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Yep . I reckon all these mole- catching registers are counterproductive in many ways. They give an impression to the public that anyone not on the "approved" list is probably not a proper mole- catcher. In truth only a minority of mole-catchers are members of these Organisations. In truth, any good mole-catcher has no need to be a member of any of them to get work. They also have no need to dance to any tunes whistled by the founding Masters and Grand Dragons of these minority groups . There was a time when simple folk such as myself regarded Phillips cassette
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Those Cooeys tend to be a bit over choked . I had an El Niño .410. It had a ridiculously tight choke and also shot stupidly low . Rather than trying to compensate for it l cut it down to 24 and a bit inches Thus making it true cylinder. It was a brilliant little gun after that! I regret selling it Still , l have this left No maker's name, no serial number; one of the millions of .410s to come out of Belgium no doubt. Oh, and one of its firing pins is half a nail?
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Thank you for your experienca personal . Its always interesting to know how people work their dogs and ferrets in different countries and to know about the different Laws that affrct them. ?Do the all dogs belong to the same owner? ?Or do individual owners bring their dogs together to make a pack on hunting days?
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I've really wanted to like this programme . Bob Mortimer , Paul Whitehouse,fishing ; a winner surely? Nah. It misses the mark by enough to be frustrating rather than entertaining.
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Or lower the ceiling of the trap with a block of wood? Have the bait well beyond the trap in a block end so the squill is intent on passing over the trap to reach it? Though just to be contrary to the last suggestion; l've had success smearing bait to the roof of the tunnel above the plate. It seems to work well in CWS and Fenn tunnels. If the bait is on or under the plate some squills will reach for it with their hands rather than put their heads or bodies in the killing zone. Same if the entrance tunnel is too short; the squirrel may grip the "door frame" with its back feet
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Mad frontman alert! I remember seeing this lot originally OGWT after coming home from the pub one night when l was about 18 . Had to check em out again after seeing a repeat a couple of weeks ago .
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? Forgive the outfit ; l'd just got back from a night's clubbing.
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I don't know where the Trail Cam thread went; l thought there was already one in Photography section lt would make sense if there was. Anyway, l set my el cheapo camera, all £25 worth of it, in a customer's loft . She was being kept awake by rats or possibly small wilderbeest. Droppings indicated mice but who was l to argue . I could've simply set a trap or two to identify the species but following the recent thread on cheap cameras l opted for the latter. Clearly l had set the sensitivity too high because when l retrieved it the thing had been triggered 2800 times!
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The Mk4 is light to carry and convenient in that tunnels and boxes can be made of standard sized timber and stepping down the entrance is easy. It also catches squirrels very well. Unfortunatly even with a perfectly orientated grip the jaws are not always equal to dealing with the bull necks or muscular fat-lined bodies of the the more prime specimens . As Tyla touched-on and Old Phil mentioned in detail ; there are sometimes signs of a struggle. A dead squirrel found in a position with its back feet braced against the bars of the trap might be glossed over as the resu
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Soooo, looking at Micky's trap ; is this how it would look when set? The triangular flap acting as a catch between both plates while holding the jaws open?
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Good luck . Really looking forward to the catfish on cane reports .
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Easy to see why Pink Floyd and Peter Green valued him so much . I saw him when he was with Thin Lizzy . He didn't really fit the group style-wise but easily not only out played Gary Moore but did it without any fuss or Moore's annoying grimaces and poses.
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This , over and over. Till l finally worked out how to play ( or at least blag?) the bassline .
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Lures,flies,floats and anything else your making for fishing
comanche replied to kanny's topic in Fresh & Salt Water Fishing
Right no laughing . I admit it; l'm a cheapskate. After the previous posts of amazing artisan lures l'm a bit embarrassed to post my recent efforts to make rubber lures on the cheap? Still, it'll possibly amuse or act as a warning to others who are too tight to do it properly. Having seen how many lures were lost or shredded on our last boat trip l determined to make a few and bought a litre of Plastisol and bit of Poundland glitter. Proper moulds are expensive so l used plaster of paris to make my own . I already had the PoP and some old plasticine in a drawer which -
An active and inquiring mind . Never frightened to go beyond the norm when mining for gems That's Ken.
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I got very confused . Trail cam talk bouncing from Pest Control to General section and through my inbox ( Trail cam in your Inbox- very Carry On) . Concerning Ken's conundrums centering upon camera commissioning , card compatibility and cable connections l can't really give technical advice. I think l just whacked batteries and card into my el cheapo Chinese camera, turned it on and waved at it a few times . As the cheapy cam has no playback screen l just popped the card into the PC and pressed things until l could see pictures of a monkey . Not sure l've ever set the cale
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This little sod thought she'd been clever pinching my squirrel bait The trap was set a bit "heavy" so the squills didn't set it off by rattling the box and clearly Mrs Lightfoot took advantage. A change of baiting strategy caught her out though. She couldn't reach it without sitting on the plate!
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My daughter has a drill on a stand left behind by her ex in her shed.l've had my eye on it for a while. l think it counts as abandoned by now ? I bought a set of very cheap copper cutlery a year or so ago just get the spoons. I should've known better. They've turned out to be copper plated over something that has repelled all attacks by a hand held drill. Years ago l made a big brass toby type spoon from a bit of plate that came from the doorstep of our local Woolworths when it was being demolished. It was at least 7" long and lt caught quite a few pike. Unfortunatly none
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I'm snowed under with squirrel jobs in lofts and gardens. I've tried raising my prices so l don't become any more of the busy fool l am aready but it doesn't seem to work. The classic scenario starts with a customer being reluctant to kill them but accepting that perhaps "The one in the loft needs to go". Then as the body count rises the customer gets addicted having every one that sticks its nose over the garden fence caught . Then follows this conversation. Me ." We've got the main culprits . We could go on trapping but you've got to consider how mu
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I've made lures from desert spoons and sometimes even caught the odd pike on them before they were inevitably claimed by the Snag Gods?. One thing that became quickly apparent is that they needed to be flattened a bit with a hammer so they weren't so deeply dished. Otherwise they either spun like maniacs in the water or had no natural action at all.
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Those Earth Care odour bags are good. You just hang them near the smell and it absorbs it . Even if the source is behind a wall. Sort of thing used when a body has been laying unfound in a flat for too long. They are supposed to last 3 months when taken out of their bag . I know from experience that if you only need one for a week or so it can be put back in its sealed bag and it can be reused later.
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It's the old conundrum " Would you prefer a live rat or a dead rat in the house Madam?"? And once caught they'll never fall for a trap again and might even educate other rats against them.
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Just grab one ; lessen the risk. If you get two and they both turn out to be shxxt l won't be able to live with the guilt!
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