Rolfe
-
Content Count
2,499 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Articles
Gun Dealer's and Fieldsports Shop's
Reloading Room
Blogs
Calendar
Store
Classifieds
Everything posted by Rolfe
-
I was just about to start placing a few mink traps out on the feeder streams to the golf course lake to give the nesting wildfowl some protection..........when we had some high winds that blew down a couple of trees straight across a little overflow stream. With a little modification they will be ideal to put a couple of bodygrips in cubby's or some Mk 6 Fenns on in a wire tunnel. Normally i cage trap this area but this has given me a few more options....... last season i took 8 mink from around the lake.......nearly all were silvers. I did notice that i caught more mink running up stream tha -
Sounds very much like a milky doe.........she will have some young somewhere about for sure, but not necessarily in the same burrow system.
-
Sorry to disapoint but thats an apricot or ginger mole..........not an albino. I once caught three in the same garden in a week........Still an unusual catch though........well done. I had mine sent to the taxidermist.
-
That seems ok at that ..........it's just that these were only 12 wide at the centre.......and still worked well with the lesser mesh. .... Just seems more effort for a similar result. Not knocking anyone's knitting styles here......horses for courses. It's like my standard nets.......i always make mine 14 meshes wide.....but some like 16, 18, or 20 It's what suits you at the end of the day. I just wonder what is the least amount of meshes you could get away with and still have an effective purse net.
-
I have made shaped nets and standard nets for many years........it's just i had never seen shaped nets with such such a small number of meshes before..........it just intrigued me that as these nets work perfectly well........why we bother with all the extra work (and hemp) to knit nets with more meshes. It certainly gave me food for thought and i might try and make a few like these. Obviously there is always going to be a need for bigger nets in certain situations but it'll certainly make my hemp spools go further.
-
Last year i had to re-home some ferrets for a guy who's wife was ill and he could no longer look after them. He also gave me a Mk 1 Ferret finder and two collars.......plus 12 hand made hemp nets completely unused. Until today the nets had hung in my shed amongst hundreds of others and when I decided to "Christen" them so to speak. I had to go and do a couple of small buries under some trees in a large country house so only took the new nets and a couple of young ferrets plus one reliable worker as back up. It was only when i spread the nets over the holes that i noticed they were very fe
-
It's a comforting sort of feeling to be where your old dogs are. Often i am in the woods after dark where my dogs are buried and it is a place they knew well as they spent many happy years there. Sometimes when whistling in my current lurchers i can imagine the other dogs running back to me as well.........weird I know.......but I still like to think they know i'm there.
-
Anyone who keeps dogs, sooner or later, has to say goodbye to a much loved worker or family pet. It never gets any easier in fact the older you get the harder it seems to hit you........maybe its because we become more aware of our own mortality. I'm not ashamed to say I shed a few tears like most true dog lovers do every time i have to make that final dreaded trip to the vets........ knowing I am coming home alone...........I always feel as if i have betrayed a loyal friend however much I know I have made the right decision. Well today........whilst working in the garden of a large country
-
Went back to the same house today........and guess what. Another fox stash in the same garden......this time a moorhen had been partially buried....he or she been very busy.
-
Hey Glenn - have you seen this ?
Rolfe replied to john b's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Nice to see credit given where it is due. Hopefully we will now have more skilled snarers throughout the country who will carry on this tradition and pass on the correct information for future generations to pursue "The Art". Rolfe. -
I was out setting mole traps this morning alongside a church wall in a large garden when i came across this rabbit half buried by old Charlie. He knew where to put it as there were graves just the other side of the wall.......he perhaps thought it would go unoticed I scraped some of the soil from it to get a better picture as only the feet were visible. I often find the odd rabbit leg stashed in a mole hill but this was an almost complete fresh rabbit. Funny thing was.......just yesterday i was ferreting in the same garden and had 17 rabbits from a huge rockery.......i wonder if he had dug o
-
Hope you kept the white stoat ..............thats a cracker. You need to get that mounted........!
-
Netter, Are they Killgerm Talpex - the genuine ones? OTC I didn't buy them from Killgerm OTC, But I did buy them from a place local to me who only stocks genuine traps. These are the only Talpex traps I've seen, How would I tell if they are genuine? They should have Talpex stamped on the flat metal trigger if they are genuine. The cheap imports also have a much weaker spring.
-
What a lovely heartwarming story to read.......i bet you are so proud and so you should be. Often the simplest of pleasures are the most rewarding and just the look on peoples faces often say's it all. Well done to you all.....and make sure you do it again very soon.........but slim that fat-arsed ferret down first and you might bolt a few more With Best Wishes Rolfe
-
Trapping Voles (Field Mice)
Rolfe replied to Steve Albano's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Great Video clip Steve.......thanks for sharing that with us it looks an extremely effective method. Regards Rolfe. -
Just because pirated DVD'S often have the copyright edited out.... does NOT mean they have no copyright. this a common assumption made by people out to make a quick buck at the expense of someone elses hard work before trading standards become involved. Rolfe
-
great tip matt i havent heard that before, that might make me more confident to snare the feckers. i am off out monday night with my mate to watch a bit of lamping for the charlies. ill shall let everyone knoq how we get on I hope you are not intending to snare badgers :o AGAINST THE LAW.
-
This is badger hair if this is the same as yours..........! Rolfe.
-
we'll go for hedgehog then..........i thought it may have been feeding on dog or cat food myself and being in and around a stable block and nice warm bales it could well be active this time of year. Thank you everyone for you input ........it might only be sh*t but to the really observant it tells a host of information as to what is active at night. ;) Rolfe
-
That might be the picture not showing the scale Rolfe - that tile is a standard 15cm x 15cm. The inside width of the trap is only 42mm and it's only about 6mm between the bars. Those two at the end are a bit bent out of shape. Well i am assured a mouse can get through an opening of 5mm........maybe they were bigger mice years ago then but i do take your point of the scale of the trap..........still it's an interesting artifact.......i love looking at and collecting old and interesting traps........like OTC says........it gets an obsession if you not careful. Rolfe.
-
It is not homemade John - they were an early production trap OTC Is it a rat trap OTC.......as apposed to a mouse trap as a mouse would easily escape through the width of those bars i would have thought? Rolfe.
-
Happy Birthday Tess........Have a good one. :drink: :drink:
-
No great mystery OTC, Dicktheleg e-mailed me to identify the dropping as he is trying to catch a rat in a stable without much joy as yet........and just wondered if whatever was responsible for the dropping was anything to do with his lack of success. Yes, like you, my intitial feeling that it was from a hedgehog still stands. Rolfe.
-
not quite 3 per cage , but i set 28 cages on tuesday , took 2 out befor i came home , 9 the following morning and 11 today , so its worked quite well , trouble is one of the keepers told me this afternoon that some were almost blown over with snow so not expecting too much in the morning I always pin my cages to the ground with 18 inch T bars........this stops old Charlie rolling the cages about to get at the rabbits and also holds the cage tight to the ground to prevent movement......which if the rabbit detects will be reluctant to enter.
-
Interesting replies there......deffinately not fox.........My Initial assumption was the same as OTC that it was a Hedgehog but i am open to other suggestions.........most of the stoat, weasel, mink, type droppings tend to have a tapered end so not sure if it is from the weasel family.