FOXHUNTER
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1 hour ago, dodger said:
Were abouts fh
Teesdale
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Getting colder , today on the tops
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Did Sunderland even turn up .....wilfully poor.
I didnt think it was a very good game , Sunderland gifted it to Newcastle with an own goal , penalty and stupid mistake.
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This weather is absolutely ridiculous , its pi$$ing down again .
Will there ever be an end to the wet
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Decided to stay in a little copse for last 1/2 hour to see if any pigeons came in to roost , not many but bagged a few plus another bonus pheasant
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Seeing as it was actually dry today I thought I would have a wander out with the shotgun for a pheasant or two.
Well my shooting started off terrible missing the first few pheasants with nothing to show except a few feathers.
I was beginning to think there was no lead in them before I connected with a squirrel followed by a magpie which tried to sneak over the top of the trees.
Continuing onwards I eventually got my eye in and bagged a few.
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I agree a long cold wet winter will have many fatalities but nothing like RHD.
I too have found many emaciated rabbits that are skin and bone in a bad winter but come the Spring/ Summer there numbers are back , this never happened with RHD. On ground where there was thousands it literally killed them all off over night.
Thankfully now I am seeing numbers of rabbits emerging where there were none.
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Long time since I've done golf courses but taken plenty off them over the years.
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Get a few coloured ones now and again..
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Rabbits are just like any other quarry , you have them or you dont.
My permissions range from high populations to zero.
Same with foxes , never been many up North yet go down South and tripping over them.
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It wouldn't have been the cold but disease. We used to get much worse winters than that and rabbits survived, they cant beat RHD.
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Good on the youngun but feck me he looks older than me
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4 hours ago, wildman said:
,All my spots are lifting with bunnies but no one bothered to go out , ya can only carry what one man can manage, so been getting 4 to 6 n coming home what can ya do ?
Your inbox will be full now
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1 hour ago, Daniel cain said:
Much prefer a session on the rats at night
Much prefer
but we dont have many
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1 hour ago, Whoknows said:
Got to be honest though. There is little as fecking boring as pinging rabbits with a rifle and night vision
Fishing is much more boring
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24 minutes ago, Luckee legs said:
It's difficult to be certain with RHD because the numbers just collapse and you don't see carcasses but I feel it's the main problem. I have in the past ferreted and shot on one farm and numbers always bounced back
Definitely RHD ..we used to ferret and shoot a farm all year round in the Borders taking thousands but the next year you would think we hadn't even been they always bounced back.
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2 minutes ago, Whoknows said:
Simple facts are …. There are nationally less rabbits than there were and this number has vern reducing over last decade.
Yep and its all down to RHD ..
They are starting to make a comeback though in some areas .
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Yep thermal is definitely an eye opener. I see loads of woodcock , mice and rats out in the fields.
Watched a fox the other night hunt up and flush a woodcock.
Last week I saw a blackbird roosting in the middle of a grass field and another 50 plus roosting in a holly Bush.
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4 hours ago, tatsblisters said:
the technoligy used now days by shooters at night must be having an impact on numbers were rabbits that had become lamp shy now their is no need to put a lamp on them to get a shot off in darkness.
Thermal and nv has undoubtedly helped in shooting more rabbits but believe me you still can't get them all .
Many a night I am out with the thermal and cant get anywhere near them , believe me their hearing is amazing. I often look at them through the thermal and try to get in shooting range only to see them running off the field .
They get used to being shot at , the 1st couple of times it's easy then it gets progressively harder.
However disease takes no prisoners.
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By far the biggest killer of rabbits is disease.
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I think it's like anything depends where you live. Places that have a good population always seem to remain so but places where there arent many it's easy to wipe them out.
I'm lucky and have plenty to go at , had 540 this year so far but not out after them all the time.
Rabbit control is pest control and farmers want them shot all year round especially Spring and Summer to protect crops .
I can just imagine saying to my farmers that I will leave them for Winter, soon lose the ground.
The humble bunny is very resilient and will still be here when we are all pushing up Daisy's.
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Just now, king said:
Why don't you come and knock my door and tell me that to my face..
Chill out its Christmas, just a bit of fun.
Hope you get it sorted and have a nice day
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26 minutes ago, Stavross said:
I’m getting a bit carried away with it lately, won’t be long before my peas a floating around the plate
Can never have enough gravy mate
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3 minutes ago, king said:
Barstud morrisons fresh turkey gone off..wife's just pulled it from the fridge..greasy and smells..
Tell her to have a bath
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Hunting without permission? What are the laws?
in Catapult & Slingshot Hunting
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Exactly why would any landowner take you seriously if you asked for permission with a catty ...they are just for pi$$ing about not serious pest control.