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Amazingly ambitious little chap. Many years ago when they pulled my local Woolworths apart I "rescued " some thick brass plates that had been round the door pillars. Somehow using the most basic and bluntest tools available I hacked and bashed out some 7 to 8 inch spoons .They looked like classic Mr Crabtree type devices that should have had giant pike queing at the net but all I caught was jack after jack on them . Only hooked one decent pike on the brass monsters and I messed up landing it due to slippery banks and heavy floodwater in the Arun.
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They originally come from North Africa across to China. Some were noted in 1855 in Norfolk but even up until the mid 1970's there were only small numbers outside the London area and East Kent. Nowadays they are making progress by the year and I've seen the things coming to a bird table on the West Sussex/Surrey border. According to "The Naturalised Animals of Britain"( I think that's the book . I've lent it out so I'm on me doddery old memory here ) one theory is that because they were so tough ,pretty and very cheap they were imported as pets and aviary birds in massive numbers .
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As far as I know there is nothing that says you must use only a shotgun to shoot any of the legitimate sporting species geese in the open Season . The Canada goose in England is subject to an Open Licence and can be shot outside the sporting open season for crop protection and wildlife management reasons (but not I believe in Scotland ). I suppose the terms of the grant and wording on a FAC might be an issue that affects using a rifle . I guess something like "shooting of vermin or wildlife management " would cover you to a degree .I've culled a few Canadas on this basis . Sporting sho -
Hi rascal . Up and running Pretty sandy jill. Soon you'll have a full set of colours
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Eek. A touch of Madame Guillotine!. Always amazes me that they can exhibit such amazing self-preservation and use various physical,mental and sensory ruses to evade capture. Yet on other occasions one comes across them as non-targets sitting in a resigned manner in the flimsiest of home-built Larsens or unable to find the way out of a chicken run they've broken into .
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Certainly in England - In the open season and with permission of the land owner. I guess that there might be a cloudy issue with using lead ammunition over certain wetland areas.
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I caught a few moles today and came back with four rabbits this evening but ,well a brace of musk oxen and a caribou kinda put a different perspective on things !
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I tend to set the trap and hope for a quick catch but if I think foxy is the devious sort rather than pre-baiting an unset trap I'll bait the trap and actually leave it locked shut . Foxy comes past, detects the bait but can't get it .Probably gets frustrated,snuffles around the cage. Digs a bit and in course of a few visits generally familiarises itself with what it believes is simply an obstacle to a meal rather than something to be feared . Rather than being suspicious of the trap foxy is actually desperate to get inside at the first oppertunity...Which comes soon enough .
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I think Stubby is reffering to the little chap in the middle of the picture when he mentions .22 shot shells. Rimfires are great for ratting with a sound backdrop but will limit where you can shoot both with safety and regard to damaging property .In some ways ,unless you are going for a lot of longer range shots a decent air rifle is more versatile . In fact at very short ranges an old springer with decent open sights is a very handy bit of kit. Many moons ago a rather embarrassed keeper recounted a tale to me of the day he was asked to cull feral pigeons from a big barn.N
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Try this for practice. First Insert decent batteries !. Turn the wheel on the reciever box fully on(that'll be the 15foot or 8 foot mark depending on the model) . The grey box will now be ticking . Place your collar on the floor and walk away from it until the ticking just stops . You are now out range of the collar. Now wave the box towards the collar and the ticking will start. Take a step toward the collar. Now turn the sensitivity dial down until the ticking just(only just ) stops. You have lost contact with the collar . To regain contact simply wave the box towards
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Yep he's the one . A real character. The jill is just like a smaller version of him.
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I'm too much of a technophobe to work out how to add a picture to a PM so I've put it here and hope you see it. Pm if intwerested
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Most folk seem to think that at 100yds the drop would be 4". This sounds about right . My ancient CZ is zeroed at 65 yds. Using Eley subsonics a 30 yd shot requires 1.5" hold under and at 90yds 3" hold over. I have a sticker on the stock to remind me !
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It'll end up similar in principal and function as the bottle-top squeaker I described .Probably a tad simpler as well as it probably does'nt reqire glue to seal it . If you are having trouble fitting the caps together try crimping the "male" one with pointed pliers so that it will tap inside the other one. Alternatively get a ball ended hammer or even a rounded pebble and tap it into the mouth of the the "female" case to open it up a fraction. If it splits you might need to anneal the next one you try with a blow torch ,gas flame or just by leaving it in the bottom of a bonfire
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Here's the recipe I use. Its one of those things that I intend to do every year but often remember when its too late . This year I pulled the tube and jar out of storage in time . For 1 gallon of sap 2 lbs of sugar handfull of raisins and the juice of a lemon. yeast I don't add water.Just bring the sap to a simmer and disolve the sugar in it. Then pour it into your bucket or whatever you are going to start fermentation in and add the lemon juice and raisins. When its cooled to luke warm add the activated yeast. After 3 or 4 days strain it into dem
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Had my first one minute mole
comanche replied to swanseajack's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
A few years ago I did a job where there were two sets of workings on the edge of a paddock bordering the owner's lawn . It was a classic case of ,"Don't mind the moles in the field but once they head for the garden they have to go ",from the owner. I was just setting the last trap when the owner breezed past on the inside of the fence on her ride-on mower. Within seconds two traps went off- one in each of the workings . Two moles . I guess they were fleeing the disturbance from the mower. -
Length of grey plastic guttering or an old grey dusbin cut into pigeon shape . A whiff of grey car primer will take the shine off and a couple of white neck/wing flashes will give you some crude shell decoys. They might not fool an experienced pigeon that's seen it all before but they despite the idea being a very old one it still works a bit .
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Eradibait-a nice idea ..but. I believe a similar product was marketed odd years ago as a slimming aid . When eaten the stuff absorbs moisture from the system causing bloating ,dehydration and death in rodents.Whilst the skinny ladies of the 1920's made do with a bellyfull of a similar filling but nutritionally useless cellulose product that enabled them to enter dance marathons and fit into little flappy dresses . Bet they farted a lot though !. I'm not saying it is totally useless as a rat bait under ideal conditions such as when it is the only food available .However , the last ti
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When my 6'4",out-house built,shaven -headed and tattoooed ex-bouncer Son in Law was asked by my mate's lad if his ferrets had names he loked a bit uncomfortable . "Er,yes". He replied. " This one is "Serenity". Its the wife's. And er, this one is er, "Princess Flower Butterfly". Bl**dy kids named it! ".
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Aliens -just move towards the light....
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Forced to sit quietly at home whilst recoving from having a lump of metal removed from my eye by a dusky medically trained maiden ( "dusky medically-trained maiden". I was in old-man heaven until she pointed a bright UV light into my face and came at me with a bundle of needles !.) I decided that it was an ideal oppertunity to knock up a few nets. I'd promised to make some as a birthday present for a friend's lad . I'd also decided that I could do with a few fairly tightly made ones for use in thick cover. Unfortunatly I found myself low on materials . Fortunatly there exists an emporium
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Any chance there was a toad in the hole ?.Wild polecats will eat frogs but toads give off a nasty chemical that can cause foaming . On the other hand ,she might just have had a chunk of rabbit fur stuck in her mouth . Obviously if it continues serious help or investigation is on the cards .
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Here is a very cheap and simple one. Two beer bottle tops pushed together and glued and sealed with Araldite with a little hole drilled right through the middle . It works .
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Not even my cat or my house ( You can tell by the clean floor ! ). I've had cats and dogs that mock-fought so violently that you'd think the dog was about to crunch the guts out of the moggy or the cat was about to take out the dog's eyes . The dog did'nt go for the crunch and the cat always pulled its claws -in .
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lamping woodcock
comanche replied to watchman's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
nice read that mate,last bit made me chuckle, am i right they are cooked with the guts in and the beak put in their rear end or have i just made that up I believe you are right . Traditionally they are cooked whole with the guts still in on a slice of toast which is apparently to soak up all the juices. The guts are supposed to be fairly empty during the day as woodcock are said to be night feeders. Must admit I've always gutted the odd one I've had . I'm sure you are probably right about the beak up the bottom thing too.... Never tried it myself though