Things you can only get away with saying in Gundog circles...

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The term Dogging in would create some very funny looks if you mentioned it in the office for a start!

Also the phrase that was said to me "can you send your dog for the big cock" !!!

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Conversation with my mum at the weekend, which in hindsight now sounds a bit odd!! All names have been changed to protect the innocent ha ha.

Mum: Fred is taking Bob beating at the weekend
Me: Blimey, isn't Bob a bit young to be beating? I didn't think children were allowed
Mum: No, neither did I
Me: Just hope Bob behaves himself or he's likely to get shot and end up in A&E

Think we then went on to talk about Christmas trees and the pros and cons of buying too many mince pies!
 
I once had a cracking, if rather small Black Lab bitch by Swinbrook Tan called Wendy, anyway, I was picking up with her and 3 other dogs and sent her after a very strong runner that both she and I had seen hit the deck. She was such a brilliant little dog that she was one of the very few that I've ever known which you could send for a retrieve whilst the bird was still in the air (NOT that I ever did), and without affecting her steadiness. She never preempted one order that was given.

I'm wandering off the subject …. Wendy went off down the side of a shelter belt and was out or sight. I stood and waited and waited and when she eventually reappeared with a live bird, she was the wrong side of a 7' deer fence which had an extra coating of rabbit net attached and not a gate in sight. There was also a deep ditch. She stood wagging her tail holding the bird and looking up and down the ditch, I couldn't see how I was going to get to her.

"OH FFS Wendy you stupid bitch, How TF am I to get to you now?" I said at full volume. Behind me stood my employer and his wife, and guess what her name was? :D :D

Alec.
 
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