McSparkie
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They are not 'game' and aren't on any list I've seen as 'vermin', so I would say not. How do you know they are feral? What would you use to shoot one?
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For as long as you can keep them in a pot!
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Get one that's been caught by McSweens. They taste the best! DO NOT BOIL your haggis! That's for the Sasenachs! Make a foil envelope for the wee beastie and include a healthy dram before folding in the last corner. Stick it in an oven for the time recommended (probably found on a tag attached to a toe of the beast by the butcher). Mashed neeps and tatties are obligatory. Psst - try Waitrose or Sainsbury if you are south of the border.
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Some stories from an ex-army dog handler. Best you sit down and get yourself comfy. There are pages of them, but I guarantee you will cry with laughter at them. Here Joe, I spent 4 years in the TA as a Paratrooper. It was weekends and a night during the week, but we did all the stuff that the regs did Berret Cadre (confidence test, assault course, pole race, bla, bla), the training and jumps to get your Wings. Then endless nights skulking around the countryside in the pissing rain, trying to map read and find another squad in the middle of nowhere, then pretend to shoot them all.
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Any chance you could share the pattern you use, or a rough sketch and how you put it together? Please! Ah, you mean Sillocock. Don't worry, I can see how they work.
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Muhahaha, I think we have something here! I've just read your replies to the boss and she just about flipped at the re-freezing idea :sick: What she doesn'r know about,,,,, :glare: I've been looking at making a Larsen, but that would probably get me in even more trouble than raiding the kids 'Make and Do' box for fluffy chickens or toy rabbits.
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Rabbits are as scarce as rocking horse sh,,,, teeth here abouts. As are the dozens of smaller wild birds that the crows etc. have been decimating. We had 6 thrush farting around after Yew berries, until the magpies took an interest in them. There is 1 left. The black death are well switched on to me. If I open an upstairs window, sneak around or through the garage, come round the back of the house, bla, bla, they scarper before I can get into a decent position with a clear shot. A mate donated about 10ft sq of ex-army camo netting which I may drape over the front of the garage and
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Has anyone made their own bird lure? Not the sort to be used with raptors. I fancy making up some corvids and/or pigeons, but have only a vague idea where to start. We have a good 30 or 40 crows locally and good handfulls of rooks, magpies and jays. There is a decent sized flock of Woodies that over-fly us too. I'd love some tips on how to make decoys/lures if it has been done before (can't afford / not interrested in buying them from a web site). I'm on a tight budget and quite fancy trying my hand at this anyway. I won't be using traps, I'll be using an air rifle. I just need t
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I hate you! :clapper: From a few weeks ago: Had a pee-poor dawn looking for bunnies. I decided enough was enough and was heading back to the house. There was a big crow sat on a power line about 30m away laughing at me. I swear he was shouting "Haa, Haa, Haaa!" at me! I told him to shut up or I would be finding out how crow tastes, but he kept it going. He kept it going as I swung the rifle up. Bear in mind I'm in full view and he's watching me. He just sat there as I got a bead on him. "Last chance" I told him. "Haaaa!" Pfftt! In good light, if I keep my ey
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Oh, you are on thin ice here mate! 'Common Sense' and 'Police' only three lines apart. I suppose the plod only do as they are told in these cases and someone with more 'training' should have pressed a panic button somewhere. But as per usual no-one wants the blame for making a bad call, bla, bla.
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Nicely done Pete. In all my safaris I've only ever bagged one. Don't worry about the nay-sayers. If you bagged 2, brag about your 2, don't lie about getting 20 or 200. Liers get found out and no one likes a lier. Respect for you getting your pair!
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Hahahaha, someone has a sonse of humour!
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'kin 'ell Grim! Have you ever tried for a job as a gunsmith? I reckon you'd make a killing! Dur! "Make a killing" Ahahahahahahhahahaha! You would though.
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THE SHOOT MORE RABBIT ATTRACTOR SCENT TURNT UP THIS MORNING!!
McSparkie replied to rabbit_killer's topic in Airgun Hunting
right guys sorry ive been a bit ocupied we had our baby girl last week but i have tried this stuff out!!!! i found a nice spot over the golf course where i can sit an watch and not be seen!! i poured about half a bottle in this one place and sat an watched an hour went past saw loads of rabbits none of them went near it next hour even more rabbits came out!! by this time i was getting upset (didnt have my gun with me) stayed there for a total of 3.5 hours and there was at least 6 rabbits that walked within 1 metre of it and they didnt even sniff the ground!!!! they where to hap -
It's an Interweb jobbie mate. Click here for the What to eat now series. I've never used it, but will have a go now.
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Thanks for the info Woz! It does make for depressing reading though, not the price of the machinery (cheaper than I thought), but the price of the bales of hay! MIL reckons she (or the horses ) gets through two bales a month. She reckons she will need her first one mid-December. Being unfamiliar with this and MIL showing some reluctance to give me too much info as I think she is starting to feel a little foolish, I reckon that she will only need to suppliment their food until say March. So, four months of hay equals eight bales at £3.50 a bale. £28 TWENTY EIGHT POUNDS a year
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Is this true????? Muhahahahhaha!
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Ohhh, you are sneaky!
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I'm interested in this too. I've heard that large amounts of urine is good and from other sources, the brain matter needs to be scrubbed into the meat side. If it's really this grotty I'll use man made stuff (rabbits don't have much of the grey matter [esp. after a .22 has been through it]).
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Further info: The agreement was made thousands of years ago on the shake of a hand. You can put your animals in the fields and I get haty for the horses. Or something like. You have no idea how much scorn the MIL has come under when questioned about all this. But hey, she is one of those people who trust others not to F her over and if they are 'nice' then they deserve a cuppa also. Tis is now undergoing a somewhat severe review. A certain couple of plasterers and plumbers are avoiding answering their mobile phones (I have more knowledge than both of them put together from an afterno
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Hopefully this won’t be as complex as I suspect it will be. Background first: We moved in with the mother-in-law (MIL) recently (the credit crunch and some delightful (ex)employers). MIL owns about 35 acres, but doesn’t use it all. She has two fields (say 20% of the total) which she keeps exclusively for her horses. The rest she lets out to a local farmer (Farmer A, for ‘free’ – actually winter hay for her horses), who does everything to manage/maintain the land for his sheep and cattle. ‘The Hill’ is a hill (really!) that borders on our, Farmer A’s and Farmer B’s land.
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£1000!!! for a length of rope Clicky. Further investigation required. Ohhh pushing his luck here Better details here Two lengths of rope with a zigzag of finer rope to allow traffic crossover. I have no experience of rope making and I appreciate you can't just climb a couple of trees and hoist a rope between them, but surely this is do-able for a native species under extreme pressure.
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I take it she (the feeder) is too thick to understand her actionas are actually killing these guys? How about picking up the road-kill and showing her what her feeding is doing? What does a 'rope bridge' consist of? If it's just a length of rope (OK, I may be a bit nieve here), I'll chip in. I'm too far away to come fit/hang it, but I'm sure a pair of hands could be found. I'm off to see what's involved in a rope bridge.
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How would that fit above your 'scope?
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Try THIS it knocks spots of my Deben 12volt tactical tracer and only £9 in English money free delivery all inclusive...... I've had one of these for a while. It lights out further than I will shoot, so I get an idea of who is out there waiting for me, but it's not what I would call bright. I've also found that I get too much reflection from my moderator which messes with the scope (even after I taped it up with some Real Tree stuff), so I've slung it it below the mod and that seems to be the best set up (even if it does load the weight exactly where I don't want it). I bought on