comanche
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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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Help needed regarding newts
comanche replied to MR TEA POT's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
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.- 1 reply
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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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21 nests yesterday and the same last monday. Mind, it was dark finishes both days. Had my first ever hornet sting on Saturday . I wasn't even treating a nest. I put a strimmer over one though! That has to be either irony or karma.
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She'd been watching me do a wasps' nest in a barn before this. I went back to the van for my camera and she hadn't moved. She'd gone back to eating by the time I was driving away. It was one of those moments when a proper camera would have done the scene justice.
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It's got a very 70s/ 80s look to it. The you tube video makes it look a bit bigger than the present model ;as do some of the publicity shots . Though its hard to tell as it's being fawned over by Japanese chaps who tend to be a bit little. It certainly looks wider at the back and in the video seems to have narrower tyres than the present model which should save stress on the front steering joints. Jimnys have been around long enough to have a couple of known weaknesses that really should have been designed-out by now. Hopefully the new model will have them sorted. Trouble
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Eek ,I'm no expert. having attempted brain tanning,the proper (ish)bark tanning and alum bath methods I guess the alum&salt bath involved less "seat of the pants" experimentation. I had real trouble stretching the fibres in the cow -hide to soften it after it had been in the alum bath because of the sheer weigh,size and thickness. In the end I used the native American thing of beating it with a rock from the centre outwards to stretch the fibres. It's a bit stiffer than the professionally tanned skins.I don't know if that's down to my weedyness or the method. The sheep w
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Well I managed the cow-hide. Its come out OK enough for me and with a bit of trimming-up has made a reasonable rug. The woman I did it for is pleased .Though I did warn her that the real test will come in winter when her under-floor heating kicks -in?. At the same time I also did a sheep-skin from a rather hairy thing that I'd swapped last year for a ewe lamb that was too good to chop up for the freezer. My mate had her for breeding and I got "Slash" ,named for his resemblance to the Guns & Roses bloke, in exchange. Turned-out he couldn't play the gui
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As far as I know small(apparently "small" applies to any amount you provide because in the great scheme of the meat industry game meat is a tiny percentage anyway) amounts of rabbits and game can go direct to local butchers,friends,family ,pubs etc. I think "local" is defined as something like 30 miles over the County border. Though you don't need a licence the game must still satisfy health and hygene requirements. The catch is that they must be in feather or in the case of rabbits they can be gutted but not skinned. Once you start skinning you become a food processor and are sup
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Hornets are about and wasps' nests are coming-in. I treated six on friday; four little nests in the same pile of fence-panels in my local fencing yard and then a freebie in a horse-rug(they seem to love horse-rugs) for my friend at the stables where I keep my sheep. Just left there and a call came in for another one which amazingly was about 100 yards from where I had pulled-over to take the call. Then the day before I had a call from a lady who was putting put her kayak on top of her car ready for a peacefull evening on the river when she discovered it contained a wasp's nest. Looking th
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The bore was fine so I could've settled for a re-crown but the threads were a bit naff. I settled for two inches off the barrel-the price was the same anyway.
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As promised ;before and after photos. You can't tell the difference .
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It's an old draw knife. Thanks for the good wishes.
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Ok before someone else says it; that would make a good slug-gun.
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Well i may have taken-on more than I can deal with but flushed by success of the bark-tanned knife sheath and brain-tanned deer skin(I'll forget the lurcher vs squirrel skin debacle) I'v e agreed to have a go at a Dexter cow hide for a friend . Luckily there is no pressure but if it works I'll get brownie points. Wheely-bin alum bath.
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A friend is a bit of an air rifle buff but only has a short garden. I on the other hand have a long garden with a compost heap backed by a garage wall that makes a good back-stop for zeroing. A few years ago he bought quite cheaply a very neglected Ripley and has just got round to having it refurbished by the original maker . It turns out to be a very early one and had fallen into disrepair due to neglect and unde-use rather than abuse . Its a lump of a thing ,nothing subtle about the bolt-action but even I managed a five shot group that made me hand it back to him i
