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Ginger ,the milkman's horse . He was there from the time I was old enough to notice things . .As a toddler I was allowed to feed him the burnt toast.Even then Mum was making a name for herself with culinary pyrotechnics and Dad reckoned Ginger was the fattest horse in Sussex because of it! Sadly one morning he collapsed of bloat and had to be cut out of the shafts.But this was before he reached our house so Mum was'nt to blame..The milkman had to then pass his driving test so he could do the round. Those Swappets were great too.Little cowboys ,Indians and knights with tiny intechangable wea
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.Having a piccy sort-out.Amongst the snaps of the "why the hell did I keep that" out of focus ,badly lit ,my thumb across the lens type there is some atmospheric blackn white ferrret/lurcher show stuff. Mid eighties ?
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DS .I found a picture of your old Bull terrier (,brindle, sturdy) the other day .Your legs were in the picture as well .
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Had a mate used to swear bullshit was good for getting your end away but whether that was for lubrication or just for chatting girls up I'm not sure.
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I'll be going .What do you reckon is best Saturday or Sunday?.Never been to the main show but simply because by sheer chance I actually for the first time in years had an urge to buy the CMW because my local garage started stocking it. Mind you I think it is a repeat of one I read about twelve years ago with the juicy bits taken out I did score a couple of their free tickets though so it was'nt 2 quid wasted.Bring back Steve on Stuffing.
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223?usable but probably a bit too much gun and a bit limiting as reguards noise ,backstops and range for regular bunny bashing . . So as people are saying ,a .22 rim -fire with sub-sonics for the rabbits. Bruno bolt would be my choice and it would not cause familiarity problems when you picked -up your bigger tool for deer- shooting.Might as well go for a 243 simply because (as Snap shot said,"keep your options open.")you may well end up having oppertunities to shoot deer other than muntjac or in other parts of the country in the future.
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just brilliant
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Last year.No one else to blame but meself,didn't shut a cage properly.Had that"worried,panicky, sicky feeling "straight away. Photo-copied notes to the neighbours,rang the usual suspects .Searched ,called,placed cage-traps. Ten days later at dawn little sandy face appears from under my shed.Fat as a piggy(I suspect a diet of hedgehogs ).Don't know if she'd been around all along or just found her way home.I've chickens and so have a neighbour but even they had'nt drawn her out. So ,keep hoping and looking.The best of luck.
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Peter was desperate to try out his new "Thread-line "outfit.
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There's a feeling bass anglers get when they look to the West ...
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Two Newcastle brown bottle tops araldited together to to form a hollow disc.Drill hole one sixteenth of an inch or so through the middle and blow (exhale ) gently.If ,before you glue em together, you trap a loop of string between the caps you can attach a cord which leaves hands free for the rifle.Not original but very cheap.
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Yeh, "tackle tarts" ,"graphite groupies". I'm as bad but split -cane does it for me ....
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what a wonderfull answer!
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just a bit.I mean even if it had been an empty display pack i was going to offer him a quid just as a collectors thing.Even he could'nt remember it there was anything in the box he had'nt handled it for so long.I wonder if Deben will honour the warranty if it goes wrong.
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Worked like stink this morning because we'd arranged a sea-fishing trip in the afternoon.Driving to the coast could,nt help notice the trees swaying.Sure enough by the time we'd grouped on the quayside a very ill-wind was blowing.Skipper said it was'nt dangerous but it would be unpleasant and hard to fish.Wind against tide n all that nautical stuff. Fishing cancelled we masochisticly trolled to the nearest tackle shop to stroke the shiny things..."What the Hell is this doing on a ferret site?",you may ask. While the others fondled the silky contours of the rods in what to me appeare
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Worth asking the Green Keeper of your local golf course. Mine came from a pile of broken fibre-glass flag poles in a skip .Along with a battery from a crashed Golf buggy.
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Far as I know 410 adapters are not that rare.Chap who used to come on fox shoots had one .The walking Guns were allowed to shoot rabbits while obviously the Standers stayed quiet for a fox.Often X would cry, "Hold the line".He'd spotted another squatter in the brambles ,range 10 feet.This was because he'd forgotten to put his 410 converter into one of his 12 bore barrels before the drive.Cue hurried unloading ,rumaging in pocket for adapter and reloading .Rabbit rewarded for its patience ...If I remember it sounded like a .410 going off I 've heard 28 bore adapters are available but they ar
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The 've been" taken out of season" which normally happens by being mated . The result of mating is normally a litter.The ferret's hormones are fooling it into thinking she's mated and had a litter.Her instincts to drag wandering babies back to the nest have been transfered to retrieving her unfortunate adult cage-mate.As has been said let em get on with it but be if the surrogate "baby" is too brow-beaten or becomes too raw round the neck separation for a while is the fairest solution.
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....Maybe one, amongst many, reasons they do it IS as some sort of bonding behaviour.Take the smell of rotten hedgehog back to the pack--spend all afternoon in social grooming ....Dirty little attention-seekers.
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Wrong section maybe ? but a very pretty fish.
comanche replied to comanche's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
It might be true that the offspring revert to green after a few generations.Would certainly make sense considering that one would've thought that the few golden ones must be at risk of being geneticly overpowered by the green genes.That's even before considering vulnerability to predators. About thirty years ago I saw a tiny golden tench caught from this pond .The lads who caught the old girl in the picture reckoned she was 4lb s but I'd say more like two n half to three.A good size for the pond though.Difficult to say if she was some sort of throw-back to Victorian times when the ponds -
Didn't know if I should put this in fishing section but sooooo pretty! Walking the dogs on land owned by a friend .Came round corner to find two very sheepish lads fishing the farm pond. Some fishing is allowed but the owner rigerously enforces the old Close Season .So fishing in the Close Season ,without permission on land designated an SSI.They were polite lads, suitably apologetic,there was no litter.So what did I do?....Told em to carry-on just for the evening but get permisssion before coming back....On the understanding they let me photogragh this golden tench they'd caught....
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If I was a dog why would I roll in smelly substances?. To cover meself in predator stench so I can creep up on prey . Makes perfect sense ...Not! But to cover meself in predator stench so that a herd of prey animals will notice me and instinctivly come towards me out of a mixture of curiosity and desire to threaten and chase me away.Hence present an oppertunity for a kill to be made by me or one of my pack-members ... Maybe. Roll in rival predator spoor to mask the rival's scent and replace it with my own as a warn
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Thanks for this great post .I've been hearing about these kits and keep thinking (a dangerous pastime for me..thinking), "I wonder". Your not on commission are you ? Joking. Thanks again
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My BRNO (CZ) with Parker Hale moderater,definatly is a touch more consistant with Eleys ,Winchesters are a reasonable and universally available second .CCI just don't seem to work in the old girl.On the rare occasion I use them High velocity Remington as someone else mentioned seem good.
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I have the original instruction sheet but to be honest all you need to do is whatTHE ONE said.Make sure whoever hides it remembers where it is in case something goes wrong. Mk 1 works most accuratly when the bottom of the grey box is pointing directly at the top (inside edge)of the transmitter on the collar (the transmitter must hang under the ferret's chin not on top of its' neck.) Lay the collar on the floor or on a long table a few feet away from the box.Turn the dial on the box up to full sensitivity..Point the base of the grey box at collar from several feet away move closer until