Greyman
-
Content Count
17,031 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
156
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Articles
Gun Dealer's and Fieldsports Shop's
Reloading Room
Blogs
Calendar
Store
Classifieds
Everything posted by Greyman
-
if it's for walking sticks mate the same rules apply I mostly use hazel for my forks as well, I have a few old woodsman books and all the hazel was cut round January for sticks,hurdles and forks for pinning thatch roofing down amongst it's other uses, early March is when the sap rises and the wood is no use, if your cutting hazel for sticks it normally takes another couple of years to straighten and season it, but if you can't wait people do sell bundles of seasoned sticks on eBay if you can bring yourself to pay a £5 for a stick another thing I find with hazel is its a bit of a pale boring wo
-
100 meters of para cord in camo £7 from eBay cut to length and melt the end with a lighter, you,ll have laces that outlast your boots and enough left over to string a tarp up and make an overnight shelter, never leave home without it
-
Welcome to Europe mate, and it will only stop when your country is poorer than the country,s they are flocking from sadly
-
FairPlay mate that's one hell of an elk but this time of year is going from summer into winter this side of the pond were as I suspect it's getting warmer your side though I do agree as I love winter out with my dogs more than summer simply because all the solar powered idiots have gone away until spring and I have lots more space to roam
-
In truth mate I don't really know, just finding a large feline footprint is normally enough for me and as you can see most of them get affected by time and weather, some I,ve seen seem a bit more rounded and some seem a bit more longer in the toe with more gap between them like the one in the picture
-
Was the treeless picture before or after the cat one? I wondered about the tree aswell the treeless picture is from google so wil be several years old the pic with the cat is March, I think the tree may be a bit smaller because of the time difference but also suspect the rock is hiding it because of the different angle the picture is taken from
-
if you are involved in all of these activity,s I,m sure you yourself will one day get to see one or at least meet people that have , I don't lamp myself anymore but I used to a lot in my twenty,s and though I never saw any myself enough of my mates did and when good reliable mates say they saw a big cat then that's what they saw, one of my friends had one of the best sightings I know of and he still could,nt accept there were big cats living wild in England, he even got a paw print after it had gone, I could never work out his logic but as you say everyone is entitled to an opinion
-
Whoops, bad day at the office that
-
Funny how colour changes perspective as I,m also seeing a collie, it will probably end up at the dogs home
-
x2 for the sanding drum, small one, another tip is to cut your forks in January/ February as the wood is at its driest and does,nt split, once the sap rises in March the splitting starts
-
Having your dog nicked by them and then asking them to give it back and getting it, doesn`t make them good people in my book. Thieving arsewipes t I once retrieved a dog from a site, it was,nt mine but for a friend, the dog a Black and Tan terrier had brown sticky tape all over its face were his mouth had been taped up and his tan patch,s had been coloured black with shoe polish, not the nicest really
-
that bottom pics a leopard 100% I have to agree with you there mate it's hard for it to be anything else really apart from a really good photoshop, my first thought was that it was taken in Africa, but as the other picture was taken on the Yorkshire moors I have to accept there was a leopard on the Yorkshire moors until I see evidence to the contrary and the quest goes on
-
they f**k off as soon as anyone stands upto them, they are gang minded intimidating bully,s and as long as the odds are stacked in there favour they will have a pop, like ten of them and one old bloke that can do nothing back, I do know a fair few travellers and only one or two who will stand toe to toe with you in a fair fight the rest all phone for reinforcements the minute they get a slap, if I,m honest I find it a bit insulting when people refer to them as gypsies, they are just lowlife scum that live in caravans really
-
it was the first time they used thermal imaging for the deer survey, it's the closest we have come to a full admission of the truth from the authority,s but after a month it all died down and they just went back to calling people like me nutters and saying there is know evidence, the sun newspaper had the headline the tooth is out there, I think as thermal imaging gear becomes more readily available and affordable we will get lots of footage, I am planning on hiring the gear myself in December if time and funds allow,for a week and spending as much time as possible in the areas I expect them t
-
as I live just outside of the docks we have a simular scam with pretend Italians trying to sell leather jackets before they leave, it's amazing how fast they grasp English when you tell them to f**k off, we also have the travelers with the empty box,s from the back of curry,s and a brick in them or cheap shit chainsaws that look like sthil have had generators,cameras and any other tat they can get, I don't really simpathise with there victims as it's usually greed on there part that makes them fall for the scam in the first place
-
most of the group I,m involved with are based in Gloucestershire a few of the members go upto Scotland every 3 months to do battery,s and sd cards on an estate were the land owner and her staff(including the keeper) have seen a big cat they have also lost quite a few sheep but are all in favour of research and monitoring the culprit, sadly the cat seems to have now moved onto a niebouring estate were they are not as supportive or friendly and the keepers have called in a marksman to help them take the cat so that's two that you obviously don't know and if I can go and find a leopard pug mark
-
I,ve heard of the scrap yard bloke but not the footprints, but north wales is a good area, seems most large open areas of England were used to get rid of unwanted cats back in the day hence ,Bodmin,exmoor the Cotswolds ( which also had a good head of celeb residents that owned pet cats) north wales,Scotland and the mendips all have regular sightings, but I think as the numbers grow and we build on everything they are closer to habitation now which is increasing the numbers of sightings
-
Back ground looks completely different.Sorry mate but...... Slightly different angel different time of year as well mate and as the one without the cat is taken from Google Earth it's probably about two years older but the rocks are the same
-
Wasn't that one that I had seen DC. that one is probably a hybrid if it's a big cat it has a very stubby tail but is quite muscular
-
Personally the tail looks more like a domestic to me, it's much longer on a leopard and has a hockey stick hook at the end though it is a big domestic if that's what it is referring to the black one on the railway
-
? Yeah that's the one. Has that been rubbished now? i don't think so if I remember the guy filming it was in the police which always makes things more convincing, there a bit like school teachers no one dares disagree with them
-
It might still end up in a working mens club on Salford, pay at the door with the winner fighting Rio Ferdinand ffs
-
I agree with you Cush but as I said a few posts ago this is why as a group we are trying to become more involved with the first call side of things, because as you say it's clearly a cat but if me or someone like me was first on the scene I guess there would be some pretty good pug marks as it jumped down maybe some claw marks from climbing and a few measurements of the rock would confirm its size so you could add a lot more weight to the sighting than just a rough image, at the moment all I can do is pass on things I see and you have to make up your own mind, I get pictures like this and wors
-
Here you go,the picture was taken in March, according to the reporter there had been a heavy rain storm the night before and the animal was sunning itself which would seem normal if you had been wet all night,
-
Personally, I'd be more inclined to believe the lack of official response is in correlation to the lack of credible evidence. By that I mean there isn't enough quality evidence to conclude proof and therefore no official confirmation or denial. I'd think that there would be further legal issues if someone was harmed and there was compelling evidence but as we found with Rochdale council it'll probably be half a century before they admit it. Like I said, it's more a hypothetical question of how would such evidence, if any, be dealt with? I'm sure Greyman said in one of his posts that a me
