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wrap some cling film around yourself and go as a spunkbag
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3 mil steel rod,25 mil bend [ L shape ] put a thread on the 25 mil end put on locking nut and washer cut rivet off trap replace with threaded rod put on locking nut and washer leave plentyof play. Iam sure there is an easier way,but this suited me and i had the materials to hand.
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Yes , i saw them in a yankee shop ,so i made some my self,theres a lot of gorse near me and they work well for me,i set on a branch ,or a stone,so they hop,not push through,the pins are in perminantly,so its just a matter of clipping the trap on.
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With a trap setter you can set , or unset, twenty traps in a couple of minutes, i suspect anyone trying to do this by hand would be blowing grapes out there arse by number ten :wacko:
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What are BGs?
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I was selling a litter of pups in the 70s,a chap from Barry Island came down to Leicestershire by bus,a days travel i think,he saw the sire and the dam and spent 20 minutes looking at the pups and talking about lamping,then straight out of the blue said , i think i will pass on these mate, its not what iam after.
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A bit of snaring and rat trapping
micky replied to MR TEA POT's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
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Minnesota Trapline Products I had a bagfull of kit off these people,very quick and cheap ,if you go down the bodygrip road ,buy a safety holder there very good when your placing traps in deep cover
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I use this mate,i had it sent over from the states, its very simple ,and easy to use,you should be able to copy it easily enough , or adapt an old pair of hedge shears.
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I set a couple bgs yesterday to get some ferret food,heres the pics.
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If you look at both rabbits they have blood on their noses, this happens when you use a priest on rabbits in the net with a little bit of a heavy hand. Thais i can say has happend to me on many nights out when getting tired or being a little over inthusiastic. ( now wait for the debate about not chinning them) Woz i can assure you is as a true a sportsman you will ever meet, if he wasnt he wouldnt have spent 2 days at my home being shown longnets. And yes i did take the pi$$ out of him for being heavy handed but im sure woz wouldnt stoop so low as to shoot a rabbit and say it was netted.
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Get Molecatchers book, Long Netting From Peg To Peg, It will give you a good understanding of whole thing and you'll have more success, that way you will stick at! DEFINETLY GET THE BOOK........BOUGHT A NET AND A BOOK OFF HIM AND A WEEK LATER IM CATCHING RABBITS AT NIGHT LIKE A PRO and the odd hedge hog The second rabbit down looks like its been shot
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In the 60s I read the shooting times. All the writers turned out brilliant articles week in, week out - Tower Bird ,Oliver Kite,Jack Ivester Lloyd and Gough Thomas, to name just a few. These men could put you in a field or by the banks of a river with just a few words. Even now, 50 years later. their articles are still fresh in my mind. My mother used to read them for the sheer pleasure and she was no real lover of country sport - they all seemed to write like Jack Hargreaves spoke. Their experience and love of the countryside came through in all they wrote. Even as i write this ,i am th
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Buck rabbits at this time of the year have shagged all the fat off themselves,so when you skin one, you will find a thin membrane next to the meat,peel this off the best you can,then stew your rabbit ,and it will become tender
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Years ago when the shooting times was a good read, the editor Tim Sedgewick [Tower Bird]wrote some good articles on rabbiting,i remember one where he recounted a vicar telling him ,never give a ferret anything with butter on it , as the salt would kill it, this was about 1965, idont know if its true or not ,but he believed it to be ,so that was good enough for me
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Why though....Nobody will answer why they are a pile of shite, Why would they be any worse than snares woodga or warrener would make, other than the pegs, I see no difference, But it would be nice for someone to explain why....why would a snare with a tealer a fraction wider and attached to the snare by cord be any less useful than a snare with a slightly slimmer tealer, and the wire attached directly to the tealer, I cant see the difference Woodgas snares are very simple ,they carry no fat,and are well finished,the knot in the wire makes a good swivel when mated to the eye in the tealer,
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I went across the road from my house this afternoon and set three snares in the hope of catching something for the ferrets,whilst i was out i also set a fen that i had left in my bag,i set at one and checked at six ,heres the result
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Yesterday i set a couple of snares in this run,i checked at dusk because of the fox problem ,and found i half grown rabbit,i checked again at first light and found this one, not quite so big .This run between the two fields is a real sweet spot for snaring,the trouble is ,the foxs know it too.
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I dont no what to say i have never been called snobby before thank you