Born Hunter
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Reds true bbq? It's my f***ing eutopeia!!!! Pit burger, HIGHLY recommended!
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Just make sure you can afford the repayments. If you are a bit unsure it's worth increasing the term say from 25 to 30 years to reduce your monthly repayments. You should then aim to make overpayments on an average month but can fall back to the contracted rate on months that you might find yourself a bit strapped without any penalties. Good luck mate, it's no great problem so long as you're sensible.
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I'm not joking, I know!
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It's like you can see the future!
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I expect youll all be as heartbroken when I leave? Probably worse in fact! But don't worry folks, I won't leave ya.
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Nice thread. The kid on the left knows how to pose for his picture! LOL
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I'm lucky to see fair numbers of lapwing and in some badger-less areas hedghogs, mostly retrieved by my terrier (unharmed). Leverets, English Partridges and of course Bees should benefit too. I'm quietly optimistic that there will be a solid conservation argument to back up a sustained national badger control policy.
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Bang on! I've used a standard two stick setup, Primos tripod triggerstick and finally homemade quadsticks the same as you. The quadsticks cost about 15 quid to make and by far the best setup. There's a lot of kit out there designs to catch hunters not game imo.
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Lovely!
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So would the training courses, carcass disposal and risk assessments at a guess etc. A nation of utterly pathetic fannies has led to this imo. The government are so terrified of anything going wrong and the bad press they have over-engineered the shite out of it. On a slightly different note, I'm more interested to see what the studies show the effect on hedghog and lapwing (etc) populations is than TB.
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I didn't watch the programme and neither can I verify that figure but I know a couple of contractors so can elude a bit to what it involves. For starters to my knowledge it's privately funded by the landowners. Thermal spotting scopes have to be bought for every marksman and traps have to be bought to lend out to every trapper. Smart phones have to be provided to everyone. Training course for the proposed contractors have to be run for every area. Every badger has to be bagged tagged and disposed of as though it was livestock. Then there's special ammunition for trappers to use. There's a
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We all have our own talents!
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I can't really say I've put much thought into it honestly. Some of the fashion I see about the UK makes me feel like an alien! Like loffas (sp?), skinny jeans, even f***ing jewelry. I just can't! My fashion is a smart pair of weathered nubuck boots (or Vans slip ons), stonewashed jeans and a fitted V-neck plain coloured T-shirt. LOL. What nationality is that? Tell ya what though, back when everyone wore a suit and fedora hat - would that be 1920s-70s? - that was a classy time. Now it's all ill fitting baseball caps and skinny jeans. LOL
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Clearly no airgunners have seen this thread as no one has said Realtree yet! Or Kryptek if you're really in touch with what the camo of the moment is. On that note though, Realtree has a entire line of casual clothing in the US. It's mainstream fashion over there. Unlike here where you're just a plonka. LOL
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I can't get used to a man saying "gucci", I just can't! I just think heels and handbags! I'm not very in touch with fashion though.
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If this is real then it's f***ing tragic.
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The Noble Order of the Perpetually Offended........
Born Hunter replied to Blackbriar's topic in General Talk
I rescind my beta male comment! -
Culling of Feral goats in Australia
Born Hunter replied to 17hornet's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
I've been watching a bit of an Aussie bow hunter called Adam Greentree recently. I've gathered that much of what you guys do is about controlling invasive species. Hogs, Water Buffalo, feral dogs etc. It looks like you guys have a fair bit to go at tbh. Over here in the UK we don't have as many invasive species as you guys so they only make up a small amount of our hunting/shooting sport. I would say over here other than the sport focused stuff like the pheasant shooting industry and fox hunting, most of our hunting/shooting is about controlling agricultural pests. The US seems to be -
My clothes seem to last a f***ing age. Got a pair of tk maxx ralph lauren jeans that are my favourites and I've had em for probably 5 years. I'm not wearing them week in week out though. Off the top of my head brands I've got, Barbour, Ralph Lauren, Caterpillar, Vans, Jack Jones, Howick, Crew, Musto, Lee Cooper, Jack Wills. Hardly ever buy casual clothes though, they last long I guess because I'm either in work clothes or outdoors/rough gear.
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Has anyone used a Lurcher for stalking?
Born Hunter replied to JimRun's topic in Deer Stalking & Management
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I found this, Active muscles, like dark meat, have 3-5x more myoglobin than white meat. Older animals may contain 5-10x more than young (think pale veal). But even within one species and one butchered animal, myoglobin levels and stability can vary due to stress, acidity, salinity, chilling rates, activity, pH, feed, enzymes, etc. http://www.genuineideas.com/ArticlesIndex/srameatmyoglobin.html
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There's something in the back of my head that recalls that younger animals are naturally paler... Might be wrong. i think the meat colour is determined by myoglobin levels and older animals have much more than younger. I think!
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The Noble Order of the Perpetually Offended........
Born Hunter replied to Blackbriar's topic in General Talk
As NikB would call say "a beta male". -
Culling of Feral goats in Australia
Born Hunter replied to 17hornet's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
Yeah, deer. In certain areas of the country they browse all the bottom out of woodland (similar to your goat situation) leading to no ground cover for ground nesting birds which obviously increases predation and threatens the populations of those critters so dependant on it. Badgers are currently being culled quite intensively under license too, but that's for disease control. The goat cull sounds a crack though! I could get into that.
