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  1. LuckOrJudgement
    Cheers. I was thinking it odd sort of behaviour for squirrels. Guess I need to rethink this one!
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    I flicked that on when I took the cubby off.
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    Had this fenn 6 set in an attic where squirrels appear to have had the run of the place for years. The trigger plate was smeared with peanut butter. When I returned a couple of days later the trigger plate had been neatly piled with old walnut shells and the peanut butter had disappeared. Has anyone seen the like of it before?
  4. LuckOrJudgement
    I just ordered 50 from Ronin @ ukputange supplies. Came in 2 days. Good guy to deal with.
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    Aye, you're probably right, but I would still maintain that a muddy old putangue placed down on the grass in poor light quickly disappears from sight in a way a Talpex or Duffus never would. I've got a little tool I use made out of a cheap pressed metal spanner that I purloined from an old skilsaw which I use to probe the mole run to make judgements about width and direction. It has a curved end like a little drag scraper which is useful for removing stones and excess spoil. It's very valuable to me and so I've attached a lanyard with a bright pink poker chip to make it easier to spot. Th
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    And the ability to make those multiple sets in one location is also the Putangues biggest drawback; overlooked traps left in the ground and lost forever. I did an inventory of mine the other day and calculated at a 20% loss over a 3 year period. This is probably mainly due to the fact I stopped making notes about trap numbers and locations on each job in favour of relying on markers being left alone and memory on unmarked sites but even so... it a a bit painful. Of course there are many other reasons; gardeners raking away/running over markers with a lawn mower, badgers carrying off carcass+tr
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    The .53 JSB's are much better. The flyer was down to me.
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    The little Traplines from the States are also good 'out of the box's. No tweaks required. A much maligned trap, mainly on account of its price over here, but apart from that I find it very useful. My go-to trap is the putangue and I rate it highly. It suits the grounds I work and very few of the kills are anything but instant. The ability to make a triple or sometime quadruple set in a single location is invaluable.
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    Any pesties on here cover Colchester town?
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    That was my experience with the Hobby's at shorter ranges - really accurate and I loved the way they punch a perfect circle in card. The.52's feel quite loose in my 97 so I've got some .53 JSB's arriving today. Looking forward to trying them at the weekend. Out to medium ranges my 97 likes Accupels but groups open up at 40 and beyond.
  11. LuckOrJudgement
    Looks like you just rubbed out someone's pet monkey.
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    Bought a tin of these of f the bay. Had been meaning to feed some to my 97 after having been impressed by the performance of a sample baggy a while back. Well what a load of shite they are. Seems every third pellet is falling low - up to 4 inches from the point of aim at 20 yards. I've never seen anything like it. Totally unusable. Has anyone had a similar experience?
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    I use a gas crosman 2240 for close range despatch. It's rated at 6ftlbs and to be honest I wouldn't want to use anything less, even point blank. As much as I hate rats, shooting a cornered one that's shrieking and squeaking is a bit of a head-f**k.. Kill traps are always better in my opinion.
  14. LuckOrJudgement
    I have a mate who swears by toast as bait. I haven't got round to trying it myself, but I don't think he's the type to bullshit me. I've found that on some rabbit populations, cage traps just dont work, end of.
  15. LuckOrJudgement
    Hi Socks, where do you get them at a quid? Cheers.
  16. LuckOrJudgement
    No offence intended. I agree with your view and had added a comment of my own which was a bit too vicious so I edited it out.
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    Well,
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    Yes it is. The product is only licenced for indoor use, so as to target squirrels that have invaded attics and other voids. This is crazy because squirrels are very easy to trap - and just adds to the risk of secondary poisoning to owls and raptors via ingestion of mice that have eaten the product and then gone outside. In this day and age, when the unnecessary use of anti-coagulants is ostensibly frowned upon and even prohibited under Stewardship and other programs, this stuff should never have seen the light of day. The best poison for greys is peanut butter smeared onto the trigger pla
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    Unbelievable. KG and the like are happy to tout the CRRU - and then allow people to needlessly leave piles of this in attics etc. I don't get it.
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    I sympathise. I try and keep everything well within a 20 minute drive from home. That's great - until a valued local customer recommends you to their friend who lives on the wrong side of a distant town - completely effing your routine. Keep it close and keep it simple - that's my motto.
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    I'd be interested to see the label. I've never used it, but I can understand Forestry wanting it - if it's licensed for outdoors?
  22. LuckOrJudgement
    I just heard the HSE has reliscenced a poison bait for grey squirrels after a break of 5 years. Worth bearing in mind if you regularly eat what you shoot... I think it's a grain/warfarin combo.
  23. LuckOrJudgement
    It shows promise. And I like the fact that a shortage of materials has not put you off. I also admire your optimism with the wire mesh.??
  24. LuckOrJudgement
    You'll get it in the end. It won't resist forever.
  25. LuckOrJudgement
    Yeah you'd only want it as a monitoring or nontoxic trap bait.
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