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  1. Squirrel_Basher
    ..................humping with foxes Sounds right up your street foxhunter .
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    Saw this beetle whilst out saturday and couldnt identify it .Was going to take it home but it bites so it was left on the log Did a quick search and came up with a possible lesser stag beetle ?
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    I would go for the female sparrowhawk myself ,with a full crop too .Did it have a kill it was tryinig to get back to ?
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    Redrock-I would say it depends on the amount of fox work you intend to do .If your happy with the odd fox and regard it as a bonus if the dog works it [and this is no piss take ,just as I see it] then have the plummer but dont expect a long ,regular career from it ,just the occasional one off maybe .As you have lakelands already ,you will be aware of what a terrier will do and how often .Your choice mate .
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    To me ,and I suspect many others ,there is a very fine line between studying an animal and admiring it to wanting to kill it .Weve probably all kept jackdaws ,magpies ,jays and crows at some time in our lives but who wouldnt take the opportunity to shoot one of them ? .As a youngster I couldnt resist rearing anything found young ,regardless of whether it was orphaned or not .Just to be in the presence of something wild and alive was like a drug .I ve known several people rear cubs ,including badger ,and have come to the conclusion that s how it will stay -other people doing it .Reared a mink o
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    Fair enough .
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    I can see how windy it was by the hair style mate .Nice do you had there .
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    R.I.P Sonny ,where ever you are .
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    As this is a hunting forum and a very good one IMO,PEOPLE SHOULDNT NEED TO JUSTIFY ACTIONS THAT ARE LEGAL.The killing of vixens and cubs BEFORE they cause damage are a recognised means of control around us and no guilt whatsoever is felt .The preservation of foxes by observing a close season is what helped to get the hunting with dogs banned .You cannot call an animal a pest that needs to be controlled one day and then preserve the young another .Year round control is carried out round us and still they survive .Ive no problem with hunting for sport as long as its not called control . You did
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    Any animal in the wrong place or in large numbers needs culling .Forget those who deplore the act ,they dont live in the real world and are content to run one or two a week and see a few about .Some areas such as run ways ,ministry firing ranges and areas undisturbed in general are over-run with hares and some control is inevitable.Keep doing what you are doing mate and post the results for us all to see and take no notice of the moaners .
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    Cant say for certain this time but they do seem very nieve mate
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    No law to say you have to have any such certificates .Down to the discretion of your firearms department .
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    If its seeds the crows are after mate and they are in numbers then you'll probably find they are rooks and will not be caught with a larsen .Larsens only work on territorial corvids by placing a threat in the territory.A ladder multicatch is the thing for rooks or jackdaws .
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    Thanks lads .
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    Well done mate .Turning into a bad year for lamb killing round us .
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    The same farmer who had the trouble with a lamb killer ,phoned me last night in another panic as he'd lost 2 more lambs.Went there on the way somewhere else for a squeak and shine .I only had the .22 and my mate had the shotgun .Same as before ,a fox ran away from the yards as I flicked around with the lamp but a loud squeak had it stopped at around 60yds.Just about to line up a head shot when another 2 foxes came in to join it from out the nearby copse .These 2 were a bit jumpy and kept to the long grass .I was determined to provide a left and right for my mate and tried a variety of calls ,s
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    You know as well as I do that it will be sooner than that mate .
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    Good company ,good craic ,dogs doing what they were bred for and to top it all the sun shone .Perfect .
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    Sambo 123-Take it from one who knows ,that trap will do perfectly for stoats mate ,without the extra mesh .Ive used the same for years and nver had a problem . Good hunting all .
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    cheers mate .
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    Some belting scenery round us mate .His cottage is in the valley to the right ,by a lake !
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    Day out sunday on an estate nearby .We get the invite after every pheasant season but not during .Tried several places along a bank by the keepers house with no mark until we came to a largish place where my terrier wanted in .Netted up ,entered the bitch and stood with a shotgun apiece in case this was linked to any other workings nearby .Neednt have bothered as the bitch took the fox to a stop end and after locating her we dug the fox at nearly 8 foot after just under 3 hours through sand and 3 layers of unforgiving rock . It was a mangey tailed vixen thought to be barren .Backfilled h
  23. Squirrel_Basher
    Cheers lads .Tough work but someone has to do it .
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    A phone call from an anxious farmer dragged me away from rat shooting to have a look around a small holding for a fox thought to have killed 4 lambs on friday evening .Turned up to see the farmer who had already been round with the shotgun squeaking?Hed seen a fox in the lambing yard but it wasnt about to sit still for him and ran to the neighbours fields .The neighbour kindly allowed me to look around 2 fields and have a squeak .Where I expected a fox to come from was downwind but any other backstop was a bit dodgey so with the wind it hed to be .Nothing to my voice so I used the hare distres
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