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  1. comanche
    Yep Auld Salmon and The One are on the ball . This might help to clear some misconceptions for the younger folks who have every excuse for being confused when you consider the locator variations that are about . MARK 1 The "FE models"(and the One strikes again . Look at the serial numbers on the circuit boards and you will see that there were several different Marks of "Mk1" but that's just confusing ) commonly called "Mark1" locator have a grey boxes . The collars are variously designated as 8ft models ,Micro models or 15ft models etc but all have square resi
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    Guess you've tried other batteries just in case. Take the front off the box . Check that the wheel is not just spinning on its central screw . Occasionally the hole in the middle of the plastic wheel wears with age and just spins while the rest of the mechanism remains on one setting.This can be fixed with a new wheel or by rebuilding the centre of the old one with Araldite or something similar If you are feeling confident that you will not snap something carefully take out the circuit board and give it a wipe with a spirit like meths ,petrol or nail varnish remover
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    Dead easy to use .Try this for practice. Make sure you have decent batteries. Place the collar on the ground with the transmitter/battery holder on the floor as if it was hanging under the ferret's neck . Stand 10(or more if you have the 15 ft model) feet away from the collar. Wind the dial on the box to maximum and work nearer the collar until the ticking noise starts. Stands still and then turn the sensitivity of the dial slowly down until the noise just(only just, mind!) stops . Move the box about until you pick-up the ticking again. Stop and turn the dial dow
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    Yep the lighter mornings and evenings mean folk are starting to realise that they are not alone. Best thing thing is to show willing and fit in as much as you can in the next few weeks after . Even cream off the easy burrows so you get decent numbers to show the landowner you know what you are doing . Then explain that next Autumn you will (with his hopefully continuing permission ) try to get round in a more systematic manner and take in the difficult areas a s well. Good luck and well done with the permission .
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    Gonna change your avatar? Ditto. Full marks for spotting that ! spotting what sherlock if you think thats normal behaviour after youve had a spliff,then your as fecking clueless as that halfwit on the bike dont tell me your putting that tit in the same class as an oxford graduate Ha ha ha . Aggression ,paranoia,over -defensive. . Always the other guys who can't handle it .... Lighten up pal-you don't . Just funnin ya. Sorry if you took offence . You picked a fine role model there son ....
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    Gonna change your avatar? Ditto. Full marks for spotting that !
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    comanche replied to christian71's topic in General Talk

    I told my grandchildren that I'd rather be put to sleep with dignity than end up controlled by a machine and reliant on fluids . Little buggers just turned the computer off ,threw me beer down the toilet and asked for the keys the gun-safe.....
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    I've got it somewhere . Saw Lizzy a few times and he was with em on a couple of those (Yeh ,I'm an old fart ) but though he was technically brilliant he did'nt have the style or flair of Gorham of Robinson. Still one of my favourites though .
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    All good stuff RicW cept that nobody owns game . Once released it is nobody's property . However only the person on who's land it is living has the "right to take it". Hence anyone letting their dog chase game is interfering with someone's legal right to the game on their land and that can be the route to civil proceedings . Think there have been a few cases where angling clubs have taken folk to court for interfering with their right to fish even though the fish were essentially wild and therefore not actually property .
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    It is illegal for a dog to be out of control in a field of sheep whether the dog is chasing the sheep or not since the Wildlife and Country side act1981. The Animals act 1971 makes the shooting of a dog defensible as a last resort if the dog is worrying livestock,is about to worry stock or has worried stock and is still hanging around looking menacing and it cannot be caught or the owner traced. The shooting of a dog must be reported to the police . The shooting must take place on agricultural land and be for the last ditch defense of livestock. Game that is wild or has be
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    Sadly I believe that a couple of the "Sport's Bike" magazines were rumoured to have a thriving undercurrent of gay dating adverts in the classifieds at the the back a few years back...and apparently Ky jelly is used for preventing tight racing leathers from chafing in "some quarters" But don't judge us all. Most of my mates and myself ride stuff so diabolically untrendy ,ancient or ratty, dress so scruffily and smell of so much leaked SAE 40 that any sort of action- gay or straight is out of the question. Even our own hands claim to suffer regular headaches. Hm maybe I should g
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    I'm confused . I thought Brighton Rock was a film about gangsters starring Dickie Luvvie Attenborough. Always been into bikes but if I had a scooter it would be done up with as many mirrors ,fox tails ,tiger tails and lights as the weight limit would stand . So naff it would be cool . Ever heard of the Unridables , a custom scooter club ?. They chopperize the things and are pretty respected and accepted at big bike rallies . Mind you ,you'd be hard pressed to ride through the streets of Brighton like the guys in the film at any time of day or night these days.
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    Looks like fun The numbers game rarely gives a true indication of conditions. Getting 50 or 100 is no big deal in some places but winkling a few hold-outs from a tricky situation can be a much more meaningfull experience -especially for the farmer . That's not a gas-gun behind you in the picture is it ? . Just wondering what would have happened if it went off !
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    Mark inhabited burrows, stay patiently out of the way while nets are being set, pin or stand over netted buns in case they throw the net, chase and hopefully catch any that escape the nets, cover areas that their human companions can't get to or can't see easily , convey through body language some idea of activities underground or if a ferret has emerged unseen , keep quiet,be obedient , stay back from the holes and keep still lest rabbits be put off bolting, react to hand signals, mark lie-ups and even assist in digging from time to time , not kill ferrets , nor bother live
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    Buy (or better, borrow from the library) a book on gun dog training . "Training Retrievers by N Man" if I recall has some very simplified techniques for working a dog to hand signals and the whistle . Give it a go
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    I recall the "Gallyon" make but not the exact model. Some of those cheap fixed spool reels of the 50's 60's and early 70's were'nt much better than the things you get in the Pound shop today. Still , they worked well enough until the line sliced through the bail arm and the cogs disolved into a sort of grey sludge. Them was the days . No worrying if your rod had the latest ergodynamically designed handle , or your reels matched or if the fish you'd just caught had been caught the previous week weighing 3 grams less . Hours of fun from the crappiest of tackle and the fish did'nt even hav
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    Your pup looked a bit more firey than my little chap . He's got a sort of more serious outlook on life. Dead chuffed with him today because he froze over a woodcock .To be honest I thought he was staring at a pile of leaves until I went closer and it took off !. As for the dead moles adorning your living room. No probs mate. I'll take the blame if it helps . Funnily enough I just had the Egyptian President's wife giving me grief on the phone . Her hubby blamed it all on me too!. Seriously everyone needs a stuffed mole(see my effort below and use it as a warning of what can go
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    Thanks. He is only 13 months and I know a lot of folk like to get their pups running quarry a lot earlier but I'm in no hurry . Slowly Slowly catchee monkey.Plenty of other stuff for him to learn yet.
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    Ah,the Black Prince. I think they cost about a quid new. Mostly used grafted to one of those cheap six foot solid glass rods with plastic handles . Intrepid made a series of reels with Royal titles to supposedly denote levels of quality .Black Prince(cheap an chearfull , The Regent (nice device for the price),The Monarch ( expensive and absolutely awfull design). Like you Jasper I have a Black Prince tale to tell. A friend and I were invited sea fishing from a small boat . Being total beginers I simply wound some heavy line on big centre-pin and took my cane pike rod . This j
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    Ok . Sorry about this . Its a long post but I'm stuck here waiting for workmen to turn up between 1pm and 6pm so I'm amusing myself . Last Thursday night I replaced a few layers of remedial sticky-tape on my ancient lamp whilst its attendant battery buzzed away on a refresher cycle before heading for a local livery yard accompanied by my youngest dog.It was a cloudy ,windy night.Perfect conditions according to the gurus of the game to start a novice dog on the road to a lifetime of bunny bedazzlement . It was also very cold . This introduction to the joys of "frozen fi
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    Its in pretty good nick Matty in its case with a spare spool, the only downside is its got a little bit of what looks like corrosion peeling the paint off where the reel clamps onto the rod. its a bice smooth reel but not much good to me as the spools seem pretty shallow for fine line! I'm looking now to get a decent reel I can pile on plenty of 12lb line atb Jasp Gosh ,those Mitchell Match wonder touch reels were the bee's knees once . I still reckon the workaday 300 series was the unsong hero of their day though . Check-out the Intrepid "Surfcast"at the back. It holds a lot of
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    "Hard for them to chew"......ffs! I thought that but did'nt like to say anything..... Any way I must go . Got to tuck my litle freds up for the night and sing them to sleep or they'll never settle ....
  23. comanche
    Accepted wisdom has it that ferrets must not be fed bacon. Possibly the tinyest scraps will do no noticable harm just as the odd bit of chocolate or a grape or two will not kill your dog even though these are considered poison to the canine system. Eaten in any quantity large enough to form decent meals bacon will probably kill your ferret. This conclusion is not based simply upon what I have read . I know of an instance where a well-meaning wife fed her husband's ferrets some nice gammon steaks . The ferrets died .All of them.Very quickly. Do not confuse bacon -wh
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    First Deben brought out the grey box -the FE model(known as Mk 1 nowadays )and jolly good it was and still is . Then came the mark 2 .It looks just like the mark 3 but does not have a volume /sensitivity knob on the back. Basically the mark 2 is not very good it makes hard work of a task the old Mk one excelled at and the battery life of the collars is very short. It was a step backward in development. A mistake by Deben that dented their reputation. That's why they brought out the mk 3 pretty quick!.
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    I was there on em .On one march while walking in the shadow of a far better dog-man than I we were approached by a chap with a microphone . My companion knew that whatever he said would be punctuated by F and C words so I was the one that was sacrificially put forward for an interveiw . Everything went into blank overdrive and to this day I can't remember what I said but apparently the chaps around me approved ...and I did'nt swear . On another march our group was targetted by a couple of reporters because we'd fabricated a straw effigy of good old Tony B. Last I saw of i
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