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That is so true. When I was a kid we fished a small pond, anyone catching a carp of over a pound became an instant ,though temporary ,hero. The fish were small by carp standards but they were old and wiley and certainly not genetically programmed to be ever hungry like the monsters stocked today. My planned canoe fishing trip on a tidal river today has been put on hold . With the wind ,rain and high levels it might have proved mildly dangerous and certainly wouldn't have been much fun. Instead I spent a couple of hours at dawn on a local millstream where I opened the season with a
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Chris Packhan has done very well by making his passion for wildlife into a successful career. He is as welcome to his opinions and dietry choices as any of us. He is also apparently mildly autistic ,though clearly at a high functioning level,which makes his ability to have made a success of his life something to be commended. However people on the autistic spectrum can not only be overly obsessive about their chosen interests but can also be quite gullible . This not the first time he has made ill-judged comments and I can't help thinking that he may be being fed inacurate information an
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That is a good idea. Especially if you are thinking of beach fishing for the first time. It can be soul-destroying sitting on a bleak bit of sand or shingle ,not sure if you are using the right gear, or have cast far enough,or perhaps cast too far,wondering if you have the right bait ,or if has been eaten by crabs ,dealing with false bites from seaweed and plastic bags and then looking out at the huge ocean and realising the fish could be anywhere in the World. Go with a friend or at least pick a beach with a few hopefully helpful anglers on it. Rock,pier and harbour fishing is far less
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Good buys. Though I think if I came home from a boot sale and announced to the GF I had two padlocks and a whip .......
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I bet some of the younger members of this forum think we are talking a foreign language ?. I think Nicepix,that G & Y used the same parts for several of their larger reels and simply fitted wide or narrow spools and different badges to market the same reel under different guises. Apparently the "One to have" is the late modelBig Piker which is just an Avon/Jecta type thing with a different sticker. I've seen those big alloy engineers' type reels and marvelled at their precision but never had an urge to use one. I just visualise me cocooned in a huge bird's-nest. My Flick
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I was planning to anchor a canoe and trot the middle of the local tidal river but after this rain I might be better finding an eddy or backwater. Failing that it's a ten minute walk with the dog to a little mill-stream. A fish of any size or species would be more than welcome?
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Starting left with the Intrepid Rimfly ;actually it is a true centrepin ,allbeit a crude one Then,yes, a Nottingham drum;not a centrepin. Auger Matchatta,again a drum ,not a c/p ,although it does run on a bush. Top left(unfortunatly not a Hardy), a 1930s Perfection Flick Em,made by the dozen by Youngs of Redditch and badged for everyone from Allcock's and Hardy to your local ironmonger. A proper C/P . Middle ,a Dowling,very mundane but a real C/P. Bottom left ,yes Nicepix,the Mordex centrepin masquerading as something more upmarket. A Trudex C/P . And middle right ,Nicepix strikes ag
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Just for fun and in celebration of the coming opening of the River Season,who can identify the makes of these reels and which are centrepins?
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I probably was telling you nothing you don't already know about tuning centrepins. Sorry and thanks for being so polite. Yes the Mordex reels are a bit clunky. I think once mine has its brass hub it will just end up sitting around looking pretty rather than being used. I've amassed a few drum reels over the years a few of which are proper fidget-spinner centrepins . None of mine are in the collectors' catagory but I can undetstand why some folk develop an expensive obsession with them.There is something mesmerizing about a well set up centrepin.
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They are good finds. I stripped and customised my Mordex; just for fun . It's not as if they are worth much . You may know this but be very carefull if you fiddle with the centre boss as they are a weak design that gets brittle with age. I'm waiting for a mate to turn me up a brass one on his lathe. If you really want it to spin as it was meant,ditch the grease on the spindle,polish the tip of the spindle and the end of the grub screw in the boss and use sewing machine oil as a lubricant. You should get it spinning for at least a minute if not a lot more. You need a tiny bit of free play betwe
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BASC Say carry on pest control
comanche replied to Baldcoot's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
Has anyone on here actually applied for an individual licence to shoot any other of the pests that were taken off the General Licence and have yet to be reinstated? I applied for one to deal with a feral pigeon job and recieved confirmation of my application but have heard nothing since. -
Thanks for that Nicepix It may well've been your video that put me straight.
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From what I 've read yhe roast hog's heads that grace the table in all the best medieval films are not simply roast pig's heads. What they are is actually a hollow pig mask cut from the skull and stuffed with various other cuts of meat from the pig's body ,vegetables and seasonings. The whole lot is then roasted and when it's role as a table decoration is finished it is carved in such a way that everyone gets a slice pork encased in crunchy,pig-face crackling. I have a couple of boned-out pig masks in the freezer but perhaps it's as well I don't have enough friends to host a medieval banquet
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Being laid up after a minor operation I've finally got round to tackling an old 16 bore I was given a couple of years ago. What I thought was going to be a couple of hours relaying the top rib and refixing the fore end catch turned into something a bit more in depth once I realised that under the surface rust the gun seems to be in quite good nick. I don't think from looking at the hammer faces it has been used much considering it is probably 100 years old and apart from light pitting near the muzzle the barrels are surprisingly clean. The locks only needed a brush-up and lubing but what int
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Most 410s have tight chokes;which is fine if you can shoot straight . But lot of the cheaper 410s have tight chokes that don't always shoot where they point. An old Spanish folder I had shot 6 inches low so I cut the choke off thinking that at least the extra spread would compensate to a degree. The effect was magical ;I was getting decent patterns and the thing shot where it was aimed. for normal bolted rabbit ranges it was perfect and I cold take low pheasants without guilt if I was a walking gun on the Shoot. I always used 2 1/2 cartridges which in my experience give more even patterns tha
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Worst mole trap ever, for me ! (Putange)
comanche replied to earth-thrower's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Mole-catching is a testosterone-fuelled and very serious business. You have to be tough to tackle a mole(a big male can reach seven inches and tear a worm apart in seconds!),and defend your methods,trap selection and territory. I've heard that those mole-catcher's Guild-type meetings involve illegal betting on slug races and inevitably degenerate into spiteful brawls involving trowels and earth-probes that make biker gang turf wars look like a ball-pit full of Haribo-hyped toddlers. -
Back in October I promised a customer I would ferret her garden,when I had the time. Well I finally had the time today but thinking I would be dealing with half a dozen holes in her compost heap that she had shown me I didn't turn-up until midday. Luckily rather than the pocketful of nets and single ferret I had planned on taking a little voice in my head urged me to go overgunned so I took along a pair of ferrets ,two of short long-nets and a couple of dozen purse nets. A bit more exploration of her rather immaculate and spacious garden revealed a hedge backing onto a pony paddoc
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It may be atrick of the light but the lower collar in the picture looks as if it is made of black plastic rather than grey.That means it's probably a Mk2. If it ticks faster than the grey collar it definately is. It may use-up batteries a bit quicker . One thing to watch with the black collars is that the plastic is a bit more brittle and the loop the collar goes through is therefore more prone to snapping.
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Polecats have been known occasionally to mate in the wild with European mink and the cross has been deliberatly bred in Russian fur farms. Crossing a ferret with a mink is obviously possible ,but it would have to be a European mink not an American mink.
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Never fired one but handled one in a local gun dealers. If anyone is old enough to rememember the old Tv cop show Hill Street blues;well I felt like the mad SWAT team leader who popped up every few episodes. I think if you were looking for something to hunt with, pulling one out of the gunslip would raise a few worried eyebrows from the farmer and get you reported to a real SWAT squad if a passing dog-walker spotted you in the bushes. The local gun-dealer actually specialised in their import and customisation though I think it was getting near impossible to source them at the ti
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Only a guess but I reckon anyone looking to breed from a good lab would be more inclined to use it to produce saleable pure-bred puppies than lurchers with a limited market and lower price. This would leave leave lurcher production to less formal liaisons and as not that many people keep "entire" greyhounds as pets the chances of accidental lab x greyhound litters are small. Lab x whippet puppies turn up more often.(Tyla;Gill dog-sits a whippet x lab from time to time,reckons it a nicer dog than its pure labrador house-mate)
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I don't think the drone was the problem. If there was one at all it probably came and went before anyone could react. The concern was that it may have offloaded something. Gatwick Airport covers a big area and apart from the commercial areas there are a couple of high security "establishments" on site. I expect everywhere on the outfield and beyond had to be searched. As for blasting it to atoms with a shotgun; probably everyone's first thought. On second thoughts;suppose it was carrying a bomb or anthrax spores,or some horrible poison? There could well be a couple o
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It was Tyla that introduced me to little rubber lures. I've been a fan of big shads for pike for years ;mainly because before rubber-hauling became trendy I bought a bagful of 7 inch rubber fish for a pittance from my local fishing shop and made my own lead keels and traces for them. First time out with one I dangled my DIY rigged contraption in the current under my feet just to see what it looked like and a jack pike barely twice the size of the lure grabbed-it. Bit of a confidence boost! As I mentioned it was an evening with Tyla that had me interested in using little lures though.
