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The kids of the future.
Topic Started: 7th October 2006 - 08:50 AM (147 Views)
Rothers
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My 12 year old daughter was rather upset yesterday evening,reason being it was time to say good bye to two of the bedlington terrier pups that we have bred.
The new owners were full of excitment and were looking forward to having a new accomplice.
My daughter was crying for hour and also my wife.
So i thought I would try and cheer my daughter up and ask her does she want to come and have a walk on the farm with daddy. aaaaahh.
She has never been out hunting before but is aware what its all about.
Fair play no hesatating with her she stopped sobbing and ran upstairs to change from her pyjamas.
I gave the farmer a ring to let him aware that I will be in and around from 9 till 11.30.
It was not ideal weather conditions being a full moon but a terrific wind up.
It also rained most of the day.
We got to our destination and explained how to use the lamp and to stand away from me and the shottie.
She was a bit scared thinking that foxes will attack children in the nights,(where she got that from i dont know).
she could make out a noise and started to panic as we crossed over fields,she has never been close to sheep before and found it amusing to see them all running away.
We now had a few fields clear of woolie backs and safe to shoot.
She then asked me what were those shiny red things in the distance (that my Girl She found some rabbits).
She has always loved animals and then had to explain to her that theese are not friendly rabbits and why they have to be culled.
We made a detour around the field and had the wind blowing in our faces .
I had some rabbits on order for the family and was not out to completly distroy all the rabbit population. *QQQ*
We got within 50 yards and a few started to disperse.
We gained another ten yards and lost some more from the cluster.
We crept up to within 20 yards an a sitter.
I dont believe it would have been any sport to take a sitting rabbit out at that distance and sqeaked him to give himself a head start.
He was on the run, he'd been spooked,he then tumbled over from where i shot him at 35 or so yards.
Dad you had him, that ones for Nanna.
After two hours of passing over fields she is worn out, we headed back to the car.
She just switched on the lamp to check ahead wHen i tumbled another one.
She wanted me to carry her back to the car, but made her walk that tiresome last half a mile.
When we arrived home she didnt stop chirpering on about what we seen and that we had shot two rabbits to her mother.
I cant see her getting up from bed today untill mid afternoon.
I hope this is just a one off for her with her field trip and hope she dont nag me every day to take her out again.
If she does hopefully when she gets older she will make someone the perfect wife.

Rothers.
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Weirauch 100TK.177 cal. Hawke airmax sr12, Cobra merlin dsa nv(my pride and joy)
And loads of Bedlington Terriers.OOh and a new Bedlingtonxgreyhound/whippet.
Quotation by Robert Darwin, Father of Charles, 1827.
"You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat- catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family"
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ferretess
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Sounds like a good night Rothers and glad your lassie enjoyed it after a bad day, I've got a 12 year old son and he loves going out with his dad but like your lassie he could talk the hind legs of a donkey *lol* *lol* and tells his dad where he's going wrong :blink: .

I don't shoot as i've tried and mostly miss **sgun** but i can set a mean snare and pretty good ar the ferreting as i've helped the other half for years BUT seemingly according to my offspring i do that wrong and he loves to put me right ***crylaugh*** It's great when the kids get involved eh!!!!!!!!!!
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Got a 15 year old son, and a few years back he was with me on foxdigging with the terriers his first time.
BOOOaring he said! Waiting and standing still on a den was not his thing and he talked a lot. After a couple time's he said goodbye to the sport and I was back on my one :(
In april I bought the BSA, and a mont later the HW, and THAT was his thing! Now he's always on my side when out hunting, he with the BSA, and I using the HW, and he's shooting very wel ;)
He's a grow up, and sometime's he's going out with the gun, bringing back a maggie or a couple bunny's, and its a pretty sight when he's coming in from the dark, with his prey, wet from rain , with mud on his jacket :D
It give's a warm feeling inside, knowing he's spending time in nature and not hanging around in the street. The responsabilty I gave him, make's him a very mature person too, and he's doing very wel at school. *good*

nice to hear that your little lady like's it, maybe you can buy her a gunny for the birthday? :)
Make her trigger happy mate, and you are never alone anymore in the field -Rabbit2-
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As I said in a previous posting my 12yr old daughter has been helping me gut pheasant, duck and trout for about 6 years. She recently fired one of my 12 guages for the first time and soon I would like to see what she thinks of rabbit shooting. She is keen to have a go, so I'll keep you posted.
It's hardly surprising the way kids view things given the example set by most parents. How about this.
At my daughter's primary school in the grounds there is an old orchard, or at least the remains of one. Every year the cooking and eating apples go totally untouched, falling to the ground and rotting. As recently as last week I asked the school caretaker (The Janitor Hunter!) why the school cooks didn't use the apples in the kids school meals. "Oh they wouldn't do that - they use tinned or dried apple" was the reply. What is the world coming to?

In her first year at senior school my daughter got detention after only one month. The reason - she was over heard by a teacher telling a boy his school lunch sausages were made from cow's ears & asses - that's ma girl !! *good* *dielaugh*

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Nice to see the kids taking an interest, and as you rightly say Rattman, better than on the streets! *good*

My lad is 10 and he does'nt like the thought of me shooting rabbits as we have some pet ones, however he does understand why we do!
Now this will please two of our esteemed members, he hates Crows and Maggies too!, "shoot it Dad!" when 1 comes into the garden, *hunter+crow* "Oh go on then!" *aaaa*

Maybe one day he will come round to the bunnie thing? we'll see.. :)
Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? ....... He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!

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