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    cropped
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    watched dozens today after the rain,...
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    thl
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    Its a true wonder of nature...... I loves ''em
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    That could well be a different matter, but I’m sure most magpie trappers catch their call bird from the wild, well at least the ones that are proficient at it and don’t have to rely on 'captive' bred ones Errrm...i know the score BF...... having used Larsons for 15 years +, but i thought it better to mention this for the benefit of the "Anti's" that quote from our site... otherwise i am sure we would be quoted for clipping wild birds wings etc.... which we would never do, obviously. No a captive bred corvid DOESNT have to be rung at all. Unless you want to sell or show it..
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    yes your right it is better to be safe then sorry AH...but perhaps the call birds are "captive bred ones " and not "Wild".......then things would, perhaps, be ok.
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    Spring /Summer is the most important time of the year. It is the time when all the birds and animals breed and replenish their stocks, ensuring that we can continue to harvest them the following year and for many years to come....Should be a good year for rabbits as there is quite a lot about. only another couple of months now....
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    when we hunted over the south east i took a good number of roe that were crawling with these "Keds". Once home and hung up in the garage the ticks would drop off onto newspaper underneath. On the odd occasion i found a few on the dogs too. These are a different type to the "fox" ticks and sheep ticks that you find. These keds can move quite rapidly through the fur. Never had a dog go ill with them (thankfully) and i have never seen them on deer where there is a low density of them, were we caught those roe was stuffed with them , hence, lots of blood suckers... nasty things
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    top book
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    Hi,I did the same with a Hawker Dragonfly larvae in a tank in my lodgings at the time.It was fascinating watching it feed on tadpoles and small fry that I used to net in the river margins.I nearly got my marching orders when the bloody thing emerged as a dragonfly and alledgedly attacked my landlord(feckin' fat wuss).What spectacular creatures there are in our water courses.........................Martin. Yes i have studied Southern hawkers and broad bodies chasers quite closely. They are most amazing creatures. also at one time i was quite obsessed with amphibians. i used to be able to f
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    pred...
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    The ones i have had before have been a tad bigger. Several years ago i captured a larvae and studied it , watching it grow on a diet of tadpoles. 3 an hour it ate, both frog and toad. Once it became large enough it crawled out of the water and i was lucky enough to see it bury itself in a small layer of compost i had provided. I would have thought this emergence would have happened whether at daybreak or through the night, but it was in the daytime. Sadley the story doesnt have a happy ending for i noticed the larvae had been underground for a good while so i carefully has a little scrape back
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    I'm sure you,ve seen terriers with plenty of bull in them work well over here, Thinking of one terrier man in perticular
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    Martin, that Roebuck is very good indeed.
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    Are you sure about that???
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    Found this yesterday....thought it was a great diving beatle, but the carapace looks different..... can anyone tell me what it is...from memory i just cannot pin it down...is there such a thing as a lesser diving beatle??
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    Took this pic of a newly fledged crow today....those white birds do look to have a larger beak in comparison..... Ravens/???
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    Hunters and wire dont mix!! get a pair of Nora's they will outlast you...lol... but beware of blisters
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    What needs to be remembered if bull are to be added, is that it is the correct bull. No point in adding any old shit, that has been done before. When plummer added bull to his dogs i was lucky enough to see one "work". a huge strapping dog, but it was totally bottleless and wouldnt even go in a hole end. You need the gameness or you may as well use a street mongrel IMHO.
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    Im sure your dog will pick the lamping game up in no time at all. Theres no need to lamp the dummy. I have had dogs "click" within a few runs and others take a couple of nights. Don't expect your dog to be a legend on the first couple of nights out and ensure he can see the rabbit before you slip him....good luck to you....
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    I believe they can be made from both stone and wood. they were designed for catching foxes that had been run to ground by hounds in places the terriers couldnt get. They were small and tight so that the fox could not turn round. I have seen fox caught in the wooden types.
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    Just be carefull

    J Darcy replied to a topic in General Talk

    Guys, i am sure you can imagine, its a long job reading the threads for things that could be "quoted" against us. Often there are things written from within our own ranks but there are also many things that Anti's write on hunting sites, so they can quote us. Its a weird scenario. This site is the largest on the net in the Uk and if it goes on growing at this rate who knows where it will end up in the worldwide ranking. We must validate to keep the site as "secure" as possible, but its nowhere near 100% and there will be a few anti's within our ranks...but theres little we can do about it.
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    Captain Birdseye?
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    Has his ears got "hard" edges to them???
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    Great pics Haggler. I had always read that the US badger "couldnt be dug"...but it just goes to show that they can. another fine post.
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