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  1. comanche
    I make mine 18meshes widex 23long because you cant buy them that size at shows why make something you can buy at shows? some are ok others a waste of time and money Remember "You can put a big net over a little hole but you cant put a little net over a big hole" Y.I.S Leeview I tend to go for 18 meshes x20-22-similar to Leeview but 15 wide x18 long is a pretty standard size . It's worth remembering that a really big net requires a rabbit to be travelling quite fast as it hits or the net will not be pulled fully closed . It also needs more space to allow the drawstring to be
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    Head gaskets . If one goes or you start to" lose " coolant stop and get it sorted immediatly . Get the head skimmed before you put it back together or it will probably blow again in the same place after a few months .Probably only cost you £15-£20 foer a skim . Use 50% anti-freeze to keep head and waterway corrosion down . They tend to be cramped ,crude, noisy,thirsty, rusty little buggers but most people who've owned an Sj end up loving em !
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    Only seems to be passed by fleas in this country but mosquitoes are the main vector in Australia .Now I can't find my old copy of Private Life of the Rabbit by Ron Lockley but I'm sure his experiments indicated that rabbit fleas could lay around for up to six days without feeding. During this time they were more than happy to hop onto any passing bunny and infect it with myxomatosis .Interestingly ,rabbits that were made host to only a few fleas did not develop the disease whist those deliberatly infested with larger numbers died . This sort of indicates that the odd flea picked up o
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    Two pennyworth . For rabbits definatly go for .22 rimfire,moderater and subsonic ammo. learn to shoot straight with it and brush-up on your field craft and you'll be able to take the odd fox too. Pop plenty of targets (.22 rimammo is so cheap that there is no excuse not to practice,practice ,practice) Learn your own limits of range/accuracy and stick to em . Whether you put a .22 rim or a 243 round through fox's head or chest it will be dead .Your ability to place it there is the deciding factor . A slightly misplaced bullet from a powerfull round allows a greater margin of error due t
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    Its a crime against the lore of a hunting to take more than can be used . I've heard people claim that they had to kill more rabbits than they needed because they were engaged in pest control rather than hunting for the pot. The excess catch being dumped in a ditch or left lying about to attract flies ,crows ,rats and foxes Funny sort of pest control that is . I know that there is an "R" in the month and the equinox has passed but serious ferreting won't be starting quite yet for me because it is warm and there are still a lot of flies about which will spoil the carcases.
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    It is indeed quite legal to shoot within 50feet of the CENTRE of a highway. "Highway" (as defined in its widest sense as a route for passing and re-passing of people and traffic ) includes cycle tracks ,bridleways and footpaths etc. In fact you can shoot from a bridleway or footpath if you own the land it crosses or have permission to shoot from the owner . It becomes illegal when someone using the route is endangered or interupted . So a chap speeding past in a car is not likely to care if someone is popping pigeons from a hide in a nearby hedge but a horserider or mother with a
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    I've never been able to trap one in a larsen even with a judas bird. Friend of mine traps no end before he starts on magpies using green/blue bantam eggs in his larsen. Try one of the simple "lobster-pot" pheasant catchers . Seven or so feet of 3ft high chicken wire,folded in half ,"stitched" along the top with a hazel rod .Wire-mesh funnel entrance . Prop it 6inches off the ground over a few handfulls of wheat /maize top-up every day and after about a week peg it down.You'll probably get the odd squill and woodie but jays seem more confident about going into these f
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    Are you the author of "Wooden Spoons,Their Construction and Use"?

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    Yeh the fieldsports scene is really going downhill with too many sad tarts who use the internet forums to make ridiculous claims to attract attention to themselves. They make statements that impress naive young men but any knowledge they do possess has been gleaned from magazines or other internet bull-shitters rather than through first-hand experience . Bloody carp anglers !
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    Hm, you could be right . Still when the countryside is finally concreted over and we are all supposed to be surviving on a PETA regulated supply of freeze-dried plankton I know that my angelic -looking Grandchildren will not be starved of protein thanks to their nonchelent acceptance of what even today are considered the less fashionable cuts of meat and the Mail-Order bride connection .
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    I'm a sad child at heart so when a visit to my local Poundland revealled that they already have a good stock of seasonal Halloween goods I could'nt help but invest in one or two items . Not that I agree with 'trick or treatin '-AKA demanding sweets with menaces . I could however see some darkly humerous milage in my grisly purchases . Fast forward to this morning. My grandchildren are visiting, I'm supposed to be cooking lunch and the trap is set . "Oh ",I say to the six year old girl,"can you get some sausages from the bottom of the fridge?. " I watch with disinterest
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    Definatly worth a try -a warm comfortable pup will soon nod-off providing he is relaxed and has'nt wound himself up by fretting. He's probably crying either because it is a habit he has aquired in kennels where no one really bothers about the noise or because he really ,really wants to be with you at night .Try making a fuss of him as he goes to bed ,calm him down ,cuddle him and give him a lovely old jumper or similar that really smells of "You" before slipping out of the room without a fuss. Might not work but has to be worth a go .
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    One of my regular customers had one a few years back . Now addmitedly she'd made no attempt at obedience training so any comments on its biddability would'nt be fair but I'd have said it had a similar temperament to a whippet with maybe a tad of saluki aloofness thrown in . The lady owner is the ex-wife of a pop star and part of the divorce settlement included a few acres of overgrown woodland complete with rabbits . The Pharaoh was a great -but yappy- rabbiter when hunting on it's own terms . It was also a bit of a trouble-maker with the other dogs .Only once actually getting in a figh
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    We seem to be in the epicentre of Staghorn activity round here . Some of the more squeamish students from the local 6th form college stopped going into the park opposite to study (Oh really ;not to drink beer ,skate-board and burn strange aromatic fags then ?) because these thing s were appearing like locust a few weeks ago . This one made itself known to me when i was harrassing moleson a rugby pitch . Bet that ifactually went looking for one I'd never find one to order
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    This little chap said if I did'nt give him 20p for a cup of tea ( yeah right .I bet he spends it on booze or drugs ) he'd set his big brother on me .
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    I know just what you mean about that *****ing mole puppet ,the lawn -shark bollocks and the crap Chinky traps he sells to the public at shows at a massive mark-up! Sadly I know from talking to customers that the image of mole-trapping is actually being damaged by the presentation techniques used at the Guild stand at shows and the fudging answers they have been given when asking for genuine advice about catching their own problem mole . It would be very wrong of me to criticise the Guild itself or it's aims of which I know nothing but first hand-knowledge
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    In the good old days mink cages used to bought or home-made in lovely Imperial one inch square rigid weld- mesh . You only had to worry about the door having a good spring . The so-called squirrel/mink cages that are sold today are pretty poor things in comparison with weak rectangular mesh. The vertical bars are too far apart. A big muscular male mink has strength on his side while a female or youngster has the advantage of a slim build . Door shuts behind minky, it's probably not too fussed at first ,especially if the bait is good . After a while minky thinks about
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    Definatly agree . Forget mk 4s.They may be approved for squirrels but I've too often found well-caught squirrels dead in the trap but with a foot braced against the metalwork as if they had been struggling to heave themselves free before dying . Mk Vl s are much better . You are right to mention that you will be using boxes as the traps must placed in tunnels of the right diameter and design. This is a legal requirement as it reduces the chances of catching pets ,other wildlife and humans . The Fenn -type traps only work properly in real or artificial tunnels anyway so there is no
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    Had every intention of being on the Arun at first light on the 16th -even dug the worms -but By the time I'd got back from wasp-nest duties , walked the dogs ,cleaned my kitchen of rubble after some DIY building work and dared to have a cup of tea before dozing -off at about 1.30 am I ,er ,overslept . Finally I made it onto a little mill-stream last night. Just for fun I selected an elderly cane rod and centre-pin reel as long-casting isn't a problem . In fact the stream has long shallows and pools only about 18 inches deep and at most twenty feet across . In many places it narrow
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    Years ago when I was a keen young Keeper I dug a rather elaborate system of trenches in the bank of our duck flight pond , placed the only Mk6 Fenn the shoot possessed in the middle and covered the lot to form one massive tunnel trap.Head keeper took the p*ss out of me ,the Boss, his brother and even his bleedin spaniel extracted so much urine that I risked death through dehydration ... Driving around the lane the next morning I was overjoyed to spot evidence of a minor RTA in the welcome form of an unmarked dead mink of the usual dark brown variety . Ha Ha ,I'd show the disbeliev
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    The mating season tends to start as the daylight hours start to increase after the shortest day, around 21st of December . Rising light levels stimulate breeding behaviour . With a gestation lasting about a month some rabbits are therefore found to be pregnant by late January onwards but these early feotii are often re-absorbed by the mother -a sort of self abortion- due to unsuitable conditions such as lack of food ,stress or bad weather .By April most healthy adult does will either be pregnant or will have already given birth to a litter and the end of March/early April is gene
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    If you were budgetting £300 for a gun you'll have no trouble picking something up that is usable and if you buy from a dealer rather than privatly you should have some assurance that it is safe to use and does'nt have a dodgy past that will come back to bite you when you register it . Dealers have loads of old side-by sides of undetermined "Spanish" origin that have come-in via part- exchanges and the sound but unrefined Baikal SSs feature on every other gunshop shelf . You'll be surprised at what sort of perfectly usable knock-about bargains can be had for £ to £150 if you hav
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    Er yes forgot the pic .Sorry .
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    I was on a job at an American Classic car restorers , having a look about and could'nt help but jokingly ask "Which of the rotting hulks is "Christine? " . The evil ,indestructible car from the horror film of the same name . "That one ". came the reply. "Is that the same make then ?".I asked . "No mate .That IS Christine!." Various bits of various late19 50's Plymouth Furies bodged together into one entity that was probably never intended to last longer than the making of the film let alone last 25 years .. Well, one of the three Christines that have survived
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    My local rivers still have plenty between bootlace size and a couple of pounds and in certain tidal reaches a bait dropped near the bank at slack or as the tide starts to flood will bring a bite a cast . Strangely cheese or sweet corn seem to score over worms or fishy baits .This activity only lasts twenty minutes or so and can be hectic and frustrating due to the snags ,tide and tangles . Many Sussex rivers had their headwaters dammed as hammer ponds for the iron industry,farmponds and estate lakes and the odd good eel turns -up in these mature still-waters. If you are intere
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