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where??
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thats the plan for next year but have none at moment so in a few years fingers crossed.............plus with having no greys on the ground in 5 years any spring birds/pairs will be my doing
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the shoot i am now part of has not seen greys on the ground for many years but theoretically it is perfect! the boss likes pheasant and a few red legs so we continue to rear and buy in but to increase biodiversity on the shoot and variation on the shootdays then i am going to broody a few greys and hopefully some will stay some will die/move on but the vermin is being hammered we get a few broods of wilds each year...hopefully more this year as the vermin is being controlled heavily...and you can always tell which are the wild birds, they just look and act more like pheasants than chickens(and
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.222 is for me use a ruger m22 and you can shot ragged single hole groups at 120yds!! straight at them at 50 and any where to 200 yards! 50 grain bullets what my boss buys!!
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ragamup a few reared by broodies each year will kick start a wild bird shoot and that will be something to shout about then slowly reduce numbers as the boss requires....i am rearing some greys under broodies for an estate as there has been alot of foxes for a while but i'm hammering them although some c**ting organisation is dumping them!! but i would dearly love to see wild birds up there we usually get a few broods but i'm trying to boost greys and this is what real keepers should be encouraging, its my feeling that the line between game farmer and gamekeeper is becoming blurred!!
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move the coop nearly daily and there should be no disease...it only builds up with the shit
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Thats what i was thinking they would be nice dogs with bags of stamina not bred out by greyhound blood.....just wondered why most have greyhound in the cross and not just saluki as i can't see the saluki being much slower than greyhound especially over a longer course and a nights work Any pics of theses crosses??
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would seaweed help?? worked wonders with my dog he used to break his nails all the time he was on seaweed powder for 6months and now hes fine!
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Just been wondering over the last few days why you don't get saluki x whippet or saluki collie or salukix bull?? Anyone can explain??
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Good video! There quarry really does bite back you don't get that close to those animals with a rifle cos they can charge let alone spears fully agree with the shaman but i believe i could cope without the luxuryies of running water etc!! infact we might get more of our country back!! And we'd all be millionaires with rabbit and venison sales....lol
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not that i have ever judged but i like to see working scars on a dog at least it means they do there job
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yeah forgot about socialisation while writing my last post........very important take her everywhere town, buses trains, parks dog, policemen bikes everything you can think of the more she sees the more she will generalise..............where my dog came from was quite remote compared to where i live so he didn't see enough for life down here, at 2yrs hes just starting to not bother about every dog he sees he used to get over the top with every dog and i see maybe 20-30 ppl when out walking for 1 hour
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As royston says! never get angry and shout at it, just walk away....i'm struggling with this at the moment....i had my dog retreiving pigeons did it several days running 4th day didn't want to know would walk over to it then f**k off, i was fuming and then realised i was nearly screaming at him to do it so had to walk in before i throttled him! had been making it a game and always left him wanting more so for time being back to dummies in the daytime with treats and play Darcy had a thread the other day that showed how to do it and i like jackie drakefords book Understanding the
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roe deer tend to tread on their tracks as they move....one on top of the other so yeah probably roe!
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Yep spot on!! Don't think theres many on here that could write that or make that!!
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Good luck mate let us know how it is out there....i don't think i'll be too far behind you!!
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Would you say scoobys the best dog you'll ever own? as in nothing will compare? Just asking as i had a pet dog when younger and it would not be fair to compare any dog to him ever as they won't ever be like him, my once in a lifetime dog.....would have been a good worker had i been into it!!
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thats what i needed to know about lurchers and a friend on here could tell you a little more about terriers but he's going over there and he's told me that you can hunt badgers for 3 months of the year with terriers and thats the only legal way to kill badgers in france! Don't know about foxes but they also dig badgers at country fairs
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Yeah sparsholt is the place to go, the best by along way unfortunately the best lecturer(Mr Jamie Cordery) has left but there is a lecturer that can even make soil interesting, well just about!! the wrdens are great fun and give a really good chase but theres one who is particularly fast and might get ya! but seriously you'll learn a hell of alot the lecturers respect you if you don't take the piss and the facilities are great!! What course you thinking of doing?
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if your not bothered about persueing her over the fact her dogs were out of control and damaged your dogs, then she should count herself lucky....remind her of this!!! if i were you it would be me screaming at her!!! your in the right if your dogs were with you on your permission!!
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if it was a rottweiler or Gsd or bull type etc 10 - 12 kicks might be needed to seperate the dog from biting the kid but a 1 good kick would send a cocker flying and its on a lead you can hold them out off the ground by it lead..........so no there is no reason to kick that dog 10-12 time and stamp on its head!!! what ever it did or didn't do!!! even without taking the dog into account it was clearly over the top if it made the kid sick what damage has he already done to that kid, for witnessing that?? probably was the kid that pissed him off and that was his dog being beaten as a p
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at a guess i would say foxdropper is mainly shooting dog foxes.....vixens don't respond well to squeaks for the last few weeks.......a dog will as they often believe another fox is on their territory! not to say a vixen won't but not reliably!! Its much like a theory of mine on a 50/50 wood/field lowland shoot you won't see many foxes till well after midnight if at all for a few nights before full moon the night of or after they will be back out!! I believe the ones you do see are moving from one wood to anotheri've been keeping a diary of what i see/shoot, the conditions and weather for a
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Mange rears its ugly head again .
dickyboy replied to Squirrel_Basher's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
I'm on 13 but should be more but just can't take some shots as theres alot of houses and roads around me Had 2 stood real close behind each other yards, .222 bipod to lean on and the estate owners kitchen window as a backstop!!! Foxdropper can i ask where abouts you are as its the same for me, i'm surrey/sussex! Just wondering if its a regional thing! -
Alright for the money but i'm not a great lover the neoprene rips too easy if you go through bramble and barbed wire alot!! seem to fust rip holes throught it
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don't know how to get hte smell out but advice from here was to put something like aftershave on their neck i do this weekly as he was a cronic roller...i spray him when i put it on me so he smells good lol but it does stop him rolling, most of the time once in the last 5-6 months rather than 2-3 times daily.....he used to roll in dead stuff too!!