J Darcy
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and modest ones to.... i think its the best mag for ages, the articles by eddie chapman and Buster are very good indeed.
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I have very recently found otter sptraint close to me on a small beck, but never actually seen them. I have found the "false drains" put in by the otter peopel and they are a joke and badley sited. One on the very smae stream filled with silt on the first hint of high water and is now totaly filled in!!! the other overhangs a sheer drop by about 3 foot and theres no way an otter would use such a thing i should imagine, unless it could fly! lol.
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Very nice....
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i have'nt seen any pull up but i've seen a few good "roe" dogs really struggle to get a good hold on a fallow, let alone stop it, or bring it down even Thanks Lucky, I've just read Jackie Drakefords new book and she describes fallow as "not particually fast" and roe "not particually fast in the open" and a story about a pair of border terriers that "wrought havooc on ther local roe population". Who needs lurchers :whistle: :11: well i think that quote speaks volumes for the author who stated it...... fallow are FAST....roe are FAST.....Personally i would rate fallow faster
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we would have looked like a couple of herons sat in the back of the motor
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Very good bag chaps.....i hope Ians nose didnt get in the way too much.
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i have'nt seen any pull up but i've seen a few good "roe" dogs really struggle to get a good hold on a fallow, let alone stop it, or bring it down even Thanks Lucky, I've just read Jackie Drakefords new book and she describes fallow as "not particually fast" and roe "not particually fast in the open" and a story about a pair of border terriers that "wrought havooc on ther local roe population". Who needs lurchers :whistle: :11: well i think that quote speaks volumes for the author who stated it...... fallow are FAST....roe are FAST.....Personally i would rate fallow faster
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i too know someone who has bred them in captivity and according to him, DNA sexing aside, the only way to sex them is by observation. :whistle:
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In my opinion,...the man destined to write the definitive book on the Patterdale should be Dave Harcombe. absolutely......its long over due....and very much in demand..... I hope he will publish one soon... by the way Chalkwarren, i havent recieved my complimentary copy of your book yet....please dont tell me it got lost in the post thats the excuse i use
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OK.....having read the thread i still stick by my opinion. Here is a photograph of a mature fallow bucks neck that was shot with the bullet gun. Now im not a big chap by any means (nasal passage aside) but look at its neck, using my hand for scale. It has approximately a 30inch neck.... how is any "deerhound" going to manage to throat and kill a creature like that?....The beast was huge and i am sure would drag off any dog whether it be 27 inch or 30 inch. Like i said before, the vast majority of dogs on these larger critters anchor them, or even get dragged along by them until help arrive
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I knew that , but its always best to ask..... Both sexes sing though the female sings far less exuberantly. I think their primaries could be slightly different lengths from one sex to another.
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Thinking about it, i loved the days running the white hares on the moors. But by far the best was running the CWD in the daytime on good sized land.
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You need a big strong dog with plenty of weight, I had a 30 1/2" dog that weighed around the 95lb mark that specialised in this. You need the deer going flat out and it happens very quickly - the dog comes in from the side, strikes up at the top of the neck while also seeming to barge into the deer, deer goes over, and doesn't move again. Pre-ban, my current bitch (29" & 85lbs) took to using a very similar technique on roe and got it off to a tee - same technique she would keep turning them until they got into a straight line, would run level with their flank, wait her moment then strike
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I have, in the past, bagged a few fallow and sika.....and the larger specimens of these are not easy for a single dog. I have never seen a instant kill on them. It takes some dog to stop mature bucks/stags of either and , from what i have seen, the dog is there purely and simply to anchor the deer the best it can until the human can arrive on the scene. Like i say, im not an expert and maybe have not owned/seen the best dogs, but these are my observations based on a number of large deer. :whistle: good hunting.JD
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How do you tell doxhope?
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brilliant.....
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Unicorn....
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cheers guys
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anyone know a good taxidermist for a fox, my mate wants to see some work before he sends the head off.....any help??
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canon 300D......though it will probably give up the ghost soon....they never last me long...sodding grit and sand seem to ruin them... i learnt on a film camera and it was very hard to get good shots....VERY hard indeed. If i had have owned a digi SLR years ago i would have had many hundreds of amazing action pics. Digi's make photography easy....as simple as that...they are brilliant....and the action shots are out of this world too.....as long as the light is right.... JD
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i have trialled them but do not like them at all. no where near as accurate as the Superdome IMHO and a domed headed pellet is far better in the airgun than any other type.
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Few trapping pics from the State Maine
J Darcy replied to Albert Ladd's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
well, i am going to write to my local MP to get coyote hunting banned in the UK. -
i have never seen a hobby, but the thing i would like to see the most is an otter....
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If the one in the middle is Emu, then the 4 around it must surely be swan. it is hard to tell without a size reference. The ones in between the "swan" could be crane.? the ones in each corner look like guillemot...surrounded by curlew perhaps?
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i caught a good few bunnies with just their toes/feet through a single strand of mesh. Hares too seemed to be more likely to be caught by their extremeties.