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    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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    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.
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    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.
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    I've found it. The presenter's name was Jonathan Webb; the programme was Casting Around. Seven episodes 1970. Clearly a forgettable series.
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    I've been racking my brain and asking friends if they remember a TV fishing series from around the very late 60s or early 70s. Everyone remembers Jack Hargreaves's Out of Town but not this programme . I'm sure the presenter was called Jonathon Webb and the programme was called something like Lucky Casts but I know that's not quite right. If I knew the proper name it might come up on google. It was on the really silly time of Saturday morning so that's probably why nobody remembers it and it didn't catch-on( only a little pun intended?). The only episode that sticks in my mi
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    I'd buy a mark 2 or three collar-they both work with a Mk1 box. If you can find a MK2 collar secondhand it should be dirt cheap a(the original black collar is the giveaway it's a Mk2 ) because they do eat batteries;I guess it's because they tick faster than a MK3.
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    Not the best photos and its in a deer farm but it's still unusual. Especially as the hind broke into the deer farm after almost certainly escaping from somewhere else.
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    I don't know but we have great cresteds where I keep my sheep and do a bit of rabbiting. They turn-up under logs that can't possibly be frost-proof and last year one was found midwinter under the spilt dung from the muck trailer in the stable yard even though it had only been laying for a couple of days. I reckon as its not hibernation time quite yet they are more than capable of either moving or being moved to cover. Probably more in danger from being exposed to predators if they don't get covered-up quickly than suffering from cold. Make a nice big log or paving slab pile for them.
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    Phil Drabble's Pedigree Unknown still stands -up. The original edition came out in the mid sixties and though some of his thoughts might not find favour with the "Hard Lads" it's honest. And dare I say DBP 's later tales of rat hunting adventures won't seem so original after you've read it.
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    I thought I'd try to make just a couple of gallons and that t'other half's Moulineau juicer would be Ok for that little amount. After the experience of me and a mate using his wife's electric mincer in an over-enthusiastic manner while to making venison burgers I was careful not to over-heat or stress the device. So not only was it a slow process chopping and poking half an orchard through the thing but it still conked-out after about six pints of juice. Check fuse; no luck. Allow to cool down ;no luck. Allow to cool down overnight whilst praying to the Gods for a miracle;no luck.
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    Mine's 2003. I don't know when Suzuki started fitting grease nipples but I've been told the later ones had their bearings crimped into the prop-shaft ;making then harder for the home -mechanic to replace. The early ones like mine are held in with circlips. Still needs a press(or in my case a vice and big hammer;)) to get them out though. The replacement UJ kit I used came with a grease nipple. You did well to find a jeep with the bits you needed and to sell the remains for a small profit. Good stuff.
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    Ah,now I know why Suzuki though it best to fit later Jimnys with a grease nipple on the rear UJ. Still reckon I could have eked another week out of it though-ahem.
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    For us older chaps It's hard to believe that when we were fishing as kids, eels were impossible to avoid but now they are on the protected list. If you catch one on rod and line it must be returned. Their age is greatly exaggerated. While some captive eels are said to have reached fifty or sixty years old(and interestingly, didn't actually grow very big) ,most return to the sea to breed after between 8 and 15 years in freshwater. Pollution,disease and over-harvesting of elvers by high-tech methods and the trade in live elvers to stock European and Japanese fish farms mean that eel
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    A sadly departed friend once spent an evening with his shotgun by an open window in his workshop hoping to ambush a fox that was bothering his ducks. The fox came as expected,Doug leapt into action and fired . Unfortunatly he fired through the wrong window;the one that wasn't open. He got the fox though. On a later occasion the same chap when after another fox opted to snooze in his pick-up with a rabbit tied via some fishing line to his big toe. Sure enough he was tugged awake(Oo er missus) but could'nt see a fox anywhere. The tugging continued until he eventually made out the s
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