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perthshire keeper

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  1. Look if you run hounds, you have got to stay out to get the last hound home, wind , rain , snow , it matters not.!!Too not go back the following day or the day he was contacted to be told its where he lost it, makes him a fuc king scumbag of the highest order , I hope he doesn't appreciate the comments, guess he appreciates them as much as he does his hounds.. spot on lads! personally i would name and shame the f****r!
  2. to be fair just about any thing IMO! i now use docter johns gold for when i cant get meat but thats very very rare, its just a standby, the best thing to do is ask a butchers for pet mince,,,its about 20p a lb up hear and i buy £30 a time and freez it...but then i also have half a minced cow in the freezer too lol
  3. yes i used it for months in scotland.......its utter utter shite
  4. Well,...speaking personally,...I used to trap large acreages of agricultural grassland, and although I enjoyed the work (and all the rabbiting/mouching rights, that often accompanied the job).....nowadays,.I prefer to treat large Country House garden lawns and nice tidy sheep farms,.. and sundry smallholdings.. As a Pest Controller, of several decades now,.I have found that it is favourite, to do less work, for more money,..as opposed to being, a rushed of me feet,.busy, busy,..fool.. Obviously,.you have to find your own place in the industry, and geographically,..the remuneration for tradi
  5. per mole for me but it varies on how ma moles their is on the farm. any thing from five to seven pounds a mole and a small mileage fee
  6. and if any of you should have a odd end pin they can spare give me a shout please as you can see in the last pick ime makeing do with a lump of hazel for a end pin....thats testing too
  7. yeh gents i was on my own. it was testing and the nets have to be sorted out in the daylight tomorrow. this was the first time i done this drop so i now know where to put the nets for a better catch, thats why i flicked the lamp on to se where they ran to. i should have got the full lot but missed a load. like i say that wind was very chalangeing!
  8. well with winds gusting to over 60mph on the coat i..in my wisdom decided to have a gander with the nets ive just put a new pocket on my coat so wanted to give than a try the nets are 4x nylon and 40-50 m long so have over 100% bag ( not good in this wind!) i like to wear my pegs round my waist so i can unclip them when i need to the drop is very very heily light poliuted by seller field nuclear plant so its almost a blind drop and the rabbits sit in a dip about 100m out into the field, the first net is set along a lane that has a 8ft steep bank on one side and a 100ft bank just as st
  9. any idear what cross it is? and how to catch the bloody thing!?
  10. chase them off...by running about like a mad man....then long net them i do a caravan park were you can see the rabbits sat under street lights and you just walk the net out...then put a ESS up their arse to get them heading for home
  11. asked me that 18 month ago and i would have said yes! 110% in my wee dog........i had/have a dog that a few on hear have seen she worked rock and earth and worked and bolted fox/mink and a few other things over her 6 years of working and she was used a lot for what i wanted her for, she bayed non stop for hours if needed and VERY rarely got a mark on her she had a few bad ones but she tryed her little heart out..and being small i would often get a call from other keepers to put her in where theirs couldent/wouldent fit,,, and if working watery earths she would be neck deep in water baying lik
  12. Well the first thing to do dan is not blab about the location on a public forum : ) lol it will look like a traveler camp their by now lol lurchers every where
  13. i know! i mean how many times have we pulled a handfull of straw out of a bale and stuffed it down our trousers to "pack it out" ohh wait just me then?
  14. good for silver fish up their wildfowling is the perfect cover too lol
  15. a good gibbet can bring in a good bit of work...its free adertiseing
  16. what day you in barrow? ime not far up the coast
  17. Real classy knocking a young lads catch, what does it matter to you what the fish looks like? The words miserable old fekker spring to mind........ well hardly ,it was the fish getting knocked..and the fishery....... ime sure alan like the rest of us is chuffed for the lad and his fish his face says it all
  18. not being funny bud diggers thread thats pinned..is just for this very topic
  19. no i had it from the size of a ferret untill it was about 14-16 month old and almost fully grown, she was awsome! it would follow me around the yard like a collie dog and would come to a whistle and would sleep round my neck like a scarf.....then i gave her to a animal charity that said they could get her back to the wild...and she was dead within 3 weeks of their care.... a freind was handing a fox out a hole and his mate let go the fox grabbed his two middle fingers and spun like a croc! it ripped a load of tendions out and he ended up in hospital haveing a opp to get his hand right
  20. oddley enugh it looks like a eyebrow piercing got a few on my hands one on my leg from the "honey" otter and one on the arm...tameing it was a challange
  21. got bit by a mink once doing my "take them out the trap alive trick" that hurt got hot and swelled up then went all nasty and pussy! but yeh ive been bit by a rat on the side of my hand and that went knarly too! infact most times ive been bitten by a wild critter its gone all horrid and hot! apart from the few times i got bit by the otter, got bit on the eyebrow in my sleep by the f***ing thing! that was a wake up ile tell you!
  22. what was it you said? nothing better than the sight of moles arses
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