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    Lovely grain, and a tree rat to boot.
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    Nice lot of bunnies there, good shooting.
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    Got both a mk3 and a mk1, plus mate brings his mk1 along as well. Generally use the mk3 for searching with its 16ft range and finding the ferret to within a metre or so. Then if a dig is required I tend to switch to the mk1 as I find it has better pinpoint accuracy and not so irritating sounds when you're being careful with the spade to make the final breakthrough. When putting longnets through a thick hedge at either end of a thick hedgerow warren we will leave a mk1 at either end switched on and then just sit back and allow ferrets and dog to work, occasionally bringing out the mk3 f
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    The camera is my new fuji finepix xp80 (cheapest price pixmania) and attached via a Seben DKA2 tele mount. The mount needs a bit of modification to work better as the main issue is that these cameras have the lens well offset in the top right corner, the mount would work a lot better with a camera that has a more central lens. I'll be doing some permanent modifications to the mount over the next week to get it more secure.
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    30 yards x12 mag http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/tt242/chrismdd/Shooting/th_DSCF0201_zpswroywqda.mp4
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    Very nice place to shoot and great shooting.
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    Nice shooting. That's one area of shooting I struggle at 'standing shots' so well done.
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    I know people do go to a lot of effort with purging. But all I do is put them in a clean bucket chuck a load of salt on them which gets them agitated and hose in a load of fresh water which causes them to chuck out a load of dirt. Repeat this one more time and the water is clear. Put them into boiling water for five minutes before removing to cool down then into the fridge. Next day pull the tails off snip along the top of the tail with some fine pointed scissors, peel back and remove the flesh and pull out the intestine. Sometimes get meat from the claws if large enough. Never had any ill eff
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    Decided to pop down the river last evening to try for some roach and dace. At this time of year when the water is fairly clear and slow due to the fine weather the fish tend to feed better a lot later. Prepared some mashed bread and took some corn and got to the river at 8pm. Local farmer was there just packing up after catching a few fish so had a natter that lasted a good forty minutes! He was saying how many years ago (1960's) he had once seen an otter down there on the floodwaters. I mentioned that when it gets dark you can almost guarantee seeing one and I would even bet a tenner on s
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    Nice shooting and pic. The ferrets will appreciate it.
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    I had a 'Carly Simon' moment and used my fishing rodrest with a camera adapter that I use when taking fishing trophy shots. That's my oldest lad in the profile picture when he was four years old on his first ferreting expedition. He's now just turned eight and over the last three years has been on all the local beating trips on a small pheasant shoot and enjoys coming ferreting as long as its not raining and he can have some time on my phone playing games whilst we crawl around setting nets. By the looks of the damage around here I'm confident they'll be plenty here come Septem
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    With all this fine weather that we have had lately I decided on a second trip up to the field that I shot on last week. This time I set up at the other end of the same damaged patch as last week, partly because I saw rabbits at the far end last time and also because the wind was in the opposite direction. Put out markers at 30, 40 and 50 yards for the distances that I have been practising over the last week. Set up the usual camo net and poles, sorry Rez I know you're sick of seeing it so this time here is a selfie (not quite a celebrity one): Made myself comfortable, had a choccy
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    Snares have been allocated to Smithie who was quickest on the keyboard.
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    Which has just reminded me. Last season on the shoot I beat on one of the owners gave me a bag of 100 snares thinking that I may want them. Well I'll never get round to using them so if anyone wants them for free they're yours:
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    I have never liked the idea of snaring after seeing a neighbours cat caught in one many years ago. Also this land is right next to houses and often you see the local cats out in those fields so the risk is just not worth it. We will be ferreting it early this season to get on top of them, probably by cutting strips down through to put the longnets in to bolt them through the cover as there will be too many inaccessible holes to purse net. Mind you we have access to so much rabbit infested land round here that we need to be in many places to everyone happy.
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    Hi David, They are sheep netting poles. I think I picked them up from some store like Countrywide or Mole Valley Farmers. They are good because you can easily adjust the netting to the correct height. I've cut a small window in the netting to poke the scope through and with these poles its easy to get the net / hole to just the right height.
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    This is one of my projects for this summer. The following link may be of use: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/SHRIMPING.htm
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    Popped a couple of traps down on the river yesterday baited with some old rabbit portions and caught a dozen of these: Bit of purging and then a boil for 5 minutes: Now cooling in the fridge for tea tomorrow: Love them grilled on kebab sticks with bits of bacon. The otters on the river are also enjoying them and its interesting to find the chewed up shells on the bankside and always with what appear to be two little white pebbles. A google of this and it turns out that they are calcium deposits (calcium carbonate) that the crayfish accumulate when they molt. So I
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    It was the field next door to the pea field where we had the pigeons. Unfortunately that's got potatoes in at the moment. Too many nettles and ants in the hedges plus after a mate of mine got limes disease from ticks not far from there I'm a little wary about lying too long in the undergrowth.
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    Last April a shooting and fishing friend of mine got me some permission that wasn't right on my doorstep and needed a ten minute drive to reach. It consists of four big wheat fields and a hay field and in the last fourteen months it has provided us with around two hundred rabbits to the airguns and ferrets as well as around forty or more woodies to the airguns whilst decoying. Even though it has in this time suffered a bout of mixy it soon bounces back and so driving up to take a look it became evident that rabbits had been at work over the last month nibbling back the wheat, just look at
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    Great shooting of those bandits. A pair came into our garden recently and wreaked havoc on a nest of young robins. So I'm never too sad to see a few less around although I always admire their craftiness.
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    They're really quiet and very light. I use them mainly for stalking rabbits at night which at times can be very quiet so all the more need for stealth. Held together with a bolt and two nuts to lock them up they are really steady and about 20cm below the bolt I've drilled a couple of holes and threaded through a walking boot lace to stop them opening right out and doing the splits.
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    The rifle was still spot on when used prone. As these bipods weigh next to nothing I still have my homemade B&Q shooting sticks that can still be used with the pod attached: Looking forward to shooting with the bipod on the stubbles this summer when I can travel light and take a sickle along to make nice natural hides in the hedges/ditches to set up ambush points.
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    Cheers John, It is a good field of around seven acres and what's better we own it. Mind you it's already earmarked for the long term to build a nice eco home for my lads when they grow up. It has in recent years acquired a large number of rabbits as well as badgers unfortunately. Now its just left to grass with natural fertiliser from the local farmers sheep. At certain times of the year it will have large numbers of pigeons on it eating the clover.
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    It's a basic fixed Deben 6-9" £39 off of a seller on ebay. Couldn't stretch to a Harris but I'm very pleased with it.
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