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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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    Give it a sprinkle of salt,pepper or whatever you fancy and a brushing of oil. Make up a slightly sloppy mix of flour and water paste and plaster it all over the lump of meat like sort of batter. Wack the lot in a baking tray in the oven on high for a while to harden the pastry . Then drop the heat . I tend to leave it on low heat (gas 2-3 ish) for a long time -probably longer than any recipe will tell you too but inside the pastry shell it ain't going to burn. The pastry comes off like a tortoise shell leaving the meat as moist as venison is ever going to be . Good served
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    My daughter and her mates had a phase of going to one of two clubs in the next town that held under 21 nights . I'd turn up at the appointed time to retrieve them only to spend ages sitting in the car while they milled around outside playing the cool and sophisticated club-going chicks to their peers whilst waiting for me to swan up to the doors like a hired limo driver . This was never going to happen as I was lucky to find a parking spot of any sort what with the other parents and boyfriends vying for kerb-space with the police vehicles that were always on standby at kicking -ou
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    Cheap way of getting a mole spud is to dig (sorry) some redundent old spade out of a shed or root about at a boot-sale for something . Then buy a mate with an angle-grinder a pint and ask him to cut it to a suitable shape .
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    Splitting the kits into small groups or pairs when they are weaned seems to make em less nippy . I think when left in a big litter they can get into the habit of tumbling out of the hutch en-masse when it is opened and the owner has to quickly and rather roughly bundle them back in and close the door on them . This can't help the gentling process . Also a big litter becomes very competetive over any food that comes its way and a young ferret learns to bite first and ask questions later . Smaller groups are easier to handle in a gentle manner and learn to be less frantic to
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    Mackeral are very patchy off my bit of Sussex. A few bass about but the pair trawlers have been working the ground for weeks . Apparently they are not supposed to target bass but simply claim to be after cuttle -non of them about either ! Seems the the famous Kingsmere rocks off littlehampton are to be declared a no fishing area even for hobby anglers favouring catch and release . That just means the trawlers will circle the area scooping up anything that strays from the nursery /conservation area and the long term result will be pretty much the same .
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    Thanks for the reply andyfr. I could'nt really see any problem especially as a lot of barrels seen to be fairly short these days compared with older rifles. Its a dinky little rifle but It'll be fun if we can create something of a "sleeper".
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    For my sins I'm a bit of a Relum fan. Specifically the Tellys. I own three of the things and a Tornado and all knock out about 10ftlbs after having been pulled apart and rebuilt with a bit of care . So I'm reasonably familiar with em. Anyway ,a mate has asked me to give the treatment to an old .177 Telly Junior 45 ( B*stard won't sell it to me). The stock and present power output are more suited to the junior user but the cylinder and rifle parts are identical to its bigger brethren . Apart from the carbine length barrel. Would the extra power hopefully created by upgra
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    Despite the mink's capacity for delayed implantation which might be an obvious stumbling block at first glance its well known that mink -ferret hybrids can be encouraged under artificial circumstances . They have also been recorded in the wild where polecat populations are low and hormonal polecats have engaged in cross-species sex when members of their own species have been unavailable . Its pretty much the end of the line though as fertility is low or non-existant in the offspring as it is with most "mules". A stoat mating has to be in a different league though . Stoats carry t
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    There is a very good chance that the jills will happily rear the kits in one nest and not be too bothered about suckling each other's babies . There are possible draw-backs though. One jill might turn out to a bit over-motherly and start pulling the other jill about as if it were a big baby every time she leaves the nest which would'nt add to domestic bliss and the tiny babies could get knocked-about in the process . Also one mother might decide to eat kits. This can happen if one or two babies are sickly or born dead and the mother gets a taste for infantcide . First-time mums
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    Dontcha just hate them wasted days . Like the time I spent nearly a full half hour pike fishing in vain . What's worse is that i got a wellyfull of river water and all this sort of golden coloured powder got caught in my socks . Bloody uncomfortable ! Nice to see you out and about mate . maybe we'll have a go this season.
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    I used to get a lot of old fishing tackle from my ex father in law who was a porter for Sotherby's. The serious collectors only wanted the perfect rods . Anything with a replaced ring ,a bend from poor storage ,shortened tip or other damage was not considered worth much at all and was often left behind after a sold lot had been cherry-picked . I still have a lovely little greenheart fly rod thats probably well over 100 years old . Its been repaired by previous owners and by me which makes it worthless financially but its been priceless for teaching my daughter and now the Grandkids to fi
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    All the time elver fishing was a fairly local trade the eel population was'nt in any danger but nowadays the take of elvers is on an industrial scale . There is a market for English elvers not just on the continent but as far away as Japan . They use our eels to stock their stew ponds . The Seine boasted a very high tech elver fleet with boats costing hundreds of thousands of pounds . I know there are other factors possibly involved in the decline but surely the reason that eels produce such vast numbers of offspring is that it is essential to the species' survival. Even if suffic
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    Long ,thin "Toby" shaped silver pirks work well on the South coast anyway .You don't need heavy tackle. The sort of set up that you would consider sporting pike gear but without a wire trace should be fine unless its rocky where you are. Look for givaway signs of shoals of bait fish or gulls hunting within casting distance. If bass are about and in feeding mood they won't be far away and often seem to trap the small fish against the breaking waves so long casting is not always needed .Bass will often knock a lure or bait and turn back for it so keep the lure working right up to
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    Obviously the red ones are better and The BDS are I believe considering lobbying for their legalisation after pressure from various European hunting bodies .The "Frisby Use(Cervidae)Overall Feasibility" (FUCOF) study carried out in conjunction with the Belgian St Hubert Society also makes recomendations as to colour and flexibility of the frisby and after extensive and unbiased research settled on red as being the most humane colour . The work of several other research bodies sadly must be called into question . The Dublin Stalkers Group's work identifying green as the best colour has
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    Am I the only one who thinks Leamo has been given a rough ride over his head shooting arguement ? I guess in the poor light of dusk or dawn or under an undulating tree canopy it is understandable that a stalker might feel the need to shoot a deer in the heart and lung area . A swift end maybe ,acceptable carcase damage maybe but surely not a suitable death for such a magnificent animal. In a genuine survival situation and down to his last few rounds a man might be forgiven for taking such a shot but surely such ignoble acts need not enter province of the modern sporting stalker?
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    Thanks Neil. I've actually found a youtube clip of a couple of guys tackling the job with minimal tools and doing just that. . They marked the nut ,shaft and flange and counted the full turns needed to undo the nut . I feel a bit more confident about doing it myself now . Thanks very much to Bagdadnights and Neil for taking the time to help
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