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It’s just a diy build nv add on, with a ir T50 with a 940 pill from customriflescopes if I remember correctly???
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Well as rabbit numbers were getting low in the freezer, I thought I better dust the air rifle off and charge the nv batteries. A quick message to the paddock owner, and everything was set. I arrived to the paddocks about 10pm, nice cloudy night, but the street lights unfortunately glare over the grass a good way. Got all the kit ready, closed the car boot and stuck the key in a secure pocket. I climbed over the gate and had a quick scan round. There was a small square of electric fence in front of me with a couple of rabbits in it. A quick squeeze of the range finder, they were at 48 yar
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none of mine will touch dry food, but you look at the ingredients and they all have plant protein in them, so its not exactly the best for them. A localish butcher sells 500g bags of minced chicken carcass, beef trimmings and liver for 60p, so they get half a bag of that in the morning that they soon eat as its soft, then I put a chunk of rabbit in the evening. Its got to be far better than that dry crap for them. Also I feed the hearts and kidneys from the rabbits too, So 9 ferrets cost £2 a week in meat and then they each get a egg yolk a week, so another £2. Its cheap as chips, and is far b
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There’s someone in lowestoft selling a set on facebook for £125. It’s got to be worth that.
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Generally around our coast you want 12ft beach casters and a fixed spool reels. Then a tripod so you havent got to hold your rods! 15lb mono on the reels with a 60lb shock leader. Lead wise, 5oz grip leads will cover you for 90% of situations. A two hook paternoser rig for your trace. You can buy them already made, but they are easy to tie (see google) and use a size 1 or 1/0 hook will cover most of it. That will do you for beaches and piers. Just use the handrail for a rod rest on the pier if you can. Gear can be cheap as chips or a fortune, depends what you want to do. You can get a really c
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Its like anything, too much can be a bad thing. Still, it must be nice to do it now and then. I dont fancy skinning all that lot, it must be bad enough gutting them all after a long day
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Them numbers are crazy, something I could only dream of. We dont seem to get the numbers around here, 20 is a good day.
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I think you are right, its a location and cultural thing. Some parts of Britain, ferreting has always been carried out, and always will. Everyone knew someone with ferrets, and when you're a kid, it was no problem for the old chap to pick up a kit or two from the neighbour down the road, so you had something to do as kids and keep you out of mischief. Im right on the coast, so a lot of people fished, its seen as the norm, but it is a dying art, telling people you have a tractor and boat gets a few odd looks. Ferrets are seen as odd, viscious, stinking things. Even my mother said a couple of we
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Well I didnt know anyone who ferreted at the time, and still only know a couple of people in my area who do it. I had read a fair amount on here, and watched loads of youtube videos, but its not like doing it in the flesh. I thought the £50 was well spent, it gave me a good bit of knowledge to work on. I didnt want to turn up on a farmers field and make myself look a right tit. Its hard enough to get permissions, as farmers are a suspicious bunch, and you cant blame them for being suspicious when they open up their land and livelyhood to a stranger. If I knew someone who did it, I would have a
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Maybe not, thats your choice, and I respect that, but to do it for a living, with so many people like us doing it for free, you have to publicise yourself well, and try to get a few quid at every turn you can. You have to stick your head above the parapet, be seen as someone in the game. If he didnt do that, do you think the producers of tv programs would have him on? Putting yourself in the frame opens up opportunities, but also opens you up to flack, its the nature of the beast. I would love to do ferreting for a living, but I wouldnt pay my mortgage at the end of the month. Im sure hes far
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sounds like you are a little bitter to me....lifes too short!
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He maybe not be better than a lot of lads on here, but you cant argue that he has done well in ferreting. How many people do you know that have been on tv upteen times, is a regular writer in the mags, written several books and does a tour of the game fairs etc in the summer? If he was a no-one in ferreting, this post wouldnt even exist!
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Well I went out with Simon for a day before I started ferreting, just to see what it was about and he was good as gold. It cost me £50, whats peanuts in this day and age. I dont know how they can claim it was £350, unless he had to drive miles from home, stay in over night accommodation etc, thats all got to be paid for. If you do it for a living, you need to pay your bills, so everything it costs has got to be budgeted for. Everyone who is high up in their chosen profession, whether it is ferreting, football or tv, always get criticised whatever they do. They can never win, and everyone jumps
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my ferrets occasionally get ear mites, you can see their ear go brown. Use beapher spot on, its a fiver from pets at home for 4 tubes. It contains ivermectin, and always clears it up with one dose.
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My vas hob is rough, so I only put the jills in for 2-3 hours. Its all thats needed to take them out of season
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Well ferrets are out if you cant access the other side. Best bet is an air rifle with nv
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I will have to put some air in the s10 in the next few days and give it a go!
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My s200 is the mk1. I read so many times they have a plastic bolt handle which was replaced with a metal one on the mk2, but mine came with a metal one from new.
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Hello, well as some of you know ive just got my hands on a mk3 super 10. The only pcp ive used before is my s200. Obviously there is quite a bit of weight difference between the two, but how do they perform compared to each other?
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It’s a .22
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I did notice the wear to the bluing where the magazine has been in/out. So that indicates it’s been well used. I’m not home now, so will take the pics tomorrow. I haven’t got anything to check what it’s putting out. I have only got my s200 out of the cabinet 6 months ago for the first time is years because I needed to thin out a few bunnies on a paddock I couldn’t ferret. I treated it by making a nv kit and getting a range finder. It works really well. I only brought this because it was cheap, and I fancied a multi shot
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So do I. It only had enough air in it for 1 blast just to make sure it worked. The barrel is a bit crustier than I thought. It’s got quite a bit of surface rust, but I can’t complain for the money
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Well I’ve just been a picked it up. It’s a mk3, with a hawke 3-9x50 mil dot scope, with a mini torch and laser fitted. A couple of magazines, even though he did say they were a bit iffy, and buy the new plastic ones. A filling adapter, two tins of pellets, a box of targets and the gun bag. Best £150 I’ve ever spent. There’s a couple of minor marks on the stock, and a tiny amount of surface rust on the barrel. Well happy
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I’ve just had a word with him and it seems like it’s a mk11 as it has a flat ended bottle. I’m just going to buy it for that money.
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Does anyone know what the roughly weigh?
