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Mine are very wary of loud noises, bolting for cover. I have a guy two doors down who makes wrought iron gates "for a hobby", he's known locally as Robert the b4stard, his wife is called Capes after Geoff Capes the big guy with the beard , yep you get the picture. Anyway RTB often gets loads of metal delivered and my ferrets hate it. The earlier suggestion of keeping them in the house might be a good idea, as just 'cause you don't see them, doesn't mean they're not terrified. It probably depends on the strain you have. Previous ferrets I've had were pussycats, very calm and
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Personally, I use ash, or if I have access to the facilities, I make pegs out of any hardwood, fashioned like the ones you can buy. Hazel pegs could be made in two minutes though , simply by pointing one end and putting in a notch to grip the tying on of the cords.
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A great post as usual from Woodga, and also great pics.
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Good pics, and another weapon to the armoury, though I wouldn't like a hundred brick snares in my gamebag ingenuity at it's best, well done.
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Origins Of The "Body Grip" Trap
ianrob replied to Netter's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
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Hi mate, I recall someone on here using the mk6 Solway. It could have been molecatcher or Chalkwarren I think. The Managing Director of Solway was on here too at the time. I seem to remember that there was a gap of 1/2" or so between the top two bars of the trap after it was sprung. This could allow a large strong rabbit when caught by the neck to survive while being slowly strangled. I don't know if that problem has been rectified, but I'd email them and ask if I was you. As I said the MD was in on the discussion so should have an answer. The details are as I recall them so I hope they are co
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Thanks all, I've had ferrets most of my life and it's the first time I've encountered this "rat tail". Doesn't it just show what a valuable commodity we have here at "The Hunting Life" website. Thanks again to all who replied, for putting my mind at rest.
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I don't have a pic but will post one if necessary. I have two albino hobs at the minute, and one of them has a tail that is going bald on one side. There is no inflamation or itching, or indeed any redness. The hob "Jasper" on Sundays, is fighting fit, full of beans and not in the least interested in his tail. Horace and Jasper are out galloping around the garden for at least an hour most days, and have great fun, digging and, well you know what they're like. The tail is just a little unsightly. Any ideas?????????
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Thanks for bringing back memories mate. Many years ago, when my dad was still alive, we used a few of these traps, and I'd forgotten about them. Very good they were too. We had a couple of buries in the middle of fields under electricity pylons and the rabbits wouldn't bolt to ferrets very well at all. We cleared them using these traps, though eventually after a few years of problems the estate keepers cymaged them. We were only amateurs and with limited time available mustn't have sorted the problem quick enough. For whatever reason once they were gassed, I don't remember them being recolonis
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Glenn and Woodga, I have to add that we are spoiled on this site, by being taught by real masters. People who can snare, people who take the time and trouble to explain again and again, people who kindly help others not as clued up on the job. People with real knowledge that works. Glenn and Woodga, I want to thank you very much for the info both in articles and PMs for the real help and advice you have given me and others on this site, and proof that some of it has rubbed off is in the fact that we spotted the Shooting Times article for what it was, a load of bolloc*s.
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there's a cracker about rabbit snaring on page 90 of the shooting times 24th july edition. It'll give Glenn a stroke if he sees it, it's got photo's showing how to set a 4" loop four fingers high between the beats, with snares that have been left to go black first etc, all the old chestnuts, a real load of twaddle.
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Another belter Rolfe, did you strip to your boxers and poke it with a stick to see if if they were home?
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Well now you know we've all got dirty minds, and know about your fetishes, perhaps you'll let us know how you cleaned up the trap, oh hang on I may have misunderstood. I thought, oh never mind. nice trap Rolfe. If ever I find a rusty one, I usually open it as wide as it'll go, then after fiddling with it till it stays open, I ram something stiff into it. A bit of plastic can be used, but owt will do just till it fires. I find that this knocks any loose rust from the trap.
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They might.........BUT.........the flower bed is right under the clubhouse balcony and some of the members wouldn't take too kindly to a squealing rabbit leaping about while they were sitting drinking their Pimms. So by setting a cage....the rabbit sits nice and quiet and hidden from view until i come to collect it. Rolfe. An excellent point there Rolfe. Method is everything.
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The flat piece should have slots wide enough for the wire to go through double. put the wire through as if stitching cloth ie, through one hole then the other. leave a long enough tail to go round your anchor whatever you're tying it to. then go back through the little plate with another stitch going through both holes from the other direction. Good luck and watch out for badgers, etc.
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Hi mate, it's a good point you make about the pull being sideways. They don't get a lot of leverage on the pegs. I made some on the lines of snareman's pegs in the picture with sea fishing swivels attached, but mine were only 3mm coathanger wire 7" long. I set 20 of them on average grassland, ie dark stoney loam grassland. I had 12 rabbits though three were nicked by foxes. the pins held and the six strand snares broke. Also , I once was with a keeper snaring a peat moss for foxes. We were using 18" ish ash pegs with a 6" snare wire loop on the top, and you could push them out of site by han
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Rabbit Cage Trapping Variation..!
ianrob replied to Rolfe's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Excellent post Rolfe. The technique can be added to the repertoire of possible methods. Good info there mate. thanks ian. -
A book I read a few years back said that terrier pups should be started on rottens (rats) stots (stoats) tods (foxes) then brocks obviously badgers. The auther pointed out that if a brock latched onto you, then they'd be something missing by the time you got him off. Just as well it was a tod.
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excellent reply rolfe
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Under the circumstances friedrice, I'd check them an hour after dark if you want the rabbits. Many will give different views though, and that's only what I'd do given the circumstances.
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the land of canoes and maple syrup? We usually put it on pancakes, aren't canoes a bit chewy
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Used to. Not sure now. Most money was made by selling to a taxidermist! About £6 per fox that was around 25 years ago though... H Yep I'll agree with that, I was getting up to £5 for fox skins in the 70's, mind I never got that, it was their top price, mostly £1 or £2 and some we got nothing for. My mate ,a keeper got top price for a black tipped bright red long haired fox skin, it was a strikingly beautiful skin. I don't think they are worth much now. One guy I know puts skinned tails on ebay and people sometimes pay daft money for them.
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Standard operating proceedure with corvids :sick: 'Gut Suckers'. Is it any wonder they need to die? Yeah, I've seen many a cast sheep, still alive with partial entrails pulled out, or an eye or two taken They go for the easy meat The most graphic example I saw was a few years back in the winter time. It had been snowing and a sheep had got stuck on her back, I saw her from a fair distance awayand she looked very dark. Whe I got there the crows had gone with her eyes and there was about an 8 foot circle of sprayed blood on the snow where she had been shaking her head, to cure the
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Poor Glenn gets picked on again. Very nice though Woodga
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I agree with most of the others, but to be honest, Larsens are a difficult problem. I always try to site mine out of sight no pun intended. They do offend quite a few people. People are fed Disney and other shit all their lives, where all the animals live happily together in farthing wood, and the the evil poacher type is their enemy. It's a matter of, "they haven't a fuc*ing clue". A good verbal assualt usually works for me. We all share the countryside, yet have different interests. A lot of people are clueless, and harmless, but some need educating, and I've seen a few. Try