[Safety First!]

I think its called tuliping in the business,

 

Just goes to show

 

i bet he doesnt forget to check the barrel the next time,

[back on the up]

Your due some luck lads! Now get Bouncer out again and get some action shots, and also some of Col juggling those new ferrets!

 

Also have a sweep over the dodgy set with the mk3, see if anything picks up!

There are warrens on our land that are untouchable, you'll always have a few rabbits to go at with places like that.

 

 

I would but i've lost my bloomin camera up there somewhere aswell, you guys must think we are like the chuckle brothers haha go up there in a wallace and gromit van with a flat coated retriever as a ferreting dog lose all our ferrets and gear but still have a good laugh, We will be out again shortly and I for one can't wait don't think Bouncer and Sally can either

 

that sounds like an expensive day out

 

keith

[usefull web site]

some printable targets on the site,

 

thanks for the link

 

keith

[Death from Above!!]

i shot a couple of crows in a cut silage field field last summer and was patiently waiting on the crows returning when a buzzard landed and carryied off one of the crows. we have a lot of buzzards around this location as well. I notice more and more articles in hunting magazines about games keepers getting prosecuted for killing buzzards and other birds of prey.

[Any tips?ferret on the run!]

my son lost his ferret last year, we live in the country and there are no other house around us. We looked over the fields for the best part of a week and left dead rabbits out in areas that we thought he may be, the rabbits didnt last too long due to foxes etc. I mentioned it to my mum about 6 days later and she called into one of the local radio stations. Before she had hung up the phone a guy had called into say that he knew where the ferret was. The ferret had broke into a shed in a garden over 2 miles away and was trying to get at a pet rabbit.

 

we evenutally got the ferret back as he escaped again and luckily was with a young lad in another development. The wierd bit about this story is that the guy who called into the radio station had a daughter getting married the very next day on an island in enniskillen , we were booked on a weeks holiday on the same island that day and met up for a drink.

 

just goes to show that things work out for a reason, good luck with finding your ferret.

 

keith

[Just recived my mk3m and 2 collars]

Mk3 locators do pick up the mk1 collar, not sure of accuracy though.

 

 

Are you sure?, i hunt with a guy who uses a mk I and his box will pick up my mkIII collars but my MKIII wont pickup his collars.

 

keith

[collar on side]

My hob dropped a collar when I first got them, MK3 box pinpointed down to six inches, and it was on its side.

 

if you are close enough to the collar you will still get a good reading on its side but i found that it is stronger at two points along the direction of the collar and weakest directly about the collar. Just my findings,

 

keith

[collar on side]

thats a mk1 box in the picture, ain't it?

 

well spotted it is, but i use the mkIII, by the time we got the collar out we had been using 2x mkI and 1 x MKIII. For reference i found that the mkI will bleep the MKIII collars but not the other way around

[any idea]

could be the v.h.d virus

can wipe out a rabbit population in days

look it up

atb 8shot

 

i heard a couple of guys talking about a flu type virus that wiped out rabbits in a matter of days if not overnight, is this something similar.

 

keith

[collar on side]

sorry if this is something that is obvious to most guys on here but i thought i would share a recent experience that could save some time and effort. I recently lost a collar in a deep sandy set, the ferret came out of the hole and once in the box i set about the short task of locating the collar and digging it out, or so i thought. I located the collar and X'ed the spot where i thought it was, i set about digging down to the 8ft mark as per the mkIII display, thankfully it was sand. Once i broke into the hole i couldnt quite reach the collar that i was sure was just up the hole to one side. After struggling to reach the collar i had to give up for the day.

 

The first opportunity i got to return was a full week later ( the battery in the collar was still going strong), i returned to the set with an old hand at ferreting who decided to double check the reading, we got a good reading at the spot i had been digging and my mate checked around for another reading, we got another go reading approx 6 ft away from the original reading which again we x'ed, my mate said that the collar must be lying on its side and we should try to pin point it by moving along a straight line between the two points we x'ed and picking the weakest reading at the middle. We proceeded to dig in the middle of the two points and broke straight into the hole and found the collar at approx 6 ft. I wouldnt have thought that the reading would have changed that much by being on its side but in practise it was very different. i learned a valuable lesson that day that will stick with me for the rest of my hunting days. Thanks Terry and Neil for your help.

[moderator for marlin .17hmr]

thanks for the replies, i will try the SAK. The rifle i have was not screw cut in the factory so i will also have to send the rifle away to be screw cut and after waiting 6months for the FAC i will probably shoot it for a couple of months before sending it away. Has anyone sent a rifle off from n. ireland to have the barrel screw cut and roughly how long did the process take and cost.

 

keith

[moderator for marlin .17hmr]

just wondering what sound moderators you recommend for the marlin .17hmr or moderators in general for .17hmr

 

thanks

keith

[marlin .17hmr]

the price was approx $90 with $7 shipping, i had the trigger within about 3 days from the states.

[marlin .17hmr]

hi guys

 

I recently started shooting with a marlin .17hmr after years of hunting with rapid 7 air rifles . i found the trigger on the marlin to be very heavy and hard to get used to. I replaced it with a Rifle Basix trigger and the difference was day and night. The trigger is adjustable up to a trigger pull of 2lbs and i have set it towards the max pull weight, it has improved the overall feel of the rifle significantly. I would reccomend the trigger and the service from rifle basix to anyone with a marlin .17hmr looking to improve their rifle.