no stuffiness I noticed. It’s a fairly informal shoot. He flushed a few but then also carried a stick round for two miles like an idiot. 

[AHPP]

Have you had much to do with shooting, Mick?

[Mick Dempsey]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

Have you had much to do with shooting, Mick?

I used to look after a release pen for a couple of years when I was 16/17, went beating every Saturday for a few years. I actually wanted to be a gamekeeper, till I realised the servile nature of it.

Kept ferrets etc.

I was mostly used as a stop on pheasant drives, because of my age.

In West Sussex we have ‘ghylls’ streams with steep banks either side wooded with overstood hornbeam coppice.

Anyway me and another kid were stopping on the top of the banks and a pheasant flew over, the gun (stood at the bottom of the ghyll next to the stream) followed it and fired, catching the other kid in the face with a half dozen pellets.

The gun (an upper middle class sort) was devastated, never really recovered, went round to see the parents, chucked his gun away etc. the kid carried the pellets for years, the docs not deeming it safe to retrieve them.

I didn’t think too much of it at first, I actually envied the attention he got, but over the next few years I grew to be scared, not so much of shotguns, but me making a similar mistake with one, and I never wanted one.

 

Pheasant shooting? Meh, not all that sporting imo, but no real objection. 

 

 

Edited November 16, 2024 by Mick Dempsey