comanche
-
Content Count
2,571 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
3
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Gallery
Articles
Gun Dealer's and Fieldsports Shop's
Reloading Room
Blogs
Calendar
Store
Classifieds
Everything posted by comanche
-
Hello Fidgety .Thanks for that Easy in hind-sight but I remember thinking there was a sort of resemblence to rat tails -drone-fly larva.Cept of course Rat-tails tend to appear in buckets of water not light fittings. Slightly coincidentally I did a nest first thing this morning and guess what the customer had been finding on her window- sill? Once again thanks
-
Bitches in Season Even when I was a tiny person I knew it was really antisocial to take an in -season bitch onto the streets .It just wasn't done .Coupleof weeks confined to house and garden ws the unspoken rule. Part of the aquired responsibility if an owner chose a bitch puppy. Nowdays this attitude seems to have been relegated to the scrap-heap along with lots of the unspoken rules about thinking about the good of other folk and being respectfull . How many dogs are lost or killed by cars every year when running on the scent of hot bitches that have been thoughtlessly walk
-
Yep,mine came this week. Proffessional begging letters are a sad fact of life nowdays. All the charities do it . Subtle, old- fashioned terms like "Donations welcome",have been replaced by the aggressive,unabashed,hard-sell methods more familiar in the greedy world of big business. Watch Tv programmes like The Apprentice and you will see that what we see as ugly people involved in ugly promotional techniques consider themselves to be the acceptable face of success and their methods justified by results. I got all uppitty with BASC years ago when they started flogging raffle ti
-
My daughter again.This time at my Mum's for tea. Sausages as it happened. Now the tiddler had recently learned where sausages come from and she also had a reasonable idea of anatomy due to the number of animals we kept about the place. This knowledge led her to announce that sausages were made of pigs-willies!
-
He was certainly a chunky chappie . Strangely ,yesterday I caught one for a very nice lady who's lawn looked a bit like a Tonka Toy construction site. I stood by the back door in my bestest great white hunter pose ,mole held by the tail in my grubby little hand. "Any luck?" ,asked the lady. Affirmative nod from me,mole held higher. "Oh,"she said ,"I was expecting something the size of an otter!".
-
When my daughter wasnot much more than a toddler she came up behind me whilst I was gutting some mackeral. " What have you done with the heads ",she asked . I explained that they were in a plastic bag ."Can I see them ",she asked . I laid them out . "Ooh Daddy ",she said "Can I chop their eyes? ". A good honest appreciation of life,death and where food comes from. Never did my little girl any harm . Only yesterday I recieved a letter from her thanking me for such a wonderfull childhood. I should have recieved it a couple of days ago but it had to go through the Holloway ce
-
Loads of ways to cook it -it is after all just another sort of meat .BUT ,a big" but" ,if your first taste of rabbit is of an undercooked one you might be put-off trying it again. A good stew is a simple starting-point ,virtually fool-proof,chuck in any sort of veg ,can of baked beans,rice ,curry powder ,chilli ,anything you fancy. In the oven or on the hob for at least 3 hours ,don't let it boil dry of course . I usually brown mine in hot fat first but with rabbit the culinary world is your your oyster.
-
Oh man , If only we had Wossies phone number ! hed have one heck of a headache off the calls Maybe one to Wossie from his pal Wussel Bwand saying how he'd been giving Mrs Woss one (and not in the front bottom!) while Mr 6 million was busy in the studio.
-
According to Sniper that won't keep Jonathan Woss's daughter away !
-
Oh man , If only we had Wossies phone number !
-
All those "Death in the Long grass ,Man Eater's of Tsavo", type books had me gripped when I was young. Tales of a Rat-hunting man by Plummer is good even if Phil Drabble wrote most of it for him ten or twelve years before What I'm saying is that if you read "Rat-hunting Man" it is only fair to read Drabble's more gentlemanly "Of Pedigree Unknown" as well and remember he was there first.(get the revised edition if you can)
-
You're probably right . I've had the odd biggy over the years but since I went all 21st century with a digital camera in April I've been more inclined to measure ,photogragh and fiddle with things that seem a bit out out he ordinary. Ok ,so I'm a child. I suppose too that the last couple of warm ,damp years have been great for worms and moles.
-
Yes.......there was a wasp nest just above where these critters were appearing Ooh ,looks like further investigation is required especially with Dogs n Native input as well...but the answer seems at hand.
-
Always report things like this to the police (Its criminal damage ,theft etc) The police might just give you a crime number and fob you off but if enough folk reported every little trap theft the unsolved crime statistics start to look a bit embarrising and it might at least set a rural bobby thinking. Often it's the same people doing the damage so one good "nick" of someone caught in the act can clear -up several unsolved incidents which is good for the Gavver's record and the trapper's sense of justice. Don't know where you are based but round here a bunch of the "Usual Suspects" ac
-
There are some Oriental copies doing the rounds for £2.99. The real shame is that they don't look bad but the spring is so weak compared with the genuine article. But yes Steve ,Holland. On the subject of Talpex traps & moles .Is it me or this mole a rather large specimen?
-
I think most of the one's I've come across tend to over-estimate depth by up to double the actual depth .Once you know that it is fine but Deben's claim that the LED display is ,"only a guide ,may vary with conditions etc", is taking the mick when you are looking at a bit of kit costing £130 or more. The volume knob is probably the most important feature I find . Only check the light display once I have a final location via the volume sensitivity knob. Ah ,that's progress.
-
Rolfe,I came across some of them last year.They came out of an extractor- fan vent in a bathroom.. I'd done a wasp's nest in the roof a week or so before .It was a boxed in loft conversion jobby but I reckon that the jasper nest was pretty close to the site where these chaps were appearing .I remember at the time thinking that they might be some sort of symbient tenant fly lava from the debis layers of the wasp's nest but then forgot about em. So ,yes .I'd like to know too!
-
Apparently my dog thinks the comb-over look is going to to be big on the warrens this season.
-
There were some real dodgy batches of Win 22 about 15 years ago.Some barely plopped out the barrel ,other were damn near hi-velocity,and out of the same box! In your situation I think I'd stick to zeroing at 60 yds,get it spot-on so you are full of confidence and then practice getting the hold-over right for the longer shots. When I first had my .22 my Head Keeper took me and another lad who'd just got his FAC into "the wilderness",got us zeroed at 60yds then told us that when we could hit a match-box at 100 yds he'd let us go out at night on our own. Boy did we practice ge
-
local names for wildlife birds etc
comanche replied to byron's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
Jasper =wasp Hornicle=hornet Dumbledore=Bumble bee Road Runner =feral pigeon Anagram fish=carp -
not such a daft idea in theory .Rabbits do seem to react visually to each other but this often only after one or other has made a sudden movement -a hop and skip whilst feeding or marking territory, a leap whilst flirting or fighting or scuttle for cover etc. I'd imagine that due to the fact that their eyes are so close to the ground when feeding they actually can't see very far at ground level(more geared for hawk-watching or spotting lads with air guns ) and use scent to identify each other and detect each other's moods ,sexual receptivness etc.I have seen rabbits sniffing a freshly shot
-
yeh ,if they continue to rip-off the fans I foresee some sort of civil disorder
-
A decent roach but any idea how big?
comanche replied to comanche's topic in Fresh & Salt Water Fishing
First the big shiny Koi , then the ghosties with that convienient metalic cross to aim at. Then once the eye is truly in ,the commons-especially those with names -
A decent roach but any idea how big?
comanche replied to comanche's topic in Fresh & Salt Water Fishing
Crap er sorry carp used to be so special when I was growing -up but now thanks to the emphasis on instant success in angling they are just another alien invasive species. Over-stocked ,oversized, ever-hungry things that are just an enviromental time-bomb.Britain is 100 years behind the rest of the World when it comes to attitudes to stocking with fast -growing, aggressive strains of carp .So many countries eco-sytems have been wrecked that they activly encourage the use of carp as fertilizer and archery targets!. Ok so that's off my chest. Nice one kingfisher . Just think ,that 20lb -
Apparently a few of the Long-net purists are after the Bushmen's blood now. Took all the mystery out of it and made it look too easy. .....Not only that,..rumour has it they were using the wrong sort of end pins!