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  1. comanche
    Well that was short and sweet. TC I've no idea why though. Were they a trade item for dogs or something?. Sort of "I'll give you a handful of these magic birds for that rather handsome deerhound you were going to take to market". I've seen budgies play with a ball mind you
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    Bit of a guess from the Latin name for dogs . Canary?
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    I'm not convinced that moles become necessarily suspicious of traps even if they've had a bad experience in the form of a near-miss. I suspect that if they become aware of the trap it will be treated as any foreign object in their path and they either try to by-pass it or shuffle it out of the way. Naturalists studying moles repeatedly catch the same animal for monitoring purposes using live-traps. Being confined in the trap alive and subsequently measured, weighed and sometimes man-handled to the point of having a radio-tracker fitted seems to my semi- human logic more traumatic.
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    You are probably right . It may not catch -on though. After-all who remembers the unfounded fears relating to the overuse of cake-waste for attracting rats. Let alone the Campaign for Responsible Use of Muffins as Bait(CRUMB) that followed. I'm more concerned with secondary take-up of marshmallow by scavenging birds picking-up carcases. Suppose they developed a sweet tooth (beak?);it would be like a scene from a Hitchcock film outside every corner-shop as the avian addicts waited to descend on unsuspecting school-children or dive-bombed toddlers for their lollies. I'm sticking with the Pluto
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    I think someone has come across some research by Dr Lanzador De Meadas from the early 60s. Most of his work was conducted in Ireland and was thus inconclusive despite field sketches such as this that he claims prove the efficiency of what he termed his "Walnut Whip Cone Traps". Apparently the walnut was added after a local persuaded De Meadas that moles all suffered genetic nut-allergy. Some of his other work involved the Italian fishing industry. By treating live eels with Viagra he suggested they could be more economically transported to distant markets neatly stacked in boxes of
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    We found a load of paper cased ones under the seat of a Land Rover that had been bought by the boss when I was a Keeper. One lad took the lot and went roost shooting with them . He must have been in a hot-spot because he had far more shots than me. Most of the cartridges worked but a few needed turning in the breech and even worse every once in a while there would be a dull fart . The lad admitted in he didn't think to check his barrels after the half-fires !.
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    Is it really worth the risk? Plastic cases have been around for fifty years . Fair enough to satisfy your curiosity by popping them off at a target and ,as said, check your barrels before loading the next cartridge. As far as using them in anger -don't. In the heat of a flurry of pigeons or clays you might not be so conscientious. It only takes one half burnt charge of damp powder to leave a wad in the barrel and that free cartridge could be your last.
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    Don't know about the rest of the country but round here two or three unusually bad winters knocked them right back and the last few years have seen cold,damp springs that knock off the early litters or cause the does to reabsorb. Its my theory that its the survival of the early litters that holds the key to high numbers as the early-born young mature soon enough to be able to add to the breeding population alongside their parents in their first year. Myxi and VHD get blamed a lot but unseen diseases like coccidiosis and enteritis are probably at least as much to blame especial
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    Reminiscent of my superb shot of water vole. I promise it is there.
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    There are professionals who use dogs to help them make their living but. Even the top echelon of Field Trial gundog types who are out picking up most days in the Season probably make more from selling pups,training other folks dogs,writing books and articles and even making DVDs than they do from working their animals. Realistically I would think the same applies to many who claim to "Live off their lurchers". I count myself lucky if my dogs and ferrets pay for the Christmas presents!
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    I hope so. It look to have been kept in order and somehow has escaped wood-worm.
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    I thought that at first but the bottom is a little loose. Bit like mine when I noticed the pink staining around the lid of the Drat bottle:)
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    Its in a box within a box within the site chemical box now. I think the the chap was on the verge of asking me if it was any good to me but I had my rare "serious" face on when I told him about it.
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    I have an on-going job at the moment centred around a derelict barn that's awaiting demolition . When I mentioned to the guy in charge of the site that it was a treasure trove for an inveterate spuddler like me he gave me the sort of look one might reserve for someone who admitted to a shoe-sniffing fetish and walked off muttering . "Ave what ya like. Sa'll sh*.t" I'm glad he didn't insist that I take it all! Check out the unlabelled jar to the right of the picture with the white crystalline powder in it. I didn't!
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    Before he moved to a different part of the country one of my regular customers was a very well-known retired government figure. I'll not get political and mention names or parties but he was famous- or infamous- for his "what you see is what you get"attitude and straight-talking. I came to know him because his house was also plagued with mice on a regular basis but that's by the by. Though once ,indicating my tub of rodent bait he wryly commented,"We could do with some of that in Whitehall." He said that the joining the EU was a tremendous mistake that meant efficient government by any pol
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    Well, i used to wonder about this,...(for moles) ? Cause one of the old info/instruction leaflets, you used to get (for phostoxin), would tell you how to apply the stuff.It said, scrape away the soil in a mole hill, until the tunnel (pop hole ?) is exposed.Insert a tablet down it, & seal it off ?,....I thought this advice was poor,...& i certainly wasnt going to do it that way !,.....lol So, as you alluded to here, inserting a tablet down the 'vertical shaft' (which could easily be bunged, with soil) COULD result in the gas tablet, being pushed out, onto the surface ?,....when 'mol
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    and the Alamo big john = Davie crocket gets killed in it Can you name another classic (or two) that The Duke dies in..?? He died in The Shootist. And a war film ,Sands of Iwo Jima or something similar.
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    The Searchers has to be the benchmark; it has every ingredient including great, stylised dialogue and characters. The Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven are up there too. In fact I spent New Year's Eve under a blanket on the sofa beside a blazing fire watching "Josey Wales" ,again. Best Spaghetti; High Plains Drifter -it works on a more ethereal level than the other Spaghettis. For weirdness,daring subject matter and set-piece imagery Burt Lancaster's "The Unforgiven " is worth a look. What other Western depicts Kiowas lancing a grand piano to death? My other favourites are the
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    If you want sausages ,gammon or bacon some slaughter-houses will do it for you. That really bumps the price up of course and you have to allow a few weeks for the curing process. Remember ,the pluck(heart,liver etc) are your property and unless they fail a health inspection you are entitled to them. Definitely get the trotters and heads back. If you don't fancy them yourself ,ask around, someone's mum or granny will love you forever if you say you have pig's head going spare.
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    Weaners are cheap this time of year for a reason. Kept outside the pigs and the land will end up an unhygenic mess and the ten or twenty quid you saved on buying cheap weaners will be swallowed up by extra food intake they need to stave off the cold. If you buy piglets at 8-12 weeks old in April or May they will have the benefit of the warmer weather and can take advantage of the autumn windfalls and should be ready for slaughter in October or early November at the latest if you want them for Christmas gammon as it takes time to cure the meat and there may be a seasonal rush at t
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    They follow the food. If its good for worms its good for moles. They travel along repair ,hunt and extend runs inherited from the generations of moles that have gone before and proved fruitful and use them according to worm abundance ,which depends upon the weather and season. The worms of course travel by the compass....
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    Rip Lemmy

    comanche replied to hawki's topic in General Talk

    They've got a bit of a band going up(?) there now. Don't forget wotsisname?,oh yeah Wurzel and Kelly from Girlschool. Resting in peace seems unlikely. I first saw Motorhead slumming-it in a school hall in Crawley when not even their own management would touch em with a barge-pole .The last time I saw them was at Brixton Academy about 9 years ago. Even my mate's other half who isn't into rock said it was the best concert she had ever been to. Alcoholic,diabetic,pace-maker ,smoker,workaholic, possibly a transvestite sh*gger ; Lemmy probably wasn't going to live for ever and there has
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    Rub a little oil and whatever pepper ,salt and spices you fancy over it. Then make up a sloppy mix of flour and water batter and smear it thickly all over the shoulder. If you rest it on some potato halves or a grid in the roasting dish it won't stick to the bottom . Then bake for as long as the weight dictates plus a bit more. Its actually very hard to over-cook the meat;it just steams a bit longer in its cocoon and gets more tender. When done, crack off the pastry which will be hard and on the well done side to reveal the meat. The resulting chunks of pastry make great dog biscuits t
  24. comanche
    Teach him to carry the dummy before you push-on with the retrieves. Put him on a lead and walk him with the dummy in his mouth. Make him sit or stand from time to time at heel with the dummy still in his mouth. Then carry-on walking with him at heel still holding the dummy. Once he is doing this and only releasing the dummy into your hand when you ask try having him stay with the dummy in his mouth and walk back the length of the lead and call him for a controlled release into your hand. Only do this a couple of times. Stop on a high note with one good "retrieve" and praise. Its that good retr
  25. comanche
    As the song goes-Those were the days my friend. I'd spent hours drooling over the airguns in my Mams Catalogue. And of course the women's underwear. My first was the plain ol' Relum Telly from mum's catalogue. It cost a tenner and I still use it though its had a few new springs and seals over the years. At the time I couldn't go the extra fiver for the Tornado as there was only so much school dinner money I could hoard without mum asking too many questions as to the source of my wealth. The blurb in the catalogue certainly inferred that the Tornado was superior and more powerful
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