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Unlike Mole Catcher to be guilty of a "misunderstanding"...but i feel duty bound to tell how dangerous something as apparently innocent as a misunderstanding can be...Let me illustrate the point with a cautionery tale.... There we were myself my wife and a friend and his girlfriend [nice sort of girl but a bit thick!] enjoying a nice walk along the beach...just ahead of us was the wooden steps that take you up the cliff, which is about thirty feet high. The two lovebirds race each other to the steps and then carried on up to the top of the cliff. My wife and I had just reached the bottom o
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I guess I qualify to comment on this thread as I was unfortunate to own two of Hancock bred bitches. The first was a half cross beardie greyhond out of remus..the first litter he bred so he [Hancock] told me, in fact I think that he kept a stud from the litter. Not bad on rabbits and with another dog okay on bigger stuff although she was a square peg in a round hole on that game... I would also question her stamina on rabbits...by three years old a nail infection put paid to her working days. Second was a BIG mistake...lost a dog through a lamping accident and thought I would get off to
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I have a bar with flat chisel like end on it (i think its one of the prongs off of a farm loader) and use it very much the same as you Mapreader. The ground around here is like concrete and very often the spade just isnt up to it, so the bar is used to dig with, very usefull tool. Hi The Big Fish, yep, got me one of those suckers too, chisel edge, thread and big nut on t,other end, tend to use that one when we are driving rather than walking to buries, great tool for chalk! Regards Mapreader
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Interesting point concerning mesh sizes, I have a black 4z net hand made by me... I mentioned this story in my night-time longnetting thread...the net was made originally at four and a quarter inches or thereabouts...I dyed the net black and it shrunk by some considerable length, the mesh size ended up [and I,ve just measured it to double check] at pretty much the size you mention Molecatcher, just under four inches . The interesting point is...eventually...that I can still draw full grown winter rabbits through this smaller mesh...in fact this is how I remove a lot of my rabbits night-time.
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edited to stay within realms of thread. Regards Mapreader
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Regarding using probes, they are an invaluable piece of ferreting kit, and have used them for donkeys years. My own is made from stainless bar about twelve mm thick...I regard it more as a digging bar than a probe. The way I use it is, as soon as the turf is removed and eight or nine inches of soil removed, I then do most of the digging with the bar and the spade is used solely for clearing the hole. The thin probes used for actually locating the tunnel are not for me I have to say, and I know every one to there own method but , it seems to me to be an accident waiting to happen with a skuered
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Hi Molecatcher, I made a double strand net some years back which is still very much in use today. I,m not exactly sure what the twine is but would hazard a guess that it is prolly somethung like 2z [double knotted too!]. I bought a few skeins as a job lot out of the cheapo bin at the suppliers. How do I rate double stranded nets? Very highly for several reasons...personally I fancy that they do catch better than single strand especially around the feet...however I am reluctant to say for definte because of a variable factor, that being which particular net was in the best killing position...al
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Hi Molecatcher, I saw your call to arms regarding more posts from people who use nets...I refrained from posting purely because I have no experience of trammels other than seeing one used briefly at the start of this season...pretty much any concerns that I would have , have been covered. just to recap the two issues that would be paramount for night work are ease of rabbit removal and speed of cleaning the net ready for the next drop. Moley made the point that speed is of the essence. Much of the ground that I work has both gorse and fern, dead gorse being an absolute mare to remove both from
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Would rather that saying had not appeared hot on the heels of my post but...IF THE CAP FITS...WEAR IT..
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Hi all...[a greeting not a saying!] What goes around comes around.... A faint heart never poked a pig! And my own personal favourite: You can,t make a silk purse out of a sow,s ear
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Closer related than that Yorkiboy....more like siamese twins...you wouldn,t breed mice that close, as someone said to me recently.
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Looking like a good piece of kit you got yourself there CHALKWARREN...and a nice few rabbits to boot...why would you wanna boot rabbits Well done on a net well made Netrigger...gossamer like was the description...drool..slavver!! Warning to Chalkwarren though...don,t go leaving that there net in your shed...remember that old meths drinker in your garden that you set your dogs on,hic, still got the bite marks on me arse...and I,m down one feckin flea-ridden green coat, hic, :11: PS Can.t help but feel that net would look sooo good in a nice light-weight basket!!!!
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Don,t kill the net ....it,s your friend :11:
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Well done on 33 rabbits woodga...those dewy conditions especially when it,s cold usually prove to be the death knell of a decent night....hands up all those who have suffered the "well we,re here know" philosophy...I,ve got both hands up!!! :11: We had the same earlier this season...lovely wind but hard showers as we set off... got to the place rain had stopped and the wind continued to blow nicely....cloud cleared and the temperature dropped...the already wet ground then turned into a heavy dew but the wind stayed up we had 40+ but well down for those two drops on a good night. Regar
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Not such a good photo, it was blowing last night , but with drivivg rain as well. Three quarters of an hour walk in to the place... err, new permission. Half way there the rain started...should have turned round for home then....fools that we are we carried on. The rain did the push in for us.....before we dropped the nets... thats,s never good!!! 400 yards for seven rabbits. Like I said the last time it happened....I won,t go in hard rain again :11: Just to show another bitten foot rope, this time the thick blue line, I reckon he must,ve hit on the drop, and spent his time wisely....a
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Hi JOEB, only just noticed that bottom bit to original post. It sounds as though you are using what is called "backpegging" Usually used more for ferreting than for night-time. That is how I started. I will use examples of 100 yard nets, but traditional setting is easier with 50 yarders for the simple reason that even with only a bit of rubbish in the net, picking up 100 yards of even 4z don,t half make your arm ache, arms like popeye...after the spinach thing...if you fill it with crap :11:The problem with that method is that you proceed to walk 100 yards running out the net...you then walk
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HI CHALKWARREN, good piccies yourself.... Antique photos...you don,t look a day over forty in them :11: . Yeah I know what you mean about working on your own, my eldest finds longnetting boring..he,d rather shoot with his airgun...my middle one,s still at either college or work ( he,s doin keeping and stalking...don,t know where I went wrong :11: ) and my youngest wants too much of a cut, when we had the last night out together he tried to broker a deal to me where he was in for "at least half Dad .Cheek or what! Hi Moley, I,m always looking for alternatives on the stick front..the req
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Thanks for comments Rabbithunter, I,ve used both methods and my experience is that a rabbit hitting midway on any net will to some extent pull the top line down. Thanks again. Regards mapreader
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Praise indeed, which I more than appreciate Pegandgun, thank you. Good tip on dying the bottom line a dark colour, something I must do, what,s put me off is not only the re-rigging but also when using hot water dyes some of these nylon lines have a considerable amount of shrinkage and until I get a new skein it will have to wait...when I do you will be the first to know :11: . About the black net, there are two out on those sets ( it can be confusing but I,ve also got maroon and green on one net....long story!). One is a doubled up thin twine which I bought as a one off batch of twine which is
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Teejay, Netrigger, John b, local yokel, simonw, Ian ,Salclalin... many thanks for taking the time to respond to the photos....that took almost as much time to figure out how to upload pics as it did to catch them Twice I screwed up and lost everything Good spot netrigger ( I suspected you,d be one of the first to notice that if you popped in!). That was the first drop of the night,and further along I had it bitten through again . It,s not at all difficult to affect a temporary repair to bottom lines contrary to other advice I,ve read. This particular night I just made sure that I had
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YAHOOO it worked Not sure if I mentioned that the first set of pic were from Sunday the 12th, this set are from Tuesday the 14th. Same area and with 300 yards again. Again I,m working a westerly but as I,m at the opposite end to Sunday, the wind works better for me here. <!--ImageUrlBegin--><!--ImageUrlEBegin--><!--ImageUrlEnd--><!--ImageUrlEEnd--> <!--ImageUrlBegin--><!--ImageUrlEBegin--><!--ImageUrlEnd--><!--ImageUrlEEnd--> <!--ImageUrlBegin--><!--ImageUrlEBegin--><!--ImageUrlEnd--><!--ImageUrlEEnd
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Thought some of you may be interested to see some night-time longnetting pics. you will have to bear with me as I can,t seem to put up more than three pics at a time, I,ve quite a few to upload and the only way I can see to accomplish the task is to start a new topic, put up three pics and then reply to myself with the rest...don,t know if it will work but here goes. Just a bit of background information about this set. I,ve had to usea westerly wind which is not ideal as anything from south round to west comes over a range of hills and swings and veers like hell , It,s not an honest wind a
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Just to add an addendum to millets post, I personally wouldn,t be doing too much with a starting pup on moony nights....so easy to introduce tooo many faults. Regards Mapreader.
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Fair answer Simonw, hope that I wasn,t coming across as blinkered, I,ve used both and we still use a hemp 50 yarder, set trad way more for daytime,why, just to keep the hand in, so to speak. When i talk of longnets I refer more to night work than day because thats what my main game these days. But let me also say that the basket method is a versatile way to use nets . Square mesh fences are easy to negotiate, so is setting around obsatcles. Each to their own, if your happy to use traditional methods then go for it, I would certainly not suggest that anyone change to the way i use nets purely b
