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Tuesday, 19 October 2010

A Ferreter Of The Old School



I saw this video by Will Halfacree on James Marchington's blog. It reminded me of our day ferreting, only Frank, 90, is a lot fitter!

Frank, a legend from East Budleigh, still continues to use the traditional method of Ferrets to catch rabbits in the Devon hedgerows.

Enjoy
SBW

10 comments:

  1. Gorges Smythe19 October 2010 at 08:32

    Last time I checked, ferreting wasn't legal here in West Virginia, but there's still a few people that do it, I've heard.

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  2. Hubert Hubert19 October 2010 at 09:51

    Pretty cool, thanks SBW. I notice he doesn't use all that ferret detector collars & stuff - which always struck me as a bit of a pain in the bum.
    Cheers,
    HH

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  3. The Suburban Bushwacker19 October 2010 at 14:18

    gorges

    I guess that goes for quite a few things
    SBW

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  4. The Suburban Bushwacker19 October 2010 at 14:19

    HH

    Really? James and I had to do a fair bit of digging, even with the collars.
    SBW

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  5. Unknown19 October 2010 at 14:26

    That is pretty cool!

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  6. The Suburban Bushwacker19 October 2010 at 14:52

    Trey
    We might even say 'there's no cool like the olds cool'

    SBW

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  7. Holly Heyser19 October 2010 at 19:44

    Love this guy! And I watched how he killed that fryer twice and still can't figure it out - whatever it is, damn, he's good at it!

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  8. I am Stan20 October 2010 at 14:59

    "A fryer",whats that,a rabbit that`s small and fits in a frying pan.

    The vid reminds me of when I was a yoof,me and my pal used to course hares and rabbits with my lurchers,Tigger and Tess,they`re dead now bless em,Tess caught a low flying pheasant once,she leaped like a gazzele and plucked it out of the air.

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  9. The Suburban Bushwacker20 October 2010 at 16:11

    Norcal

    basically you bend its head back and pull, James showed me.
    SBW

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  10. The Suburban Bushwacker20 October 2010 at 16:12

    Stan

    as a wise man once told me
    "there'll always be another woman, you'd never get another dog like that though"

    SBW

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You're welcome to disagree, life would be way too boring if we all agreed with each other and we'd never learn anything.
I like to think that we're all grown up enough to argue every last point, right down to the bone, without bearing a grudge afterwards.



Come on in the waters lovely
SBW