With Game shooting opening in September, we all look forward to getting out for a shot. The Teal in our area where in the usual spots on opening day which is never usually the case as they normally arrive a little later. This year my focus was on a September bag but rather than with…
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First published in Irish Country Sports & Country Life Magazine, 2020 I finally reached my destination on a dry and cold winter’s night, met by Julia Szeremeta and Dr Markus Sack and several Teckels at the train station. The journey leading up to this would take an article itself but to cut it short I…
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By the time you read this the season will have opened. August brings Deer and Grouse but for many including myself things aren’t really underway until September. I know many lads who begin to lamp rabbits as soon as the crops are down but I prefer a bit of a chill in the air…
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For the first time in nearly a decade of Irish Extra, I missed a deadline in June…its a long story…But July & August are combined. It’s been a busy summer here with many new arrivals. Puppies & then Guinea fowl that hatched under the Bantams and of course our usual batch…
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First published in Irish Country Sports & Country Life, Winter 2019. A beautiful November morning and the only sound I could hear was the rustling of the grass behind me as a 5 month old Teckel “Poppy” (I didn’t name her my wife did) did her best behind me to keep up, she was…
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From Steve Caple – I have had a few enquiries just lately about the quick release fence snares that I use and how they are constructed and utilised. Anybody who has tried to tie, or worse still, untie a snare that has been directly fixed to a fence with frozen fingers in the depths of…
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I have just returned from a particularly long and hard day ferreting. It was too warm; the brambles were too thick and the rabbits were too small for the nets! Ferreting at this time of the year is never ideal and I usually avoid it like the plague if possible but this particular…
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Keeping up appearances While Ireland is very gradually moving out of lock down and restrictions are beginning to ease, its great to see life return to normal. Many events and dog shows are returning across the country and I am looking forward to getting out and about to a few of them. I have…
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The Northern Ireland hunting community has once again come under attack by the Alliance Party, a Northern Ireland political group with an opposition to country sports. John Blair, an MLA for the Alliance Party is aiming to bring forward a private members bill to ban hunting in Northern Ireland, a bill declared by The…
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Sally arrived with me sort of by accident. I never had any intentions of a whippet after the death of my Lurcher bitch “Bella”. I’ll spare you the long story of how her coming to be here, but at 12 weeks old she did and from day one she never was much of…
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