New Forest Poacher Convictions

Planet jimmer must be bloody miserable as everything tastes so bitter.
Not at all my friend, in fact it’s very sweet most of the time just that it’s occasionally soured by these awful acts. If I seem some what upset by these events it’s because I don’t like law breakers and I don’t view the world through a socialist utopia lense and applaud the acts of criminals.
 
You cannot be serious surely?

The coursers have a track record of this sort of behaviour and of these sorts of displays as a threat and as a statement of “we’re here and there’s nothing you can do to stop us.”

You cannot seriously believe that Becky, Raine, and Phoenix put down their smart phones, blue hair dye, and soy lattes, kitted up and went out and killed a whole bunch of THE EXACT SAME ANIMALS THEY ARE TRYING TO “PROTECT” and left them outside a young children’s school to protest game meat on the menu?

There’s two hopes of that - Bob Hope who is dead and no hope! The antis would be out there on social media, writing to papers and MPs and generally being a pain, but stepping into the coursers world? Unlikely - too much chance of getting nicked or battered.
You underestimate how far some of these people would go.
 
Never underestimate the modern Pikey at your peril. Even the older members of the English Romanies detest the new younger variety and particularly.the ones from across the water. I've know families who have disowned some of their members totally.
 
Never underestimate the modern Pikey at your peril. Even the older members of the English Romanies detest the new younger variety and particularly.the ones from across the water. I've know families who have disowned some of their members totally.
You can't call them that any more! I had a copper tell me off for doing so. Caravan utilising nomadic travellers is what they are now known as round here....
 
You can't call them that any more! I had a copper tell me off for doing so. Caravan utilising nomadic travellers is what they are now known as round here....
I'm really worried about that, the vermin we encounter now are a complete waste of oxygen. They are nothing like the wagon/varda gypsies I met in my youth for the spud picking, some of whom I still have contact with. The Smiths, the Lees, Boswell's etc who were fairly dark skinned and the ladies had rolled up plaits in buns on the side of their heads.
 
"Coursers" ffs give your head a shake that could have been cnut!!! Plenty people out there prepared to do some lousy trick like that just just to tarnish another's name. I said it at the time when they brought the hunting ban in "United we stand, Divided we fall" but it not just dog lads or "Coursers" that could have done this this sort of unscrupulous thing.
 
"Coursers" ffs give your head a shake that could have been cnut!!! Plenty people out there prepared to do some lousy trick like that just just to tarnish another's name. I said it at the time when they brought the hunting ban in "United we stand, Divided we fall" but it not just dog lads or "Coursers" that could have done this this sort of unscrupulous thing.
The mammals in the picture were all killed by dogs. The birds were found with steel ball bearings embedded in there carcasses most likely fired from catapults. This is a regular occurrence around the southern counties. Who do you suggest may have done it?? Try phoning Hampshire and Isle of White police Country Watch team and ask them for their opinion. The answer may be veiled but they will link it directly to known perpetrators. Proving it and securing a conviction is another matter, especially when a single police officer is expected to cover vast rural areas on their own.
Under funded under manned and to say they are against it is an understatement.
Not forgetting one of their colleagues being dragged to his death trying to intervene with the theft of a quad bike.
If Trying to raise awareness of the problem and supporting the men and women who are trying to help and police it makes me and others look bitter twisted and biased… then hey ho I’ll wear that. When your family has been threatened and your livelihood been put in jeopardy give me a shout chap and perhaps we can share some common ground.
The terminology of coursing is irrelevant, the fact that crimes are being committed isn’t.
 
I kept and run lurchers for the last 55 year and met and run dogs with a lot of very well known and influential people
Hi @Brambles, my 1st dog was a cur-bred lurcher, she taught me much more about hunting & dogs than I ever did her.
Just out of interest did you ever compete against folks in the match game? That was never for me and I only had one running dog that may have been up for it, Sam was Saluki/grey X Saluki/grey, he was a heavily muscled Saluki looking dog... just interested... it's a lifetime ago for me, I was lucky to always have ground to use my dogs, always doing a bit of part-time keepering. Owning such dogs certainly attracts some dubious characters in your direction..
 
I would love a good mid-sized lurcher, however my friend who had a big lurcher had to carry a knife on all dog walks in case it got a roe so no go.
I fancy a Wherrier... Whippet X Terrier, preferably a working Lakeland x decent working Whippet, but we have few rabbits anymore so it would be mainly used for rats, maybe one day...
 
I fancy a Wherrier... Whippet X Terrier, preferably a working Lakeland x decent working Whippet, but we have few rabbits anymore so it would be mainly used for rats, maybe one day...
I fancy a Wherrier... Whippet X Terrier, preferably a working Lakeland x decent working Whippet, but we have few rabbits anymore so it would be mainly used for rats, maybe one day...
Same here - we used to be heaving with rabbits - seen a few this last year for the first time in probably ten years. Hare population has grown nicely though.
 
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