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by Pete E
Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:44 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: a good ice chest
Replies: 3
Views: 2793

Re: a good ice chest

If you have a large chest freezer with enough free space, I would recommend putting your cool box in there 12 to 24 hours before you depart..

Fill it with ice and your frozen good as per normal, but leave the lid off or open while its in the chest freezer.

Once the cool box is removed, I find ...
by Pete E
Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:19 pm
Forum: Bear Hunting
Topic: doberman pinchers
Replies: 44
Views: 19672

Re: doberman pinchers

it would be nice if you could go to the animal shelters and try out a bunch of dogs with no strings atatched . probably be surprised at what you could come up with for a dog to bite a bear if you had that kind of access. :D

If forget the name of the big game hunter, but thats exactly how he got ...
by Pete E
Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:16 pm
Forum: Bear Hunting
Topic: doberman pinchers
Replies: 44
Views: 19672

Re: doberman pinchers


if you just need something to toughen up your hounds, find a GOOD bulldog and breed to it. keep the pups than can be broke off fighting each other. then breed the best of that back to hounds and keep breeding the bull down. try to keep a line that is between 1/8-1/32 bulldog.

Back in the 1800's ...
by Pete E
Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:30 pm
Forum: Bear Hunting
Topic: doberman pinchers
Replies: 44
Views: 19672

Re: doberman pinchers

Dobermans are probably the worlds largest terriers so its not surprising the are good hunting dogs..

I believe the a fairly popular in South Africa as hunting dogs but I am not exactly sure how they are used...
by Pete E
Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:19 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Airedales
Replies: 16
Views: 12819

Re: Airedales

Very sad to hear the Airedale seems to be going the same way in the US as it went in the UK...

Prior to WW1 it was a very well respected hunting dog and was certainly still very game...It was also used a general duty "protection" dog by the Police and the Army and Joe Public, much the way the ...
by Pete E
Mon Jun 27, 2011 6:13 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Mink?
Replies: 3
Views: 1744

Re: Mink?

Kordog,

You have the chance to have the first set of Mink hounds in the US!

Re our "Ban", strange to say, there are more people out following the hounds now than ever. Some folks are simply ignoring the ban and carrying on, while others are exploiting loop holes and badly written legislation to ...
by Pete E
Sun Jun 26, 2011 7:35 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Mink?
Replies: 3
Views: 1744

Mink?

Are hounds used to hunt Mink at all in the US?

Prior to the hunting with hounds ban in the UK, it was a fairly wide spread method of controlling Mink.

It has its origins in the much old Otter hounds, but when otter numbers declined and they eventually became protected, many of the Hunts switched ...
by Pete E
Sat Jun 25, 2011 8:53 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Hello From The UK....
Replies: 2
Views: 1779

Hello From The UK....

Just found the site via a google search on the Garmin Astro...

I'm not a hound hunter as such (hunting with hounds as you guys know it is currently banned in the UK :( ) but I am a very keen deer stalker (ie rifle hunter).

Over here, stalkers often use single dogs to follow up wounded deer.

I ...

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