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    One tiny wasp's nest a few days ago but now the bumble calls have started . Which -like DIDO 1- I won't touch without a very good reason even when the customer tries the " Its not me ,its the wife that's worried," or" We have the painters coming in two weeks and they'll want them gone". My usual line in the last instance is "Well let the bees do their stuff for another couple of weeks and call me when the scaffolding is up". Never ,ever, had a call back so either the painters were not bothered, someone else dealt with them or ,I suspect ,the customer was trying a fast one on me . First
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    One from last December One from five minutes ago . I dashed outside and took it
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    Yes!. Years ago I managed to get some to take on a tree outside in the street but this is one of the first batch that has "taken" on my apple tree.
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    Success at last!
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    When you start working your ferret be sensible about choice of burrows. Start with either little ones or easily observed burrows. That way ,even if your ferret makes a kill or is otherwise slow to emerge you can be pretty sure the little blighter is in there somewhere and the worse scenario is a dig or long wait. Once you have feel for things and the ferret is working well you can be more ambitious with confidence. The more elderly amongst us ,who ferreted for years without locators will no doubt have experienced very long waits , nerve-wracking circuits of the burrow and furtive glim
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    This might help. Google "rook rifle calibre"s and try the entry under "stalking directory".It has a thread on Rook rifles. I'm too much of a numpty to do a link but I gleaned this much. 297/230s came in short or long cartridges. Short used three and a quarter grains of BP. Long -five and a half grains . both used a 37 grain bullet apparently.
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    Not being too mechanical I always had a natural apathy to the Duffus types of trap . Maybe what gets to me is the time spent bending and snipping wire and cutting and re-profiling the the sides of the barrels with every new batch I purchase before I have that all important "good feeling" . Then I bought a couple of Talpex. Couldn't really get on with them at first; until having cocked -up a hole meant for a Duffus I bunged -in a Talpex and rebuilt the run around it with a hope and a prayer . Success!. Since then they've been my first choice; less fiddly bits to adjust or sna
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    But they are so cute!
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    I had another one today as well. I think Nicpix's doubts about long term potential might be valid though ; the little shoulders the trigger sits on look a bit vulnerable to plastic fatigue or heavy hands. Anyway my two traps have more than paid for themselves even if I now relegate them to the box of "interesting things " that my grandchildren will have to sort though when I'm gone:)
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    Scatophraga something or other . I think they are males.
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    We had just dropped some rabbits off at the game dealer and were driving away along a rough track when I spotted a rat rolling a huge baking-sized potato in front of the van. By the time I'd found the camera and got my mate to open his window the thing was in the undergrowth. At one point the potato rolled into a pot-hole but the rat either by luck or judgement turned the spud lengthways so it could pivot on the edge of the hole rather than try to roll it up the side . The one I really regret missing with the camera was a red stag in our local deer park. He had commandeered a wallow and
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    fair comments nicepix. You are basing your opinion on traps that've been subject to a hard life ,I'm basing mine on a couple of new items. Probably the answer to the Universe lays somewhere between . To be fair I have the advantage of having the original wrapper that suggests that the trap should be rinsed-out if dirt gets inside. Certainly dirt that has congealed inside an abandoned trap over a period of time is going to give problems. . I may be a numpty but I can't see how,set correctly in an appropriate situation, the trap can fill with soil during setting.The trigger-hol
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    "The one i have in the van will not set " iwm I had the same trouble at first and wondered if my trap had been cursed with a Johnny Ringo trigger Luckily I had a "Eureka" moment and it all became clear. Or you may have snapped-off the little shoulders the trigger sits on. I'm not saying I'm rushing to buy a load more-certainly not at the recommended price!- but curiosity has been satisfied.
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    As promised, the results of my first attempts using the much ridiculed "Grab yourself a bargain, Beagle mole trap " -special offer ;£7 inc postage. So I bought two. Two little domestic jobs conveniently provided the testing grounds. I set two Talpex and a Beagle in each garden . The result was a mole from each site-one in a Talpex and one in one in a Beagle ! What's more while some think the whole concept of a plastic mole trap is a joke; the mole had not died laughing! . It was decisively caught with no sign of death-throw scrabbling to indicate anything other than a
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    I often think it would be good to have a licence option -perhaps for a fiver extra- that allows you to take a mate or family member who doesn't go very often as long as they share a swim with the licence holder and you only use one rod each. After-all the licence covers two rods in the same swim anyway. My dad hasn't fished for a couple of years due to health but it would pleasant to get him out on a sunny day without the hassle of arranging a short-term rod licence for a couple of hours on the bank.
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    If the river runs through his land he automatically holds the fishing rights . He can rent or give permission to a club or individual to fish if he likes but as a riperian owner (someone who's land water abuts) he will always hold personal rights which go with the ownership of the land. Riperian Rights are enshrined in Law and cannot be separated form the Land. A person holding the Land abutting water has automatic rights to it whether they like it or not!. If , rather than just rent the fishing rights to a club ,the owner rents a strip of land abutting the river to a club along
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    Bugger, I wish I had read your post iwm before I made mine
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    Well ,laugh if you like ,but I ordered a couple a day or two ago. I'm simply curious. Someone has to take the bullet for the team. Even if the thing has the build-quality of a 99p Action Soldier or the trigger requires a collision with a moose before springing it doesn't mean the idea of a plunger that indicates a possible catch from afar hasn't some potential for development. Oh stop laughing !
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    You can transport livestock short distances without a certificate( I know the abbatoir I take my sheep to is with in the limit.)but you are responsible for their welfare and I don't think tying a fox in a sack would be considered acceptable. Then there are rules about abandoning an animal to consider from a welfare point of view. I know its a fox and would probably find its feet quickly enough but abandoning it where it might be shot or left bewildered or where it might be tempted to try to find its way home over busy roads might not sit right with someone who really got the bit between thei
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    I've sewn pockets onto the legs of a pair of army trousers that reach from well above the knee down to mid-shin. Rectangles cut from a camping/yoga type mat slipped inside provide padding . For me ,its not the kneeling that gets to me its clutch-pedalitis from too much driving from job to job that I think will be the downfall of my left knee.
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    I used to keep a little rabbitry . I think regulations about selling carcases to the public are a lot tighter nowdays and profit would be pretty non-existent for a small commercial outfit . If you just want a few rabbits for the personal pot it would make an interesting hobby though. My favourite breed was the Californian-big white things with black legs and ears. They had a docile temperament and grew to the size of a small cat if you let them live that long. New Zealand Whites were similar in size but seemed less endearing for some reason. Both breeds grow fast and get to 10
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    I can't believe the number of Tv chefs and cookery books that reckon 1 and 1/2 hours is enough time to stew a bunny . Maybe a tender ten week old commercial rabbit would be Ok with such a short cooking time but a muscular wild-caught one in my experience needs a good three or four hours to get the best out of it . People that say they don't like rabbit because its too tough or rubbery have often followed a recipe by Hugh ,Gordon ,Delia or whoever and get a bit defensive when I suggest they try again but tripling the cooking time . Unfortunately a lot of folk have been put of
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    Not only is the dog not stock-steady ,it clearly doesn't retrieve either ... Seriously though; if my three £1.50 ex battery girls were the victims how would I price their replacement? Whatever the answer the outcome would be a lot more civilized, less stressful and cheaper if the dog owner made the first move of reconciliation and offered generous compensation instead of messing about and playing for time trying to find out what breed of chickens had been killed . I'd suggest the owner invest in a couple of ex layers himself in order to steady the dog.
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    I've never had any problems. I'd guess purse-net making is only a small-almost incidental- part of the market for bulk spun-poly for the factories that turn it out by the pallet load. I've had the old bolt that seems more prone to kinking more than most, but nothing that hasn't been reasonably alleviated by loading the needle in alternating directions. Back to the pink twine; like a lot of spun poly it bulks up a bit with use -especially after a few wettings- but I reckon along with lime green it is one of the easiest colours to see during those late afternoon winter pick-
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