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  1. postiepaul
    Welcome Mark. Plenty here to wet your appetite for shooting. Was that whet?
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    if your mate has got his own ferret box on the other side of a hedge and you got your own box on your side, make sure which one is putting the ferret in, or else you spend half hour watching a hedge with no ferret in it. Silly, but its happened. seriously, mange can occur which shows as pink, sore looking skin and hair loss. caught if the ferret has been workingg dirty places like ratholes or fox hole. get benzyl benzoate over the shelf at chemist. rub it on the ferret but only half the ferret each day, front half one day , back half next day. wash off with water what you put on first day
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    Ihad one in .177. didnt have much confidence for shooting rabbits but good for pigeons in sitty trees or ferals or rats. best pellet was accupell at 11.3 ft.lb the probe went ou t of line sometimes and shaved the pellet which caused flyers. I got fed up charging it and pushing fiddly pellets into magazine and went back to good old springer. at the moment my r32 is leaking from the airbottle so its not in use. when its shooting right its a good gun for woodland or farmyard pest control and can be very accurate mine is for sale at about £100 would just like to publicly thank postiepau
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    few clips on youtube of these things in action.
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    had a buzzard strike at a pigeon decoy last summer with a fair old thump, then sat on ground beside it looking puzzled. have had the same with peregrine a few years ago but that one soon made off after the mistake. I think a buzzard is capable of serious damage to a ferret because they strike hard and large rats and occasionally a stoat would be prey items and a ferret, a dark one, could be of similar size.
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    If you are snaring along a hedge, push in a bamboo or stick every 10 snares. you then know you got to pick up 10 snares between every stick, then you know where amissing snare is.
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    Locators are for wimps and people with no field craft. Whoops, and pro rabbiters who do not have the time to wait for the ferrret and one that kills consitently cuts down on the time factor, by having a quick dig, after all that is what they are getting paid for. There my friend is the crux of the matter, pest control persons are paid to get results so they have to get them or go out of buisiness. When all you hobby ferreters (of which I am one) keep banging on about locators and you cannot leave home without one and a spade. Make me think, god for Feck sake learn some fieldcraft, then yo
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    trust you to go a couple better.... do you want a couple lol I was thinking I could do with a couple more TBH. I fat hob.. 2 working jills...In season. 1 unashamed lazy hob, doest hunt, doesn't sh4g, only good for playing with on the kitchen floor only 1 but its a good un total 93 Couple of small hobs maybe????? sorry put a line in your post 1 ferret total 93
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    trust you to go a couple better.... do you want a couple lol I was thinking I could do with a couple more TBH. I fat hob.. 2 working jills...In season. 1 unashamed lazy hob, doest hunt, doesn't sh4g, only good for playing with on the kitchen floor only 1 but its a good un total 93 Couple of small hobs maybe?????
  10. postiepaul
    I am Postiepaul. Delighted to join you all . I am 52 but still good, walking over 10 miles a day keeps me fit. Live in Cornwall. Ive had ferrets since I was a schoolboy, and ferreted more places than I can remember. Done a lot of airgun hunting. Do longnetting but get frustrated because late nights and early shifts dont mix. Had lamping dogs in the past and will again when I retire or get paid off hopefully. Do decoying birds for crop protection. Hope to be an asset to the forum because posting is what i do!!
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    Ihad one in .177. didnt have much confidence for shooting rabbits but good for pigeons in sitty trees or ferals or rats. best pellet was accupell at 11.3 ft.lb the probe went ou t of line sometimes and shaved the pellet which caused flyers. I got fed up charging it and pushing fiddly pellets into magazine and went back to good old springer. at the moment my r32 is leaking from the airbottle so its not in use. when its shooting right its a good gun for woodland or farmyard pest control and can be very accurate mine is for sale at about £100
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    I am supprised you didnt come up with it then Blimey Kay, i just spat me beer over the bloody keyboard. That just tickeld me silly. Seemed the most natural way to go all ment in jest though Ive only heard of bolting squirrels from house attics before when they get in the roof.
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    thanks for sharing your day. great photos and nice nets. pity no ferret photos. reminds me of when Itold my 6 year old son to watch one side of a hedge for me, he just laid in the grass sunbathing and when I looked over there were 3 rabbits in nets and all the time he was telling me :nothing happening my side>
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    Ive always used bamboos for longnet pegs. get 10x5foot medium thickness bamboos from garden centre. Use fine hacksaw to cut in half, this gives 20 pegs of 30ins each. My pegs are 26inch. My quiver is the bottom 24 inches of an old gunslip which is already reinforced, but I usually push a rag in the bottom for extra padding. Add a bit of string so it can go over your shoulder, lasts for years. Im a newbie so this might have been discussed before but Im sure I would rather carry 20 bamboos than 20 fencing stakes.
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    ,dean 29. date=Jan 17 2009,10:54 pm post=863904It belongs to somebody, probably the local council or highw ays round here. councils dont give permission these days usually like they used to. You are recommended to get permission because in that situation you are almost certainly gonna get somebody pull up and spoil your day.
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    the 5th one along looks a bit bent, If you havent seen the topic on this section about straigtening poles its well worth knowing. They look like a tidy job though mate
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