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  1. comanche
    Thanks FD. I have to admit that one bit of the Stour looked like a carp lake ,there were so many specimen hunters after barbel. We kept walking untill we found a stretch to ourselves. Yep I'd like to catch a barbel or any really big fish but I don't enjoy combining fishing and camping.Each to his own though. One chap had a superb 7lb chub from a free stretch while my mate watched. He'd waited 3 days for it so though it would'nt be my idea of fishing he certainly deserved it. One thing we did decide on early was not to try to emulate the locals .Once we started fishing as we did at home we
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    Venus.....Mound or hill?
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    A small 4x4. Cliff Richard or.....Alice Cooper ?
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    I know it's old news to some but just read a report on a guy who found in himself in a survival situation and killed and ate a nest of osprey chicks. After his rescue Wild life wardens and police charged him under the Protection of Birds act. In Court the man assured the Judge that it was a one-off act in an emergency situation and he was let off. As he went to leave the dock the Judge could'nt resist asking what Osprey chicks actually tasted like. The man thought for a second before replying ," Something between a Corncrake and a Hoopoo".
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    Just had three days away on the Dorset Stour and the Royalty with a mate . We are both experienced anglers in that we've been fishing for years but that does'nt mean we are actually any good!. To make it harder ,or maybe to give us a plausable excuse for failiure,we decided to do it Crabtree style-- Ok I did take an old Mitchell300 as a spare and "M " was using his super modern centre-pin reel but I opted for an ancient greenheart rod and elderly ,much repaired, old Nottingham drum .Most of the other anglers seemed to be preoccupied with worshipping The great barbel God and seemed to think
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    Non-native ,enviromentally damaging fish like catfish ,crap.... Oh sorry I meant carp. Or pretty little roach ,dace,tench etc.I'm not bias ? Brown or Rainbow ?
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    dawn and long ears Yeh long ears for me .I meant Dawn French or Fern Britten in a fight!
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    No mate .I mean compounds of different woods ,horn ,sinew etc .Turkish ,Oriental. Don't suppose they thought to patent them....Modern bows are a lot easier to use accuratly but cast/ draw weight ratio is'nt that much more than a primitive bow of the same class of comparable design. But on the other hand I am wrong and you are very ,very right. Once you reach a certain level of technology it is impossible to make comparisons twixt traditional style bows of whatever materials and the high tech designs and engineering that supply precision arrow delivery speed and accuracy. Hope you catc
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    Dawn French or Fern Britten ?
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    Ancient compound bows outperformed the long-bow but these were expensive to produce.The "English"long-bow made from a single stave was a fairly easily mass- produced tool .A bit like the Brown-bess musket or Lee Enfield of it's day..Ranks of archers using bows of similar draw-weight and using identical arrows could place a deadly hail at precise ranges dependent on the elevation...Pretty sure they had bodkin tipped arrows for close-range work. These were for shooting at vulnerable areas of an enemy knight such as the arm-pits and visor gaps.Literally ,chinks in the armour. I've made some
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    Ryobi hedge-cutter just over £2oo very good. Adjustable angle of handle dangle,easy to start ,robust,good wide teeth for bigger twigs but keen enough for fine stuff .I've had one three years. My tree surgeon mate uses one proffesionally.Rates it better than Stihl . Kawasaki stuff is great ,especially the older more powerfull( but possiblyless health n safety orientated) gear. Would'nt touch the cheaper Ryobi chainsaws though.The chain brakes have a habit of overheating ,melting the casing and basicly wasting the saw. I've had two go like this . "Why the f*ck did you buy another
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    Free pole lathe ideally for a youngster,educational purposes or to a genuinelly keen person.Sussex area See Living off the land section for pictures .
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    I'm really anoyed by any sort of intolerance.I've no time at all for such people.No time at all for them...
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    Think of a caption anyone?
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    These are the "grandads " and old guys we push into homes and forget about .The little bent figures who now go to the local shop via a gauntlet of pathetic and spitefull teeny -thugs..This sort of letter shows that we should be talking to and learning from such men and women .Schoolchildren should have regular trips to interveiw the people involved in the making of our history rather than simply downloading a potted ,spun and politically correct version of the past.
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    Spect the sales-person said it was the latest fashion.Some folk are so gullable.Still,looks like just the thing if the weather takes a tern for the worse...
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    .It's a mole demonstrating her ability to terrorise worms.
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    JESUS .................................. its my ex's doo dah , cudnt resist Wow, at last I know what a ladies do-da looks like ....Glad I've lived a celibate life!
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    If you are a worm that is.
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    Right as requested enclosed are a few photos.I reckon you could make one from these pictures.Sorry for the delay.No use me blaming international time difference I suppose.
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    Cor ,someone as tight as me! Don't know if you can enlarge this picture up a bit to see the little "hooks" holding the trap in place but it might help you. The trap in the side- on veiw wasnt set in the open field I hasten to add.
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    We're famous for adders round here .Years ago our local woodland was in the Guiness book of Records for the biggest.Try finding one when you want to though! Couple of years ago I almost stepped on a black adder curled up on a footpath.Watched it for quite a while .No camera of course. Something that struck me was the fact that though it's background colour was a velvety,almost mole-like , matt-black, the classic zig-zag "dried bracken" pattern was visible in an even darker black.
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    Good man That cart will do the job to 40 yards, closer is always better but that's your range (waits patiently to be disagreed with... ) BB's ,"Fox drops" we used to call em.Handed a few out at the begining of every rabbit /fox drive day so we knew everyone had the right ammo . JG is spot on with the range .Yes, BB's will carry energy a lot further but the pattern is'nt dense enough at longer ranges . Your fives would 've been capable of a clean kill at sub20 yard range but I doubt the fox could be guaranteed to obligingly stand stock-still and either stare at you or offer you a p
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    :doh Yeh If I was a fish I'd be one of those carp thats been caught so many times it has a name and its own mug at the fishing lodge.
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    Ok not THIS day in history but b*ggered if I'm stayin up till midnight. 25th June 1876....About tea-time....
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