Yokel Matt
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FD , your not still sticking to Landrovers , get a Toyota they'll get you in and out ...??
Whoaa - easy on the Landy bashing there sunshine... ?That £130k fendt nearly got stuck on the way out!
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Ha, oh you cannot make a statement like that without going into more detail, I hope someone got a pic as well !Matt did get a wee bit stuck in his landy which im sure he can expand on lol
The pics will speak for themselves mate when I get them up... It was touch and go whether the tractor would get out at one point and it was no tiddler!
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It was a good afternoon wasn't it mate. Eventful not just for munties and certainly not short of them round there. Our host was very generous & I was very happy with that triple. That seat was in a peach of a spot. I'll get some pics up in a bit, cheers mate.
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Good on you Tim - getting some practise in before tomorrow I see!Nice work FD, and those Muntjac taste good as well!
Deker - you're right mate, nice to eat... But a b*****d to skin!
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Good read that, thanks for sharing. What rifle is that your using ?
People think I am mad as I often sit out at my pens as dawn is breaking listening to the world come to life, glad I am not on my own.
Agreed - Best part of the day mate. Puts all the hustle and bustle of the rest of the day into perspective?. The rifle is a sauer 202 in 6.5x55.
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Well done mate glad you got a nice one on opening day you've got my imagination running wild now wondering what the other ones like.
Put it this way - you could tell immediately who the pretender was..... without looking through the binoculars!
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I'm working a late shift this week so managed to have a look out this morning on the opening day of the roe buck season. The farm I planned to stalk sits on pretty high ground and so is normally the first to dry out enough for cattle to be let out which, as you probably know, puts the kibosh on the roe stalking - hence an early season look-in is always well advised when farmer hates them making holes in his hedges.
First and foremost this mornings sunrise - WOW. Deep red from the outset, misty in the low areas and perfectly still..... at the right time it just seemed to take up the whole sky - that, together with the dawn chorus and I reckon even a vegan could see why stalkers get up so early. Anyway, after a good glass I spotted a couple of roe down the bottom end of the farm and made my way towards them. I encountered two problems, Pheasants and Hares - ive never seen so many on this farm, the hares especially which were literally everywhere. No matter now quiet, patient and tactical I was they conspired to give me away. Anyway, after a very wide detour both the roe turned out to be heavy does so cutting my losses I dropped in at another farm on the way home.
I saw a doe and two bucks from the farm track which were wild as hell - the doe had a big clump of hair and skin missing from her haunch so I can guess why there were so tuned in despite me being a long way off. Naturally the bucks followed her lead and I can see that bloody doe causing me a few headaches later in the season with such a sceptical attitude on life - anyway, no point making things worse in a futile pursuit so I went to a different part of the farm and after a while saw a bit of commotion through a hedge - two bucks which appeared to be squaring off against each other.
They were both decent, mature bucks although one held a bigger body weight and head than the other - I was only really after a cull buck but in the circumstances decided to take the smaller of the two out on the basis that later in the season he was more likely to catch a whooping and be driven off anyway and, after waiting for them to separate to a respectable distance, down he went to a base of neck shot.
I tried to get a pic of the two together but it didn't come out frustratingly - the bigger one's a beauty!
Given that I process a fair amount of my venison myself I got to thinking about what I can do to make my life easier when back in the larder - I found this hozelock pump spray at the local garden centre which is ideal for clearing out the cavity of blood, hair, grass, gastric juices and all manor of other crap that can find it way into a cavity when doing a field gralloch. Worked a treat.
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If the first bite is with the eye then squirrels don't stand a chance for me. Someone once asked me to prepare a couple for them and, as if the temptation to lob them in a hedge wasn't strong enough already the long, protruding yellow teeth and Busta-Gonad sized testicles was almost a bridge too far.
Rather you than me no matter how fresh they are but a day or so in a cool shed should be ok.... Makes me gip just thinking about it.
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'Martin' on the site has a pretty sweet set up mate and could probably write a book on the subject. He's got a pinned butchery topic on here somewhere and has done a market for a number of years. He was taking a break for a while but would be a font of knowledge...
If you read this Martin all the best mate and hope to see you up and running again soon.
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I once had a permission at a nursing home where I shot the rabbits and sold them to the their chef who dished them up for the residents. Talk about win / win!
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I kind of agree with you here Mark - if you've got the time and inclination to seriously reduce / remove the population you'll have to bring a few more skills to the party than just shooting. Ferreting would be the top choice for me but there's something about snaring that i find very rewarding, as long a the badgers haven't got to them first. That said I still reckon you'll never get the last one without a dose of plague... Of course you could always take the credit for the job that mixi / VHD has done, I know I have in the past, but it's not quite as much fun as a bumper day with the rifle.
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Lol @ mark - I don't think I advocated a barren landscape although in reality you're highly unlikely to be able to achieve this by yourself - the only way that is likely to happen with rabbits is if they get a dose of mixi or VHD. How do you expect to 'manage' the population of a species at the bottom of the food chain that's susceptible to two colony destroying diseases?
You only get one chance to make a first impression and putting your sporting interests ahead of the landowners won't help you.
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Sweet Jesus you boys don't half talk some shite sometimes! What's all this about taking it easy on them and telling the landowner porkies - the blokes just scored a new bit of ground and your 'advice' is NOT to make a good impression by visibly reducing numbers??!!
My humble advise would be to make a good first impression - Welly them and offer some to the landowner as a thank you (prepared of course). Naturally the conversation can then be steered to how a lot seem to be on the other side of the boundary..... who owns it.....
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Wow - I don't know a lot about fallow but that one looks a cracker. I'm not surprised she was happy... That would put a smile on anyone's face. Good on you.
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All about the rape round here at the moment - they're piling into it like lemmings.
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I was out foxing Friday night in driving snow and the only thing we saw were rabbits and hares - loads of them and most squatted nicely. Not an easy decision to leave the fireside on a night like that but worth it for the coney!
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Nice one - I'm in a similar boat with my wife so if I pull it off with this batch I expect I'll be fed up of it soon!
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Awesome - I doff my cap to you sir!
I found a lot of conflicting info on the web about temperature and humidity for curing salami, what conditions do you find suits your mixes best?
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was told when i first had my bees to face the hives east to south/east, so they get the early morning sun, and go out to feed sooner.
Exactly - my preferred site was overruled but I was desperate as I'd just been given a nuke without any notice. I was going to move them this spring... Seems nature had other plans.
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I'm going to present a couple of better options although it will involve me getting stuck in with the strimmer and chainsaw first to improve the site first. Hopefully he'll see it as improving the land without any cost to himself... Most farmers I know are normally up for a bit of free labour and a bargain!
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Excellent stuff Matt, can't beat a bit of homemade charcuterie. Can be a bit hit and miss at times though, but when it comes right it's all worth it. When I used to make the biltong and salami's I used to let them age in a box I knocked up out of offcuts of wood and MDF, with a lightbulb at the bottom and airflow holes top and bottom and it worked a treat. I'll have a look and see if I can find a picture of it and post on this thread if you don't mind.
Yes please mate - fill your boots and get the pics up. The charcuterie is smelling pretty damn good at the moment, shame it takes so long to mature.
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Very kind of you all the same Moxy mate.
I'm kicking myself about the hive placement Devon - it was on the west facing side of a large barn exposed to the south westerlies which they would have got in spades a few weeks ago, to the left of the hive was a big crab apple tree so they didn't get the sun until 1am - really not ideal.
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Agreed - ask for a variation for a deer caliber rifle and expanding ammo for deer control, no need for DSC1, your dad can always act as a mentor which will teach you more than the DSC will!
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I've brought the hive back and given it a good look over - no sign of infection / paracites although you can never really tell for sure. Looks like one moment they were in a cluster with several workers going about their chores and the next they were all dead.
There are about 5/6 14/12 frames full of capped honey in the brood box - is the worth 'harvesting' or should I leave it for a new colony I need to try and get hold of?
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