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  1. shovel leaner
    What sort of cover will it face ? Im not doubting you but my experience of this cross has shyed from cover . or does it mug stuff as it bolts ?
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    Fair enough mate , we both want the same thing and that is to see the club we love , get the success it deserves , difference is i would take a win no matter how it looked .
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    Thats where you are different mate because very few fans were happy last year......just because we had an ok finish doesnt mean we were happy it was still appalling football you cant just sweep away long standing traditions as a sacrifice for a mid table finish.......Allardyce was never going to be liked here his style of football was never going to be accepted.....but yes he took us up so deserved another crack the next season despite the horrible football.......but horrible that keeps you up is one thing,horrible football that takes you down..................... If you want pretty Foot
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    I loved him as a player , and he did a good enough job a Swindon , but i just cant see his style of managing working with premiership premadonnas , and what will probably be championship premadonas .
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    Football is a very fickle game !! Last season i was happy , this one im not !! Ask any Arsenal fan , the begining of the season they wanted rid of venga , now they dont !! Dont get me wrong im sick to the stomach watching West ham loseing 5-0 6-0 , and i want it to stop .Ultimately i think Sams on borrowed time . You know your F---KED when you get an open letter to the fans stateing the boards full support , its a bit like a politician thats been caught shaging his secretary , he appears with his wife on his arm outside his house and she gives him her full support , they are usually divorce
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    . Were has its worked lol Last season , middle of the table , first season back in the premier , after religation , i think was result ! and lets not forget it was Sam that got us back up !
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    west ham are in a mess , but what will sacking big sam achieve ? He knows how to grind out a result with mediocre players . Park the bus and catch em on the break or the long ball . Thats why he was so keen to sign carroll . Prior to this season carroll was put through a rigorous medical before we signed him , and i think so far he has played half a game . Sams mistake was to put all his eggs in one basket with carroll , and the type of player is always going to be prone to injury !! If we get rid of sam and get someone else , ok it might give the team a bit of a lift for a couple of games , b
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    Is it just me , but i cant see that you can compare a spaniel to a good terrier for bushing !! I am not knocking spaniels , ive got two . But to put a well trained gun dog in to a large area of gorse , bracken or bramble to run riot seems daft . In my experience spaniels soon get sick of the battering when they face very dence cover . Also terriers nail a lot of stuff in the bushes . In "pre ban " days i used to get a big pack of mates dogs together to go through the pheasent pens before i sealed them up and put the poults in , we had deer , foxes , rabbits , it was always the terriers and lur
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    Thannkyou Matt much appreciated !!!
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    I wouldn't waste your time or money going to college mate keepering is not and cannot be learned in a class room you have a head start already in that you run a successful and improving shoot and realistically another 3 years where you are will be more beneficial than 3 years at college, if I where you I would get a professional to sort your cv use best quality paper and envelopes and get applying for everything even places not advertising just on spec and see where it leads any advice or help you need just pm me I'll do all I can to help p,s you will get a lot of folks start and tell you
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    . Bet you dont just do seven months Of course i try to keep on top of predators , in my own spare time , and any new pen building is done out of the seven month time i bill the shoot for my time . But im always out and about on the shoot and i love it . If money was my prime motivation , i would not do keepering .
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    Its C B i need , thanks for the advice Matt .
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    Last year i spent a week following a couple of fell packs , i am planning a return trip after the shooting season finishes . I noticed a lot of the followers had hand held C B radios . Just wanted a bit of advice on what brand ? What features ? What sort of price i will have to pay , bearing in mind it will only come out a few times a year .Cheers
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    I keeper a similar number of birds for a syndicate . 4,500 , 12 x 150 bird days . I work as a keeper full time for 7 months . I start in July and finish , the end of January . The syndicate pay me £11,500 and then i get tips . I then work for myself for the other 5 months , Pest control , fencing , building work , whatever i can get .If your syndicate arnt paying you something similar they are taking the piss . If they are , whats the problem ? Forget college , you are getting hands on experience . The industry is full of college graduates with no experien
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    I used to shoot a small farm years ago , and when the ground was frozen or we had snow , there was a ditch there which always held a good few woodcock . I always thought it might be because they could still push their beaks in the ground and feed , they are a wader , and feed by probing in ditches and stream edges and leaf mold . my guess is that the birds you saw have been here a while and have worked out a good place to feed .
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    Meidle are a very good boot , but you must look after them , i keep mine for shoot days cos they look the business with my suit , so i clean them and use URAD JO JO on them , ive had them three years and they are as good as new . The boot that i use everyday , on the quad , digging and generaly abusing , is the Haix trekker , it is a bit on the heavy side but they are indistructable and i have never cleaned or looked after them since i bought them , and they are still in good nick !!!
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    Loakes , Trickers , are all quality hand made boots/shoes . But check out a pair of good old Veldtshoen by a good maker either lotus or technic , these are the classic brown leather shoe worn by guns or keepers after shooting , and by british officers in their number twos . I can even remember my old headmaster had a pair , i got a good close look at em as i was getting caned !!!!!!
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    One of the lads i shoot with turned up with one the other night . I could not believe that something so small could throw out a beam like that !!! Im not one to be easily impressed , or for throwing money about . But ive just ordered one aswell . It is by far the best thing ive seen come on the market for a long time .
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    Hi , have any other keepers decided what they are doing with this R T I , [REAL TIME INFORMATION] , that the inland revenue are on about , every other keeper i speak to is saying something different . From what i gather you have to ask for the names address and NI number of every beater , and keep it on record for 3 years . The onus is then on the beater to pay their own tax . Most other shoots around here are putting the money up a fiver to offset this . I think im going to struggle to find beaters , as only a couple are self employed , most are retir
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    was going to get some just in case ,we hopefuly wont need it ! also flubenvet is on prescription isn't it? so would take time to get !does flubenvet only come in the pellets? Flube is off prescription now and also comes in liquid ! ANY IDEA WHERE I CAN GET THE LIQUID cheers mikey Hi mikey , sorry to take so long getting back , i havent bought the liquid myself , i get mine added to my food . But i have seen the bottles in my local country wide stores , or try an agricultural merchants . One thing to keep in mind is that you tend to get gapes in your birds in wet conditions
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    A slog !!! You were in the wrong job mate . I call a slog , a 12 hour shift in a factory or a building site in winter . Try working down a pit or steel works . Sitting in a warm landrover shooting foxes is not a slog . There are young lads on this site who would give their right arm for a keepering job , but will probably never get a start . I have suffered large losses of pheasants in pens and more often when young poults first get over the wire. I learned from each instance and more often than not the times a fox got in the pen and wreaked havoc it was preventable. I like you have fe
  22. shovel leaner
    Thanks ror the advice fellas , im googleing skrettings now !
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    was going to get some just in case ,we hopefuly wont need it ! also flubenvet is on prescription isn't it? so would take time to get !does flubenvet only come in the pellets? Flube is off prescription now and also comes in liquid ! ANY IDEA WHERE I CAN GET THE LIQUID cheers mikey Hi mikey , sorry to take so long getting back , i havent bought the liquid myself , i get mine added to my food . But i have seen the bottles in my local country wide stores , or try an agricultural merchants . One thing to keep in mind is that you tend to get gapes in your birds in wet conditions
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    The pond was an old flight pond that had silted up , its fed by a small stream and is dammed with an out flow pipe . we had a digger on the estate reinstateing tracks , and i got the driver to dig out the pond, so there are no other fish in it apart from what ive stocked and i have not noticed any mortality . Because of the relative newness of the pond i dont think there is that much natural food yet . But i have seen pond skaters , dragon and damsel flys and little nymphs darting about !
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    Its hard to feel anything but anger and hatred when you see a lot of your lambs , pheasants or poultry dead , and strewn about , but its a wild animal just acting out of instinct , like i said its not personal , and prevention is always the best way . more secure pens ,poultry houses , and a few snares around the lambing fields .Atb
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