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  1. comanche
    Def not a no4 , they are ejectors. Or a no 3 . Nor a Yeoman. With the side scallops on the action and cross bolt It actually looks more like one of the generic sbs still being knocked out by lesser Spanish makes well after AYA had gone for more modern designs . Maybe an early Aya that's been cleaned up well ? The knocks and screw in the stock show it's seen a bit of life .The proof Mark's look old and should help date it . That that might not help indicated a model name though . Old guns were often sold without model names just as AYAs or BSAs etc
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    It helps that they are usually free! Fill a sack(or more) if you can
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    This is the time of year for windfall apples. Used whole , crushed or fermenting in bucket of water hung from a tree , they'll attract roe and a lot of other animals to your trail cam. As for covering your scent ,lay off the Hai Karate , stay downwind against a backdrop and don't flinch. Even if they sense you , curiosity will even sometimes cause them to walk closer to investigate . A remote shutter activator will keep your movement to a minimum. I bet most people with trail cams have pictures of deer noses where the animal has been intrigued by the camera and come closer
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    A better way to find out if rats are about is to use your eyes . Runs , damaged items . poo, and footprints are not hard to spot . Do a proper recce . Setting a trap randomly is not a great idea . I'm picturing the unlikely event of a particularly stupid rodent , a youngster with ADH or an oldy with dementia perhaps, challenging a horde of peanut butter crazed slugs for possession of the treadle. Yippee", you cry " l have rats ," and grab a gun. Maybe you do ..... But you shouldn't need a trap to to know that .
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    A great picture trumps a thousand words🐿 Squirrel can be bland and begging for Bbq sauce or spices. Or ,get them after a good autumn on mushrooms( the squirrels) wild chestnuts and hazel nuts when they've been flavoured by nature. An Autumnal squirrel and bacon pie cooked by a friend's wife could have graced a top restaurant.
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    Too light and agile to trigger the plate , a bunch of wood mice will clear a trap of bait with glee. Even if the trap triggers they just escape through the holes . If you think it's slugs a dusting of salt or a strip of the adhesive copper tape used by gardeners will deter them. You don't say what you hope to catch, rats ,squirrels? Tougher baits or wrapping a nice chunky bait in fine mesh might help. Unless of course the culprit was Bertie Basset on an SAS- type raid to rescue his chums.
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    A cynic might suggest that by offering the unmade traps at a discount and only selling in bulk Kania could knock up a fairly heathy looking set of figures . They wouldn't have to produce a single trap . Just sell the pattern ,tooling and glowing advance-order book to to some keen innocent.
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    So a company that's supposedly been a leader in the fur and trapping business for 25 years suddenly needs to raise £160,000 . And they need it quick ,and upfront. ????
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    Not sure how true this is but l was told in a kinda " man in a pub( Co OP shop actually )" conversation that the company decided to farm out assets . The biggest asset being the patent or licence for the Kania which was only released when the price was right.* *Edited ; it looks like they actually sat on the patent themselves . As l say , this may well not be exactly true but with the fur trade failing lt would be a good guess that the words " financial poo" might be relevant. Someone like Phil or OTC probably has a better idea.
  10. comanche
    No he is mongrel longdog x collie. Quite handsome when he was younger
  11. comanche
    I miss the grumpy bxgger already Phil. Even though he is still actually here . Albeit with a heart murmur and increasing deafness . He just about has enough eyesight left to respond to me waving my arms like Billy Graham . As in " Praise-be he learned hand signals when he was little." Still has his nose though. Your dog in the picture looks like its spotted a mermaid. Or has designs on the IOW ferry!
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    I had a cattle dog cross that could open a hot oven and eat a sunday joint while it was still cooking . Same dog could remove child locks from a freezer and eat joints of meat, frozen trout and loaves of bread complete with plastic wrapping. My old boy has more refined hobbies.
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    Bird , l must apologise. I said l never had a dog that didn't swim but l have just remembered that l did have one. Only briefly though. I had a classic looking 70s pied deerhound lurcher "sapling" dumped on me after l stupidly said l would find a home for her. She went on a deer on the far bank of a small river. Unfortunately the river was choked bank to bank with duckweed and looked like solid ground. Being swallowed up and plunged into deep water mid flight had quite a traumatic effect on her. After that she wouldn't look at a deer ,which was a blessing as l was li
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    I just take them out as as puppies. Carry them about when they are little so they just take different sights, sounds and terrain as normal . Walk them on the lead in the shallows and through puddles. Once they are retrieving l toss a dummy on the far side of a shallow stream and work up to them wading and eventually swimming for retrieves in deeper water . Having said that. I've had dogs that would gleefully hurl themselves into deep water just for fun and flounder through bogs in pursuit of something , but on a casual walk would step round little puddles as if they were inf
  15. comanche
    Don't think l ever had one that wouldn't.
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    Somewhere under that morning mist is Windermere Suspect this Old Boy won't be around much longer .
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    The obvious question is.......Hopefully as a comedy actor the late Mr Cope wouldn't be offended but... " Will he come back?
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    Neil is right. The old grey"Mk 1" box will pick up signals from both the Mk 2 and Mk3 "Orange carrot " locators. The Mk1 collar only works with a Mk1 Box though. The Mk2 and Mk3 locators both work with Mk 2 and Mk3 collars interchangeably. One difference is that Mk2collars seem to tick a little faster than the Mk3s. The most noticeable difference is that all the Mk 2 collars l've seen are made of black plastic while Mk3s are grey. The picture shows two Mk2 collars above a Mk3. All well used. Interestingly the plastic clips on the battery covers of both of m
  19. comanche
    Honest DIDO ; it's a male.
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    Er, l know l risk falling foul of the modern trend for rejecting stereotypical sexual labels based upon what is considered the inadmissible evidence of outward appearance . However the issue of possible emotional gender fluidity aside , and at risk of being politically incorrect by sexually objectify even an insect ; The wasp in the picture is a bloke . Or if she ( they , them , us ) is a Queen she ( us , they them) is a very convincing cross dresser.
  21. comanche
    Oh my heavens l feel guilty now , but l would probably have done the same . I wasn't trying to be clever though. Most fruit stones do honestly produce cyanide . Still time to have another go with the gin before Christmas. Good luck!
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    Hello OTC! I've a couple of the same Model Fenns with subtle differences in the wire work and catches . Different batches l guess . The noticeable difference is that one trap has four tiny holes in the treadle ;possibly for wiring a bait to ? Would this have been a factory feature or a user modification? All the best
  23. comanche
    You would only need to crush a a very small number of the stones to get a subtle almond taste . Not every stone in the batch! The usual proportions are roughly 2 pints of gin to 2 pounds of sloes. Some recipes do include just a couple of crushed almonds for added taste. A lot of people don't see the need. The stones of 2lb of sloes chopped to bits and dunked in alcohol are going to release a lot of acid. It probably won't produce fatal levels of cyanide but might well be unpleasantly bitter . Allowing the neat gin to absorb flavour from the sloes for a couple of
  24. comanche
    Eek! Don't you like your family? Smashing-up the stones doesn't release goodness. It releases cyanide !
  25. comanche
    Quite possibly Median wasps. They look a bit like small hornets and tend to build quite largish grey nests in shady bushes. When annoyed they have a habit of dropping from the nest like big raindrops.
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