Jarvis
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It wasn’t in the pen, and the electric fencing has a real belt. It’s juat the fact the poults were so close to the wire and it only takes one to spook and they all get up! ?
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We got our birds Monday. The first evening I didn’t see any foxes around the pens. Wednesday morning I found a half eaten poult outside our biggest pen (around 2 1/2 acres) it looked by the remains a fox was the culprit! I had an idea of where the best place to park and wait would be. Night fell and I was stood on the back of the truck for three house and saw nothing... I decided to have a drive to the top of the pen and look down the other side and see if anything was stirring. I could see through the thermal that there was a lot of birds bunched in a corner and then scanning a bit further do
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I know a chap who has a shoot close to ours who does just this exact think. Sets out bait on string, he has it to his bedroom window with a bell on the end, like the sort hanging by shop doors. He has accounted for a ridiculous amount this way.
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Yes I’ve herd this with urine in traps, I do the same thing in rabbit traps. (With rabbit pee obviously not fox)!!
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I have a couple running most the year and they perhaps account for roughly 5 foxes a year. Not great numbers better than nothing and as you say, they are working whilst your not there!
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Do you use cage traps? If so do you have much success?
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If it’s on a ride and you know roughly what time (after you feed) couldn’t you set a high seat up?
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Nice shooting mate. I had two last night, that makes 8 this week. First One was a vixen came to the caller lovely through a cover crop and at 100 yards I turned the caller off and she presented broadside and down she tumbled. Number two was a 285 yard shot. I saw it mooching in the middle of a 50 acre field but the wind was blowing straight towards him but I was still a long long way off him at this point and he was unaware of my presence. So I turned round went out of the field drove all the way around him having a belt of trees and cover crop between me and him. I popped up behind him this t
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Nice work mate! That will be one happy farmer!
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Could'nt agree more!!
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Nice work! They finished the wheat at ours last night as well so I had a look out. Managed to account for another. He was a bloody big dog! I’ve had 9 up there in the last two weeks so hopefully that will go some way to giving the birds some peace!
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I’m not one for walking around! Not with the weight of my rifle! I park up and wait for the Charlie’s to come to me! I do bait stations during the autumn/ winter as well which work well. Plus if they are getting food there they aren’t going looking for tasty pheasants!
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Yer I was speaking to him earlier today coz he may be renting some ground from the chap where I live so yes he has, sone next week then some in a few weeks time. Do you want me to txt you his number?
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It’s two less anyway mate! Keep at them! I’m out every night now as our birds come Monday then the real sleepless nights and worry starts!
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Yer I’m good cheers mate, flat out with work and the shoot as well!! The weaners are around £30-£50 each depending on age breed etc. The pork is amazing! Everyone who has had some off us loves it! The chops are three times bigger than shop brought, The sausages you get are nothing like a shop sausage, actual flavour and meat in the sausage! We will never buy pork from a shop again! and my mate who I get the pigs from is a butcher so he butchers them for me so I can see the whole process through from farrowing all the way to the table which is great! I’m getting some off him next week an
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Hi mate, I had some saddlebacks last year, they were fantastic tasting pigs! Took longer to bring on and also put on more fat as they are a pure breed. A friend of mine has Berkshires and it's the same thing with them being a pure breed so GO'S will be the same. I don't have any experience with LW x LR pigs but in a couple of weeks I'm getting some SB x LW which should have the flavour of a pure breed but not have as much fat on them and come on a bit quicker. If your getting pigs at this time they should be at a decent slaughter weight for Christmas so this is a good time to get them! A
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Hopefully you'll catch up with it tonight!
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Its not as easy as that every time!
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Decided last night to have a couple of hours out on the foxes again. It was an overcast night and a bit of a breezy so great conditions. Good job I did! Got in position at just gone 9:00. Within ten minutes fox number one showed up, trotting towards me at around 250 yards weaving through the bales then turning right to follow along a tramline. Just before it got in line with me and would have been down wind I gave it a squeak it stopped on the spot and down it went. A further twenty minutes pasted and whilst watching a roe strolling across in front of me I noticed another fox on th
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Personally I'm not a fan of pump actions my mate had a mossberg and I did not like using it. I have a franchi affinity one semi auto, Nothing fancy around £600 new, I have the synthetic stock as it's just a tool for me at the shoot for foxes pigeons, corvids rabbits etc but they do a wooden stock and camo version aswell. Ive put all manner of cartridge sizes through it, doesnt get a regular clean and it gets bashed about and never had a problem with it cycling. If its just a rough gun or a pigeon blaster I dont think there is a need to be spending into the thousands... just my opinion. C
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What an absolute sod!
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I’d love to have a look through one. I’m such I’d be very impressed! I am right in thinking with these new models you can scan with them and then re attach to your rifle to shoot with them? Otherwise you have to have a spotter and a thermal scope...
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Such a lovely looking little lurcher mate! I have a beddy x whippet such great versatile dogs!
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I 100% agree with above statements, do your homework and think what you really want it for, quarry, ranges you’ll be shooting to etc. I don’t like the add on units, as I do not think at 200+ yards you should be mounting a high caliber rifle incorrectly in the dark, but for ratting or rabbit control etc are great units. I got a pulsar n750 to start with and as soon as I looked through my mates drone I thought I need one of those in my life!!! Like said before with NV and thermal you get what you pay for! I’ve accounted for way way way more foxes using thermal spotter and NV scope th
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You obviously set the seat up in the right place! Nice work ?
