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  6. Mk 4 fenn

    in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control

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    11 hours ago, shotgun..willy said:

    Just wondering if any of you lads or lasses use any sort of lubricant on your traps, if seen some American stuff on YouTube where they dip them in melted wax which seems a bit of a palaver to me some of my traps are fifteen plus years old and wondered if they would benefit from this sort of thing .

    When I was burrow trapping the rabbits, using Imbras, Fenns and in later years, Bodygrippers, I insured that the traps worked fast by keeping them ,in tip-top condition.

    Some types of soil can corrode the steel far worse than in other places...and when after the Mink in pocket sets, or alongside bridges etc, the traps are frequently getting a regular soaking..

     I used to treat the old iron Imbras and Juby's,.. with boiled oak bark, and dipped the fresh steel Fenns and Conibears with Logwood dye.

    Traps ain't cheap and it pays to look after your tools:good:

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  9. German shepherd first x.

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    Watched this 1st cross GSD /Greyhound compete in one of the first ever Obedience Tests, devised for lurchers...

     I'll never forget his owner, hurtling the dummy into the most impregnable patch of bramble, known to man...?

    Quite why he fecking did this was a mystery?

    At the time, the dog looked to be streets ahead of the other contestants, both physically and most definitely cerebrally...

     He could have won the event, easy fecking peasy....:toast:

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  15. Working whippet for stud wanted

    in Lurchers & Running Dogs

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    I've caught lots of rabbits with those old style, barrel-chested whippets..

    Speedwise, they are not in the same league as the Hard-Bloods, but I have found that the KC runners, leftover, from the organised  hare-coursing days, often have stronger feet.?

    Obviously, the out and out race dogs, are fabulous specimens,.almost mini-greyhounds, great physiques , but for hedgerow rabbiting, the original pedigree, working type whippets, are plenty good enough. Whatever the style of whippet,...for me, as a part-timer,  these diminutive speedsters still bring a lot to the table...:good:

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  17. Bushing Border Collies.

    in Bushing Dogs

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    I  have always rated Herding dogs,.I just like them...

    The best of the bunch, are extremely adaptable and can take on many diverse tasks,....they just shift from one discipline to another.

    For them, it is easy,...they are different to other canines...?

    Worked with a tremendously keen Border collie dog,.he was undoubtedly, the most accurate marking dog, I have ever come across..

    Really intense,..massive concentration span,...almost trance-like, totally immovable, but when the time came, he struck his prey,... like a cobra..

    As the day progressed, I twigged onto the fact that he was partially deaf...

    Like a fool, I advised his owner not to use him across a running dog,...upon reflection, and given my experience with such matters today,...I was wrong....?

    Great dogs...:clapper:

     

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