john b
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A mate of mine is looking for an air rifle for his kids to start off with - targets initially but rabbits soon enough. I want to set them up right so they don't get put off so I'm after a decent springer (something like a AATX200 quality), preferably .177 and preferably under lever rather than break barrel. Anyone selling ?
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MC Did you get chance to look at the link I put up in my earlier post ? http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/in...da-nobilis.html Under bite reports: "Two small puncture wounds in the region of the swelling, surrounded by local erythema with small bluish tinge a few hours later"
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I've had a lot of success preserving fox tails by just dunking them in a jar of meths for a couple of months.
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Did it look like this ? http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/in...da-nobilis.html
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What calibre please and where are you ?
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Mate they are diving. I suspect you're not killing the cleanly and they are diving because they can't fly. You'll know yourself how the birds are that you've shot over dry land, but if that is the case you should take steps to improve the kill. Might be the gun / carts pattern, the shot size you're using, the range or just plain accuracy. John
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better to yet it all out of the way in one night! Still can't get over you being 'jet washed' ! thats a image that will stay with me for a while
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I used the big ones of those as hide poles for a while. Ok when the soil was soft but no good in the sun baked or round trees.
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I've just got another box of these in and it will probably be the last for a while. Drop me a PM if anyone would still like a copy. Cheers, John
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Internet group brag of fox killing Solihull Fox Hunters boast of killing one fox. (s) Emily Cole 30 August 2007 A SOLIHULL group promoting fox hunting and killing on international networking website Facebook has been slammed by the RSPCA and the League Against Cruel Sports - The Observer can exclusively reveal. The discussion group Solihull Fox Hunters was created by James Parker and has nearly 60 members, including 21-year-old Matt Potter who is listed as Chief Fox Killer. The website - which was uncovered by reporter Emily Cole - has a section called Recent News which appla
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Oh yes - the 'sticky hat'
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Now that might be classed as a 'cage trap' so could be OK
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I'd forgotten that one: Stovepipe Bird Trap. The stovepipe game bird trap is so simple, it makes me laugh every time I think about it. The principle behind it is that birds can't back up. Have you ever seen a bird walk backwards? Neither have I! Materials needed: (1) 6-inch diameter, 24-inch long stove pipe piece of chicken wire, about 12-inches square some duct tape That's it. You take the chicken wire, form it around one end of the pipe, and duct tape the overlay nice and tight around the pipe. Place a trail of corn going into the pipe, and a pile or cob in the back. This
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here you go, found this http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=h...l%3Den%26sa%3DN GROUND SNARES. THE OLD-FASHIONED SPRINGLE. This is the variety of snare which has been in very common use for ages, and has always been the one solitary example of a noose trap which our "boys' books" have invariably pounced upon for illustration. For the capture of small birds it works very nicely; and as without it our list of traps would be incomplete, we will give an illustration of it as it appears when Page 59 set and ready for its work. In constructing the affair it is first necessary
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Right then - first thanks Ricky for the plug. That book has a number or 'sprung snares' in it and copies are still available .......... 'How to Trap and Snare' by William Carnegie has a reference to 'Hingles' in the index, but when you look on the page it covers both 'springles' and 'hingles'. Hingles are defined as "small hares on nooses made from horsehair, fine gimp ( ), whipcord or wire"...... "For most purposes twisted horsehair is strong enough, but, plaited threefold or doubly twisted in fourfold, it will hold a pheasant or hawk" There are some diagrams and more text - I'l
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Got tired of waiting for you
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Happy Birthday mate - hope you get lots of pressies
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I think this is another traditional method It also does away with the troublesome necessity of carrying a coop to the trapping ground, as it can be made in a very few minutes with common rough hewn twigs by the clever use of the jack knife. The only remaining requisites consist of a few yards of very stout Indian twine, several small squares of brown pasteboard, a dozen tacks and a number of pieces of board five inches square, each one having a hole through its centre, as our engraving (b) indicates. Having these, the young trapper starts out with material sufficient for several coops
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I must admit that I've moved away from the sliding hatch to a sort of pivoting type.
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Well done mate. You've made a good go of that and mostly on your own. Hope it works for you
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Very good
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Are these them ? http://www.molemann.co.uk/item.do?item=76
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Interestingly there are 2 current 'e-petitions' running on this subject, neither with very much support. There are a lot more in the closed and rejected sections http://search.petitions.pm.gov.uk/kbroker/...amp;sc=number10
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I was very happy with Black Rocks too.
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Birmingham - What do you think ? but yes you are right about my immediate area. However David you do rather confirm my point; it is their "lower class, poorly educated, brain washed, religeous ideology" that you seem to object to, not their skin colour. Culture not race. And I don't like it anymore than you do.
