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It is possible ; l pinched it from my brother who used to go to France and come back with van loads of stuff to sell at antique fairs . Apparently there was a market for French rust and woodworm in this country ?
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Live- baiting is an excellent way of catching fish but over the last forty or fifty years a lot of anglers have taken to long stake-outs rather than more proactive forms of fishing. This applied mainly at first to carp and specimen anglers who started camping ,sometimes for days, with their perfectly presented hook baits nestled in areas patrolled by big fish . Slowly the technique was adopted by anglers seeking other species ,including predator anglers . The method became even more popular when the Law started to allow the use of up to four rods. At its best this
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They are designed for punching very neat holes ( so that accurate scores can be recorded) in paper targets .. They are spot- on for standard 5 and 10 yd indoor competition ranges where accuracy is more important than power . Further than that they are not so aerodynamic. Though they are sometimes recommended for short range pigeon control in buildings. Possibly due to some imagined or real shock value and the fact they won't go through the victim or damage the building if you miss?
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April Ferreting sounds a bit like a female news-reader on regional TV but l'm actually referring to ferreting in April.....Which l did today. It was a paid job so it had to be done sooner or later and with a bit of breeze to take the heat out of the Sun, now seemed as good a time as any. The bury was a fairly substantial one in sandy soil but in an open field so l didn't feel under-manned . First conundrum involved deciding on a longnet pattern. Across to baulk hole hopping, or a classic surround? I opted for the latter;well a horseshoe - shaped affair . Partly because it might
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I have one somewhere. It was given to me by a friend who lost interest in ferreting. Unfortunatly by then he had also lost the collar . If l remember correctly the signal from the collar was picked -up when it was about seven feet from the box. The signal strength was fixed and you gauged the ferret's depth by how far from the ground the box was. So if you picked-up a signal with the box held five feet from the ground; the ferret was two feet down. If you held the box as high as you could above your head and still got a signal ; the ferret was crawling up your trous
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Sounds about right. They are sold under a couple of Teutonic-sounding company names . All those springy wire ,gopher ,vole and mole traps remind me of the annoying little key-ring type puzzles that used to come in Christmas crackers. Probably an age thing?
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Windhager vole trap.
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Back in the 70s when my mates all had knackered hand- me -down Meteors and Dianas ,or in my case a Relum bought new with my school dinner money , this sort of kit would've been way beyond our dreams and purchasing power Only a retired Colonel or your dodgy uncle would've owned a FWB 127 ! Fast forward a few decades and how things have changed ; the rifle was a gift from a customer and only needed a seal and a fiddle to bring it to life and even the Milbro pellets came free . The old Nikko scope had dodged between various guns since 1980 but looks like it has found a permanent
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Or a coat of the waxy stuff used for waterproofing horse rugs. Dead cheap .
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I rubbed it some more and a Genie appeared ?! Unfortunately ge had a strong Arabian accent and was hard to inderstand. Three times l said "l wish you would speak more clearly." After which he said in perfect English "That's your quota used up," punched the air and disappeared in a puff of smoke. But yes it does say Fenn on both handles. I probably kept this one because l think the trigger plate is a bit funky.
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You could be right about the curved jaws being better. I've always thought that the straight ones were more likely to drag in the bottom of the run tather than glide to a close . I once took a disc cutter and pliers to batch of brand new straight jawed traps in order to alter them into a curve!
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I'll have to untangle the Tildesley from the bundle of "interesting " but unspectacular scissor-traps hanging on a wire in the shed and have a look now. A picture of The Fenn ; I couldn't see a name at first but under the rust it is stamped A FENN on the top crosspiece of the handle . The trigger plate has a neat little adjustable tang for sensitivity but only on one side and if l recall l found that there was something not quite right about them. That could my ineptitude though?
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Just to prove your point about Mr Fenn never sleeping that trap in the picture is very similar to the ones l have somewhere ,but not the same. Damn,l'm going to have to tip the boxes onto the lawn; they are bound ,of course ,to be right at the bottom . In the meantime....as opposed to Tinsley , a Tildesley?
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Didn't Fenn also make a little scissor - style mole trap with square jaws? May even have some deep in the shed . Interesting thread "Ken".??
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Bit of inner tube to hold the lid on Make sure you leave room to flick the safety catch off. Schoolboy error ?; l had to chisel a slot to make room for it on this one. They seem to work better if a bit of daylight shows through the closed end. There are always gaps in my woodwork anyway?. I just staple a bit of mesh over the bigger ones. I just went into the garden to photograph this one that hangs permanently on my fence. It holds a Fenn no 6 so the tunnel is stepped down to be narrower. The entrance can be restricted further with loose curtains of chicken mesh that a sq
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I won't put you off a Supersport. I don't know what the new ones are like but l had one of the last of the original Birmingham-made ones. It may not have looked trendy,a bit plain looking but a real gem . It was so silky smooth to cock and shoot it was hard to believe it was close to the limit. Lighter, more powerful and more accurate than my old Weihrauch 97k it also made the tuned Walther Terrus l briefly owned seem agricultural. It was an easy decision to sell both in favour of the Supersport. I would still have the Supersport but was given a Feinwerkbau 127 that only neede -
They even have some Early Learning toys. I thought mine were spoiled? Seriously , they look lovely. Good luck with them!
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A customer gave me four gun slips yesterday. One is a B.S.A Centenary slip. A quick search reveals that they came with a limited edition of 1000 Commemorative Airsporters in 1982. Does anyone know if the slips were available only as part of the set or if they were available separately? To be honest while it looks good ,apart from the excellent padding it is really a bit of a triumph of style over substance. The dog leg design means the zip doesn't run very smoothly. It's very pretty though.?
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From what l've been told and read, if a ewe is still breathing a ram will treat her as fair game! But the process of carrying the lambs and especially producing milk can be a tremenous drain on a ewe of any age. The farmer l had most of my lambs from told me that body condition is more important than a ewe's age . This is linked with her teeth which wear out as she gets older. An old sheep on easy living may support herself with poor teeth for longer than a commercial farmer would keep her alive but can't eat fast enough to match the drain of energy used in pregnancy and r
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Bottles are good for getting a lamb used to the fake teat but a the suckling bucket is so much easier and more natural and possibly produces better lambs. Put it this way . A very new lamb might start off on a manageable pint or so a day but at peak milk demand the lamb will be asking for three or four pints a day .Which means half a dozen bottle feeding sessions per lamb per day set to the human timetable. Or you could go for bucket feeding. Simply put a day's supply of milk substitute in the bucket and let the lambs feed themselves ad-lib ,just as they would in the fiel
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Really good luck. l've had a few sheep for a few years but have always bought "by-product" lambs from a sheep dairy farm . This means l've a fair bit of practice with bucket suckling but this is the first time l've bred any myself. So l'm definately a beginner regarding lambing. Your kids will no doubt learn about the sad side of keeping livestock but it only takes a really tame ewe or a cute lamb to compensate. Good luck!
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This is Alan the ewe safely indoors with baby George, unsurprisingly George is also a little girl! There have been a few more since. First steps. Which was a relief because the big lad in the front needed a " helping hand "to come out. Here he is 10 hours later. I'm probably not supposed to have a favourite but.....?
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Alan ,despite the name , is a ewe. Alan was declared unpregnant . This is Allen and her baby?