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Just a few pics of the dogs this season............. Cant be arsed telling everyone all the crack, but hope you enjoyed the pics Was out sunday, and will be trying for a result tomorow, pics will follow.
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Loads of keepers have to run traps all year
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Deffo a stoat
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As the others have said, they will love it!! No worries at all mate!!! Any whole game or poultry will go down a treat!
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I always called mine spanners!
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If I had a spare kennel..........and you wernt in ireland.........I would be sorely tempted!! Just wondering, whats the reason for the sale?
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Aye duck is tasty tasty very very tasty!!! But if they are a propper laying breed you might end up just sucking bones mate!! If you have the space, then go for it, duck eggs are lush, and the layer breeds lay really well. Find out what breeding they are and ill let you know what potential they have
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Great wee dog there, I keep cocker/terriers myself, cracking hunting dogs, I use mine mainly for pushing foxes out of cover. I used to train mine trailing up a scent trail when they were a similar age, but I was never keen to get them out into the field working until after 12 months, as they will soon get keen, and they do love to push themselves hard. Thats just my way, each to their own. Im sure the owner of this pup knows fine well what hes doing! Some of the posts on here are rediculous!! I hope it makes them a great wee hunter for him DnN
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I use 55grain .243 (I think! 50-odd anyway) for everything, they seam much better through my rifle than the heavier ones, and with a flatter and (i think) faster flight. Sound wise, if you hit the target, it dont matter if its loud or not!! From the shooters perspective, they are all loud, unless a sound moderator is used. Ive never bothered about a sound moderator, but I am considering adding it onto my licence, as I shoot near villages ect.. and there has been a few instances when out lamping foxes, where there have been a few foxes in a field, and after shooting one,the others hav
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Good luck The little fellas need all the help they can get
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The wildlife trusts put a few up in my area, but havent ever seen one use it yet!! However im sure they have simply positioned it wrong. They have just tied it onto any trees, but I think they should have gone for the place where the trees on each side are naturally closest together. Any piece of rope will work if you make it yourself, but if you rang the wildlife trusts and let them know about the ammount of deaths, im pretty sure they would come out and put one up.
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Closing eye while shooting?
dogs-n-natives replied to joetilley's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
The thing you need to know is, which eye is your dominant eye!!!! If your right handed and right eye dominant, you can keep both eyes open, as your right eye will be focussed down the barrel and the left eyes sight will not take over and put your aim off! And vice-versa with left handed/left eyed If your right handed and left eye dominant, you need to block the left eyes vision, either by closing the left eye, or waring specs with a patch on the lens. otherwise IT will be the eye that is aiming, but as it isnt lined up with the bottom of the barrel your shot will be going a good bit le -
I learnt a bit about taking deer when living up invernesshire, I used to shoot 30-40 stags and 60- hinds, which was a realy good job, and great sport, however after meeting a few lads from the estate next door the sport of stalking with a rifle was cast in shaddow by the sport which I was to soon take part in. These lads that took them regular, always used two big lurchers, of the deerhound/greyhound type. I went out with them half a dozen times, and saw three stags get taken. one of their lurchers was a deer/grey X saluki/deer/grey, this bitch was usually the catch dog, being the faster one,
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A Frosty Morning
dogs-n-natives replied to PICK AND SHOVEL's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
Thankyou for the kind remarks. They are two great dogs to work a real pleasure to watch. I get on with them better than the springers as i find them a bit more steady and easier to train when pups. I also find they tend to work at a slower pace and so have less chance of passing over tight sitting birds,i suppose having shorter legs helps as their nose is also closer to the ground. The chocolate dog i bred out of the black bitch, last season he really came into his own a bit stronger than his mother but definitely not head strong . I think the pic shows how steady they are as it is no mean fe -
Pheasant species.
dogs-n-natives replied to biffo's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
Ive done goldens, they do ok, will hold with the others and they fly ok aswell. And they arnt an aggressive bird towards the 'regular' pheasants. I know a keeper that put a couple of dozen reeves down, but most strayed off the estate. -
Aye he does have a fair old canister on him!!! Good work
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get a grip ya know feck all !! They take a few eggs and chicks, so fecking what! Sheep will to if they are hard pressed. 'SO FECKING WHAT'....... try running a grouse moor when EVERY chick counts!! 100% mate, Vermin is vermin and needs controlling. I don't run a grouse moor, so consequently I don't give a F**k. Wey if you dont give a f**k, you shouldnt have made a post, and a missleading one at that! You told the lad that 'they do no harm', which is bollocks! sorry for ranting on lads.....
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Typical, fecking sods law that mate!! Mine is laid up still after ripping off a front nail, could have easy been a break or worse, as my cousin accidentally let go of him over dangerous rocky ground when a hare jumped up at his feet!! He went taring off with his lead trailing behind him!! My heart was in my mouth! Just be thankful its just a bust toe, look on the bright side, could be worse!!! Good luck getting him on the mend, hope you get to see some of the season with him.
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What is good Food for working Lab ?
dogs-n-natives replied to Gaoler's topic in Gundogs & Retrievers
Some real good advice there! I feed as much raw as possible, and it costs nothing, from rabbit and game, venison ribs etc, to butchers scraps including offal and lamb rib/neck bones. A good point that old ditch shitter made clear to me, was that the heavy beef bones and most leg bones are not too good, as the dogs will gradually wear their teeth down on them, and wont be able to actually eat most of it. The best bone for feed value being ones they can chew up and eat. Ribs and neck bone of livestock and larger game, and all small game and gamebirds. Hope this helps DnN -
Cheers hily, looking forward to it!! DnN
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i think this is the best calibre and lots more fun hahahahaha Yes I agree spiderpig.... a bullet is less fun, but far more deadly than any dog... horses for courses.. Nice dog there spiderpig! I love shooting with the mentioned rounds (222, 223, 22-250), however I have the same opinion as IanB, and would recomend .243, as it will do the job, and do it well, as like he says, you have much more on the list with this calibre!
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A few Q's for you! On a walked up day, what game would be on the list? What head of game per day? Cheers
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Aye, good point there! But one point that has been missed by some, is that single holers are a strict NO NO with todays (rediculous) legisltion! i suppose so but there was a chpter in one of darcy's books about single holes i think and about how you still get bolts from them Of course you can still get bolts from single holers! The point was that it is now illegal to work a single eyed hole, and if its next to a footpath.......... well, you never know what fecking busy boddy going to come along and feck yor day! There has already been a conviction for this offence, poss
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Good points raised here. Only if an animal is/will be a pest, should it be controlled.
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get a grip ya know feck all !! They take a few eggs and chicks, so fecking what! Sheep will to if they are hard pressed. 'SO FECKING WHAT'....... try running a grouse moor when EVERY chick counts!!