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    you must have got a lazy copper on the phone , if that had been up here near me , the armed response boys would have been out and all over him like a bad rash . you should have phoned police headquarters , and asked to speak to senior officer .
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    old willie mac, showed me how to use the four strand snares 40 years ago, they are alright to use in the summer months when doing pest control, trust me there is nobody that has used them as extensively more than myself , but i don,t use them in the back end of the season for large winter rabbits, to tell you the truth i really don,t use them now, for the simple fact that ,you get to many broken snares ,and for the sake of two extra strands , i would rather have the rabbits held , than escape with a broken wire around their neck , there are a couple of different factors that affect the four s
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    have watched it lad its an excellant watch very informative really give me confidence in making and setting my own snares, showed how to make the tealers just wondered why its design shape. cheers woodja for a great watch Think its just more stable and golds better in soft ground yes it sits stable in the ground , and has a nice grip to hold while inserting it into the ground , along with the double eye at the top to allow the knot in the end of the snare cable to spin freely in a 360 degree rotation .
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    they have to be checked every day.
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    correct me if i am wrong, it may just be the light reflecting of the brass wire. the nooses look a bit rough, use a weight and spin them by hand like woodga showed . and that i do , and you get a nice tightly spun and very smooth wire loop , other than that you are doing very well .
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    they do not need to be cleaned after each kill ,
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    rolfe, i found a small green booklet, in my shed on rabbit catching , with longnets, by young,s of misterton, do you want it . Yes please mate.........that would be great........thanks. remember and keep your glass eye polished up for that spud thistle , i,ll send it down this week.
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    rolfe, i found a small green booklet, in my shed on rabbit catching , with longnets, by young,s of misterton, do you want it .
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    you bullsh#tter , do you put a short crust pastry around them later.ha. ha.
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    you bullsh#tter , do you put a short crust pastry around them later.ha. ha.
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    micky, i,ll crack the jokes , up here, they would hardly give you civility, never mind paying you 2 50 a pound for a rabbit . they would hardly pay you that price for 250 rabbits.
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    same method we used up here for snaring the hares along the steep sides of the shale bings, you always found them lying at the bottom of the bings in the morning, dead. the old brick is simple but effective, in these type of locations.
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    right my bags are packed, i can,t stand looking at these lovely fields any longer , i,m coming down to get into the action .
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    there are no hard and fast rules to the length of the wire, its usually around 44 to 48 inches long and bent into an upside down u shape with both wire legs the same equal length, straddle run and push the legs into the ground on either side of the run, so that your snare is sitting directly above and over the middle of the beat ,at 6 1/2 inches high to the bottom of the loop in grazing type grass .use 3 mil. diam. high tensil wire . its best to set snare loop from the side same as a pegged snare , not from the top. they can be sprayed vauxhall leaf green , this makes them really hard to see b
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    look at some of the posts that rolfe has put up on site about trapping moles , nice clear pictures also.
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    Hi mate, I recall someone on here using the mk6 Solway. It could have been molecatcher or Chalkwarren I think. The Managing Director of Solway was on here too at the time. I seem to remember that there was a gap of 1/2" or so between the top two bars of the trap after it was sprung. This could allow a large strong rabbit when caught by the neck to survive while being slowly strangled. I don't know if that problem has been rectified, but I'd email them and ask if I was you. As I said the MD was in on the discussion so should have an answer. The details are as I recall them so I hope they are co
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    they are only checking 35 traps a day , what are they doing for the next 6 hours of the day . mink trappers ,,,,,.
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    Curry me thinks Tracey........but we won't be be eating that tough old bugger thats for sure.........whether you like a Big-Un or not yes rolphe, there are certain locations where there are large sized sized rabbits, colin snared around 60 rabbits one morning and they were very large , so he took them home and weighed every one, the majority weighed 5 3/4 lbs. the rest all weighed in at 5 1/2 lbs. i snared 140 and they all weighed 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 lbs in weight . p and g . has also snared large rabbits at certain locations , i have also snared them in many different colours , natural, black
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    do,nt think that it is possible, two different animals.
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    thats just old fashioned nonsense , the only real problem with new snares is that they are more visible, to any prowler , but once they weather , and set well out they are extremely hard to see. i set out 100 brand new pegged snares . one morning and had rabbits the following morning. woodga set a hundred out not so long ago and took a good few in the evening just before dark , then took a kill in the morning , the overall total between evening and morning was nearly a hundred rabbits , all from new shiny brass snares.
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    Curry me thinks Tracey........but we won't be be eating that tough old bugger thats for sure.........whether you like a Big-Un or not yes rolphe, there are certain locations where there are large sized sized rabbits, colin snared around 60 rabbits one morning and they were very large , so he took them home and weighed every one, the majority weighed 5 3/4 lbs. the rest all weighed in at 5 1/2 lbs. i snared 140 and they all weighed 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 lbs in weight . p and g . has also snared large rabbits at certain locations , i have also snared them in many different colours , natural, black
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    there are thousands of them in the central region where i live, they have been coming around the houses where i live for the past ten years , they live in all the surrounding council woodland , you see them climbing up the walls and on the roofs at times but nobody seems to bother them. they have been around this area before i was born and that was over 60 yrs. ago. i used to shoot them with my father when i was a schoolboy. but i might give them a fright this winter with the snare poles, they have been stripping the sycamore and the willow trees, saw a fair bit of damage a couple weeks back,
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    rolfe, his luck is so bad , that if he flung a fiver up in the air it would come down as a court summons .ha. ha.
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    ian, when i first put the illustrations and snaring information up on site , it was to help people to be able to do it properly, i certainly would not have done if it was wrong , for the simple fact , that i would have made a complete fool of myself in front of tens of thousands of people from all over the world who have looked at the hunting life site . the people who snare with tiny nooses and set at a fist high , between beats ,have been misled over the decades , by authors , who knew no better , even today field sports writers are still advocating setting with small loops low to the ground
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    contact woodga, or rolfe, these lads use cages to trap a lot of squirrels.
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