comanche
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Don't worry .He'll soon tell you.. How do you know the guy you're talking to at a party writes articles on fieldsports? Ditto -
Neither did I.I am very new to computers though so I don't really know how to access it or if my general ignorance of chat-room(computers in general )ettiquette would spoil other-folks rythme. One day I'll have a go.
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Is'nt that typical. They can show East enders and all the other junk soaps that include rape ,murder,drugs ,drunkeness,abortion,gang crime... etc before the watershed.Big brother ,Ramsey's foul-mouthed tantrums .Oh it goes on.... A little series ,probably shown on BBC2 at that, about people catching and eating their own food using legal and fairly natural methods is considered unsuitable.
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I'd imagine that if a mole notices a trap in it's run it reacts as it were a stone or twig that had fallen in. An obstruction to shift and a tunnel to repair or block-off .Had success with Rolfe's back-filled Talpex tip (in a dead -end) for the first time recently .Reverse psychology?.....I've decided that this might well be the technique to try when a mole is plugging me up as I've found that this is when a talpex set in a more conventional manner comes into it's own. Sometimes I think I've cracked it.Everything "feels "right. Some mornings I leave every customer with a smile on their
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Thank You
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Someone must know ? Seems Welshmatt's "random post " has turned -up a bit of mystery.
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cant see the point in it myself last week i went out caught 300 rabbits 47 foxes 2 water buffalo 17 antelope 34 fallow 12 reds 97 muntjac 420 brown hare and my bitch lost the rhino fair and square in cover what was the poit in lyin the poor dog was tired hed had a good weekend and i usually double up on rhino anyhow,this was a black rhino by the way whites tend to be further south of cardigan!!! I know some dogs will take big-game in the right hands , but come on there's not a dog alive can take a rabbit single-handed.
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Clarissa and Jonny still bobble about appearing at shows and things.She was originally trained in Law ,and was one half of the Two Fat Ladies cookery programme team.When the other lady died she teamed up with Jonny to make the C&C series.There was a rumour I'm sure that C had been pulled for taking part in a coursing meet recently ? ?
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I can never quite remember it word for word (but spect someone out there does)but you don't have to be religeous or a member of AA to appreciate the Serenity prayer . Something like; " Grant us the strength to change the things we can,the ability to accept the things we can't and the wisdom to know the difference.."
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Too many to list but recently he League of Gentlemen and someone must remember "Dear John"from the 's? The Shakin Stevens disco and Kirk giving the dead terrapin a dignified end ....
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Hav'nt owned a TV for years (OK I do see other peoples from time to time ) and since giving it up I no longer get wound -up by lying B*stard politicians,"House-mates "who should be gathered together in the Big-Brother jacuzzi and made to play water-polo with an electric toaster, American military propaganda or the fact that no-matter how attractive a weather-girl is ,she always appears on the screen fully dressed. Hence my list is a bit mundane. In no particular order;TV - 90% of it anyway. Dangling/tangling electric cables (OTC )
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Fair question if you don't know. 410 pistols are, if Certified correctly , legitimate and ideal little tools for humane dispatch of snared /trapped foxes etc.Hope this helps
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I have given blood three times and almost certainly will again. I suffer from very bad fear of needles which I know is stupid as wounds from black-thorns ,brambles , barbed -wire and fish-hooks go virtually unnoticed. First time I gave was as much in an attempt to overcome this fear as from any social concience. Tried accupuncture for the same reason. To anyone who would like to give blood but dislikes needles I'd say that the whole experience was ,for me at least , very different from the terror of being approached by a syringe-toting nurse in a "hospital" situation . That come
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Its rotten luck. Years ago, I remember being told two weeks before we were made redundent that despite the rumours our jobs were safe..... Still if he's been layed -off early he will have the time to check on his rights and if the Reciever is involved there is every chance of things being done by the book and being properly accountable. Probably take time though. Luck with his finding a new job
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You will now!!!!!!
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No help bait wise and a little off topic but at our regular sea-fishing port their remains on the local statute -book a rule banning the landing of Skates and rays unless they have been cut-up and winged. This was originally to save the blushes of gentle-folk who might have caught a glimpse of their prominent human-like genitalia.
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I guess the effective depth of the .303 (and I was only quoting the experiences mentioned in an old book) against pike is as much to do with judging the effects of refraction as the actual penetrative powers of the round.After -all , pike make a fairly narrow target. The talk of spearing reminded me of one our brief school-holiday crazes. Catching eels with dinner forks. Little bootlaces would be stabbed with an un-modified ,straight from the cutlery -draw item. For bigger prey we had a second fork with one prong broken off. The eels did'nt actually get punctured. Being so firm and mu
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sadly I now have an image of you accosted by a policeman at 2 am on the towpath.Surrounding you would be a collection of of old poaching books, hook-adorned planks,nets ,sticks with wire loops ,a lamp, spears,tubs of ground Datura, ancient and rusting tins Cymag,various calbre fire-arms and an air of innocence. The policeman will of course accept that you ,"simply have to find out for yourself", and after a word asking you , "not to flash the lamp about too much because it was disturbing the carp fishermen" , he would potter off whistling the theme to Dixon of Dock Green..Oops ,showing my age
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Remember reading one of my Dad's old trout fishing books.Apparently "pike are easily snared" ,a shot-gun is usefull for pike in the shallows and a .303 is effective up to a depth of three feet!
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Back in the 60's a bit of dr Who was filmed on our railway bridge , another episode at a derelict cement works.One mate was an extra in Quadraphenia as a Rocker because he had a suitably old bike.. More recently another friend appeared in an episode of Time-Team chatting to the "The One with The hat with the pheasant tail"(Dunno is name) when they filmed in the local pub.This was after the experts had "discovered" the remains of a Roman settlement nearbye.... Discovered !....My ar*e . The name of the blooming place is "Roman Gate"!..Bit of a give-away.
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One of those old-fashioned, great -big six "U2"battery police torches.Hold it above shoulder height and shine it straight into their eyes and preferably leg-it.Only bring it down as a truncheon as a last resort but if you do don't hold back ! Any powerfull ,eye-burning lamp will give you an edge .
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Crikey,how long did it take you to get that picture? Did you have to take a load and pick out the best ?. Neat picture of a nippy little creature.
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Britains most elusive mammal..
comanche replied to J Darcy's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
That's an "honest " picture JD. Don't apologise for it's quality ,.100 times better than my " picture" of a bat in flight ! -
It can sometimes help if you practice a few retrieves at night,using the lamp to spot the dummy .Hopefully the dog will learn to associate working down the beam with something to chase. And you are perfectly right about my dog getting at least 30 of your rabbits..In my dreams!