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  1. shovel leaner
    im sure you can , haven't seen them in my local Tesco . More likely in posh deli maybe ?
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    I wouldn't even say they are like marmite "love them or hate them " as all my family hate them and I only know a couple of old fart beaters that will eat them . It's a very old English traditional thing , I can't describe the taste but cut a green walnut in half and smell it . It's got a slightly woody floral scent and then imagine that with Vinigar. Bring back some of the old foods and try them , you never know you might like them .
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    I thought I might have left it too late , but I went to the tree I usually get them from and cut into a walnut with my knife and the shell hadn't formed. Late June is best but they are still ok . Got them home and washed them and pricked them with a fork " wear gloves " your hands will be black for ages . Then I put them in a bucket of salty water "brine . I will leave them to soak in that for a week or so , then on a sunny day I spread them out to dry and go black in sun . They are then ready to put into jars and cover with vinigar . I usually put a bit of allspice and pepper corns in . There
  4. shovel leaner
    I always enjoy reading your adventures. Keep them coming . I love sitting out for a fox . Sure beats watching TV !
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    I know it's a sore subject for working terrier folk , but if the woodland trust won't let anyone with a gun pack do a "fox drive " . Then Night vision shooting and snares would be the way to go . A lot of very clued up lads around that way , I'm surprised it's still going on ?
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    Most packs are Brocken to cats , they even keep them in the kennels by me (bad for PR) if they keep killing them . But you would have thought one might have broken cover and been spotted, maybe they are all up in the trees? But there are so many out at night with NV or lamping , I can't believe we haven't got one down yet . I makes me think they aren't out there.On the nv etc debate . I've read about that, drones,lampers etc but how many people actually own NV,thermal , drones in comparison to the size of the UK . If all these gadgets had been around for 50 years widespread and we were like no
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    Fish bowl petshop opposite Mowbray park in sunderland had a monkey when I was a kid that smoked ciggies the owner would give it a lit ciggie to amuse kids they also used to have cages filled with tiny tortoises for 50p or a quid depending on sizeDid" ye lerim av a tab " before you hung him !!! Lol Hartlepool Same thing to a southerner like me . Lol
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    Fish bowl petshop opposite Mowbray park in sunderland had a monkey when I was a kid that smoked ciggies the owner would give it a lit ciggie to amuse kids they also used to have cages filled with tiny tortoises for 50p or a quid depending on sizeDid" ye lerim av a tab " before you hung him !!! Lol
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    I have heard from a few that have mate and every story is the same the dogs run up won't engage and come running back tails down and act all clingy, the other thing with all the people that say I would shoot it course it or whatever is that it takes quite a bit for your brain to actually take in what you are seeing and normally you gather your thoughts after the encounter, it's all to fast to take in and process in a short time need your mastiff types bred for dealing with big cats dogo argentino boerboel American bulldog types but at 3 for a leopard I reckon you would need some deep old pocke
  10. shovel leaner
    My old man's favourite was " you can't educate pork ".
  11. shovel leaner
    Well done mate , bet the keeper was happy. Magpies and Jays , crows and also little owls are a good alarm . You can bet whenever that lot start up something is about .
  12. shovel leaner
    keep the air rifle for Rabbits and get a centrefire for foxes , or go for a 243 then you can do foxes and most deer apart from Reds . I'm not quite following that! I have 12ftlb, FAC Air and an assortment of rimfires, centrefires, shotguns and pistols. First off, everyones situation and circumstances and land are different, so only the individual can really make the decision as to what works best for them. A .243 is a centrefire, so I'm not with your comment, and as for Reds, the LAW says a .240, with energy/weight/etc minimum spec (slightly different in England/Wales and Scotl
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    I'll bear that in mind , but obviously I always stick to the letter of the law and wouldn't want to risk my firearms . In all seriousness I don't know what I would do if I ever had that situation, if it was in one of my pens I do , but I think by the time I'd rubbed my eyes and wondered if I was seeing things it would probably have gone .
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    After chatting to a very well informed and long time stalker from Stroud , an area that has a lot of sightings about this subject, this is what he said . He went to a seminar run be the deer society, a guy presented some quite irrefutable evidence of big cats , and he and everyone else seemed to go away convinced of their existence.He hasn't seen any himself or any sign , but still has an open mind . I said with all the lamping and night vision shooting that goes on surely someone would have seen something, he said who says they haven't, put it this way , if a shepherd or a keeper saw one and
  15. shovel leaner
    keep the air rifle for Rabbits and get a centrefire for foxes , or go for a 243 then you can do foxes and most deer apart from Reds .
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    I notice Underdog that the poultry unit is almost exactly the same as the one I look after . Is he signed up to the freedom food scheme? It's basically the RSPCA , it's a racket they get egg producers to pay into that means they are inspected every year/ 2 years. They have to prove that they treat the birds well , have access to the outside, enrichments blah blah blah . But also they have to be secure from vermin, so there is no "cruel bloke " like me and possibly you , going killing stuff. My mate was very keen not to have to do any vermin control and his wife is a bit of a bunny hugger . So
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    I try to leave them alone over the winter and spring , they hunt over this patch and I like a bit of terrier work . I let them have their young and ween them . I don't like leaving cubs to starve . But now it's gloves off time . Got poults going to wood next week . Not Been seeing as many as last year though . Taken care of a couple of litters that I knew of , and slowly thinning them out .
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    Good going Underdog , once they start getting through the fence it's only going to end one way .
  19. shovel leaner
    it don't get no better than that mate . Good luck . ATB
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    Cheers mate , I always find it's the second night after a cut that you get em . Seems to take them a night to find it .
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    This chicken thief , got what was coming to him . I control the foxes on a mates free range egg unit . It's an absolute magnet for Charlie . Even though he has state of the art 12 strand electric fencing all the way around, they still get in . Anyone else got any "caught in the act photos"?
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    Absolutely bored with political discussions and terrorists and fires on the general talk forum, staying off all that for a while . Seeing as it's a hunting forum I'm going to post a few pics and hopefully generate a bit of hunting talk , let's see what happens? A fox I shot early in the morning, saw him jumping up and down "mousing " nailed him , when I got to him the little vole was still alive .
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    Got this one with my 223 while waiting for a fox , normally I can resist the temptation , but what the hell . Haven't had it measured yet , any thoughts anyone ?
  24. shovel leaner
    Yes mate , the best I've managed in a night was 9 , but never thought to take a photo .
  25. shovel leaner
    I'm not being a big head , but ...
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