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About furdy

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  • Birthday 18/07/1965

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    Fishing, shooting, General countryside persuits, Furniture making.
  1. I will be sorting another shoot out soon..... hopefully somewhere warmer so she doesn't have to wear quite so much....
  2. I'm sure I wouldn't want to sit my bum in the snow......Lovely little dogs mate.
  3. The ones in nuts will be a little more interesting........ I didn't want to upset anyone but I will be taking some attention grabbing pictures soon....
  4. I was asked to help out a damsel in distress and shoot a few pictures for a portfolio. Tough job but someone has to do it...!! Anyhow, whilst we were out, she received a phone call from Nuts Magazine congratulating her on her forthcoming photoshoot for the magazine. She should be in there in a couple of weeks time but until then here are a few that I've taken of her. Am looking to shoot a few more over the next few months and am looking for suitable locations if anyone has access to buildings such as old wooden barns, stables, old buildings etc.....near to Southampton would be ideal. W
  5. Forgive the delay in making a reply.....I havn't been able to log on and then I couldn't find the thread. Thanks for the positive feedback and to answer the camera question, its a Nikon D300s. Will hopefully be able to keep a few decent pictures coming over the next few months.
  6. Whippet/Deerhound x Beddy/Greyhound..... 18 moths old.....slow to mature but coming on ok......he's a big softy too!!!
  7. Its not really an option for them.....If you look at where the donations come from that support the Conservative party a large percentage comes from the rural economy, large landowners etc. A lot of Tory MP's have strong direct links too, they come from wealthy and landowning families. For them to go back on a promise to try and repeal the hunting ban would have consequences beyond just looking like a party of liars. It would upset some of the major donators to the party. Aside from that, a lot of tory MP's actually enjoy the hunt themselves.
  8. You're pretty much bang on about the general public....Most are quite apathetic to hunting. The whole ethos of the vote-ok campaign is to help win local seats for MP's that are sympathetic to hunting. In my own constituancy the seat is currently occupied by a Labour MP who is against hunting. The big push is to help win the seat for the conservative candidate who is for hunting, which in turn will help the repeal with another vote in favour. This is happening nationally and there will be a campaign loca to everyone here. The thing I really struggle with is how many hunters, shooters an
  9. No....you had read it right.....Cameron is a tit!!!! What a stupid thing for him to say. The problem with most MP's is that a lot of their statements etc are written by the spin doctors and brains behind politics. When they are allowed to think for themselves they say stupid things. The repeal is still touch and go right now. Most people, contrary to what the media will have you believe dont give two hoots wether we hunt or not. Most view foxhunting as a little eccentric and think we are all mad. Whatever happens, if the Conservatives regain power, the vote on repeal will be quite
  10. Possibly I missed or misread something so I've reread the article. The guy is hoping to get elected isn't he? Yet he's saying to the many people who engage in fox control, what you do is cruel, no, sorry, that's "very, very cruel", but I can shoot rabbits, because that's... ?? How is shooting, snaring or trapping as methods of fox control very very cruel? How is shooting rabbits, as his father taught him, less cruel? It strikes me as a completely bizarre comment to make. Can you enlighten me further please if I'm taking things up wrong here? (genuinely). I wasn't having a
  11. The comment Cameron made about gassing,snaring and trapping was made directly in relation to the control of foxes and not as a general comment about field sports. This was the same argument used by the Hunts to defend their sport when the ban first took effect. The Hunting act will be repealed completely or not at all. Its not possible to select certain pieces of legislation and leave them in place. The idea of repeal is that one simple line will be entered into legislation and the entire act dismissed. However, this wont give hare coursers the right to illegally course over ground where
  12. Apologies if I sounded flipant. No I dont have a problem with your original post. I'm just a little sceptical about a new member raising a question about something that has been fiercly debated over the past few weeks. I have no problem at all with anyone who trades a service of any kind for sporting permission. I'm sure thats how most people start into fieldsports, there are plenty who I know that would run errands for the local keeper as kids in return for some ferreting or ratting permission. If you have a look back through the last few pages of threads you'll probably find as much
  13. Around and around we go again...... The world has gone mole crazy.....maybe next year we could take a leaf from the lurcher book and run a mole lamping competition.....
  14. The garden twine sold as hemp is actually Jute. Its about three times the thickness of good hemp and doesn't knit very well at all. The nets you end up with are unuseable so what looks like good value is a waste of money. Bridport nets are selling a poly/linen twine which is very nice. It handles just like hemp. You do need to watch what you buy over the net as decent hemp twine is like hens teeth mate.
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