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    I have been industrious and begun making up my own snare making items, and fter discussions and advice from GSW and a few attempts in the workshop appear to have now cracked it. The jig itself was realtively easy to make with the most basic welding skills - the secret is to have the removable pin - in this case a 3 inch steel nail. First pic shows the wire - galvanised 2.5mm fencing wire with a bend approx 4 inches from one end. This is how I aligned it in the jig - one 'end' on either side of the pin to begin the turns. First turns on - both in the same
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    Excellent result and well deserved for your efforts OTC
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    Hairyface, That looks like the 'Rolls Royce' version of the ladder trap - mine were never constructed to quite that standard of workmanship :whistle: Dont forget to weatherproof that softwood or it will only last you a few years and it would be a shame to see that hard work go to waste. If you brush paint the wire mesh with matt black paint it will 'disappear' too To hold the jackdaws you will need the curtains of wire mesh to hang down from the ladder's long edges otherwise they will fly back out again. Let's see it at work now - keep us posted please OTC
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    ,..I still enjoy using the end pins, hazel wands and hemp meshes,.. Chalkwarren, What are the dimensions of the end pins you use? I am making another couple of shorter stop nets at the moment for this winter and want to get it right this time. I have got a friend with access to the steel rods and welder to make them, so it should just take a phone call and the promise of a cold beer or two once I know how big OTC
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    I wonder if Ditch has seen this post - he's a bit of an expert on Rattus Norvegicus. He'd know OTC
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    They come into my farmhouse pretty regularly in the Summer, they are pretty birds aren't they? I was watching one on a wire outside my bedroom window last week - about a foot away from my face, it didn't seem too bothered about me being there. OTC
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    I will have a dig around for you - I am sure I have a few traps spare for just such a cause OTC
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    I like the little garden jobs, it is like schoolboy hunting sometimes - 1 man, 1 rabbit and a kind of 'Catch the Pigeon' style hunt for one bunny. I used to look over a whole raft of large country gardens that sided each other and led up to my rearing field. I t was always good for a dozen rabbits and I could keep on top of the vermin if required too - many's the time a big cub moved into the bramble patches and could soon be accounted for with little effort. Looks like those terriers are outstripping the lurcher there Moll in some pics, fleet footed over a short chase aren't they?
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    Steve, I think they are skylarks, the only other bird I have seen with a similar nest are pipits and the chicks don't look like those. OTC
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    It's a waste of time on rabbits if you ask me, but I wouldn't really know about the 'big stuff' :whistle: OTC
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    1/2 grey 5/16 collie 1/8 bull 1/16 whip ??? OTC
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    The best bitch I have ever owned for ferreting was a first cross Whip x Border and favoured her dam's genes. She was only 18" to the shoulder and whilst being far too small for lamping she was a great partner for hedgerow ferreting. Horses for courses OTC
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    Ditch, I will bring you a big bottle of gun oil over with me and some lint free cloth for cleaning it when I come over - remind me nearer the time. OTC
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    LL, Do 'we' really need one at the moment? I have already offered my services as Moddie for this forum but the truth is, it is existing pretty well as it is for now at least. OTC
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    I see them quite frequently sunning themselves on the stone walls up in the hills. I once lifted a corrugated tin sheet on a shooting range in Surrey and saw an adder, common lizard and a slow worm all under the same piece of tin. I like the slow worms, their irridescent sheen makes them look like living threads of quicksilver OTC
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    I had a catty in my pocket throughout my entire life - I even went to school with one. I've used allsorts as ammunition - marbles, ball bearings, spent bullets dug out of the sand at the rifle range etc and I did get the weights out of an old piano once and they were good. Up to 25 yards the punches out of the steel fabricator's yard were as good as anything I found. I now prefer the surgical latex tube elastic to the old 3/16 square stuff but you cannot beat a hand made ash, holly or hazel peg IMO OTC
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    Charb, Where in UK are you? OTC
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    Most of the cast iron scissor mole traps were made by Lewis and not either of two Lewis's credited with gin trapmaking either. Some were made by other folks (that Masons on eBay was just one of a few names I have seen on them). The tin mole trap was patented by the maker J Roberts and some of them have J ROBERTS PATENT stamped on them on the widest part of the metal. The gin is a Tinsley trap (200A) made for Eliza Tinsley by Sidebotham's in the 1940's. They are pretty common ones in the grand scheme of things. Just wait out for my book (where have you heard that before ???) and al
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    Priceless LMFAO OTC
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    Corvids, especially Carrions do this sort of damage. They will always go for the eyes and then pull the innards out in strings and strip the meat down to the bare bones pretty quickly. You will have to get up just after first light to beat them to it. The hoop wire looks like it might have been robbed by a larger animal like a badger or dog though. OTC
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    Any black matt paint from a spray can would do - black makes the mesh invisible, see? OTC
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    You just cannot beat home made sloe gin in a hip flask - I made a few demi-johns full last Autumn. OTC
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    If you watch the 'Shooting Party' - those were my 4 spaniels filmed around the woodland dinner table and at the railway station OTC
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    It originally looked like a badger job to me, a fox will eat the head too though but neither explains why it was pulled back down the hole this time unless there are a litter of polecats or stoats down there . . . Cats will skin the rabbit and pull it neatly inside out but not usually chew the ears off like the first one. Very odd OTC
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    It would have to be pretty blue-eyed blondes for me . . . my wife fits the bill exactly thank you very much! OTC
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