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Looks like he really is some kind of God . Does it not rain on him? Tee shirts ,trainers! I've spent the day moling and ferreting not a million miles from there and been rugged-up this morning and water-proofed in the afternoon .
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Wrong -well sort of The box itself will pick up the collar at 15ft but the sticker only goes up to eight feet so you don't actually know how close you are until you've worked you way a bit closer . This is confusing is'nt it ? "EXACTLY" Thats why I said it works to 8ft . Surley if you didn't need to know far away from your ferret you was they wouldn't have put stikers on them in the first place I mean theres a good chance it'll be in the warren somwere! Just thought as the chap asked a genuine question I would give him a genuine answer without the need to confuse him.....Silly m
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Still warm -preferably. But once you get to a certain age ... well,can't be too picky...
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Stick to small burrows till you and the fred are confident .Don't panic if it takes its time underground an d be gentle with it when it emerges so that it does'ntget nervous about coming to hand . Hope this helps and good luck.
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Wrong -well sort of The box itself will pick up the collar at 15ft but the sticker only goes up to eight feet so you don't actually know how close you are until you've worked you way a bit closer . This is confusing is'nt it ?
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I used to use an 8ft collar and a 15ft collar with the same (8ft mk1 box) box . The box picks up the 15 ft collar at -surprise surprise- 15 ft . Once you are working within 8ft the calibration sticker on the "8ft box" is pretty accurate with either collar . I think actually that the only diference between a 15foot set and an8ft box is that Deben put a different sticker on the depth gauge wheel!. As Para1 has said the mk 3 (and mk2 )collars will both work with the old style locator box . You get a range of about 10to 11 feet and I actually find the collars give a steadier signal w
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Both ...Dogs can be genetically programmed to be agressive or be born with a need to be dominent or indead to be placid ,or herd ,or run fast etc . It's inbred in some dogs . These traits are fine if they are then channelled by training by the owner into something usefull . When the Guide dogs society used to rely upon donated dogs for training they had a failure rate of up to %. When they started selecting and breeding their own guide dogs for temperament the rate of failure dropped to 10%. This indicates that a calm sensible temperament is inherited . The same would apply
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In Europe . Dutch people -even more friendly and more laid-back than their free and easy reputation . Very "English" sense of humour too. .Maybe I was unlucky but the Flemish I met were obnoxious and unfriendly even when we went out of our way to be extra polite . Even tried a few words of their language in an attempt to ingratiate ourselves . They just blanked us and seemed to enjoy making us feel foolish . I'm with Nik B when it comes to educated Arabs . Some of the ones I've met have been very refined people with a great sense of honour (that must never be inpinged upon !) .
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Too true .Break the Law and expect to pay the price ...But .I got my first speeding fine a couple of months back . 48mph in a 40 limit on a straight bit of downhill road in a virtually uninhabited area.When I first hit the roads in 1975 this stretch was considered safe enough for a National speed limit of 60 mph .So what's changed . Ah yes modern cars and motorbikes have better brakes and lots of safety features so obviously they need to be slowed down Along comes a Government money making schemer who puts a camera there and basically charges a toll from anyone who slips over what i
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Thank you JK
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The two shots with an air rifle that really stick in my mind are strangely similar but at the same time very different . Paradoxical I think they call it. The first was when I spotted a rabbit move in some brushwood in an orchard behind the tied cottage that I lived in at the time. It was 60 paces -as I later found out- away . I raced indoors grabbed my old Relum with open sights and figuring that as long as I only went for the head it would either be a knockdown or clear miss . I guessed the hol-over and fired . Blooming thing did'nt flinch.I decided that I'd been too ambitious an
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me me me me me me me me me me and did i mention me In a bikini I hope !
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That's awesome, did it get stuck in the net? Imagine digging down to a kill and pulling out a pheasant Had the dog mark a few pheasants down burrows both while beating and ferreting . Always head first as if they've dived for cover and always hens if I recall.I suppose they must be able to get out on their own but they are B*ggers to pull out!
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Just keep looking and don't give up hope .Be honest with neighbours about the escape and you might be surprised how well the word goes round . I lost(my fault -poor cage- door awareness) one a couple of years ago that turned up under my shed a couple of weeks later as fat as a piglet ! My friends boy lost his favorite jill when we were out about 5weeks ago. Simply disappeared off the radar -collar and all-in one of those innocent looking little chalk buries that all too often give problems. The word was put out ,the ground was walked every day by either the lad or his girl
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Was it in it's use -by date? I found an action man about two feet down once when digging for a lie-up. Digging for another rabbit we hit something rather hard and lumpy that turned out to be an almost complete but totally rusted BSA C15!
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Find out if he really does have a 243 and if he really does shoot deer. Obviously try to check the facts but..... If it turns out that he is trying to kill deer with a little spit -gun you have to ask what else is he up to that is either stupid ,illegal or cruel. Before long whatever he is doing will reflect on everybody else who has permission on the land . Get him off it by fair means or foul. If he lost his certificate would it be so bad ?
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Its not common but not unheard of . In fact a lot of older fishing books mention deliberatly using a minnow as barbel bait. Good catch
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Could be wrong but I think Schedules 9 and 14 of the Wildlife and countryside act now forbid the stocking of wels and Water authorities are very much against issuing licences for it .It's a nasty thing to do to a little pond anyway from a conservation point of view. As I write I have in mind a little chain of farm ponds owned by a friend that I've been lucky enough to fish since I was a spotty kid.. A syndicate held the rights for a while over 30 years ago but overstocked with carp. Without permission at that .Then they dragged out nearly all the weed to make the fishing easier . The
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I spent three soggy days in a row last week ferreting a bank in the garden of a country house . Probably a hundred years worth of garden waste ,rubble and clay spoil had been dumped on top of the burrows . Horrible place to net-up and a ghastly place to dig. The only concellation was that it was a paid job . I arrived home friday evening in a rather bedraggled state with a van load of sodden gear to sort out and a desperate need for several cups of tea . I'd barely had time to pop the ferrets back in their cage when the phone rung . My friend and his lad were planning on a couple
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I'd guess that in an emergency such as if a big cat was attacking fluffy livestock or threatening a picnicking party of nuns you could shoot it with whatever gun you had to hand that would do the job and claim that you behaved in a reasonable manner in the circumstances. On the other hand I reckon that if you are using a rifle your certificate will be pretty specific about the conditions of use and it's dog-poo to doughnuts that very few FAC certificates specifically sanction the shooting of alien carnivores ! That leaves you with a shot-gun in your hand ,at close range and h
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Whoever put the trap up for approval should have paid attention to the wording . Or was there some alterior motive for basically ensuring that the trap and box had to be imported as a unit . Cynical as I am I could'nt help but notice that there is a NZ company that sell DOC traps complete with boxes built to the required Dept of Conservation specifications . Maybe they were hoping to corner the UK market . But as John B has noted as they are not the manufacturers of the trap itself any box they build would not be legal in this country as the wording of the Law now stands . Jus
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As the saying goes . GOD made the dog so that men had something to dominate and boost their ego . He made the cat to put them back in their place by reminding men that there are some things that they just can't control.
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The folk that dont use a locator would'nt know if their ferret is layed up, because they sit for six hours waiting for their ferrets to re-apear, one day, I think the phrase they use is, its going deep No the phrase is "laid -up"(or in he case of my mate's poleys "That XXXX thing is stuck again ") . You see Droid ferrets have been laying -up long before the first decent electric crutch was marketed .Yes we relied on liners ,dogs marking and our own nose and ears to tell us where the lay-up was .And yes we had to read the lie of the warren to be aware of blind -spots that a ferret mi
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They seemed to be a sort of urban mtyth until very recently . Heard of but not seen .Like you I'll use em (if they shoot straight) but I'm not sure that they are sub-sonic ??? Someone will know .
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