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Yes, a farmer friend has his .22 in his brick workshop in the yard. It's locked and to be honest the cabinet is pretty hard to spot amongst all the tools and "useful" junk. A customer has his gunsafe in his Estate office, again separate from any dwelling and inconspicuous amongst the filling cabinets.
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It's my bash-about rod. Bamboo with a ( slightly bent) greenheart tip. The "flamed" pattern gives an otherwise cheap rod a bit of character . Probably pre war but of no value whatsoever . Luckily the fish aren't fussed about what they are caught on. In fact they probably would prefer not to be caught at all
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Not just rabbits. Some of his "better" stories weren't really suitable for print l liked the one he told me about desperately trying to unblock the drains in his street before the council got there and discovered certain incriminating body parts
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I met Phil through Ditchshitter in the early 80s and had been in touch and met from time to time ever since . I only hunted with him once to my great regret . He used one of my photographs in one of his books which l considered a bit of an honour. A couple of years ago ,and completely out of the blue , he gifted literally hundreds of his traps to me and l did detect a change in him . I had the feeling that he clearly had other things to do while time was on his side. Phil was a ruthless hunter in his heyday . Mercenary too ; "lt's all about the pounds " was one of his sayings .
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Took a friend fishing on the farm pond. Rather embarrassingingly l insisted he have the tench hotspot ,then caught three tench myself from the swim next door. He was happy enough with 20 or so roach and rudd though.
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Let's See Your Phone Shots !!
comanche replied to mattybugeye's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
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Bottle feed for a start , then put him on a feeding tub with a teat so he can feed himself. Last year we had a rejected triplet that roamed the stable yard being bottle fed by all and sundry. By the time she was big enough to go out she wasn't sure if she was a person , a cat ,dog or horse.
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Things were going well with just one old ewe left to lamb. I've always hoped in vain for a ewe lamb from her to carry on the line but she's only ever knocked out rams . Finally she popped- out a little ewe! Then it kinda went downhill when she ejected three more lambs to make quads. One unfortunately was DOA , which left the unholy trinity of triplets. Being a bit dwarfish , one is being spoilt in Special Needs ICU - AKA , a ballast bag full of hay with a heat lamp . While the others play swap the mummy in the paddock
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Not without risks but , your right; . The ewes had been staking out their private "nest" sites under a hedge for a couple of days ,which must've been so much less stressful than being penned along side othe ewes in a barn. Especially as several farmers around here have had their ewes I longer than planned due to seemingly overdue lambs.
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Decided to lamb outside this year and was met by these little things at 5.30 this morning. Luckily all seemed to have gone well as they were a bit overdue and so fat l was fearing triplet trouble .Twin boys from one old ewe. And twin girls from a first timer.Just one old girl still to go fingers crossed .
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It great seeing the youngsters on the bank and catching good fish too. I always experience a real shared sense of triumph when my daughter or Grandchildren out fish me . Which they usually do. Yesterday's quick session on the farm pond didn't include anything like the big fish in the foregoing posts but threw-up a couple of oddities. I only had half a handful of very old maggots and minimal tackle so was happy enough to ping out a few rudd . When the grubs ran out l spuddled a few worms from the dung heap. The pond holds a few tench so when my float started
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"Trim phone"- l remember them, and the starlings copying it!
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Just to show that all is not lost and common sense overrules the "woke" mentality amongst at least some of the younger generation. My friend's lad and his mates play football during college breaks . Without the benefit of football kit people kept forgetting who was on whose side and tackling or passing the ball to lads on the wrong side. Simple solution; the white kids form one team and the brown lads the other! Highly un PC but a common sense solution. It only came a bit unstuck when the coloured lads were a man short so were palmed off with the "fat white kid" to ma
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In our teens we had two local banger tracks . My first car was a rough 63 Humber Sceptre and when l took it for some welding the guy's eyes lit up thinking he could get it off me for banger racing . Apparently they were highly prized in the banger world. He grudgingly fixed it though. A year or so after l'd sold the car we were at a race and there was my old Sceptre ; painted in the welding guy's colours but still sporting the hand painted go- faster flames that l had inflicted on it . Watching "my car" race was exciting . Especially as the end of the afternoon it was the o
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Halfway down a roll of stock fencing. Last year it was inside a wire hay rack . Very security conscious.
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I guess if you are considering city environmental conditions, things like unhygienic conditions, dodgy diet and secondary poisoning from rat baits come into consideration . Then again a smaller ,short - legged fox could have advantages in the city . Hiding in small spaces ,hunting rodents in cramped conditions ,licking dead pigeons off the road ,crawling under wheelly bins and stealthily stalking dead kebabs, favours a small animal with its head near the ground . Taking Vesey Fitzgerald's localised study of urban foxes in the early 60s as a convenient start point ,that gi
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Hybrid vigour is usually at its peak in the first cross. Subsequent matings between the hybrids tend to lose the initial advantages . Not all hybrids display vigour; some are degenerate failures. The only real advantage biologically is that rare animals that suffer a scarcity of breeding partners of their own kind that can sometimes find a partner of a commoner and related species . Assuming the hybrid young are fertile they will be be a reservoir for 50% of the rare parent's gene's. A mating of the correct type will produce young with 75% of the rare genes. A subsequent ma
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You can do the preparation yourself with a hacksaw. Get a road spike ,cut a bit off for the T handle. Then jam a couple of big nuts or a bit of hollow tube on the pointy end and take it to the blacksmith or a mate with a welder . It's only a minute or two's work to weld everything in place. Then file or grind the nuts into the taper you want
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Probably you already know but if you ever have to delve further into the engine ,check the flywheel for cracks while you're in there. Commando cranks had some odd habits. Can't wait for your first road test report!
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That's going to make the pizza delivery brigade really jealous! Does sound hairy though! One of my friends from my distant teenage years had a Lambaretta 200 (or possibly 250?) that he thrashed about in the most suicidal manner. I recall that it did over 70MPH on a good day . Unfortunately there were quite a few bad days and he spend a fair bit of time pushing it home . I was told that the main reason that old bikes only had 6v electrics was because it wasn't until the late sixties that small 12volt batteries became readily available.
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This one looks shiny in the picture thanks to the wet weather and oily rag When dry the original faded 1956 vintage paint took- on a rather unmanly shade of dull pink. It would've taken over £1000 just to replace the chrome parts like exhausts, rims ,handlebars and seal holders . That's before entering tank restoration territory! Hence silver paint. Ditching the mouse-chewed Prince of Darkness spaghetti that passed for a 6 volt wiring loom in favour of a simple 12 volt system was a practical deviation. The engine didn't need much work other than adding extra
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If you hobby is home mechanics the way to enjoy yourself and make few quid is to concentrate on getting bikes roadworthy and running properly. Forget cosmetics . Paint and chrome, new wheel rims and sourcing the exact correct factory fitted do da whotsit will suck you into a money- pit. i Even if the bike is to it builder's eyes spot-on ,when it comes to selling some rivet- counting collector will still find fault. My crappy Norton could easily eat a couple of grand before getting anywhere near factory condition . Which is about the same as what it would be worth. Hen
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What was several boxes of bits is starting to look a bit like a motorbike. Now it has wheels l can at last move it out of the sitting room. Maybe into the kitchen
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