Bobtheferret
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70/30 now slowly turning it around. Get voting lads
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Done and left a proper essay in the last box as to why it shouldn’t be banned.
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I would vote for the new party for sure. I am fed up with the same career politicians refusing to listen to the electorate and just doing what they want. We desperately need politicians that listen to the majority not the minority, look at the vaccine rollout volunteers are having to fill in or undertake 21 pieces of various bureaucratic woke nonsense like equality training, racial awareness training etc! No one except a few woke liberals gives a f**k, just get the vaccine in peoples arms so we can have some life back. Any politician prepared to actually represent normal folk has my attention
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I personally haven’t but I imagine that it would be great for day time hare spotting when they are tight in there seat?? I wouldn’t recommend buying a cheap one though, a mate bought a ‘cheap’ £400 one and compared to my £1000ish Pulsar XM30s it’s absolute rubbish. Mine is the bottom pulsar entry model but it’s brilliant just no record, colour change etc which I don’t need anyway. Buy cheap buy twice.
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I bought one about 4 months ago and as much as seeing what is around for hunting it’s just nice to watch nature doing what it does after dark. watching barn owls, foxes hunting recently noticed the rabbits getting in the mood it’s not all about killing stuff just good to get out, see things you could never see it daylight or with a lamp.
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This is pretty clear. Business as normal ladies and gents.
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I will be carrying on as normal unless I get locked up. I will of course respect any landowners that dont want me on during the lockdown but I’ve got plenty of places I can go where no one will know I am there. Not grafting all week and being locked up at the weekend. f**k that.
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I don’t have problems with poachers.....???
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Hopefully there’s some good amount of gear on there for you. Sometimes a big area doesn’t guarantee a good haul, I recently got recommended for a 600 acre farm that was “thick” with rabbits and there’s frankly bugger all on there. Genuinely hope that’s not the case for you ??
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Fallow are a serious proposition for any dog even an experienced deer dog. Big, strong and fast and often in large herds they are not for the faint of heart. My whippet is game as they come and big for a whippet but he just gets dragged around the field, I have desperately tried to break him to deer as it’s an accident waiting to happen but the little f****r is determined to eventually bag him a fallow ??
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Some of the fallow bucks round me are awesome beasts. One ran out on me whilst driving a transit van once did a massive right turn and was literally running alongside me, his headgear was higher than the van and his size and power was breathtaking. Remember thinking at the time any dog that could take him down would be some animal, fortunately I owned a very game beddywhippet at the time so no problem at all....??
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Will any other species of deer cross bread? Or just the sikas and the reds.
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I think I just came in my pants ??
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That’s some numbers! 60 in one Warren but looking at it seems about right.
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What an amazing Warren that is! Did you struggle with hole hopping?
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Good stuff. I love pink nets or bright orange, can’t lose them.
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Out of interest before this year had you more or less let the old coney be and numbers built up as a result? The more I understand about the lower rabbit numbers to more it seems that whilst disease is definitely a factor it seems over hunting is possibly a bigger factor. Permission I have that I know I am the only person that hunts rabbits on the rabbits seem to manage to maintain a reasonable population (I only take a few just enough to be doing your job) but where landowner shoots or multiple people ferret etc they just keep going down. That may sound obvious but my point is the disease is
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Amazing the numbers you consistently put away, fair play. Do you have to travel far? (Not after locations just curious if these are on your doorstep or if you put some miles in).
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It’s obviously hard when a land owner asks form eradication of rabbits on there land but I do my absolute best to make a show but do an awful job as the last thing I want is to wipe them out. I have found that whereas a few years ago you caught 15 of a hedge there would be 15 there the next year now if you catch 15 there will 1 or 2 there next year they just don’t bounce back like they used to. On the flip side though if I catch 5 of the 15 there’s a decent chance there will be 15 again the following year, more like a game keeper these days than a pest controller!
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I think something everyone on here can actually agree on (for once ?) is that papers love fear and sensationalism! Look at the bloody mess we are in on the back of it.
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Sounds like it has to be RVHD2, you generally won’t see any evidence of it. The rabbits will all die underground and the ones you catch will look healthy, it’s a shitter but it’s endemic throughout the country and it amazes me the sheer volume of rabbits people up north still seem to catch. Down south it hit around 4/5 years ago and I went from getting 40 + on some permissions to 4, I kid you not I am afraid. They are very slowly recovering but will take some time to get back to those levels if indeed they ever do. Only consolation and small positive to take from this is in Australia this stra
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@Wolfdog91 Good thread mate, very interesting and informative. Done some goggle bashing on the back of this thread and the hog problem in Texas is mind blowing, amazing the sheer numbers and damage they do. What is fascinating is just how hard to hunt they are, always thought pigs where smart but they seem super intelligent.
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50 kids! You need to spend more time lamping and less time playing hide the sausage with er indoors ???
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I think one of the biggest problems facing lads that like to run anything other than rabbits is you have to realistically do it at night and these days the first sign of a light at night and the old bill are called. It’s ok if you have some fairly tucked away land but round my way (south of England) there basically isn’t any land that you could lamp on without being seen buy a house or from a road and then some f****r calls either the landowner or plod. It means even if you have permission the landowner is getting grief (phone ringing at 11.00pm at night etc) and it basically isn’t worth them
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I would always start with ferreting, never mention anything else especially lamping. Do a season or twos worth of ferreting trouble free and see if you can sneak a few more liberties in now they hopefully trust you (and your dog). Worst thing you can do is go straight for lamping with a lurcher might as well not bother.
