Westminster Deerhound Wins Best in Show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[welsummerchicks]

Not deerhounds. Not at all.

They just keep going, and going, and going......hey, where is my TODDLER?

'Mommmmmm-eeeeeeeeee...........'

'Oh! There he goes! Guess he got his widdle hand caught in the dog's collar, JUST before that bunny jumped up!'

In Scotland, they covered many a mile at a very high rate of speed.

There are records of deerhounds running 25 and 30 miles on a single stag, and even swimming out to sea to pursue stags. They generally slip 2 or 3 hounds on a given stag.

Generally, the deerhounds do not finish the stag. The stag would turn and make a stand, and the deerhounds would hold him, he would generally turn and face them at a rock or big tree, and the three deerhounds would flank and face the deer like spokes of a wheel, and lie down in their characteristic 'crouch' and wait for the hunter to come.

Then the Scotsman would come running up on foot after covering many a mile over broken, rough ground, and jump on the stag and start pricking him in the neck with a tiny little knife that he carried strapped to his leg, called a 'dirk', til the stag died.

Generally, with it sleeting sideways so hard you can't see, in a 40 mph wind and rain at 32 degrees.

That is what a Scotsman would refer to as, 'full conditions'.

If you don't do it under 'full conditions', it don't count.

 

[EweSheep]

Hubby wears a kilt so I know how a Scotsman would do it under full conditions LOL!

A dirk is a larger knife, a sgian dubh is the sock knife. People do get that confused. However to bring down deer, I am sure they used the dirk to bleed them out.

 

[welsummerchicks]

Wow you know your knives! That's interesting!

Well at least, if the knife I had made for me really is the right dimensions for a dirk, it's a dirk.

In all the very romantic paintings and prints of the brave kilted Scotsman leaping on the stag's neck as the huge rocky crag(complete with centuries old gnarled pine) behind the stag, storm clouds and mountains loom in the background, the knife is dirk size, but he's yanking it from his boot or sock. Just goes to show you can't trust artists, lol. Honestly though I'm going to bet they didn't use the smaller knife. And I seem to remember something dimly way back, that they had a strap holder, not putting it in the sock. Does that sound at all right?

As big as the knife looks, it's still pretty piddly looking - you look at the size of the stag and the dirk and say, 'YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

 

[Barred Rocks forever]

do you hunt with your hounds wellsummer ?