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  1. OldTrapCollector
    I have to disagree on this statement - it takes minimal effort to have traps or wires set round the seasons on your regular beat. I would suggest a lazy keeper if he reckons 'he hasn't got time' - I know what my old Boss would have said to me if I had tried that one. OTC
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    Just driven through Stow and it looks very busy with travellers and families OTC
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    I have plenty bottled up from last year but I will have none left by next year to fill this gap. I do know where there's a few but nothing like last year's bonanza OTC
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    I had a long days ratting a couple of weeks beforehand up in Yorkshire with a good friend and I spend a lot of time on the riverbank or in the river so it would have to come from one or other. I was just quick to push the issue with my symptoms to my doc and as I said - it is a good job I did as he didn't have any idea and testing for leptospira would have been an afterthought. OTC
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    Just wikipedia'd it - very interesting. I thought it was just me that didn't really like them . . . OTC
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    I don't like dolls at the best of times - they give me the creeps - but these, well . . . OTC
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    There were tons of them last year, with the bushes hanging over laiden with fruit - I am struggling to find any this year. Do they fruit in cycles - ie every two or four years?? OTC
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    Imagine a sickness bug multiplied by 10 - coupled with rapid weight loss and slow deterioration of your insides :sick: My diagnosis sheet by the doctor is right here - Symptoms - anorexia, high fever, headache, sweating, aches and pains in joints The most off-putting thing was when I thought I knew what was wrong with me and explained to the doctor who literally had to 'google' leptospirosis in front of me as he had no idea what it was or its symptoms. A great confidence booster that was. A long course of antibiotics sorted it out slowly but it was difficult to convince them
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    Leptospirosis, Weil's Disease, Ratcatcher's Jaundice - whatever you call it - trust me you or your dogs do not want to catch this. I had it once not so long ago and it nearly wiped me out - seriously. OTC
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    Victor, Aussie found traps do not generally suffer from the same corrosion and rust that ours usually have - ours take a bit more careful work to bring them back to their splendour. Sometimes they have gone too far though and nothing will resurrect them. OTC
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    Why wait a week? Surely if a weasel passes by it will go into the trap?? OTC
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    Ditch won't be writing any books about traps now FR it will just be mine, and that won't be available for a good while yet either OTC
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    Jim, It was called exactly that - perforated zinc - but I am not sure where you'd get it from these days. There is usually some perforated steel sheet in fine sizes for sale on eBay if you could accept a substitute. OTC
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    They are indeed rusty old relics of the past G but I have made it my mission to record and preserve the damn things and to write my book about them. Afterall, who else will? In the next generation they will nearly all be gone forever and another part of our trapping history will be gone along with the traps. If those few in your shed need a new home, then I would always be pleased to take them OTC
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    ebay.

    OldTrapCollector replied to byron's topic in General Talk

    I have used Auction Sniper for years to win auctions on the Bay Byron - no problems with it ever, and it is dirt cheap OTC
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    Badger, almost certainly OTC
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    It can be done - snareman told me how to snare foxes in a field with stock (out of necessity), but is not recommended for the beginner OTC
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    Before I tell you I will need to know what type of trap they are and the general condition they are in . . . it will make a difference to my answer OTC
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    What? With the sonar gun?? How come this has not been published before then??? Sounds a bit far fetched to me, or is it another of Defra's Top Secret :secret: projects that no-one is supposed to know about . . . ?? I once shot 990 rabbits in one night with a .22 rimfire but that was hardly science fiction - just hard honest work OTC
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    Me too if they are stamped J DUFFUS & SON on them OTC
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    No doubt worth a bob or two to a bullet or cartridge collector if kept as they are OTC
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    I doubt it would make much difference now - most has already been discussed in the thread you mentioned, why not just keep that one going? OTC
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    When fox pelts were bringing good money back in the early 's I snared and shot half a dozen of these, all from one area, it must have been a family gene pool. I have not seen one since then though. OTC
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    I will be going as usual - but I have heard a few negative things about it already . . . Due to the V Festival churning all the usual site up they have relocated within the park but access might be difficult as the metalled road infrastructure for access for traders and the public won't be anywhere near as good. I also think that short of a natural disaster it will be on and not cancelled, as there would simply be too much to reschedule. See you there Kay - you going to be with the ferret stand or just wanderin' . . . ? OTC
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    I'd like to shoot a stag and catch a wild salmon on the same day OTC
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