J Darcy
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You turned the lamp off and saw the light mate didn't ya!! :D Saluki lurchers foreva.... ha ha
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I do a hell of alot of lamping up until christmas, then there's pretty much nothing left really, but still do a night a week at least, after that. I don't get any big bags as that is impossible around here, but I'm more than happy with three in the bag as long as the lurcher performs well. I've spent the last five years or so going mad with lamping photographs, so that's always given me an excuse to go out even when i know there's not much about. JD
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Answer it and talk to them for as long as possible...in the end they will pass you onto their supervisor...so waste an hour of their time too.......It used to be my favourite hobby. I do not get any such calls anymore. Miss them in a way.
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Nipepix, that might be ok for a garden but for any serious field work it isn't much use. I use a paper delivery bag. Can get about 30 traps in it. Nice and comfy too.....I like the sound of the canvas buckets. I have a trappers bag from the USA and thats great but it isn't quite big enough IMO for moling.
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It's the dogs version of 'puberty'. Just hand feed her for a week and she'll be fine...if she don't come back then she's going to be awful hungry. They all come back.
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I take it you haven't tried a mini podal then Matt?
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Duffus....
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I'm not a hater...I'm a realist and I am speaking from MANY years of hands on experience of working with film cameras. Good luck to you matty
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Just stop buying license then......they do not care one iota what you think. The BBC is a biased anti-hunting, pro-peado organisation. Why fund them?
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There is a reason why you can't give film cameras away on ebay....
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Trappers Companion / Trappers Mate.
J Darcy replied to heritage's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
I have the american version I think. I love it, for the rabbit tapping in burrows. Will take a piccy.- 1 reply
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Cheers matie I didnt think it was working for a minute The small deerhound was mine she actually won the course after clocking up more points on the first part of the course.. Aye JD, 400 iso was massive wasnt it? now we are shooting at crazy ISO`s I remember getting some 'special' iso800 in the shop...they were amazed! ha ha ....pics were crap mind! I tried everything back then but the pentax K1000 wasn't ever going to do much good, so I changed to canon and saw the light. I had a 100-400 cosina lens and thought I was going to turn fieldsports photography upside down with it...ha ha
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And didn't we get ever so excited about those early, grainy pics?? I know I did. I remember some of my early deer coursing pics, christ were they bad! Basically just a white blob and little else.......but it was a start I guess.....
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You'll soon give up............... I learnt on film....if you could get coursing pics with a film camera then digital was going to be a piece of pi$$....IMO.... I soon sold my film gear when I saw the light .....I think the canon 300D was one of my first digi SLR's...many years ago now...
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The saluki hybrid does me for what I want in a lurcher......I've not seen any other type of running dog that can even come close to a good saluki lurcher.......as near as damn it to an allrounder as you can get IMO. Alot of it is down to the man behind the dog and how they are reared. The problem with lots of coursing bred dogs getting a bad image is that the dogs owner is far less loyal than their dog and dogs are constantly being sold and passed around and this type of dog (or any for that matter) does not do well in such situations. They like a steady, settled life. Don't we all.
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Think it was about 1000/1, 2.8 as the light was bad. On servo, but no servo in the world can move as fast as a golden streak of speed.... Could its eye have been where its back is in the picture when you focussed and then by the time the shutter went off it had moved on? They come too close and too fast for the lens to focus....I take LOTS of hare piccys, so I've had this happen one or two times before.....
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What's with all the negativity........if you don't agree with something then pen an article and send it in.....I personally think it's a damn sight better than it was ten years ago, but they always want more working dog articles, so give it a go chaps......
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Right place, right time....I would have thought a Yaffle would be able to eat a weasel for breakfast!! Wish I'd have seen it.....
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Think it was about 1000/1, 2.8 as the light was bad. On servo, but no servo in the world can move as fast as a golden streak of speed....
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It's a crap image mate as it's out of focus!!! ha ha ....it's one for the recycle bin for sure....
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This lens has been playing silly beggars lately too.....I'm not happy! Going to send them all back to canon soon and get them calibrated...sodding things! I hate it when I'm focused on the eye and the lens decides it doesn't want to do that...
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Don't you hate it when the subject gets too close for the lens to focus properly.......I knew I should have used my macro!
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A big area of the dales has hardly any rabbits.....even there the rabbits have been getting less and less. Sure, there's pockets of them where there's loads, but i think we'll see even these contract and vanish over the next decade...
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IMO it isn't anything to do with myxi.....rabbits in the UK are on a downward trend and have been for the last decade at least. There is some other force at work I think, but I don't know what exactly....