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  1. Suffolkpest
    Great work. Good filming too
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    900 from Uttings
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    From a pest control kind of 'get the job done' sense, thermal imagers are the future. However, if you're hunting then maybe this technology is giving us too much of an advantage. My best without thermal was four, which meant there was plenty left for next time. As I was knocking the above squirrels out of trees I paused to think that it's a shame there'll be twelve less for me to hunt next week.
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    I've got the 15mm It's ok. With intuition you can tell what your looking at.
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    Took hik 15mm out spotting squirrels for first time.... Game changer. Took a dozen in two hours.
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    Maybe birds in the soffit. You'll see no sign of them in the loft but they can often be heard inside.
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    Fair decent box you made there. Im not sure what advice you've already received but try not to move box around. Rats get neophobia (they're scared of new things in their environment, so keep box/traps in same positions, if you move them around they'll shy away). Rats can also figure out something is dangerous - seeing their brethren smashed up in a fenn will deter some from coming back. If things go quiet in your box slip the safety on and load it up with free offerings/bait. Get them feeding freely again in the box before making trap live. If they've had the experience of a free mea
  8. Suffolkpest
    Nice tip. Thanks
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    Just ordered some fenns (mk6) to try a bit of rabbit trapping. Should I be covering them with paper once set and sprinkling soil on top or just loosely cover with dirt and no paper? Thanks in advance.
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    I've got one, tried it a couple of times with no success. Read somewhere (maybe on this site??!) someone swapped the lure holder (black dome cap above orange fitting) for a glass jar filled with peanuts. Apparently this makes it a useful, if expensive device.
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    Worth trying, might get some handy bycatch even if no hares.
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    There's been a couple of sightings of boar near Woodbridge. Anyone else heard similar?
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    Lots of good advice given already. If thinking of starting out on your own one of the most important things is to figure out how you're going to make the phone ring. Websites are important, but useless on page 2 of Google, getting your site on the first page of natural listings is a must for local searches You can get work with Google AdWords but outside of wasp season it can be hit or miss, and you'll be spending a lot for the top spot. Contract work is important as 'bread and butter' income but you need to figure out how you're going to get it. Walking in cold calling, sendin
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    Moons ago I lent someone a cage trap to get a hare out of a garden. The situation was a row of bungalows with a field behind, and with it being summer the old folk were leaving backdoors and patios open to keep cool. There was this one young hare which kept coming into their gardens, a joy to see. But over time it became braver and literally started hoping inside shitting on their carpets and gnawing on TV Ariel's and power cables. So, a younger member of the neighborhood came and borrowed a standard rabbit cage trap. Baited it with carrots, a few small offerings leading into it and withi
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    Thanks for the offer, appreciated. Tbh I think if I go down this route I'll go for the sportdog Tek - been looking at reviews and videos on YouTube. Plus with my history with tech I'd need as much warranty as possible!
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    Ah, the penny has dropped!
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    A red flag?
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    I've got a 15mm. It's....ok. I'm on smaller fields and with some intuition you can tell what you're looking at. It does the job but I wish I'd had another grand to spend. Will probably save up the difference and sell this one. It saves pissing around with a red filter and I wouldn't go out at night without it now.
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    I know rendlesham, but it's not my neck of. Plenty of deer in Suffolk, all species. Reds seem to be a lot more common now and muntjac are almost a plague! Heard a couple of reports about wild boar in the Woodbridge area recently.
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    The terrier is quiet. I'm bit of a plastic countryman so he's not seen too much other than rabbits (we've done plenty of ferreting) and odd rat. Which GPS system are you using?
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    We had a couple of hours mooching about. I kept the whippet on a slip. The terrier stayed fairly close, he's usually fairly reliable at coming in on a whistle. There wasn't much sign of rabbits about, but we did come across a small herd of fallow - glad the whippet was on a lead. We were working our way back and the terrier kicked up a hare which the whippet couldn't see for the heather and ant hills in-between us and it. The terrier though got his nose down and disappeared for forty minutes, til I spotted him running around way off in the distance. Think I'll take a serious lo
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    Thanks for reply Joe, all advice is welcome! I'm out tomorrow so will keep the whippet tethered until something pops up.
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    I've got a 15mm. Bought it for lamping with my whippets and spotting squirrels daytime for air rifle. It's....ok....but I wish I had had another grand to spend. It'll spot you things but I can't identify much without using my intuition. For the smaller fields I run on its...ok. I'd rather have it than not, saves pissing around with a red filter. I've only had it a month, but I'm already saving for something better, figure I'll lose a hundred quid on it when I sell, so quite happy to have it for time being.
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    I don't know my arse from my elbow regarding bushing. I mostly ferret and lamp with my whippets, but I've got an 8yr old border terrier and some access to some fairly open land (east Anglia). One whippet is mustard lamping except for his retrieve, but he never hunts up after a slip and comes straight back to me. However I've taken the terrier and whip out a couple times bushing and they just run around with their noses down - getting them to recall is frustrating and time consuming. Would I be best off keeping the whip on a slip? At least until he figures out the game, and also
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    I'll start by declaring myself a novice, self-taught but I don't know much. Planning for the future my youngest dog is now four and I would like to get a new pup when he hits five or six, so I've always got something to run in its prime. Presently in the house I have three dogs, two small kids and one unreasonable wife. The new pup will have to be housed in the garden (new luxury kennels to be built). I've got some wooden kennels already, but when I tried putting my younger dog out there he howled so much he managed to get past my wife and now lives on the sofa in the kitchen.
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