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    Make a bigger trap. Most fox cage traps are rubbish. They are designed for human convenience with little thought to the fact that any fox with a brain cell is going to be a tad wary of such an unnatural and confining device. Foxes round pheasant or chicken pens or used to clambering about town bins and urban gardens might not be so phased but a wily old country boy may well wonder why he's suddenly being offered an easy meal in a wire coffin. The idea of covering the floor with soil is good. Again we make em with wire floors coz it suits us yet it must feel so weird to any fox .
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    Berkshires. They were let out of their pen into the paddock for the first time yesterday Before being left alone we had to be sure they knew what the electric fence was for. Sure enough one had a little sniff of the tape and..... I felt so mean; he made a little noise like a child's teddy bear when you squeeze its tummy.
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    Never had pigs before . I think the sales-woman saw me coming and flogged me Tasmanian Devils.
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    1963 Humber Sceptre 1600cc. Bought December 1979 for £60. I ran it about for a couple of years, fitted a new clutch and, I confess, added the go faster flames They didn't work! Sold it to a mate who sold it for banger racing where it not only won but survived the Demolition Derby to race again.
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    Old bucks are the business. My mates can't believe I actually sort them out of the catch for personal consumption. A light frying to brown the meat before stewing does wonders and you can leave em in the oven on low for as long as you like. Add a pinch of chilli or curry powder and pop in any veg and a tin of baked beans an hour or two before the end.
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    The LW parang;a very smart tool. Seeing it jogged my memory a bit . I still can't recall the name of the TV programme but throughout he made regular references to his £1.99 fake Swiss Army knife. Seemingly when faced with any task requiring a blade he would announce ,"So I take my £1.99 penknife and ...." One of my customers used to own a well known out-door wear and camping company. According to him LW would sometimes appear on the scrounge and one of the things he went off with was the famous freebie £1.99 knife. Still can't name the programme though!.
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    Thanks TUFFTY. I have looked but all the clips are quite recent and show the chap in , I guess, his early 70s. Maybe his early TV work was so embarrassing he's found a way of erasing it from film and memory. The rabbit incident was definitely a bit dodgy and I can't believe nobody remembers it.
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    I found mine on Shoreham beach years ago. Is your one similar-dark wood scales on the handle ,marked "Original Bowie Knife",? As you can see it didn't make the grade as a proper working knife:)
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    I'm showing my age but have a question for the older site members. Whilst having a conversation about Ray Mears and bear Grylls TV shows with some younger chaps I mentioned that before them Lofty Wiseman either made regular appearances on various shows or had a short series of his own. Trouble is; I can't for the life of me remember what they were called . I "you tubed" him but could only come up with an appearance on an old Peter Duncan (ex Blue Peter dare-devil) series. Two highlights I recall were Mr Wiseman mentioning the effects of using bracken tea as
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    I'm sorry to say Paul the rat in your garden whilst being a superb specimen was trumped by the rat I caught in a young lady's bedroom a few days later. In fact the only criticism of Rob's work is that the thing should have been mounted on pair of knickers!
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    I treated myself to a Lil Acorn after a discussion with a customer. Apparently he'd had an expensive, all singing and dancing device that even sent a picture-message to his phone whenever it took a photo. Unfortunately it kept breaking down and was very susceptible to damp, so he dumped it in favour of the Lil acorn. It takes video clips, still shots or a combination of both depending how you set it up. daytime pictures are in colour and the quality is good.. Night shots are black and white and as you can see from the enclosed photos need a bit of practice to avoid glare from the "i
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    Thanks for the help. I'll risk taking it apart. Thanks all:)
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    I had a call last year from an elderly man just when I was looking forward to getting home at the end of a long Friday afternoon. He not only asked how soon I could get to him but then asked a load of searching questions that sort of set alarm bells ringing. He did sound rather like a bit of an awkward customer but when I met him I realised why. He'd had a nest above a downstairs window treated but before the operator was even dispatched had been asked to pay the bill of £117 over the phone in advance. The problem he now had was that his bedroom above the window was full
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    My 97 1600 Vitara recently started revving up to a steady 1800rpm from cold and then-ticking over too fast when warm. I'm not amazingly technical but have found that by removing and plugging the end of a hose from the air intake to what is probably a valve housing on the side of the carburettor or disconnecting the blue terminal on the other end of the housing the car runs as it should . Can someone have a look at the photo and tell me what the seemingly defective bit is called,if it is repairable or easy to get a replacement and even if my diagnosis is correct. Any help would be
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    Not my place to argue with an expert but I avoid food rewards. Its only my queer logic but I can't help thinking that a dog that that works for its owner's praise, love and cuddles rather than what's in the their pocket will ultimately be more in tune with the handler. I'm sure you can overdue any lesson. Just think; the puppy has just spent a few minutes reacting to your hand signals and done a perfect stop to the whistle. You are chuffed to bits ,the dog senses that "Dad" is in a happy mood. Stop right there,don't be tempted to do it again-it might go wrong . Instead end the
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    A quick ten or even five minute session that goes well is worth more than a half hour session that gets messy no matter how old the dog.. When a session is on a roll and you and the dog are "coming together" going through the whole repertoire and even adding a new twist can be worthwhile. But don't feel you have to do everything every day. The dog won't forget what it knows just because it has not practiced an exercise for a few days . Neither will it forget a bad or stressful experience when asked to do something that went wrong in the past. Sniffing about and looking a bit shee
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    Half an hour of retrieving(if I read you right) is a long time. Pretty soon the fun is going to wane for the dog. Especially if you a you are introducing fancy retrieves before the simple ones are mastered and the tension builds up. Even if you try to hide frustration a dog will sense it and lose confidence. One cracking retrieve is worth a dozen half hearted ones . Try to stop on a high note and then have a good game. Keep the dummies in a special place so the dog regards them as something valuable and not toys to be played with as the mood takes it. There's nothing wrong with go
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    Wasps

    comanche replied to bryson's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting

    A trick I use is to put a bit of wasp powder in a jam-jar(to keep the powder confined) and put a bit of meat in it. Put it on top of the ferret cage. The jaspers go for the meat but don't make it back to the nest to tell their mates where it came from .
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    Reminds me of the conversation I had with my long-term ferreting mate a week or two ago. He is now lucky enought to live in a fairly rabbit-rich area and his lad has grown up having it pretty easy when it comes to decent bags . The lad is pretty competetive in everything he does and sees big numbers equating to a good day rather than any fun factor . When we told him that back in the old days we were overjoyed to have any rabbits at all to go home with and anything over three was a red-letter day he just shrugged and gave us a "why did you bother " look. You can only catch what is ther
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    Used to get loads of redwings and fieldfares on my apple tree. it was some ancient variety that held its fruit through to january. It conracted some sort of timber beetle -coincidentally after they opened a wood yard behind my house- and it was dead in a year. Since then I've barely seen either species close enough to be sure until today .I was walking the dog through a very squelchy field and the place lifted with em. I'm guessing the optical problem has been sorted if you are gleefully handling blue tits .
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    Thanks. I know what you mean. There is something special about a bass . Always a chance of a real biggy round here . The inshore nets have had them over 20lb quite close to the beach and the skipper who is a bass fan has hooked fish he could do nothing with on his light gear.I don't disbelieve him when he says they were bass . He's the sort of guy who can diagnose what you've hooked by looking at the bend in the rod and is usually right .
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    Thanks . I do look pleased with meself in the picture. I'm usually the one surrounded by bass-hauling mates while I add to the species count with things like shad ,gurnard , blennies,even bl**din starfish . I did catch a lobster once though which kept em quiet for a bit
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    My best bass has stuck at a little over 4lbs for years .Finally -after much umming and arghing as to whether I really wanted to go and doubts about the weather -we managed to get out on the only sunny day of last week. The skipper was a bit tactiturn about what was about ,"Could be this . Could be that." He was right. We ended up with a real mixed bag of huss ,a tope,the inevitable doggies ,a few late season mackerel ,pot loads of pout ,a cod and two bass . One of which was mine . 7lb 9oz!
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    Waiting for a Cadbury's Flake
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