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  1. comanche
    The best technique is one that nobody knows about coz its illegal to hunt squirrels with dogs . Except for flushing .
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    mate i've been brought up, that the saying over kill is nonsense. if you going to kill something you cant over kill it, once it dead its dead. if u shoot it with a air rifle or shotgun youv'e killed it my opinion mate Fenn mk6 is a far more effective and humane tool for squirrels . True the mk4 is approved but when you've come across a few squills ,albeit dead, and cleanly caught round the neck and chest but with their back feet braced against the trap as if trying to lever themselves free it is fair to assume that death was not instantanious .
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    Had a couple of nests very early in May and it has built up from there. I had a call from one chap who turned out to be an insect monitor for his local chapter of the Conservation Volounteers. Apparently it is official . Insects -at least in this area -are two weeks ahead of their usual timescale .
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    I forgot to add that the squeezy "tactical" ,pressure activated palm switch on my Ledray was /is junk !. Mind of its own . I know modern electical gadgets are not cheap but the Ledray is overpriced as far as I'm concerned .All said and done its just a torch with a clamp and a fancy switch .
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    You don't mention what sort of rifle you have . I use the GL4 with standard red beam . It is fine-almost ideal- for air-rifle shooting. I have used it on my .22 rimfire but to be honest despite the claim that it sends a beam 120 yards picking out targets in the red beam at much over half that distance was'nt that easy .I was'nt convinced that the rabbits were that fooled by the red beam either . maybe LED gives a different type of light ?. To be honest I use it mostly for spotting jasper nests these days .
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    I saw one of these at a tool stall at a boot sale a couple of weeks ago. And ,yes it would have been an expensive buy !.
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    Nothing wrong with pink nets as long as you don't mind a bit of ribbing from your ferreting mates who may never again trust you to hold their legs when they reach into a trench to retrieve a layed up ferret.
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    Not true scarecrow. You can hold ammunition for obsolete calibres without a cert. And you can hold shotgun cartridges without any certificate, you just can't buy them! Er ,actually you can own an obsolete calibre of firearm as a part of a collection or curio but live rim-fire and centre-fire ammunition even for obsolete calibres fall under the same fire-arms Laws as modern ammunition. Even more exciting is the prospect of owning an unlicenced "obsolete calibre " firearm and somehow dropping onto a box of matching "obsolete" ammo or even a single round . Th
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    If you feel the need for your nets to close with less resistance just rig the drawcords to run through the same side of the peg-end ring rather than one each side which seems to be the traditional way.
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    If you just want something to RUN rabbits then you'll be wasting a collie x talents . They can do so much more !
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    yeah it is true thats why i always clean the blood off the van and try to pull out the dints So technically if I hit one then I could phone a mate or the wife to come collect it? Not really . It is an offence to remove a carcase(or indeed anything from anyone's land ) without authority. In the case of a road casualty deer permission would in theory be required from the local council or Highways Authority. In real life -certainly in my part of the world and unofficially of course- the Highways Dept consider it a bit of a result if a corpse of something quite large g
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    Hens go out of lay in preparation for the moult. Left to their own devices they would come back into lay a few weeks later . This gap in production is not acceptable to intensivly commercial farmers and it is more cost effective to clear out the non-layers ,muck out and disinfect the sheds and buy in a new lot of POL hens . These strains have been developed for a short and intense commercial life and are not bred or tested for healthyness into old age unlike the fancier's breeds and backyard types which are expected to last a lot longer . Having said that, many ex c
  13. comanche
    Purty much guilty I'm afraid because the dog should be under control in a public place. Mind you I don't see many elderly ladies carted off to nick when their pets have a fun run at a squirrel in the local park ...But technically ....
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    This is my first attempt at posting pics here with Photobucket rather than sizing pictures down to fit . Seems to have worked. My favourite is the last one . I love the look on their little faces !. Ok. Not a damsel .
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    You swine! Now I'm not clever enough to do that!
  16. comanche
    How to hunt.Appologies if you took my comments to heart. I was'nt out to belittle but the presentation and your photo requests just smacks so much of the journalists or students who do a bit of googling and feel qualified to write essays on a subject that demands deeper understanding. To be honest there are a lot more little creases that ruin the bedmaking than just those that have been mentioned. I did'nt doubt the existance of the Windhound or Stephens(a quick google would tell me more than I'll ever need to know about them ) but just how relevent are they to a list of
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    How to hunt.Appologies if you took my comments to heart. I was'nt out to belittle but the presentation and your photo requests just smacks so much of the journalists or students who do a bit of googling and feel qualified to write essays on a subject that demands deeper understanding. To be honest there are a lot more little creases that ruin the bedmaking than just those that have been mentioned. I did'nt doubt the existance of the Windhound or Stephens(a quick google would tell me more than I'll ever need to know about them ) but just how relevent are they to a list of
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    1988! This would be an O M G moment but text talk is not allowed . My daughter has still has the copy of volume one of the Lurcher journal that you signed for her at a show in Petworth Park . The glue is still holding The old Shooting News was brilliant .Just about anyone could submit an article and it would be printed . Then there would be weeks of 'healthy' debate in the letter page . Thankfully the internet came along and put a stop to that sort of unseemly bickering .
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    I wrote the above post late at night after a long day at work so I thought it only fair that I re-read it and check out the website again after a night's sleep . Ok . I should have said 'Stephens Cur' (very popular with the Stephens family of somewhere in the Appalachians ..possibly) and 'Silky Windhound ' but sadly nothing I've seen in the cold light of day indicates the need to make any real changes to the original post . School project ?. Vanity website?. Who knows . Its a shame because the computer skills and knowledge seem to be there but the content is dodgy.
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    Gotta say that the site looks like its been made by someone with an interest in rabbiting but not a lot of experience or knowledge. A lot of the content seems to have been plucked from various sources without any consideration for its relevence and with no real understanding by the collator . The trouble with being a human sponge is that along with every scrap of decent information there is bound to be some duff or inapropriate material. Names such as the 'Stephens Hound','Swift Windhound'(never feed em beans ) probably mean something to someone somewhere .Check-out th
  21. comanche
    I'll pm you mate .
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    Yes i understand it is still available.........and as you say cavers like to use it for the light it gives off. I would just wonder if it broke any rules or regulations if it were used against moles...........bound to contravene some act or another for sure. I suppose it would be using a non-approved substance and would certainly render any insurance invalid if used in a professional capacity . I know what you mean though . You just know that some of these old countryman's tips are a load of Billhooks but once in a while one comes to light that seems quite viable and we have to fig
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    I think carbide has been put to a few interesting uses. I'm pretty sure that the old BFFS Rabbiting book mentioned using it to bolt rats . My uncle recently bought some as he has restored an old bicycle complete with acetylyne lamps . Caving suppliers sometimes stock it as is still used to provide light underground .
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    Its true that if there were neighbouring shoots it would be a bit "off" to start luring them onto your patch. You'd probably find the surrounding Keepers less than helpfull whereas if they knew that you were putting even just a few dozen down they would'nt feel aggrieved and would be pleased that there was'nt a sanctuary for vermin in their midst . As Lift boy has made clear though, there are no nearby shoots . If there were it might just be a little more worthwhile setting -up a little pen and releasing a few of his own . In these circumstances there would be an overall benefi
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