comanche
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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
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I was surprised by how much information about it is on t'internet . For instance the skull was retrieved from the woods for posterity because a neighbour of Mrs Twin paid her $15 for it . This adds another aspect to the story because the chap who bought the skull was a hunting guide who until then had held the grizzly record himself.
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I have it in an old magazine . I've just done the inevitable Google thing and there is a lot more information . Apparently she was a bit embarrassed and covered the rifle's cracked stock and the sticky tape securing the barrel with her hands for the photo.
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On the other hand. What was at the time the biggest grizzly bear shot fell to this tiny little sixty-something Cree lady . She killed it at six yards using a single shot .22 rifle held together with sticky tape . She wasn't even using long rifle cartridges.
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He was the result of an unwanted pregnancy .A stray lurcher ravaged a working collie bitch....?
