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    Chap potters down to the riverbank and is about to make his first cast when a loud voice from his backside goes, "No you idiot you've got to set the float over depth !.". The angler shakes his head in disbelief but does as he's told . This goes on all day with the voice from the back-passage keeping up a barrage of advice and tips on bait and tactics. At the end of the day the angler is a nevous wreck . The voice has driven him mad and his peacefull day on the bank has been ruined . The next morning he goes to see the Doctor and explains the problem . "Don't worry,"s
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    My prototypes with the hole at the top had the bait placed in a compartment below the trap so that the squirrel was supposed to dive right through the middle rather than just pick at the trigger wires but as mentioned I wasn't happy with them . I've often wondered about the fixation with fixing squirrel tunnels vertically . I still do it on occasion when using Kanias but I can't help thinking that it is as much an aesthetic thing as anything . If the trap is baited the scent of food is likely to lure squilly in whatever angle the device is fixed at. My sometimes age- mu
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    Does cutting the barrel down affect accuracy ?. Are the factory 16" barrels better performers than after market adaptations ? Was there a reason CZ settled on 20" length in the first place? I can see that a shorter barrel would be less cumbersome with a moderator attached but are there any downsides ? Having had my old Brno for the past 25 years I still look at her and think she looks a bit too lanky with the moderator fitted but to chop her about would be unthinkable !
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    I think that historically on a proffessional level the supposed "Dark Art of Mole Grinning" has been jealously kept within families who kept their knowledge and trapping grounds very much at heart . Woe betide any pecieved challenger who stepped over the undrawn boundaries or who hoped for a short-cut to Talpidean knowledge. Now that traditional mole bothering is making a big come-back the old attitudes and quaint ,almost Masonic , secrecy are becoming more apparent as well. Those who see an internet-connection as the only tool you need when it comes to gathering wisdom ma
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    I'd be interested to see how you get on . Are you going to mount it as top entry or end entry if you know what I mean ? When I made something similar and mounted them with the holes at the top I had a couple of foul catches in the body grips .As I was experimenting with the traps in my own garden I was actually on site to deal with them quickly but it was obvious a re -think was in order. I suspect the squirrels were tentertively dangling through the entrance hole and reaching for the bait rather than diving through the middle as they should . When I mounted the box sideways l
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    Excellent . Almost Hitchcockian !
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    It's possible that by putting her in with the hob on the 12th for too short a time the jill was stimulated into a phantom pregnancy so when you tried again a few days later she was in no state to conceive anyway. Are you sure she was properly in season ? Did you see(and hear!) them mating?. Was there a bit of neck-biting ? P1 . I mentioned that I thought having a pseudopregnancy might be a little healthier than staying in season . Sorry for not getting back straight away . It's not so much a "conclusion" as an idea . I can't help feeling that in a natural state an animal liv
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    Great pictures . They really capture that moment of dilema that foxes go through when the urge to make a tactical retreat is fighting with curiosity .
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    I was about as close as i could be without engaging the close-up mode of the camera .Less than a couple of feet away I guess but she was getting twitchy so i did'nt push my luck and disturb her more than I had too. Thanks for the comment . One of my better efforts amongst the dozens of failures . For instance a couple of days ago I was crouched ready to try for a picture of badger cub that was snuffling up a track towards me . Quite out of the blue another cub burst through the hedge beside me and froze in surprise . I was so taken aback I pressed the "off" button instead of the shutter
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    Could be the aged memory playing tricks butI'm sure an elderly lady was bitten a while ago when she was reaching for her milk on the doorstep. I was called to deal with one that was asleep in a cat bed by a backdoor last year . What was surprising was that it was on the first floor of a block of flats!
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    So that's, er ,48 days . They do go a day or three over at times but assuming there was no error in calculating the moment of supposed fertilization shed've normally had them by now . But . Did the jill stay with the hob for several days or did you whip her out as soon as you thought she'd mated ? Maybe they did'nt mate successfully straight away and your calculations are out because of that . Maybe the hob is a Jaffa . Sometimes early in the year hobs are a bit short of viable sperm and though they mate cheerfully enough they are shooting blanks and just stimulate a false p
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    The pros and cons of introducing the blood of genuine polecats. The "is it a genuine polecat or feral ferret" dilemma . Subjects proven time and time again to attract a host of varying opinions . A while back I found myself chatting to a guy at a zoo about their polecats. According to the keeper in the past they had had some animals that were too shy to be of much entertainment value to the public ,some that were a bit too hissy and others that failed to rear litters . The ones that were less extreme in their habits lived and bred to produce the crop of poleys that were on di
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    How big was she ? And here's one I prepared earlier . Them's inches not centimetres . As Foxdropper noted, they are great things to see . They buzz past like Lancaster bombers . You can almost see and feel a cold sort of intelligence behind their eyes . My most favourite insect .
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    Two rabbits with one Eley sub last night. First time that's ever happened in 30 years of owning the rifle . Once stalked a pigeon hanging on old sprouts on a freezing misty day .I c ould just make it out in the gloom and shot it . When I picked it up there were three others behind it in a neat row . Not very sporting but I was only using a single barrel. 410. The same .410 once got me two mallard in flight as they came off a farm pond.
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    From the days long before digital here are a couple . This little bitch actually starred in a children's magazine photo-strip re-enacting the rescue of a lurcher that had fallen over a cliff into the sea . I did'nt actually hurl her off Beachy Head(the fee was'nt big enough for that !) but she did get to do a lot of swimming for the camera and even had a ride in an inshore lifeboat . As I recall I was paid the princely sum of £10 and my daughter had to go out and buy the magazine as we did'nt even recieve our free copy as promised .
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    Thanks for the help. Just one other question then...does the spring have to be situated at 90° to the trap? Or can it be facing straight up/down as well? Presumably this wouldn't affect it's effectiveness... These traps can be a daunting if you've not handled one before but are excellent once you are familiar with their safe and humane use . As you are doing it is best to take advice over any doubt you may have before playing with them too much. The Magnum Trap Company site gives some basic advice on their use and the variations in spring position . Good luck and watch the digits!
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    First Queen hornet I've seen this year although almost unbelievably I spotted a worker quite a while ago .
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    i would say you have rubbish traps and they need tweaking, the reason they are fireing off when you set them is, the catch on top of the trap is set at the wrong angle, get a pair of pliers and bend it down abit until u can keep the trap set then see how much pressure is needed to fire the trap off, if to much pressure is needed you have bent it too far Its rare to get a tunnel type trap that is set up nicely straight from the factory . Even if it was the average mole-man would still find a reason to tweak it a bit more! As long as the springs are good and strong go ahead and
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    Spot -on Mr Muttle Sadly some folk are worried by them or even mistake them for cockroaches or even on one occasion a hornet! As for puzzling the dogs ....
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    My area is famous for adders and about three years ago I came across one sunbathing on the path in front of me. It was matt black but ,this will sound strange, I could still make-out the marks on its back which somehow appeared blacker . Of course I had no camera but I watched it for about ten minutes .
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    Yes she was a good sized one and the area was an old compost dump . Ideal I'd guess for egg-laying .
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    Having established that the cross is viable I only have to increase the size and I will have an army of chimera to aid my ultimate plan of world domination . Ok ,so it's a May bug .Also known as a cockchafer due to its habit of hiding in the folds of gentlemen's y fronts
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    Whilst waiting for a customer to turn -up i went for a look down the bottom of the field where she said seen a snake a few days before . I went into sneaky sneaky mode and sure enough surprised this girl.She was holding her ground and doing a bit of false striking so I left her in peace as soon as the pics were taken
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    Urban fox control is quite right to mention the money-spinning side of fox release . Apart from the Pest Control Companies that are said to operate catch and relocation (at a price , always at a price)and the vets that are(or certainly were) happy to supply mange treatments for house-holders to lace their gardens with . The "Big" Animal charity loves to have its staff pose with cuddly cubs for fund raising excercises but when a customer stepped out of her first floor flat to find a sickly fox curled up on her doorstep did they want to know ?. No. A cynic might suggest that there's not much fi
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