[Mole job Chislehurst]

Does anyone cover?

[Nite Site zeroing problem solved]

 I just like the heads-up shooting position. It's very comfortable and perfect for static ratting. All I need to compliment it is a basic thermal spotter.

A question for Pard users: Is it possible to mount a screen on top of the unit, so that it works like the Nite Site? 

[Nite Site zeroing problem solved]

I posted on here a while back, explaining I had a problem I couldn't get my head around; I was having to re-zero my scope whenever I fitted the viper - with test shots always being wide of the point of aim.

I've now worked out that I had been canting the rifle. Because I never took care to mount the screen perfectly plumb to the windage on the scope, I was holding the ns screen level but the rifle was of course canted as a consequence.

Now I know to dial in the windage by adjusting the vertical position of the screen, or better still; make permanently corresponding marks on the scope tube and ns screen mount.

I feel pretty stupid now. Oh well.

[Trap shy moles]

15 minutes ago, tank34 said:

Would you say it's a mole that knows it's runs an knows something not right gose around traps ??

Definitely. I take a lot of care with my sets  and to me it's obvious when a mole isn't having any of it and a change of game is required. Thankfully it's not often, but when it does happen it's a bloody pain.

You can't credit a mole with much intelligence, but they do have instincts like all wild animals. If you're the wrong side of one that's spooked then it's just a case of getting creative and varying your traps and tactics.

[Trap shy moles]

4 minutes ago, tank34 said:

Had moles in past take some catching but put that down to me just starting out an not putting traps in right , still learning not been at in long , some call a back fill a shy trap mole me I think it's mole cleaning runs out and poor trap placement??

When you have a single mole consistently back-filling or going round/under multiple trap sets, there has to be something else in play other than poor trap placement. I've been trapping moles for over 20 years and I would beg to differ.

[Trap shy moles]

I call 'em Wise - Guys.

I did a job for a farmer who'd trapped the moles in his garden all his life but had been unsuccessful with one that had been giving him the run-around for a year.

It was no small thing for him to call me in, but he was at his wits end.

It took me six weeks to get the little bstard, making a mockery of Duffus, talpex and putangues, and eventually falling foul of a Trapline well bedded into the floor of a run.

I think you do get moles that have a 6th sense for when something isn't right.

[Rats v Ducks.]

Do rats kill full grown ducks?

[Mini Black cat]

available next month apparently.

Don't know cost?

[Zeroing in]

Try some JSB's through it.

You can get selection packs of different brands as well.

Really important to experiment with pellets - airguns can be fussy about them.

My weihrauch hates Field Diabolos sprays them all over the shop.

[Zeroing in]

Have you tried any other pellet brands through it?

[Zeroing in]

Can I ask why you use Diablo Fields?

[Rat Job North Essex]

Need someone with a couple of terriers to work a garden with burrows and runs in heaps of spoil, compost etc 

CO8 postcode area.

please message me if interested

[Original French Putanges]

I still have some of Clives that are going strong.

Get  good strike rate with putangues. 

in garden work, I tend to set where I first break in to the run and use whatever trap best suits what I find. Don't like wasting time searching in vain for the perfect terrain.

if one end of the dig is galleried out with a hallway and/or multiple runs funneling in, then I'll use a Duffus. If the customer has been spooking with Chinese scissors, then the talpex is deployed.

otherwise it's mostly putangues I favour. Brilliant traps, but not the be all & end all of mole trapping. 

 

[Trap failed]

On 27/09/2021 at 17:12, micky said:

I had  a Squirrel  in a 55 Bodygrip  and it failed to kill it , i have caught numerous Rabbits , Rats and squirrels in the 110 116  with no problems but since i have been using the 55  it has happened several times if you look at the pictures you can see the problem  but not the cause , my only thought is the spring clips that hold the trap are somehow out of sinc other than that it is a design fault that should have been apparent in the initial testing .

They love Gherkins

Gherkins? Good bait for squirrels??

[Daytime rats help]

Using a trail cam over a period of several nights prior to shooting is a great way to gauge how many rats you are up against and the times they come on parade.

[Not good]

I reckon Devon & Cornwall FEO have more questions to answer than 000's of responsible law abiding gun owners.

In anyone's eyes, that devil was a feckin wrong un and should never have been in possession.

I wonder why he owned the gun and how often he used it?

Isn't there some clause that says if you don't use the gun with a certain frequency for a stated purpose you stand to lose it?

Someone will put me right.

 

[Wasps]

1 hour ago, DIDO.1 said:

That's worrying that your not getting them down south. 

A mate of mine got called to a nest at the beginning of June, turns out it was last years nest and it was crawling with queen's. It was like they had hibernated in the nest and where only just waking up at the start of June! 

Around the same time I was getting calls for wasps, when I asked them to send me a pic it was queen's. People were finding them dead and dying in there homes. That normally happens but a month earlier, when they wake up in lofts and find their way inside the house rather than outside. 

It's like they are a month late. That could be a good thing if its got them past the risky cold snaps in spring....but I think something isn't right. Time will tell 

Yes - I was called out to a kitchen a few weeks back, described as being 'swarming with wasps' - same thing - lots of dozy queens had ingressed from an old nest in a ceiling void.

At the time I thought we're in for a bumper year. But those queens have dissapeared totally.

Where are the foraging wasps in the hedges and shrubs? I'm seeing nothing here.

[Wasps]

Seem to have dissapeared here in north Essex.

I have some old sheds and panel fences in the garden and normally these would have wasps on them harvesting pulp, but there's nothing.

Also been looking in other people's gardens in the course of my mole work - nothing.

Plenty of bees of all species though.

[Trap]

Bit of a tangent, but I think moles are a protected species in Bavaria, requiring a permit to trap them.

Interestingly on genuine talpex packaging, the German language description reads as 'Wuhlmausfalle' which translates as 'vole trap'.

All very confusing, because I bet voles are protected there as well, and in any case, a talpex for a vole is like using the proverbial sledge hammer to crack a nut!

[Two rabbits in one snare]

I had this double in the putanges a few weeks back

[SLUGS NOT PELLETS]

Nice write up.

I thought slugs were only any good in fac rifles so this is very enlightening.

Will be trying some myself.

[On it's way]

My nephew has one. It's not a bad gun, but there are a couple of things to look out for:

The ring/ bracket that secures the barrel to the air cylinder is sloppy - even with this fully tightened, the barrel can be easily manipulated to 'lock' either left or right of centre- you're better off removing it and having the barrel free-floating.

Make sure the cylinder ports in the loaded magazine line up with the entry and exit holes on the casing. If they don't (as was the case with my nephew's)you'll get deformation of the pellet as the probe pushes them into the breech, which will effect accuracy.

Further down the line you're going to want to upgrade the scope.

Good luck with it

[New pard]

13 minutes ago, philpot said:

That just doesn'r make any sense at all. I have two nitesite units, viper and wolf r-tec, using on four rifles and NEVER have any changes to focus. I have used them on  Hawke airmax s/f,  airmax 30 compact s/f, vantage s/f and a couple of others plus several MTC scopes without issue.  Simple operation bang on sharp and a system that works although joking apart I understand why Mitch doesn't like them buy everyone to their own.

Phil 

I agree its a head scratcher, but its a fact - there is a 10mm difference  (high and to the left) when Im using the NiteSite. ?? I'm just as confused.

[Hw 100]

Buy it now.

[New pard]

I don't  mind heads-up nv, but it only really serves you well with a mildot reticle and when shooting from a comfortable static vantage point with known ranges for your kill zones - otherwise its pretty shitesite. I do have to say I can be very accurate with my viper in this situation, but walked-up stalking is a non starter for me.