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You stink it out a few days before and do the surrounding burrows.
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Be quiet.Be patient.Ferret like locators had never been invented but have one handy just in case
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I seem to spend longer explaining ,in my pseudo-expert persona, about the life cycle of the little Jaspers than I do on the actual slaughter. By the time I've described how all those returning foragers will hang round the nest ,desperate to go inside because "They are wedded to the only home they'll ever know and their lives revolve around it",and how once they get too close the powder will get em...well some customers are close to tears. Usually the wife comes out with a cup of tea and tells her hubby to pull himself together though.
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Pebbles,marbles ,a golf ball; it helps. In the end even new seals don't compensate for hard usage. I usually use a foot-pump on the valve to charge the pressure tank as it saves wear n tear on the hand pump and you don't get that annoying situation where the big grey mushroom shaped seal on the bottom of the pump tube loses it airtightness due to congealed bits of dust. I bought a couple of knackered dusters from a retiring pest controller and have done away with the hand pump altogether on one of them by removing it and blanking off the hole. It can only be charged via the tyre val
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I also suspect that the Mk3 was a bit of a rushed -out, damage limitation job. It certainly seems that way. The Mk2s really were a pile of poo that looked space-age but were no better than the Heath Robinson locators people were knocking-up in their sheds before the MK1came along. And if you are offered a supposed Mk3 collar in black plastic that ticks like a time bomb don't pay more than a tenner for it. Its a MK2 collar;it'll work but cost you a fortune in batteries! Only by Deben going back to fitting a volume /squelch dial and quickly announcing it as the MK3 were they sa
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Tench are good. You'll probably rarely see them but neither will the herons. what a great opportunity to source some pure(as opposed to the mongrel goldfish that are so common these days) crucians and help an endangered species. You won't need many as they will breed like stink without too many competing species and you may be able to cream off some to sell as a way of reducing the population before they start to get stunted .
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You could've just bought a Mk3 collar-they work up to ten or eleven feet with a Mk 1 box. The only good thing about the "Phasers on Stun" Mk3 is the search function. We always switch to the old grey box for the final dig. Now if someone made a locator based on the old Mk1 but with the search function -no flashing lights ,no stupid Space 1999 noises-something that isn't so intrusive with just a single knob(ooer missis).....They might be onto a winner. The Mk1 is so simple to operate one handed while you peer into the distance watching for bolting rabbits and wayward ferrets that
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It will usually cost you the full sum of a quid to quickly realise that the show organisers cannot be arsed to source competent judges that know a working lurcher from a pseudo terrier.For a quid and a little ribald banter does it really matter?,i hate spending brass. For some reason I was persuaded to be a judge at a show. I have no qualifications for such a post; my dogs have never been of the sort one associates with rosettes and I wasn't even flattered to be asked. In fact I was horrified! I can only assume they were desperate. I bummed-up on Ted Walsh's guidelines for judging lurchers a
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Scars can't be helped but as skycat says; conformation and condition are all important. Put the time in to clean the dog's ears and teeth and cut its nails,make it shine . Some folk pull a dog out of a kennel and when it gets snubbed , whinge about the Judge "Not knowing a proper working dog when he sees one." Yet go to a horsey event or livestock show and every competitor from the from those with no real chance of a rosette to the regular winners will have their animals and tack all agleam. Get your head round the word "show". scars or not, its your chance to walk the dog out before
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Just back from a day boat-fishing off Littlehampton. It was a typical case of "Should've been out yesterday," as the wind had changed to a light easterly and had blown all the tope and bass that had been around off the feed. Still,all was not lost;apart from quite a lot of tackle. Fishing the rocks gave us a few hefty bites but must've added to the share dividends of several hook-making companies and pushed the price of lead up a bit. Leaving the estuary. Sid (champion lead-loser)hauling in a doggie. The best looking angler on the boat:) with an undulate ray that didn't
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Liar Or Doesn't Know What He's Talking About?
comanche replied to walshie's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
A Game Licence was required to shoot deer on open land but not on enclosed farmland. As for the need for having each bit of permission checked over the Landlord might've had a confusing conversation with an FAO when he made his early applications. I don't know if its the same with every constabulary but around here even someone with an "open" certificate is required to have one piece of land passed as suitable and named on the FAC. He might not be a knob ;just out of touch with the passing of the Game Licence and a bit confused... Then again he might be .... -
Will Buzzards/kites Kill Chickens?
comanche replied to trapperman's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
At last some one who has a bit of sense. TC Yip....kites are resigned to carrion. Only one talking sense here. Hold on here comes the bullshit train.....toot toot. Hm. I actually saw a red kite drop on a pigeon in a lane today. It started pulling it about ,when a car came round the corner and the kite flew off carrying the corpse with one foot. Not being a bird expert I'd always gone with the "little feet and scavenger" proselytists. I double checked a book and sure enough even the RSPB have no qualms about the red kites predatory ability. That doesn't mean Trapperman's poultry hav -
and Tarzan always seemed to import his elephants from India as well.
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Similar vein;just how many Robin Hood films show the hero wandering triumphantly about with a white-tail draped over his shoulders? That's Hollywood!
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It pays to be suspicious. After a few funny phone calls and "odd feelings" I took to arranging to meet potential ferret buyers at a mate's house. They had their choice of kits out of a box and I like to think the sight of my mate's large ,tattooed-covered arms indicating his past as the vice-president of a moderately well-known motorcycle club might have cooled any plans of naughtiness. On the other hand I was once put through the third degree over the phone when I was looking for a pup. This led to a meeting on a garage forecourt where I was treated to the forth,fifth and sixth degree level
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Almost too cute to actually use I have a couple of these Allcock spinners still on the card.
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I worked "on the bench" at a high street jeweller's when I left school and salvaged some huge bits of brass from the doors of the nearby Woolworths shop when it was being refitted .Using my jewellery tools I cut and hammered out a load of shiny spoons up to ten inches long none of which I have left. They caught plenty of pike but nothing big. In fact some were little bigger than the lures! Nothing much has changed;)
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My daughter's garden risks being declared an SSI for the numbers of slow-worms it harbours! There is a bit of tin on the compost heap and once a week the grandchildren are allowed a quick peep underneath.
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JD . I had exactly the same jointed plug with the double hooks. It always amazed me that it was only held together with puny screw-eyes. It was a Christmas present when I was around 12 and somehow I managed to hang on to it for quite a while. On its last outing I had taken a mate and his little lads to a stretch of the Arun where at the time t chances of a few small pike were pretty much a certainty. I was retrieving the plug for the umpteenth time when something much bigger than the usual jack surged at the lure and sunk into the depths. It was certainly 15lb ,maybe even the magi
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Before building can go ahead it is often preceded by a reptile and amphibian survey. Evidence of real rarities like sand lizards, crested newts or smooth snakes can scupper building plans . Other species can be caught and released elsewhere leaving the land free for development . You often see flimsy looking plastic barricades-so-called newt fences- around building land to prevent unwanted reptiles gaining access to the site once reptile surveying and any necessary relocation has been completed. Tin sheets hold warmth which attracts cold-blooded animals making the reptiles easy to
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I decided to let nature take its course. I didn't poke about too much but think there were 23.There were certainly a couple of dwarfish ones that I guessed would disappear so decided to take the mummy knows best route and let nature take its course. After a couple of days it stabilised at 16 or 17 . Seem to be right mixture colour-wise.
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One litter. The hob was a rescued stray and I only let him "do" one jill before finding him a home.My other jills are still in season and due for a visit from a vasectomised hob .
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I think the problem is that we are losing our senses. Maybe calling them ghosts is just a convenient form of labelling for a brief hint of a sensory ability that along with many others are being lost to a reliance on technology ,conformist teaching and mental numbness. How many people-especially hunters-have acted on an immeasurable and untestable "sixth-sense" and profited? How many others have ignored it and thought "Bollxcks. I should have followed the funny feeling"?