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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. ?
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He was only a little Shetland ram?
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From a ram's balls to a tow ball,?. Excellent??
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A while back l oak tanned a bit of deer skin and made a passable knife sheath . My latest effort wasn't quite as successful. What was supposed to be a soft leather pouch has ended up as a hard leather pot . I must've over estimated the time it needed to soak in one or all of the tanning baths . I boobed basically but kid myself that it's "All part of the learning curve ", rather than a stupid mistake . And I guess having a ram's scrotum on the mantlepiece could be a good conversation starter !?
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Just how old are you sonny? What's your interest in shooting? Are you or have you ever been on this site under another name ? Are you an anti? Are you an AP ? Is there a reason that you didn't using the Introductory section to announce your joining of the forum? Despite having made few posts why are so many of them incitive ,inappropriate or negative to the image of hunting ? Are you just a troublesome twink pimping himself out to his own ego for Internet kicks? I apologise to decent members for interrupting this BBC thread but make no apolo
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Not dropped hard enough. A wrong'un .Hopefully his days ,hours or preferably minutes are numbered as a site member.
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Was called the BSG or something similar? I don't remember having any choice .We were just lined up at school in alphabetical order and jabbed. The lad in front of me was the class hard case. It was almost his turn for the needle when he turned to me and said "Fxck this l'm off", and ran away! He stopped bullying me from that day on.
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I read that too. I always had giggle when he started appearing in Listerine adverts ?
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Trying to please everyone . OH is really into winter veg at the moment. Her youngest is a protein gannet due to his competive bouldering activities. Her oldest likes mild chillies and curries. So; beef mince ,shoulder of venison, potatoes ,rice, swede, carrots ,puffball, peppers , baked beans and weeny bit of pepper ,chilli powder. Forgot to mention , two of em are celiac so labels on shop bought ingredients , even on spices , have to be checked carefully. They'll just have to fish out the bits they want .
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I thought that too. Looked to me that the rider was keeping the horse pretty tight . Neither of them panicked . It might've saved a bit of bother if she hadn't pulled the horse up when it tried to crush the dog though.
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Actually you may be not far out. Neither might Sir David . Fawn The word fawn comes from Old French. ( l'm no expert ; just happen to have l a couple of really old dictionaries) which comes from Latin . Seemingly originally a term for foetal , newborn or suckling offspring (Hence the term "fawning" for sucking up to someone), it could apply to many species but stayed in common use as the generic word for an immature deer . Hunting terminology might use fawn more specifically but it seemingly is valid to use it in a wider sense. It would be a very archaic but not i
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Japanese fighting fish
comanche replied to Bangersanmash's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
You are welcome but l have to admit that few of the Fighters we bred were anything close to the quality of the shop- bought fish . In other words we were bumbling amateurs? -
The film brings back memories. The pigeon vs whippet roadshow was a staple at country shows . To be honest the build-up was far longer than the race but it was crowd pleaser .?
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I guess the clue is in the Latin name Capreolus which means goat-like?. And a baby goat is a.......?
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Definitely a very valuable skill ,even more so with so many burrows sadly devoid of rabbits these days .
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Japanese fighting fish
comanche replied to Bangersanmash's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
They were always known as Siamese Fighting Fish. Nowadays they are usually sold under their Latin name betta splendens to distance them from connotations of Oriental gambling and animal fighting. The males were traditionally kept side by side in small jars to encourage them to engage in aggressive displays which aided the development of their fins . Yet they are rarely aggressive to fish of other species. In fact when my Dad and then l kept tropicals l can't recall any problems at all. We had them pair up and nest several times in the corner of a community tank. But a -
A selection from my last trip out . Amo ngst the underwhelming bits of scrap were a couple of interesting things. No idea what this slightly dished disc is. A blinker plate. The base of a pinfire cartridge. And a flintlock action .
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Nothing to do with Mystic Meg , but on Sunday afternoon l hauled out a couple of old Lynyrd Skynerd LPs that hadn't seen daylight for years. A friend's lad is a guitarist and wanted to borrow them to learn some of their songs. We also watched a couple of YouTube documentaries on the band. The conversation inevitably turned to the fact that the band members seemed dogged by tragedy and none of em made old bones . Blooming Hell , a day or two later it was announced that Gary Rossington ,l think the last original band member , had died . On Sunday!
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It's great to have a relationship with a landowner based on a bit of mutual loyalty . But it has to be considered that the reason a farmer overrun with rabbits lets someone ferret their land possibly isn't always because they like that person's face . The farmer wants to look over his fields and see less rabbits ,a lot less, possibly no rabbits . I'd be miffed if l lost permission through some genuine domestic or other unavoidable situation preventing me hunting but it is the farmer's land . And if he's prepared to risk paying for rabbit control he likely has commercial reason
