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  1. Jim Grant
    How many acres do you have in your garden? How large do you want the carcase to weigh? How long can you wait for a slaughterable carcase?
  2. Jim Grant
    Hi Julia. Well done on gaining your licences. Hope you are not trying to take Roe and Boar with your Bird. Had to opportunity to Hunt in Germany in the early sixties. Loved the sport. Never managed to fly a bird. Never had the spare time. Takes more than a few weeks/months to achieve.
  3. Jim Grant
    I think the original intention of prohibiting the taking of game on Sundays was to give game a bit of respite. Back in time a days shooting yielded large bags and put paid the many non-reared birds. Christmas was tacked on for I know not what reason. Gin. Sent you a PM
  4. Jim Grant
    The Min/Max had it at -9C at 8.30am. Lovely clear sky. Should pick up a bit when the sun gets above the hills.
  5. Jim Grant
    Time you pay for all of this kit and the rest of the faffing about you would be cheaper taking a day trip over the channel and getting some safe stuff. Get me SOME WHEN YOU ARE AT IT.
  6. Jim Grant
    Do you mean pin in a net or pin in open ground. A dog that will hold a rabbit in a net (purse or long) until you get there is a treasure. A dog that pins in open ground and will not bring it back to hand is a pain in the ass. Start them slowly and keep at them. I have both Gundogs and running dogs. Both will retrieve to hand. It's easy train them.
  7. Jim Grant
    I don't have a Hancock bred dog. Not because I don't like the line. I know which of hancocks I would have tomorrow. My favourite mix from away back has always been Working Beardie dog x Grey Bitch by a Working Deerhound (brindle). Nice Hairy dug. Some grey matter (brains) between the ears. They have never let me down but I have never run them on fox, I think it spoils them. That mix was always the best coursing dog outwith the Fens. Sorted always out Roe. By the way who out there has ever eaten a fox. Shoot them, don't run them.
  8. Jim Grant
    Confirmation does not have a lot to do with looks. It is their skeleton and Musculature. Nicely set together. Good looking dogs, what is it colour, coat, size, what. I know what I am after and I go for confirmation every time.
  9. Jim Grant
    I voted Yes and Yes. I think that the summer shows are a great way of socialising pups and older dogs who are not town dwellers. I also race the dogs over the summer, they love it, sim copursing and straight racing, don't matter. Getting back to the post, if the animal doesn't have good confirmation then you could be in for big vet bills if you run it on open ground. PS I don't insure my doge take it on the chin, much cheaper.
  10. Jim Grant
    This time of year if it is down to mud you are knackered. Ark housing for the Chooks. Corner for the Lurcher. The rest fenced off and pricked with a garden fork, ie improve the drainage, you can even apply some Hort Grit. Next spring give it a good rake and sow some hard grass. Keep the chooks in their Ark, and the dug in its corner.
  11. Jim Grant
    Yes a couple of hundred times and it's no bother. You just have to watch how you cook them, No skin and gut fat and they tend to dry quickly.
  12. Jim Grant
    I normally go in at the crop and skin the thing, except wings. Dejoint the wings and into the bin. Dejoint the legs (keep the oysters). Finger in at the wishbone , hand on the neck and pull breast away from spine. Left with the guts and the backbone, bin. What's there one breast and two legs. Nothing else on a pheasie. If it is old I suggest you draw the tendons from the legs. Start to finish maybe two minutes.
  13. Jim Grant
    The ROI usually take a couple of years to catch up with other country. Is this that the Politicians in the ROI take that wee bit longer to latch on to what most of the other brain dead b*****d, knee jerking, politicians have managed to achieve this last decade. Why will they not read the surveys which tell them that registered and legal rifles and handguns are not used in criminal acts. Easy way out of it for the Politicos each firearm will fire three rounds in a controlled environment and they will be retained by the powers that be. Record the whatever and you have the culprit. Wea
  14. Jim Grant
    I cannot think why most of you guys haven't gone blind by now. Many years ago and in a country which did not allow the consumption of Likker, enterprising lads like youselves would make the odd 200 ltr of alchohol. Half of their customers went blind, the other half died (just joking but the blind bit is correct). Strictly TT when out there. Didn't bother me too much, but then I was not out there for three months at a time.
  15. Jim Grant
    Where are you in the UK. No Fungi edible up here now. Long gone. There is a new Guide to Fungi book just been released in time for Winter!! Look to the Organic Mags for details.
  16. Jim Grant
    Rabbit with mushrooms. 1 rabbit, 2 tablespoons flour, 3/4 rashers faty bacon, 1/2 pt stock, seasoning, knob butter or dripping, 1/2lb mushrooms, 1 med onion. Cut rabbit into small joints and coat with flour. Melt the butter or dripping in saucepan, in with bacon chopped and cook for a couple of minutes. Chuck in the rabbit and the finely chopped onion and brown off the lot. Season and add a pinch of your favourite spice (I like some grated nutmeg). Heat the stock and pour it over. Put on lid and simmer gently for approx two hours. Just before you think it is tender add the mushrooms and coo
  17. Jim Grant
    Happychick. Collect the fowl carcases as you go around. If it has some flesh attached then take it off and use it for a Curry dish, stick the stripped bones into the big stock pot. Few hours or so of gentle simmering and you have some super "Chicken" stock, into a sealable container and into the freezer. Use wee ones if you don't use lots.
  18. Jim Grant
    The One Get along to the local Rug Wash. They are always trying to get rid of 25Ltr containers. Top off, holes in base and you have containers which wil last more than a few years. Give them a good steam wash first. If you are near the water, silly question all of Fife is near the sea. Get yourself some seaweed from the High Water mark . Use that to mulch the tatties. In containers you will have to water them every second day.
  19. Jim Grant
    I use 20ltr black poly Exhibitor bags and also converted 25ltr containers with the top cut off and holes drilled through the base to grow tatties in. I have converted a couple of raised beds to hold the black bags. The converted containers are used in the poly tunnel and the greenhouse, where I have 2nd cropping tatties growing just now. Willl be ready for Christmas. The only drawback with barrels, bags or containers is that you have to water them every two days at least. Never had to do it every day as it has never been hot enough to justify it. Nice clean tatties and easy the har
  20. Jim Grant
    Al Must admit that I didn't look at your link. Us wrinklies don't do that sort of thing. You will not be getting splinters up your arse from sitting on the fence. Unfortunately we have to cope with topics about Political parties being spread all over the internet. Where are the protectors of the "Data Protection Act".
  21. Jim Grant
    If this had been any other legitamate political party, however small, then the sky would have fallen on those who did it. It was the labour government who put in the exclusion of members of the BNP from Police etc. I don't hold with some of "their" views as published by other political parties. But who believes politicians. Is there not something called "Data Protection Act", or am I being too PC.
  22. Jim Grant
    As I have multiples of horses, dogs and cats around the place insurance was a major piece of expenditure. I decided about 10 years ago that I would take Vet bills on the chin. Most bills are fairly light and when you pay the excess anyway it was not worth it. The older the animal gets the less cover you get, just when you need it. I reckon I am saving a thousand or more each year.
  23. Jim Grant
    I hate the commercialisation of Christmas. My kids are old enough to have escaped the must have the in thing (both in their thirties now). I have no problem with the Eat , Drink and be Merry. Love it and join in, even make a contribution or two to the table, and provide the odd glass or three. In my family it is traditional to have a full blown meal on Christmas Eve. This year I am providing them with a cold smoked then roasted saddle of venison (coat in dripping, foil, flour paste then Foil) . My usual tatties roasted in goose fat. Roasted Parsnip in parmasan and wholemeal, Purple spr
  24. Jim Grant
    If the Landowner is prepared to leave a corner of his ground with the certainty of a couple of rabbits on it, then why not a small payment. You would pay for the certainty of partridge or Pheasant. I did say a small payment. If you have permission to take vermin with ferrets and nets. then that is pest control and it swings the other way. If you can lamp rabbits and work a dog. Then keep your nose clean and make sure the Landowner get a cut of what is on offer. Only don't offer him a bit of lamb. Where are all of the Falconers, get your twopence in.
  25. Jim Grant
    If there are more young rabbits, and I mean young, to older Rabbits then you might have a thing called Viral Haemorrhage Disease (also known as HVD & RCD). The viris does not affect them until they are 8-10 weeks, and is normally fatal. It has been moving north gradually and has now reached the Scottish Borders.
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