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    I learnt about this from watching a video years ago, on Youtube. The video was made by a trained stalker who was called upon to deal with RTA's involving Deer for the police and he said he found it was the quickest and cleanest method to dispatch them. The demonstration was obviously done on a dead deer so you see the exact place to push the knife through. It left me believing it was an 'instant kill' method for using on shot and wounded or RTA deer by severing the spinal column from the brain stem. Resulting in massive shock to the brain and causing instant lifelessness or shaking jerky mov
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    Always found squirrel tails were a b*stard to skin! slicing gently round the base of the tail without cutting into the flesh is always the hardest bit. If you nick the flesh then when you try to pull the skin off the bone the tail just snaps off usually....
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    Doesn't look like I'll be able to make it tomorrow, Tess's nail still hasn't healed suffiently to take part, hopefully I'll be able to get up to the ACES meet at Brands in March instead. All the best.
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    I do both and reckon that by driving the land you could run the legs off even a really good dog. They just don't get the time to rest as they do when your walking. When you walk and the dog catches, they retrieve it back you've then got to sort it out getting it in your bag/rucksack etc before sorting your lamp out and getting the dog back on the slip etc before you even start lamping again. Even then the dogs probably scared everything away within a few hundred yards giving the dog a bit of time to get it's tongue back in. When you drive, the dogs out, runs, then back, you drop the rabbit i
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    Get her to the vets for a check up and vaccinations, get her wormed and then start getting her on small amounts of decent quality food. Little and often. Weigh the food out so you can keep a track of what your feeding her. Another reason to go to the vets is so it's on record that you haven't done that to her. A worried passerby that sees her might think it's you that is starving her and you could end up being dragged to court just for trying to help. Don't be tempted to get too much fatty meat into her to pack weight on as to start with that could cause just as many health problems as he
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    I'd right a letter to the station chief asking their advice. State that your out doing pest control for the farmers legally and that even after continually showing your written, signed permission to the officers in question and relevant ID that their still continuously pulling you over and annoying the farmers by phoning and waking them up. I'm sure you'd get a phone call soon after from them, then tell them it just an annoyance for you but the poor farmers are getting pissed off with the police phoning at silly times in the morning harassing them.
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    The wheaton sounds like a good choice (not having seen either dog) a decent half cross will make the pups roughly 1/4 Wheaton 3/4 running dog so should have a decent enough turn of speed without watering down the terrier side of things too much. End of the day it's up to you! Your the one thats got to live with them and also try and sell/cull any left over pups. All the best
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    Going to see if I can get over to this one if I can. My cousin took on one of our pups and only lives about 30mins from the show so we'll see if we can stay with them for the night. For things like the weight pull and vertical scale, what sort of training do you need to do? will we need to bring our own harnesses or can you supply them? Cheers and hope to see you all soon.
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    I always found the first run or two of a night the dogs are never as sharp as the next few, almost as if their just warming up? I'd of had a quiet night if I had only gone out for fox round here. You'd be lucky to get one good run a week. Even slipped on everything we saw, you would of still only got maybe 10 runs.
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    She's looking well, How's her training coming on? Did you get her doing anything in the end? you seemed keen enough to get her out working a bit and/or maybe get some training into her? Had high hopes I wouldn't be the only one trying to work them anymore lol! Why the rush to breed her if you don't mind me asking? she's still a pup by Mastiff standards and probably hasn't even had her 2nd season yet has she? I guess it's money as she's a KC registared Bitch? their worth a pretty penny I'm sure! go careful who you sell the pups too though, they get a bad enough press without more inexperi
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    Top write up, thanks for sharing your night with us
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    The birds were clipped, so not that many would get over the wire even if they wanted too, and the pop holes were closed up so no way through. We used to hammer the ground for vermin so that it wasn't really a huge concern. The only thing we suffered from in a big way was Buzzards. They'd kill 4-5 poults a day in every pen and probably more around the area that we didn't find. But to answer your queston no, we didn't really keep checking them. The first day they were left to settle and we tried to kept away from the pens. The idea of whistle training is just to get the birds to a remote a
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    Love walking out on cold quiet full moon nights, not so much for the hunting than the walk itself. You might get a couple of runs for the dog if your lucky but in those conditions I'll walk till dawn just for the hell of it! lol Leave the lamp off and let the dogs free, as if it's daytime. Only flick the light on to check on the dogs if they've disappeared against a hedge or if you hear them start running.
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    Training the birds to whistle feeding is handy when your trying to draw them away from the pens/established woods and up into the more remote drives. Cover crops will attract their own birds but a small lonely wood on top of a hill will never hold many birds well, but is an excellent place to drive them from. So you use Whistle training to get them up there. As has been said it's a ball ache of a job and if you don't have to do it then don't!!! As soon as the Poults are in the pens and left to relax for the first day/night (with feed/water already down for them) we then used to start whis
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    Humans spent hundreds of years breeding the bad bits out of the wolf so it was somewhere near useful as a hunting companion. Why would you ever consider putting Wolf back in the breeding???
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    Strange how times move on in THL, I posted the yellow pages test a few years ago as a very rough test on a air rifles power output as a bit of fun and got a fair amount of good replies. It's never meant to be a proper test for a gun's ftlb but if both guns are using the same pellets from the same distance then you can generally tell if ones running underpowered or not. It's actually surprising how consistant it is, as I fired a number of differant types of pellet (all domed tips) and always got around the 550-575 page mark with the .22 My friend did the same with his and was ripping about
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    if your getting the same groupings with factory loads and homeloads then that would suggest it's the gun, the scope or more likely you... so get to a range and get someone with more experience to check your rifle over for you then just practice, practice, practice!!!
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    It's not illegal to hunt rabbits with dogs as long as your on permission, so you don't need to write preban with the photo
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    He was a very good dog and I was exceedingly lucky to be able to work/hunt with him. Took a while with him as he hadn't even been house trained let alone any other training and at roughly 2yrs old it proves you can teach older dogs new tricks! lol His ability to escape was amazing! The window was about 1/2 a foot wide, a foot tall and roughly 5-6 feet off the floor, he managed somehow to knock a pane out of the frame and then climb through it, he was bloody lucky though as when I went out for a ciggie and saw movement over by the bins I almost slipped Langouroux's AlanoX on him! lol Roo was
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    That seems to be what a lot of the lure racing events do, either that or a simple piece of white painted plyboard staked up with a hole cut into it for the string to pass through. cheap effective and easy for the dog to see when concentrating on the Lure.
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    They put in a hardener in the lead for clay cartridges so the pellets won't distort as much on firing so gives a better pattern but they don't transfer the energy as effectively as gameloads with their softer lead so you could end up with more pricked birds as the pellets pass straight through. I guess smaller shot size would give you a thicker pattern and more chance of hitting a vital organ, but probably best just to find a cheaper cartridge or dealer.
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    I'm probably wrong but I think Bullets kill by tranfering energy generated through speed from itself into the target like a shockwave, but Arrows/bolts act more like a weighted knife, using it's heavy weight and sharp edges to slice through the target and you don't need much energy to put a knife through the skin of an animal.
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    Going well mate! nice one just watch she doesn't run into the lure machine on the way back. Roo ran into an unguarded machine once and split his cheek wide open.
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    I'm guessing that by the way you put other quarry your after a certain longer legged variety! lol, so 1/4bull is all you will need fella. The ones I've seen and the one I owned have had the balls for any job you could put in front of them and are generally racier than the 3/8th's. There's not much in this country that needs more than a 1/4 Bull and if your after those you need to start looking at reverse crosses. Unless their in there 2nd/3rd Gen of breeding as Derek says, the pups will be throwing to all differant sizes big and small so you'll get more chance of getting a fast 1/4 bred dog t
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