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    Don’t start me off . I’ve just watched Nigel Farage investigates . Exposing the illegal immigrants being put up in hotels and shown around Anfield . This country is properly F@cked.
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    The thing is wheat is a commodity and the price tends to be dictated by the stock market. I know the price the shoot pays is dictated that way . Good luck ?
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    Just looking at the wheat fields on the estate and they are about 3 weeks off they reckon. I was talking to the farmer and they have harvested the rape and the yield was down from 300 tons to 100 tons and he thinks it will be the same for wheat . £170 a ton for feed wheat this year . Stavross, the money you have saved on poults will be going on feed I reckon . What’s the saying “in one hand , out tother”. Look at this picture I took of a field on the estate, look how sparse the ears of wheat are compared to how they normally are . Not good .
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    A worthy winner ?
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    Anyone who has snared foxes has this from time to time . God knows how they do it , but a kills a kill and I’ll take em anyway they want . ?
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    All it is , is a sort of wire loop that forms part of the snare . It is designed so that a fox could not pull it straight and escape, but deer and badgers will . I’ve personally never had a problem with non target species as I put deer jumps on them and set them high , so badgers just go underneath. But a neighbouring keeper tells me that they do work and he has had badgers caught and pull free . He knows this because of the fur on the wire and claw marks in the ground .
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    A really useful tool for anyone involved in keeping game are snares. Done correctly I believe they are a humane way of dealing with problem foxes . They are also working while you are in bed . The ones I use now are compliant with the new guidelines and have a breakaway section, so if you snare a non target species ( badger) it will break away . They also relax when the animal stops pulling, so you don’t strangle them , they are just held until you get there and dispatch it . I’ve had a few this season in the snares . I check them twice a day , once in the morning and again in the evening to m
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    I have been struggling with the question, what is the perfect calibre for me to take around with me on my journeys around the shoot during the day . I may want to dispatch a fox in a snare , or shoot a squirrel or get a rabbit for the Larsen trap , or maybe a fox at 200 or 300 meters as it makes its way up a hedgerow. At last I’ve found the perfect solution to the age old question. Simples , I take two rifles, a 22lr and a .243 . ??
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    That’s a very kind gesture Stavross. Shame I can’t put my name down . I have a real problem getting gloves to fit me and L is too small for my great big mitts.
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    What a shame that it has to come to culling hares to stop them . They are vandals, and a parasitic scourge on society.
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    I’m glad the hmr is working for you . It’s interesting to hear impartial and constructive reports . Although not a hater of the hmr , I can’t see me having one . I like a 22lr for rabbits and squirrels. And a centre fire for fox . And I’ve also dropped more than my share of foxes with the 22lr and not just in snares either.?
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    There are keepering jobs and there’s keepering jobs . Some good , some bad . I’ve been doing this one for about 15 years. It’s a lot of hours out of the house and no summer holidays. No summer evenings in the beer garden . My Mrs has been very understanding, but her patience is wearing thin now . She would like to see more of me . I rekon other 5 years and I will be done . I got into keepering relatively late at 40 years old. My only regret is that I didn’t start earlier in life as I have loved the job ( I didn’t enjoy the wet winter we just had though ) . I have been involved
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    That’s unbelievable ?
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    I don’t worry about guns not realising the effort I put in , as long as they get their hand in their pocket at the end of the day . It’s a bit different for me as it’s a job , If I moaned about them not realising what goes into putting a day on it would be a bit like a chef moaning about his customers not realising how much effort goes into cooking their meal which they just chopped up and shoved in their face . They pay for their day and they can think what they like . But for a diy syndicate like some of you boys run , there will always have the doers and the piss takers , it’s a problem as
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    If you read up on copper and magnetic bracelets , the doctors and scientists will tell you that there is no scientific evidence to support claims that they work . It may be that it is nothing more than a placebo , I might have wanted it to work and my mind made the pain feel less ? Whatever it is I’ll take it , because there is nothing worse than being in pain and aching, it grinds you down . There is no harm in wearing one , what have you got to lose ? If you talk to people who wear them the anecdotal evidence is that they do offer relief, scientists may not know everything!!!!!
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    Harvest around me is usually around 10th August. With the wet ground the wheat and barley was sown in the spring and that was late too . The wheat and barley on the shoot is still green , and is probably 5 or 6 weeks off harvest I reckon. Interesting times .
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    Anne McFall was a Nanny who he got pregnant, but you are right his first wife Rene and her were buried in a field at much Marcle .
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    Don’t wish to be a pedant, but Mrs West or Rose to her friends is now residing at Broadmoor , busying herself with her knitting and basket weaving. Also Fred’s victims were buried under the patio or in the walls . ??
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    The rules are simple, first to the bottom wins the cheese . I promise you , where I live there will be no Tokenism or pandering. If they rock up and win , fair play to em , they would deserve to go home with a cheese . We had a Gurkha turn up one year and win the uphill race , I’ve never seen anyone move uphill as fast as that guy . But he didn’t win a downhill cheese . I haven’t seen any other ethnicities do any good in the race , a Japanese guy broke his leg last year , I remember seeing him carried aloft through the crowd wearing his rising sun headband, screaming in agony ??.
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    Cheese rolling !!! Coopers hill overlooks the village I live in and used to be a part of the estate I keeper , I think English nature or woodland trust own it now . I competed in it myself when I was young . It always used to be a local thing , Brockworth lads always won the cheeses , in my day Steve Gyde was the champion then Steve Brain and just lately Anderson I forget his first name . However with the advent of the tinterweb , you get people from all over coming to compete and strike it off their bucket list . I promise you one thing , if you come and have a go , it looks a lot
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    It’s called the “ oh f@ck , I’m in the shit “ dance .?
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    Doing my rounds this morning and I was greeted with a pleasant surprise. A dog fox cub bouncing around in a wire . I don’t mess around with foxes in wires and quickly dispatch them , as I’ve had them break free when they panic at your arrival. It’s my first fox with my new Tikka 22lr ......does it still count?
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    I used to get victory cartridges for everything either Starlight or europa perdix . On the marsh , rabbits , pigeon , pheasant. A very good cartridge . Like a lot of Gloucester boys we used to go and see an old boy called Bert Hussey who was an importer , and we got them at sensible money . His bungalow was a bit rough and ready and was a hub of local shooting gossip. He’s long dead now , but they were good days and he was the last of a generation of old Gloucestershire country men who lived life on their own terms .
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