micky
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I don't use second rate kit, I like to use the best there is, and its out there if you know what your looking for, as for that red shovel, their for sale in most shops in Skegness
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I set a couple of wires on the headland and four traps ,two traps were set under that tree, when I covered the plates with peat I thought it was damp iwas right ,it was frozen solid by morning and any rabbits that may have been in had a walk over,one of the wires pulled one up and I had another in a juby trap set by a frozen pond.
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I loved it , it was brilliant every day was an adventure,our mam worked early mornings so me and my sister had to look after our brother [mardy arsed little b*****d] on Fridays we used to go down to the railway yard and fill his pram with coke while all the workers were in the Martin pub, all the people who worked outside were laid off and had to sign on at the labour exchange,there you be expected to work snow clearing till two o,clock each day to to get your dole money , ten men would go out with each bin lorry and fillit with snow when full it would be taken down to the cut and tipped in ,o
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two more this morning at four quid a pop, if I can keep this up ,I shall be as rich as them effing mole catchers.
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I know nothing about moles but I know a bit about houses,give me plan and within ten minutes I could give a client a rough idea what it would cost from DPC to the ridge,if we then found we were in the same ballpark I could then spend a couple of hours and give them a written quote detailing ,what they were paying for and when it would be done, any one of those ten a penny out of work brickies could do the same if they had been in the game long enough.Now if had spent the last 50 years catching moles I feel sure I could give a would be client a fair and competitive price for catching their mol
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we ate an old billy over 55 years ago ,we never had a fridge so it all had to be eaten over the week ,it was rank ,I can taste it now ,vile , our mam was a rotten cook but even burning it or boiling all the taste out of it never improved it,i used to push it one side of the plate and the old man would say <theres kids in china that would fight for that > wallop,when my head stopped spinning I would think ,no they fuckiung wouldn't .
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I started as a kid in the 50s with a air rifle on rabbits just before mixi landed I was given a four ten in the 60s I had a twelve bore I used this on pidgeons and also went on some of the last big hare drives which were very popular once, in the late 60s I got my first 22 and a Austin champ and had the next 20 years shooting rabbits at night and lamping with lurchers ,in the 90s it all seemed to turn into work ,all the bubbles had gone out of it, I then went back to where I started ferrets ,traps and with the help off of folk on here learning to snare better,coming from a large shooting b
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I have never done much good in the snow perhaps its because snow is quite a rarity in Leicestershire,i have read many times of people doing well in the snow ,but its never happened to me.
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You never see a moderator when some prat posts a reply like this , but when you put an honest post up about the accidental [but legal ] snaring of fox cubs three come along all at once
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out this morning ,I had three traps down and two had caught, the first rabbit was well caught and had been drawn from the hole by a fox ,some type of bird ,probably a buzzard or crow had then started to get into the carcass before being disturbed by me or the fox returning, the photo of the other rabbit was not good enough to put up.
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the grain came off of the binder in a tied bundle , this was called a sheaf, several sheaves would be stood together. this was called a stook, it died out in the 50s when farms became bigger and more mechanical.
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I didn't think grouse would feed on wheat..... i bet they would after 3ft of snow for 3months, the grouse and white hairs were on the lower feilds the last time we had snow for while, hunger makes animals do funny things I don't think the stooks would be left out till the snow came, the sheaves would be put into the stack to await the thresher.
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I have just read a book called <GULLAG BOSS> its about how the prisoners survived in the Siberian camps, the snow was very deep and almost covered the bushes ,partridges fed on the buds and the prisoners set horse hair snares among them,this provided enough meat plus some to preserve.
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I knew a few old boys who kept ferrets in their houses and there must have been more than a few who had pidgeons as well,when I was a kid we allways had tame baby rabbits next to the stove,it makes smile when people say, in the old days you could leave the key in the door and go out all day ,well you could ,but when you came back it would be empty,everything was locked up, the coal house ,lavy and the old mans bike was kept in the front parlour,in those old terrace back to backs even the washing was hung out in the entry where it was under lock and key ,that writer from Nottingham [Alan Sill
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I should think any thing with a neck can be snared its just knowing how to go about it, I have seen on various tv nature films deer ,gorillas,tigers and many other creatures caught,on u tube you can even see crabs caught in a snare. My grand father was a gamekeeper and told me that pheasants and partridges were often caught in horse hair nooses ,there is a very old film of the Scottish Islands that shows how the people survived by taking gull eggs off of the cliff faces and snaring puffins. So the lads question is not as daft as it sounds ,pidgeons can be snared ,but I for one would not
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I had roo tail stew at Great Yarmouth many years ago ,it was nice tasted a lot like oxtail the fellah said that it was the only bit worth eating on one ,I had a mate in OZ who made his living shooting roos hosses , and camels ,he said camel meat was great, he could have had my share.
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they made very little at Melton Market today ,my daughter bought two 17 lb birds for 15 quid apiece and the mrs got a couple of 16 lb geese for 18 quid each.
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I have a lot of land that usually holds good numbers of rabbits but this years theres not many about ,mixi is with me all year round but its not as potent as it once was buzzards and badgers take a few but even it out by getting rid of the sick and the weak ,I think its mainly down to the weather,young rabbits will die if they eat to much wet food and they don't like the cold either, another thing that seems to be getting more popular is summer shooting one chap near me shot over 600 last June, think how many litters of rabbits died when the does were shot and how many pregnant does were s
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I would have done the same thing,wonder if the fox will ?.Years ago I was out lamping and had a dog do it ,the barbs of the top strand went into the top of the dogs foot and made a real mess of it,after that I always tried to stop any dog I owned from jumping at night.
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it was a goner ,i had just given it a tap.
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this is a very simple wine to make ,it takes time to clear but its worth it in the end
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killed it ,ive taken them out of traps before but it takes two people ,if i had tried to do it on my own it would have caused more stress to it .
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silly boy
