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There are many sites out there to help tracing your family - spend a few hours on google and you might be lucky! Good luck
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Jeez, a long shot and you're getting impatient after 50 minutes! I take it your looking into your family tree?
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For the life of me i can't understand how anyone, especially 'hunters', can liken dog fighting to the taking of game with dogs! True, they are both a test of the dogs involved, but the intention with hunting (at least it should be) is to end that test as quickly and humanely as possible. No true hunter would allow his/her dog to become involved in a prolonged battle with another animal - that's called baiting. Hunting is about the quick and humane dispatching of the quarry, not about letting them fight it out to the death. All hunters can identify when their dogs have 'had enough' and they
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And what's wrong with that
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f**k me, the old timers must be laughing from their grave! What a load of bollocks! I've done far more ferreting without a locator than I have with, and I've never lost a ferret yet! In fact, my locator is only used in the same way as a line (as someone has mentioned before). Ferrets get lost because of a lack of knowleadge, not a lack of locator! Good luck Crow
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JD, maybe a new series of books in the pipeline: "Extreme Longnetting", "Quickset Addiction", "Set deep, Stay well back"
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I really can't understand all this 'need for speed' when it comes to hunting In my opinion the so called 'quick set' system is cumbersome and noisy, and in any case the very name is somewhat of a misnomer! What the 'quick set' system is is easy. Any moron can do it - and that's why it's so popular! Crow
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Hang on a minute here! How do you/they know it was two polish guys? If thats a definite then someone must have seen them do it - and that person (or persons) would surely have done something about it? Crow
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If yours haven't then I guess not!
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Unfortunately, like many 'hunting' dvd/video that are available it sometimes gives the wrong impression of how we should conduct ourselves in the field imo Still, I can understand the guy churning them out if people are prepared to buy them, although for the money they go for they should be better. Having said that, if you fuckers were to stop ripping his (and others) dvds off and paid your money for a proper version then you might find they'd be cheaper anyway! Crow
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In all my time on this planet I've never seen a polecat queing in the butchers asking for something to be gutted! From that I have deduced that they will only eat what they want to eat, and if that's part of the gut then so be it. However, I only feed flesh if I know how it has died, I would never feed anything from a kerbside - gutted or not. Crow
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Without details as to publishing year, issue, etc, it's hard to say (especially with older books because they often published a 'poor mans'! For example, Breaking & Training dogs was published in 1885, but what edition is yours (the inscription says 1898 - it was released as a 2nd edition in 1893)? Copies are currently for sale from about £15.00 up to £75.00. Shooting Notes and Comments is being advertise at anything from £10.00 to £85.00! Of course, it's not the advertised price that matters, it's what you can sell if for that gives it it's true value. However, for 'insurance'
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1 dog + 1 night = 100 rabbits. Not possible in my opinion!
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Eh? Fieldcraft? So where can I buy a few kilos of fieldcraft then?
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Ta. Finally back at work today, although I don't know if that's a good thing Crow
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Terriers & Terriermen is an extremely sought after book so I'm not surprised it's going for a good price. Admittedly, you could get a terrier pup for that sort of money, but unlike a pup the book will be worth a damn sight more in 20 years time Crow
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As most of you would have seen my contributions to the Hunting Life can be pretty sporadic. One minute I'm on a fair bit, then you don't see me for months on end. The reasons for this are quite simple; in Winter I try to get out with my dogs and ferrets, whilst in Summer I'm extremely busy running my motorcycle race team. However, this year it appears that my involvement in racing will have a bigger impact on my rabbiting than I anticipated! I don't normally ride that much, preferring to support two other riders and manage the team. However, I do take part in the odd meeting or two, one of
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I'll give you a clue - I'm the one in black (You have a PM in case you haven't noticed!)
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Now you're just playing with me aren't you? You know as well as I do that these nets were originally made of hemp and had a mesh of 1 3/4" knot to knot. Using spun nylon at 1 1/2" knot to knot allows for the mesh to stretch to 1 3/4" at it's worse, therefore being of the ideal size for a healthy adult rat. Younger rats aren't as strong, therefore cannot stretch the nylon as much meaning the 1 1/2" mesh holds them tight. As for that 'graduated' net you sent me it looks like it could do the trick Something else you may want to consider is what I call the 'split net'. This has one
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Many years ago I was told by an old pest controller about a stop-net they used when ratting with ferrets. The net was about 12" high (set at 6") and consisted of 1 1/2" (knot to knot) meshes. These where held on short poles just like a rabbit longnet. Can you make me 3 nets at 4 feet long, out of 3z spun nylon (you don't need anything too heavy for rats)? If so how much? Cheers
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As Mist Net says, if it works for you then that's all that counts! I recall a time - jeezus, this was over 15 years ago now - when a certain Mr Whitehead and I managed to get a couple of long nets. At the time there was very little literature available on the subject, and that new-fangled invention 'the internet' was yet to make it's appearance to the masses. Anyway we fumbled our way through the 'traditional' method. However, it was obvious even to us novices that things would be much easier if the net was connected to the poles somehow before we got to our permission. We'd never heard of
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If you want it to do the job yourself then If you're aiming to sell it
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Hi Let me get this straight. The dog is now 18 months old, and has taken 400 rabbits since it was 13 months old. That's one hell of a catch rate, especially when you consider that it would have started in late Feb so presumably most of those 400 catches were made in the feb/march/april period. That's over 100 rabbits a month, or three a day every day! Now, I'd say that either you've got your maths wrong, or the dog is pig sick of rabbits! Either way, the problems you're experiencing are not unsolvable, but to explain fully will take more time than I have right now. I'll PM you tomo