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  1. comanche
    I've blanked school dinners from my mind. I only recall the vomit-making domes of what was passed-off as mashed potato. I saved my dinner money until I had £10 and bought a Relum air rifle. Funnily It came via Mum's club book and she didn't think to question how I'd saved £10.
  2. comanche
    To quote the judge,"bearing mind the good works for the community". According to a mate -who should know ;that's "apronese"
  3. comanche
    Stick an ad in a local paper or farm shop. You may have no replies . You may just get a call from some elderly lady or gardener with a single rabbit in compost heap. Don't turn it down. Its a foot in the door and elderly ladies are great at spreading the word.
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    If it was mine and it was a first attempt;rather than waste a whole lamb I would hacksaw a leg off the frozen carcase,defrost it and experiment on a small scale with a fire-pit if that's what you fancy trying. I had one of my lambs back whole recently ,looked at it, considered the problems of cooking it in one piece and gathering enough folk in one place to get through 18 kilos of meat..... and cut it up.
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    I 'd be interested as I also have one in as new condition . I don't use it as I can pick up one my old Relums and not worry about scratching it. A couple of years back a dealer offered me £200 unseen for the HW97 but I wasn't that desperate.
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    Just back from ferreting some rather exclusive new ground. Due to the nature of the "Establishment" there were a few formalities, including a small lecture on protocol and a limit on the direction cameras could be pointed. This pep-talk took up valuable time and we knew our remit to tackle an area of derelict woodland rich in rubbish ,building spoil and the remains of an old sewage works would leave little room for error. There were several large burrows to tackle and luckily we decided the best approach was to net everything up and work from one to the other. The dogs showed
  7. comanche
    I've worked ferrets that have lost teeth through age or wear and tear. I suppose it might have made them less likely to kill a rabbit but it didn't stop them having a go. Anyway a large percentage of digs are the result of a ferret sticking with a live rabbit that's stuffed itself into a dead end so teeth or no teeth its a case of the spade or a long wait.. So the deliberate breaking of a ferret's teeth is a no-brainer all round.
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    One advantage of the 12 bore is that there are so many different loads available. If you find yourself shooting at short range-over ferrets or in cover perhaps- you can always use a light cartridge to minimise damage .
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    I've been using Albi-traps for the last few years as my local farm shop stocked them at a reasonable price and I was able to have a good hands-on play with them before buying. They all seemed to be have assembled on a Friday afternoon and required a bit of bending and tweaking but the springs have proved to be good and after a bit of bending,trimming the traps have stood the test of time. When my local supplier started selling a different manufacturer's product that didn't feel right to me I managed to buy some traps direct from Albi at a very good price. They still all needed attack
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    One of my grandchildren was kind enough to share part of his personal menagerie with me recently. To my shame I acted in a rather ungracious way and feeling unable to provide adequate care for his generous but unsolicited gift decided euthanasia was an appropriate course of action. In hindsight maybe I acted a little hastily. Social stigma aside, does not the humble head louse represent the ideal in low maintenance-pets. Consider; Breeds well & available at no cost Requires no expensive cages No cleaning of hutches
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    "H. Hediger director of the Zurich zoo,records rats diving into the zoo's aquaria, destroying fish and plant life." Quoted from Clive Roots' Animal Invaders .
  12. comanche
    Phil,back in my jeweller's days you would have been surprised how much of my gear owed its origins to the work-bench. My old pike rod did actually have a couple of missing eyes replaced with silver items. All my home-made purse nets were built on German/nickel silver rings turned -up and silver soldered at work. . Nowadays I'm a bit too tight to buy proper net rings(Agouti ones are good though) and tend to scavenge piles of old horse tack and hay nets for rings or even cut links out of bits of chain.
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    I confess I hoped OTC's interest might be peeked,if only to confirm that they are not traps. Bucket holders are a possibility but they are a bit over engineered in my mind for that. Thanks for the input everyone and if I do find out anything I'll keep you posted. The traps were nothing special-an old Fenn,usual mole clamps and a rat cage but I don't turn anything down if its free
  14. comanche
    I've been given these odd looking items . I've posted them in the Trapping section simply because they came in a sack of old traps. My own leanings are towards some sort of pig-collar or other livestock restraint but I'm in the breeze really. There is a row of short spikes behind the T-shaped spring . Any ideas or does anyone actually know?
  15. comanche
    Another log revealed a cluster of less exotic and less legally sensitive smooth newts. One of which I did touch before tucking them back up for winter.
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    Fishing rights automatically come with the ownership of land bordering surface water. They are part of the Riparian Rights that allow an owner use of the water abutting their land . Riparian Rights go with the land and cannot be divested of. However,the owner can lease ,give or sell a strip of land next to a water to a third party or club in which case they will effectively become Riparian owners for the course of the agreement and may also use the water for purposes other than angling .The owner can also simply allow access or sell permission for fishing in which case the anglers
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    Doing a favour for a friend I found myself looking for logs to weigh down a cover over some hay bales I'd stacked for her. The very first log I shifted exposed these little chaps. So the log went back very carefully.
  18. comanche
    Tomburras-the silencer worked well. A lot of "The Old Boys" would've had little need of expensive Hushpowers.
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    If you actually work out the formula for the cartridge size/pellet count using the usual no 6 shot the optimum pattern for the .410 is achieved at a lot less range than most people assume. It actually works out at well under 20yards for a 2.5" cartridge and a heck of a lot less for a 2". Most people use too big a shot size. Small shot gives more pellets, better patterns and has plenty of energy at .410 range. Use 8s if you can get them-no more squirrels skipping through the pattern. I remember reading that the velocity of a pellet from a.410 is only about a tenth less than tha
  20. comanche
    Very fond memories of an el cheapo "El Chimbo" folding single barrel hammer .410. Though the early memories were not quite so fond. After a few silly misses I patterned it only to find it shot high and was ridiculously tightly choked. So I (er, had )the barrel cut down to remove the choke. It was brilliant for ferreting and when I was Keepering used it in preference to the 12bore on rough days as I could bump the bag up with a few low birds without blowing them to bits or anyone shaking their head at me. I think the highlight of its career was two mallard with one shot,albei
  21. comanche
    I meant to update on progress a while ago but forgot. Or was I trying to hide my embarrassment? Just in case anyone else ever has a similar problem I'll share but needless to say I felt a bit of a duck when I worked it out. Having checked vacuum hoses and done the obvious it was time to ask for help .I trawled the Suzuki forums without success. Plenty of idle system faults mentioned but nothing relevant to my rock-steady 1800rpm tick-over Computer,sensor or some "emission system fault" were the rather expensive sounding diagnosis from people professing to be mechanics. Even had one
  22. comanche
    Unless it died laughing at my canoeing technique it probably survived. S'pose I could've hurled my paddle at it but then I would have been ,as they say"Up sh*t creek without one", and the tide on the Arun is not always forgiving
  23. comanche
    I think the wording on tunnels is something like "suitable for restricting acces by non-target animals while not impeding the efficiency of the trap". Apart from legal considerations, If you have to cover a trap anyway, it may as well be with something rigid that guides the intended victim squarely towards the trigger. Using something like conifer fronds or sticks covered in leaves there is a risk that that a strong animal like a squirrel might push through towards the bait from the wrong angle and trigger the trap with a twig or be miss-caught.
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    Its not the best picture . My excuses include that I was back-paddling a canoe at the same time as fumbling with my very basic camera. It shot out of the river as we approached ,climbed about twenty feet up the tree( that's around six metres and twenty three inches for the French site members), and sat there having a scratch.
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    I'm not convinced the trap as featured is likely to take the UK by storm. Certainly not in exterior situations. By the time measures have been taken to lessen non-target access and some sort of corpse capture system incorporated that keeps the entrance to the trap clear yet stops dead squirrels falling on passer-by's heads the idea begins to look like just another "interesting " design. Indoors there might be an application for it but you could still buy a lot of Tom n Jerry traps for the price of one of these monkeys. I could be wrong but I believe that NZ only has one
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