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    Well if your hunting foxes every week of the year and are killing litters of cubs I would think 100 isnt a figure to get excited about, It says in excess of 100 actually . Old skool- Keepers around us regard every fox /cub as a potential rogue .Its a poor keeper who waits to have trouble before tackling the problem .Im out all year round because around us there is a need for control.Combine this with an overwhelming desire to be out foxing and the scene is set ! Kane says he starts a lurcher on the real ,full grown fox which is admirable but how many lurchers has he actually started
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    well said oldskool. Surely aug /sept is early enough to start on cubs/adults.We should have respect for our quarry. Any hunts that did start before the ban in late aug early sept done it to dispers the cubs for the coming season. For those lads with a small patch to go on then maybe a close season is in order .Around us there are farmers who phone me up if they see a fox .I do several keepered places and you try telling a keeper to leave some for the winter .Control is done on every occasion possible and still there are more foxes to take the place of those killed .By various means I ki
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    When the going gets harder on the foxes later on ,All you boys with the red filters out now will have nothing to fall back on .The filter is my last resort on lamp shy anything .Do the job right with a white light . Strikes me some of you boys either dont run foxes or dont know what the feck your doing when you do .There is no problem at all entering a dog to cubs .They dont stay cubs forever and as the cubs grow so will the dogs confidence .Some of us that run our dogs all year round ,do so because we cant bear to take a break from the running game not because its any easier on the dog -we j
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    Spot on Rob.-Soon as we spot a fox I squeak loudly once to see if its interested .We then crouch down so as not to make such a large outline .Keep the lamp on it all the time but at its feet not in its eyes .I tend to fade the squeak as the fox gets closer so as not to let it pin point our exact location .Check around as Rob says as a better easier target may be running in .Watch the dogs ,they will know of a close fox before you do .When a lurcher is wed to fox ,they are sometimes hard to keep quiet as one approaches .Cover the dogs eyes with your hand until the slip .Also a good ploy if you
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    Jimfin -The outer guard hairs are what insulates the inner ,finer hairs mate .Stripping as opposed to clipping only removes the loose and tangled guard hairs and maintains a good insulation.You are lucky its the summer .Hopefully the autumn molt will see him right .
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    The correct way to preserve a brush is to soak it in meths for a fortnight then shampoo it but this takes away all the foxy smell and becomes just a toy .Supervise pups with tails mate as any lumps of fur pulled off can cause choking .
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    In my experience -the more riper the bait the better for mink .Fresher stuff tends to catch others of the weasel family ,like stoats .Caught one 3 days running on rabbit paunch followed by a mink the next day .
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    At last -The rat from under the shed seccumbed to a wagon wheel ,just when I thought he was invincible. The terrier is my nutall bred bitch "Fern ".
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    Im no bird man but is it not bad practice to have vermin coming and going at their leisure .How do you control a birds weight when its time to hunt .
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    Certainly different ! Good on you .
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    Keep them coming mate
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    Maybe you should auction them .I start the bidding at £50 for the red dog ?.Ps -not meant as a piss take .
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    You have some quality back drops there mate .
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    At last -we have commen ground .This is probably the answer to use against any "my dogs better than yours "argument .Know what you mean about having to travel as well :ph34r:
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    The use of the call is down to practice mate.Do not practice in the woods though as much like foxes ,bucks become call shy.The time of year or rather the window for using calls is from now until the end of October with the peak time around July .Full daylight is prefered rather than early morning or evening.Ive had good success in a high seat ,with bucks charging in underneath but sometimes they will play hide and seek as if shy to come to a doe .If youve ever been lucky enough to hear a doe squeal then thats what you need to copy .Its a sort of a" feeep",repeated at irregular intervals .There
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    Ad-lib is the way to feed nursing biches but as the pups wean you should gradually cut down the bitch as weight is hard to get off at this time .Do not cut her feed down straight away.Exercise the bitch when the pups can be left alone.The nursing of pups takes a fair bit out the bitch so she will need the food cut down slowly to allow her body to adjust .
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    Unfortunately for me ,this farm no longer does chickens .I took it for granted when I had it for 6 years but now its gone ,I dont half miss it .The best we had was 654 from an organic shed on skids .Airgun ratting was second to none .
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    Inside the shed. One that was picked off later by going round the boxes.Again ,apologies for the quality .
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    :welcomeani:
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    Apologies for the quality but its from the phone .A days ratting last February .6 terriers ,2men ,3hours .Taken from a free range chicken shed that was cleared out for a new crop .The dung was just a foot deep so a fork over had the rats everywhere .This outing saw off 410 vermin .The farm has now shut down due to bankruptcy.
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    1 lurcher ,3 terriers with hopefully 2 more terriers on the way .Just lost the permission on a chicken farm due to it closing down but as they say -as one door closes another opens -just landed the digging on 2 estates nearby hence the extra terriers ,black of course :thumbs-up:
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    Should have every wild critter covered with that lot in the field .Nice .
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    That's it, kick a man whilst he's down! :11:
  24. Squirrel_Basher
    Its called buck fever and infects most of us no matter how many you shoot .
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    Nice head mate
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