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Typically "Allen" the best ewe had ram lambs so no hoped-for additions to the tiny flock.Whereas "Rita" the worst of the bunch produced daughters. Still my daughter likes them .
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This little chap put me in a legal quandary.
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Yes l got that from your posts . We were caught up the end of the original skinhead/ suede-head culture in the early 70s. You were either a "skinhead " or a "Greaser " I was the latter. But it didn't matter really, nor if you were the Morrocan bloke or the Indian one, or Jamaican or off the caravan park ,or posh. The town was a pretty small place then and we'd all gone to the same schools anyway. The skins tended to ride two strokes and the Greabos preferred 4strokes but we all had mopeds or motorbikes . In fact the only really racist thing l was involved in was w
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A hard stalk ,and a schoolboy error.
comanche replied to comanche's topic in Deer Stalking & Management
It is coveted ground but full of problems. Annoyingly only the odd fallow crosses the road onto my main permission with its small fields, hedges , lovely sloping ground, plenty of safe shooting angles for foot stalking and no need for upholding diplomatic relations with neighbours The bxggers know where they are safe that's for sure? The ones in the picture are just a fraction of the fallow population .The Aspirational Target for culling on the form is scarey. I came to stalking ( big thanks to a fellow THL member who helped me ) late . I always though l would like -
Yes but one of em knew Ray Harvey! Respect is due . Surprised neither of them mentioned the Gillhooley brothers . Danny the older one has done well , now working for Louis Walsh. Kwame the younger brother used to boast that there wasn't a nail from Cornwall to Orkney he couldn't knock in with his head. Nobody ever saw him do it or dare ask him to. One story has it that he was down South on some "business" and to impress his new associates jumped into a cage at London Zoo and started wrestling bare handed with the animals . Amazingly he emerged with barely a scratch
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It's easy and a common mistake to equate yipping in dogs to frustration when it is actually often a call for attention. This vocal behaviour in running dogs is frowned upon but would be considered a good trait in some other working breeds . It let's the handler know where the game is holed up ,or at bay ,or where it is heading during an unseen chase. It also serves to call other dogs to its aid or to share the hunt. And l see you work two dogs together...... So in the case of your holed up rabbits he probably really is calling you to bring the ferrets over! When he
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A hard stalk ,and a schoolboy error.
comanche replied to comanche's topic in Deer Stalking & Management
Thank you. Mum a collie, father a stray lurcher . -
A hard stalk ,and a schoolboy error.
comanche replied to comanche's topic in Deer Stalking & Management
Thanks FT. I'm not the most experienced stalker- still learning(like remembering to load the rifle?) - but the landowner not knowing we are old friends - actually suggested contacting me to the forester for some extra help because l've done other pest work work for her and she doesn't like some of the other people who pester her for stalking. That's really good but it does add a bit of performance pressure. -
I did think that. ?? Thanks! I'll tell him?
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Thanks to a forester friend l have some new permission . Its a condition of some of his grants that a deer control plan is in place- the remit at the moment being " lf it's in Season shoot it". There are a lot of deer but bad access and a vital good neighbour policy have made it hard going. Especially as the go ahead has come near the end of the Season for fallow. We'll get high seats in place over the Summer but for now it's a matter of footslogging . More to get to know the ground than anything . Several times l've had deer in my sights ; safe shots but the wrong sex or too bunched up .
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I've kept game/ fishing logs since my teens. The early ones are just exercise books- up in the loft somewhere. Admittedly some things didn't go in there either because of life getting in way or they were "inappropriate" for some reason. Some entries are brief - " Shot like a blind idiot today", " One bite, caught a stick ,went home. Got wet." Others are pretty detailed. Though my rubbish handwriting and illuminated margins will limit their value as family heirlooms ?
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No it went off to be "properly disposed of" ie incinerated.Booked down as a sheep.DOH!
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I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't the odd one secreted in the fortress-like homes of a certain class of rich people. A couple of cubs wouldn't be much of a challenge to be had via the same routes that bring guns,drugs ,illicit fortunes and even people into the country. Over 20 years ago an unknown billionaire of rumoured "East European" heritage bought a run down local estate. Not much was seen to done to the big house and rumours of Russian money laundering(only local supposition to be fair) were muttered. A fair number of interesting animals appeared in the grounds tho
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I know?"but they were too expensive" , so he settled for a puma for £250 . That was a fair bit at the time . I started work that year and it would've been getting on for six months wages for me
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I don't know what happened to it . This was just before the 76 Act . I can tell you from the newspaper report that the owner paid £250 for it . I'll not post the full articles until l've blanked peoples' names out. This is a start though. If you read the last couple of paragraphs you really have to hope it wasn't released!
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Everything was on micro film; If l hadn't had a rough date in my head l would've had to trawl through reels of the stuff. Once l worked out the mechanics of the viewing device the first front page to hit the screen was a winner! Then the thing made the second page the following week. And back to the front page a week later. Definitely don't worry ; this was nearly 50 years ago. Out of interest l internetted and found out that this sighting is recorded "on the list" .
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T'other half is a librarian . I gave her a date range and hopefully she'll pull some old copies of the local paper so l can see if my memory of the puma is reliable . There was a plaster cast of a footprint doing the rounds and one of the witnesses was a friend of a friend . But back then everybody and their Mum knew everyone . Something to do while l'm waiting for my van to fail its MOT this afternoon anyway.?
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I remember back in the late 60s and 70s mysterious puma and panther-like thingies were often put in the same cat...agory (so sorry?)as UFOs . As if they were some sort of out of place alien that didn't match any known species . If you are going down the alien /supernatural route this country has folk tales describing sinister monster dogs with glowing eyes aplenty . But back to this dimension .......My hometown had its own Puma scare for about two weeks in the mid 70s. The creature caused a brief stir and disappeared . Understandably the owner of a pet puma that lived a couple
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I've heard that ;it's quite possible as it's fairly close to the places they've been associated with . Also restricted access to quite large areas due to the airport and various security organisations certainly offers a bit of a haven to other " species of interest" . Not only that but these days it seems every other park and farm pets corner needs a wallaby or two and there are a few of these places in the area.
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I haven't seen one for a long time but certainly into my early twenties when l was still knocking about with a friend from school feral wallabies were a regular sight. He lived on a farm which was part of the demesne of a country house and park. One night he staggered home after an evening at the pub and blundered into a wallaby in his porch. In his drunken state and it being a pitch black night it took a moment for him to realise just what the creature was that was scrabbling to get past him . In the morning it was realised that the wallaby had been raiding his mum's veg
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According to Government guidelines if a non native species is trapped by someone competant in wildlife management it should either be turned over to an organisation or person with a relevant licence to keep it or humanely killed . So it is permissable to kill one . Presumably with a gun if that's the most humane way. The guidelines don't mention killing one that's free roaming. They just say it should be reported if it's on the list of "exotics". So l guess it would come down to the "reasonable excuse" defence if it ever came to a Court case .
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Yesterday l helped a customer's son zero his air rifle . He'd been given the gun- a really heavy Air Arms sidelever thing- but said he didn't think the scope was right because the cross hairs in the scope were different from the ones in the computer games he played. That's the modern generation for you! They had me confused too. They were set diagonally and way off target . Turning the scope in its mounts gave a "proper" sight picture and with some twiddling we were pretty much getting same hole groups at his intended garden squirrel range of ten or twelve yards . Th
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Bit like the exagerated report of a pack of coyotes that was supposed to haunt Epping forest in Victorian times. It seems that a single coyote was spotted but it was someone's pet and quickly recaptured. Two supposed coyote pups claimed to have been captured in the forest were identified as jackals. The suspicion was that someone had imported a batch of fox cubs for hunting and it contained a couple of 'ringers' to make up the numbers. I've no doubt that the " Estate/wildlife management " condition on my FAC would cover a feral raccoon but l sadly doubt l'll be wearing a Davy
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I know; although it went wrong is a " sort of good thing". It is totally waterproof too! I know that because l tried soften it in water and it just sat there like is was waiting for me to stick a few flowers in it. ?
