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    It was local job so l only charged the base rate ; no mileage or travel time . Like you ,if l had been given a proper description on the phone l would've suggested they reached for a rolled-up newspaper . Still , l feel less guilty about having to charge her as l had this text from the customer later in the day . l made someone happy !? According to the cycle a manic wasp season was due last year in this area and so it happened. Unfortunately(from a work point of view) l lost a couple of weeks of it due to a holiday that had been carried over from Covid cancellati
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    A bit underwhelming really.l did ask how big it was on the phone and they described it as being "At least tennis ball sized" . Felt a bit guilty when l saw it ,but it was a call-out ?
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    Working collie bitch that fell foul of a stray lurcher.?
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    Gold

    comanche replied to DIDO.1's topic in General Talk

    Go gold; much better return .Bought from a dealer Silver is VAT rated so the price has to rise a lot before you are in profit. Not that l have any of either.?
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    I was erring towards a kelpie/collie type for the next one.
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    We don't tend to have spare dogs ready to be plucked off the street round my way. Or strays that turn up on the doorstep with serendipity as if they knew there was a vacancy . If we did it might make things easier as my old boy is really showing his age now, kidneys , eyes and ears just starting to go South , and l really don't know how to replace him . Getting a puppy while he's still with me would be like kicking him in the guts . Retirement would be a cruel thing for him. Actually he only really shows his age when he's lounging about the house . He'll sleep all day or slope ab
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    I've met and passed the time with several well known people Bernard Cribbins, Nigel Havers and Nick Embricos. All chatted with us Beaters at a Shoot. I had met the latter before and also met ,mucked out on a couple of occasions , his Grand- National winning horse Aldaniti. Did a wasps' nest for Joan Plowright ,many nests for Norman Tebbit and his truly lovely wife , several for Wayne Fontana ,one for Rick Parfitt. Met Oliver Reed twice. The first time he was alone in a pub and was charm personified to our group . The second time was about a week later and he was like a schoo
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    One thing that strikes me is that the trap in the picture doesn't have an underfloor bait tray clipped to the base . I would think that rats would scrabble under the trap rather than enter it. Whereas with a metal tray underneath they would have to enter the trap to reach the corn through the wire floor.
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    Never used a rat one but l have used a Fuller "Family"squirrel trap and a copy- cat one l made myself. Results varied ; on the odd occasion l had two or three squirrels in the same trap -littermates l suspect- but l think aggression and dominance may have limited the number prepared to enter en masse. I had better results using single catch traps with a bit of space between them. Also the multi catch traps required a lot of bait to fill the bait tray underneath the cage . Far more economical to use single traps l think. But just because l didn't get on with multi catch ca
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    My Grandaughter knitted me a Ferret for my Birthday! She had better hurry with the crochet coney or it will starve.
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    I'd love it. Except that it would be hard to relax due to folk spotting it from afar and creeping about for a closer look ?
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    Er ,don't know what sort of Relums you were around. The double spring did nothing special. In fact it may actually have reduced power . Most stripdowns saw them replaced with single BSA springs . Powerful they were not. That's despite the adverts for " The Powerful ,underlever Tornado ,with double spring etc" . The basic Tele/ Telly/ Jelly break barrel shared the same spring,piston and cylinder and average power performance Trying to tweak a Relum above 10ft lbs ,and I have tried with several rifles, leads to either hideous trigger weights or a dangerous hair trigger! On
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    Maybe not quite "Hunting with a Classic Air rifle" but there isn't a section for hunting with a 51 year old Relum that l bought new with £10's worth of my school dinner money?
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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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    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
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    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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    Thank you. Mum a collie, father a stray lurcher .
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    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.
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    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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