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  1. comanche
    Do keep up with the mixer and add cooked vegedables. Unless you feel like boiling up the stomach contents ,guts and bits of skin your dog will be short of nutrients . Rabbit meat is high in protein but not a lot else . There are tales of old time trappers dying of malnutrition because they though they could live on bunny meat alone .
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    EEk Please don't squeak em up just for fun . It spooks em for when you want to call em in for real
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    Don't know if this will work but before you do anything else ,carefully take the circuit board out of the box and wipe it over with white spirit ,meths ( I use nail varnish remover because I'm a transvestite ) or a similar solvent to remove verdi-gris . Get right behind the speaker with a piece of tissue or cotton -bud and blow the dust off the speaker . Also make sure the little copper electrode in the collar is'nt covered in dull greeny corrosion. A bit of scratching with a blade or sand -paper will help (I use emery board ) Don't overtighten the battery-cap or you'll dent the bo
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    Beware, next time you have a litter of ferrets or puppies ,no matter how well you keep your livestock the RSPCA might just turn up and sieze em in case they go to the "wrong sort of people ". A silly thing to say ?. Maybe, but check-out the Gray case .RSPCA not wanting the Grays horses auctioned-off in case they went to "the wrong sort of person". Had dealings with a guy who was paid big money to look after livestock pending court cruelty cases . If the owner won he got his animals back . If the owner lost the case ownership passed to the Society and in most cases the animal wa
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    Section 9 1971 Animals Act ;provides that it is lawful to kill or injure a dog which is (i) worrying or about to worry livestock and there is no other reasonable way of preventing the worrying ;or (ii) dog has been worrying but is still in the area unacompanied and without any means of ascertaining ownership. To do this the person harming the dog must be entitled to protect the livestock(ie owns the livestock and/ or t he land or is authorised by the owner) and as stated by alimac inform the police within 48 hours . Clearly no use at all in your case as the pheasants loose in the w
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    Can't help you with specific details about the scope but your mention of wearing glasses /or not wearing glasses prompted me to add my bit . I started getting quite dispondent at one point when testing the zero of my .22 Brno. Nothing seemed consistent .Close but not quite right . It was distortion of the cross-hairs caused by the small lenses of my new glasses . As soon as i raked -out the old specs I shot superbly again . Ok I shot a bit better
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    I want one ! Makes this one's tummy triangle look a bit feeble .
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    Lots of JRs work with ferrets . Like Stubby says yours is still a pup but unless you start training him for general obedience he'll be a bit of a liability around any livestock -not just ferrets . Then you are not going to have much luck getting permission. Get the pup calmed down ,get him on a lead,get his attention and start training . Your dog and your ferrets are young -you have plenty of time to get it right. Eventually the dog will come to regard the ferrets as his little mates who bolt the rabbits he marks and you will have a team . Good luck.
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    Just what I was thinking from the description-"does'nt have magnet on box or pinpoint control". Anyway here is a picture of the back of a genuine Mk111. Note the PinPointer....Very important and heed Stubby's advice ...very important . Hope this is a bit of help anyway .All the best .
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    You can use as many as you like . The locator will only pick-up the collars that are within 16feet (Hopefullywhistling: ) anyway . If you have several ferrets together the signal might get a bit lively until you turn the sensitivity knob down and start to home in on the individuals . Still a few Mk2 collars about-they are black plastic instead of grey like the Mk3 .These can be a quite cheap second hand . They tick a bit faster (hence chew up batteries quicker than a MK3 collar) this can be a usefull way of recognising different ferrets below ground if one has a fast ticking MK2 and ano
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    Eek .Kay . That is not me or my dog . If only I was as good looking as either . No its a friend of mine (though he might not be when I give him a copy of this photo ) . When he moved in with his girlfriend he had to put his lucrative stud work on hold as she got fed up with blokes with in-season greyhounds turning up on the doorstep.
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    Tis true I'm a skinny ,shifty-looking character who likes to slouch about looking for rabbits . My dogs are pretty similar but as neither of em wears glasses I've always phoo-phoo'd the idea that dogs looked like their owners ... Until now.
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    The old girl striking a pose on a trig point and the young one failing to impress a ferret.
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    Mistake you made was saying that the pup," Might go for you". Bit like admitting that you know it is dangerous . Had you said that ,"The pup might get excited or jump up ". Or something similar you 'd be on better ground . The kids should not have come in your garden . You'd been reasonable by letting em have their ball back several times ,told em enough was enough and that should have been the end of the matter . Whilst you cannot legally keep their ball(unless it has caused damage .In which case it can be held until any damage has been payed for ), they have no right of entry t
  15. comanche
    That was a twattish answer.
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    You can bet that the farmers' expectations will be different to yours .When he goes to mow or even for a casual walk across the fields and he spots a bit of moil it is going to touch a nerve if he has a contract with a mole-man to prevent such things . It won't matter to him at that moment that it might be the only bit mole -work on the farm . For a few seconds at least your name will be mud . Much better for the customer to look out of his window and think ",Tis time I called-in that nice Mr Trappa again as the moles seem to be building-up just as they did this time last year ".
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    AS MUCH AS I DONT WISH YOU TO DEFY YOUR PARENTS MATE ,ITS YOUR LIFE AND YOU MUST FOLLOW YOUR HEART IN CHOICE OF CAREER.YOU WILL REGRET ANYTHING ELSE AND ITS NEVER A SUBSTITUTE FOR WHAT YOU DESIRE MOST .FROM EXPERIENCE . FD is so right . So many youngsters have no idea what they want to do and end -up hanging about the streets upsetting folk and sponging from the very society they 've rejected. You though , already have a purpose in life and if you don't at least try to follow your dream while you can you'll regret it for sure . Maybe a compromise could be the answer to con
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    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
  21. comanche
    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
  24. comanche
    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
  25. comanche

    Are you the author of "Wooden Spoons,Their Construction and Use"?

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