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  1. comanche
    I think people get confused with bacon which obviously has a massive salt content. Pork is fine especially if its farm fresh but only feed enough for them to clear-up quickly and don't let them store it in the nest box for too long because pork has a reputation for going "off" quickly. I would avoid supermarket pork for this reason as it may not be very fresh. One thing to be careful of when handling raw boar meat is trichinosis . I guess it can infect ferrets just as it infects other animals including humans!
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    Not a very sharp picture but it didn't hang about
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    It probably is either because some of the practice partners are not in favour of shooting or its a policy to avoid the situation where they could be connected with someone they've endorsed doing something wrong that could reflect on the surgery. As the days when a certificate application had to be endorsed by someone of "standing " like a doctor,lawyer,priest or teacher are long gone its not a big deal. As for medical endorsement ;its up to the police to request it if they feel a need. You just have to put the name of the surgery on the application.
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    Well after over two months of sloshing ,topping-up the tub and a final bath in the full-strength solution I had two bits of slimey oak-tanned leather. Clearly my technique wasn't perfect as there are some weird marks on the leather and I had to get the Bic razor out to shave-off a few hairs but after a wash and brush-up it looked like a passable result for a first attempt. After an evening punching holes with a nail and a bit of "bloke"sewing I ended-up with this. Not a work of art but functional.
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    Thanks for that pianoman. I suppose I was wondering if pellet lube was a hyped accessory or really worthwhile. Typical of me my introduction to it was with JSB Jumbo Heavies; a pellet that clearly hates lube!
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    I've always liked Accupell ( I didn't realise know they came pre-lubed)but they won't fit in my new rifle. The HW97k I used to own worked well with both Accupell and cheap old soft Milbros
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    I've been playing around with a few different pellets in my rifle thanks to my Son in Law who shoots in Field Target competitions and let me try a few of his favourite brands. We finally settled on a pellet that suited my rifle so well that even a four-eyed old gentleman like myself found himself knocking out the odd passable group. Then out of interest we tried a bit of Napier Pellet Lube and the groups went to pot. Has anyone else tried the stuff and what were the results?
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    Scrabbling about in a drawer I came across this in old catalogue . Kings used to be "The" place to go and spawned many tales derring-do.
  9. comanche
    Drabble had opinions and wasn't afraid to voice them but was no anti. His 1964 book "Of Pedigree Unknown" ,should be read by anyone who thinks Brian Plummer's work , "Tales of a Rat-hunting Man", was in any way original.
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    That's an interesting site from a rather interesting character
  11. comanche
    I had a folding .410 that shot about six inches high. The exterior of the barrel seemed straight . Like most .410s it was full-choked to screw an extra few yards of pattern out of a bore -size that wasn't originally intended for long-range work .Which meant that at the short-range stuff that .410s should excell at like bolting bunnies at five yards and sitting pheasants(er, I mean pigeons)at ten yards I not only had a poor spread of shot to deal with but also to compensate for the thing not shooting straight in the first place. The gun was only worth £20 at most so I decided on drastic ac
  12. comanche
    Hard to say ,the sod won't keep still but somewhere between 22 and 23 inches
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    His mum was a farm collie and his dad was a stray lurcher. I knew he'd turn out looking like two dogs welded together when I got him because the very well-spoken farm lady pointed to a brown mongrel and said " That's what he'll look like when he's bigger. In fact that's his older brother. The same xxxxxxing lurcher got my xxxxxxxing collie last year!"
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    My dog and favourite jill had arranged a couple of hour's work today and asked me along to carry the spade and box.
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    You are right but as I'm an incurable fiddler I tend to sloosh it about and turn the skins over everyday. It's all a bit seat of the pants using the most basic instructions I could find; but interesting as the tanning liquid really does get paler as the skin absorbs the tannin from it. I started with a very weak bath before transfering the skins to a slightly stronger one and I've already had to add some more solution to keep the colour up. This could be an on-going thread as apparently it could take weeks of topping-up and a final full strength bath for the tan to reach the centre of the
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    Compared with most training dummies a rabbit is quite heavy , a much weirder shape and very wriggly. Retrieving is about teaching a dog to carry things and combining this with a good recall. Get your dog to walk at heel carrying various objects of different weight and texture . Teach it to pick-up confidently at short range,on the lead at first, and let it learn ballence points before risking longer retrieves with real game. Dead squirrels are good for starting with as they are not too heavy and quite a good shape for a dog to carry.
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    She's a jolly good dog. After seeing her I've been spurred to put a bit of work into "M". Even with him laying under a seat the other afternoon a roe buck came so close I thought it was going to climb the ladder. It ended up having a staring match with the dog then joined the two does with him and carried -on feeding about forty yards away quite oblivious. I was pleased but think I'll have to make the dog a little winter suit if he's going to be laying around in this weather.
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    My second attempt ended in failure. I tried a squirrel skin but there was a patch that to my mind hadn't taken the tan properly and was a bit stiff to soften-up so I left it soaking in a bucket of water with a veiw to applying some more brain solution. Unfortunatly I left the bucket on the ground under the rain-butt and the skin disappeared. I have strong suspicions that an small, elderly black lurcher may have been involved Undeterred, I'm a month into messing about with oak-tanning a couple of A4 size bits of skin( one hair -on ,the other hair-off) with the idea of making a
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    Make's you wonder how the native Americans discovered it in the first place ? Only a guess but maybe someone was carrying the brains back to camp for food wrapped in a pelt or was maybe drying some on a piece of skin and noticed how it affected the texture of the material. I presume it wasn't just American natives that used brain tanning;its just that their culture is probably better documented than ,say,Celts or Ancient Britons . They also used bark from oak and shumach(we call em stag's horn trees over here) trees.
  20. comanche
    Its not of any quality but I wanted to keep it for other reasons.Though I decided I wanted to keep it after I skinned it or I would've done a neater job with the disrobing
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    Make's you wonder how the native Americans discovered it in the first place ? I wonder that about many things . Who thought of milking a cow and drinking it? A calf ?
  22. comanche
    I didn't want to use salt ,borax or alum as I wanted to be a bit primitive . There are loads of Youtube and internet instructions but they seemed to differ a lot and some claiming to be "authentic native methods " seemed to end up including power-tools and acids. In the end I followed a description by Reginald Laubin who in his day was a preserver and first hand observer of many Native American skills and customs. I didn't salt or dry the skin,just spent blxxdy ages scraping it; then smothered it with warm,mushy brains,rolled it up for a for a few days,then gave it a good s
  23. comanche
    A couple of spots might need re-braining but if I knew it was going to come out like this I would've skinned it a bit more neatly.
  24. comanche
    Ah, the neglected waxed-jacket hint of stale vomit thing. Sometimes just keeping them somewhere warm for a while improves things. Try upholstery or carpet cleaner on the lining.Bin bag and a half a tub of Shake and Vac overnight. Repeat with the other half of the tub.
  25. comanche
    Most people use a set of fishing scales
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