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    On sight! 36grm BB is usually what I use. A few about the farm yard and sheds isnt a bad thing as they do seem to keep to the yard and keep the rats down abit but when there are shitloads and your finding them wandering the hedgerows miles from the yard then they need shooting asap! As soon as the farmer mentions them each year I crack onto it. They should all be shot and leave a few neutered ones really but there seems to be a constant feral population that just restocks itself from surrounding farms.
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    Fecking hell Simo, is your missus watching ova ya shoulder? lol Gotta agree though. Nothing against lads (or lasses) that do, but it aint really for me.
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    Something about 24" tts, 55lb. Good rabbit dog that hits cover as fast as the rabbit, runs the beam and retrieves with vigour. Strikes like a viper and just has that inheritted knack for picking up game, some call it prey sense. Favours fox over all other quarry and has that edge to it as a single handed fox dog. The sort of dog that would leap into a river to get to a fox on the other side. Sensible and biddable in temperament that is handy to have out while doing the rounds on the shoot or mooching with the shotgun, retrieving fur and feather. Good marker and runs with the sort of commitment
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    As an example of this you just have to look at some of the cultures living away from 'modern society' they still have contact but its minimal due to the nature of their terrain. They never get sick, if they get sick it becomes very serious as theres a good chance of death! They are tough and hard because they are living a much more natural life than us lot. In there lives, sickness often equals death. Make alot of westerners live their lives and I dare say the survival rate would drop rapidly untill nature had weeded out the weak. Im not saying we should all pack up with medicine but your
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    You use this as an example alot sandy and heres my opinion. Disease and sickness is good for a population, it strengthens it by carying out a natural cull of the weak and inferior. Using inoculations, medicine etc prevents nature from doing this and so generations down the line the population is full of weak individuals only alive because of their dependance on modern medicine. If we wanted dogs to be as tough and healthy as naturally possible then we wouldnt inoculate, we would let nature take its course of culling out the weak. The same applies to humans! But being emotional creatures we
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    I knew it would come and next week it looks like it is, Badger Baiting! I've got a feeling next weeks episode will do more damage than all of the others put together. If they actually mention that terrier work can be carried out legally for fox control I'll be staggered!
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    Ermmm, no. The penumbra is casued by the shadow of what ever your shining the lamp at, so out of the beam isnt strictly the shadow of the lamp but the shadow of the earth from the sun. Its getting abit complicated now. You used the term correctly in your write up if thats what your worried about. I wasnt correcting you pal
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    Confused myself
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    Yeh, thats the dark part of the shadow, where all light from the source is blocked out. The penumbra and antumbra are just parts of a shadow where the light source is only partially blocked out. If you shine your lamp at a pool cue from a good distance in a dark room you should see the 3 distinct parts of a shadow....
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    Its the dark part of the shadow, then there are 2 other areas of partial shadow known as penumbra and antumbra. Wikipedia has a diagram to show this in the context of a lunar eclipse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penumbra. I only know of it because it effects the sharpness of X-rays, which came up recently. If you were being sarcastic then I have just made a twat of myself
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    Well..... This thread is giving a completely oposite verdict to the same thread in the review section! I was all up for buying a 14Ah untill reading that thread, now after reading this I'm thinking of buying one again. So no ones had the wiring trouble or battery busting after a couple of seasons as mentioned in the other thread??? Hell of alot of money just for 2 seasons use if so!
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    cheers paul mate means a lot coming from someone like yourself. As for umbra its just the shadow of a field which we get a lot of down here. Think its possibly a local word Nice write up pal. The negative comments are from the pond life of this site that are too thick to write anything interesting so feel the need to knock what you have done. Anyone that puts themselves out there in public view gets knocked by the same type of person. The term umbra is kinda a scientific term to describe one of the 3 distinct parts of a shadow.
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    Nice to hear! Between the two of em your property should be pretty safe. ATB
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    Seeing them regularly within 5 miles of where I am! Every year they are spotted a couple of miles closer. In a couple of years they will be nesting very close to the shoot, then we will see what sort of a problem they are...
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    Has your bully been handed his notice then? lol. Lovely dog, I hope to get one someday for the same purpose.
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    Its easy for a dick head to buy a lurcher and slip it on what ever he wants infront of whoever he wants then dump it when he gets bored. A dick head wouldnt have the dedication for a bop and would give up before causing unnessecary attention to falconers. My point being theres alot more cocks running dogs that flying hawks so running dogs attract the attention of those we would rather it didnt. JMO
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    Theres working and then theres working! Not all ferrets graft to the standard expected. And if anyone says different they either havnt seen many ferrets work and been a bit lucky or have low standards. The difference between a pet ferret and a 100% working ferret is that a pet will still be kept even if its found lacking, a ferret kept 100% for work that is shite wont be tollerated and certainly WONT be bred from 'because its cute'! How many times have you picked a ferret up after having bolted a few rabbits and doubted whether the ferret was lying to you about there being no more at home,
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    Hunting can be cruel, wounding with a gun, a drawn out fight with hard quarry or even a rabbit in a stop end with a determined ferret chewing at its arse, but that clip aint hunting. Them leather clad numfucks are just f*****g about like pricks and to put it on the internet for an ego boost is retarded.
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    Always look forward to your summer harvest posts rolfe. Its a bit of dog work I look forward to doing one day.
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    It works both ways imo. Just as many lads with big dogs no good for big quarry that say they have a decent rabbiting dog (especially when trying to get rid of it). A dog may catch rabbits but that doesnt make it a decent rabbit dog.
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    I think when the site was down and IanB was doing 'his thing' it erased all the posts within a certain time frame. A few of mine have gone also...
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    I noticed alot in chesterfield when I was working there.
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    A good rabbiting dog is a well trained hunting companion. Those that knock it are too slow between the ears to train a decent rabbiting dog and so knock those that do. Anybody can get a dog to chase and catch the odd rabbit, its a different ball game training a dog to deserve the title of a true rabbiting dog imo. How many of the lads that knock the rabbiting men have trained a running dog to work the lamp properly, work with ferrets, nets, bush as part of small rabbit pack and retreive to the gun?
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