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  1. comanche
    As far as I know to be registered to be used on the road an ATV must have working lights as well as all the usual MOT type requirements ,suitable tyres etc. Back in the mists of time I had trials bikes that provided they had no light fittings of any type -working or not - and were road legal in all other ways could be used on the road in daylight . Not so much as a brake light which with an Atv in modern traffic sounds like a recipe for something nasty! There is a vehicle licencing class for ATVs so I'm sure it would be easy to check out requirements . Maybe a vist to your loca
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    now in the past with stuff like Reynardine, various foul home brewed concoctions and King & Barnes brown ale available one might have considered stinking the blighters out so they moved to more accessable burrows . Are you sure the burrows actually go under the road a significant way rather than running in the verge ? These are the sort of places that rabbits hold-out and breed in and end -up reinfesting the land from simply because they can be risky or hard to tackle . Its a real sense of achievement when they get cleared but its not worth causing an accident for . Sorry
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    Thanks for the comments everyone . The pup is really just a mongrel . Dad was the local wandering lurcher and the mum was a farm collie that obviously either . a/ was too slow to protect her virtue . or b/ was a bit of a tart I suspect the latter as she let the same rampant stray knobble her last year as well !
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    You don't say if the road is a private track or proper public road with cars and the like . I think lots of us have to make a decision from time to time about ferreting under concrete bases and other solid surfaces . Take into account broken or hidden drains and stuff like that . As said , start with well fed freds .go quietly and start early in case you do end up with a long wait . I'm not convinced Para's advice about air guns is correct . Unless the law has changed you are quite entitled to use a gun within 50 feet of the centre of a highway (including footpaths)providing -and
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    They havn't got the volume (squelch?) knob that can be turned down to reduce sensitivity as you work closer to the lost ferret which is a far more usefull guide to its whereabouts than the Star Trek LED lights that flicker aimlessly away like a Hawkwind lazer show . And as said ,the collars seem to tick too quickly which means they eat batteries .
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    Over the last couple of weeks I've been working my way round a few acres of very rough ground surrounding a 13th Century manor house owned by a lovely elderly couple . The land hasn't been ferreted for the sixty years that they've owned the place so is pretty much virgin territory . It is also incredibly overgrown. By the time I've hacked my way into the ancient hedge-rows I've been lucky to have enough time to work more than a couple of burrows a day . After all this sweat-inducing hacking I decided to reward myself with a few hours in the "Pit" which whilst being easier to access was
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    You will probably be very lucky to get one . I bought a brand new box and collar a couple of years ago from a fishing shop that had it mouldering at the back of a cabinet . The guy appologetically asked if £25 quid would be ok because he wasn't able to offer a gaurantee! So there may be the odd one about but don't worry because the MK3 collars(and the battery-killing Mk2s) will work with a grey box up to about 10 feet .
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    The most affectionate ,loyal,intelligent bitch I've ever owned .cattledog pup.bmp obedient cattle dog.bmp and athleticcattle dog jumping on shed.bmp BUT not without certain funny little ways which might not make the cross everyone's cup of tea !!! As mentioned there have been a couple of great threads on the subject already .
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    I've a couple . They were a bit of a finacial investment but they've paid for themselves .As yet I've only used them baited with old Quality Street chocolates (Turkish Delight -the ones nobody wants !) for squills and I like them.Little pre drilled holes in the ends of the tube mean it is easy to restrict the entrance with a bit of fencing wire or a skewer so that squills can squeeze past but hedgpigs can't and the tube can easily be incorporated into a more naturalistic tunnel.
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    Reminds me of Kate Winslett in "that" film ..Neat picture
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    Just about everything everybody has said makes sense . No point in me adding to it except to say; You have a sharp ferret and one that stays with the kill . Maybe you might not find yourself using him as much as your "softer" ferret but he will definatly come in handy from time to time . Thirty or more years ago he would have been a gem for line-work and with a locator on him might fit a similar role today . All the best .
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    Yep the rod is coming next time . Some of the little eddies under the bushes screamed,"Pike". And being tidal they can't touch you for it as long as you don't actually land on the banks which are all club controlled .
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    I had a job in the area so I popped the canoe on the roof rack . Surely anyone would have done the same? As you can see the weather could'nt make its mind up . Saw a crocodile . and geese. and some things you really don't want to see when you are bobbing about in an open 11 ft canoe - like these big black clouds ! Had I been forced into a survival situation (I mean I was at least two miles from the van ) I would have had plenty to eat .British White cross bred,maybe ? . Just got to get under that bridge before it rains . Then just as I was about to land the
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    SNAP! Got up looked out the window and thought "First frost . That'll knock the nettles back ". Two seconds later I get a text from my ferreting mate saying ,"First frost . Die nettles .Die !". If only frost blunted blackthorn ..
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    Thanks .He is a handsome little chap but just a mongrel.
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    Yeh .I know .Those combats do nothing for the figure . It's moments like that -when you are stuck with your head down a hole and backside in the air that you pray you hav'nt misjudged your ferreting companions !
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    Well spotted Watson . But. The rabbits-cunning devils - were utilising a small raft. Originally built for their now -aborted attempt to be the first rabbits to reach Iceland on a boat powered by a sail made of dock leaves this craft now resides in the Ray Mears Museum as an illistration of the traditional skills lost by modern rabbits through watching television and working in the cosmetic research industry . I guess the bunnies were up the dry end which meant I had to put the ferret in the wet end (I know what I mean ) so as to get behind em.
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    The baby dog was pretty certain that this drain under a gateway was concealing goodies . Unfortunatly it was full of water and not having an otter handy I had to lower the water-level by clearing the ditch on the down stream side to have any chance of persuading a ferret to enter . Nets down ,ferret in and ping ! I have to come clean and admit that there turned out to be two bunnies up the pipe and the second one having waited for his mate to fill the net made good his escape from the open hole . He managed to evade the lazy-net stretched over the track but made the
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    Space ,you need space to get a decent viable population of managed rather than stocked greys , Thousands of undisturbed acres. Who's baron partridge ?
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    I recall that ducks were quite good at raiding the pheasant hoppers that I had set near a wood land pond but they made a mess!. These were45 gallon drums with little letterboxes cut in the base that spilled grain into metal trays. The Wetland trust at Arundel uses hoppers on legs with spring agitators in some of its enclosures . The springs have big (white I think) pads on the end for the ducks to knock to release food . I have been trying to find the picture I took but think I must have deleted it . I think that for a lot of ducks you will need to have several hoppers and be prepared t
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    Always take the batteries out after use just in case things have got a bit damp in there which could cause leakage of power or corrosion. Always use decent watch batteries not the zinc-air ones designed for hearing aids as the latter don't last- often just die without warning . And for optimum battery life don't touch the ends as it can cause a power leakage . Watchmakers use little plastic tweezers.
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    Useful film for the beginer . Another tip for the beginer (or those of us who's memory is fading ) is having zeroed your rifle at your selected range is to go back and try it at closer ranges just to see how high or low it is hitting the target . A rifle zeroed at 45 yds might well be firing a couple of inches high at 25 and be doing something completely different at ten yards. If you shoot a lot it will become second nature to adjust your aim either through experience or with the help of technology. Otherwise just make a note of the variations on a sticky label and
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    Bit more fun than spending the night in a kid's play tent waiting for a buzzer to go off I'll bet. Lovely catch. A few years ago a mate and I were trout fishing from a boat at Weirwood and he actually hooked a carp on a fly . It was a real comic situation with me desperatly trying to keep the boat under control and him muttering instructions and curses at me every time his backing started to reach a critical point .In the end I managed to get it part way into the trout-sized landing net and unhook it in the water. It was a real hand shake moment and that one "only" weighed around 12
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    There are plenty of cosmetically excellent copies of the Talpex about at half the price or less than the originals .Sadly they are let down by springs that are only half as powerfull. As spring strength is one of the features that makes the Talpex so adaptable to different trapping situations it is best to pay-up and stick with the real deal . My local Scatts sell Duffus types by Albi at a very reasonable price . They seem crudely assembled and always need a load of tweaking and bending but once set-up do the job and last quite as well as more expensive ones I've bought in the pa
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    I guess there is the answer to why some folk think the originals imported traps are a bit pricey . If a chap in Britain can knock some very good-looking copies yet has to price them at a fiver (and possibly not be making that much money once materials ,time and such-like have been factored in )is it any wonder that the US made ones are a bit more expensive.Someone has to pay their fare across the big sea and then pay import duty and then get em by magic carpet to KG who obviously want to make few bob on the deal . By the time the traps have passed through the distribution networ
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