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Ferrets have been fed, locator checked, knifes got ready , 30 pursenets un-tangled and bagged, and the side by side got out alongside 25 cartridges of number 6.................off out for a few hours to do some hedgerow warrens in the morning also may be off on Thursday
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my brothers KC border has done lots of ratting, in fact he got her when he kept lots of chickens and needed a ratting dog, works just as well as his none KC bull terrier on rats
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that and yell.com are good ways of gaining addresses, i would still advise personal visits though Remember lots of small bits add up, I started ferreting up north in Yorkshire and grew up on a farm and had a fair bit of permission. I moved down south and lost all that, when i started up here, i started with 1 x 46 acre small farm......this led to another farm owned by a relative of the 1st farmer, then the neighbouring livery yard, and neighbouring country house and then another couple of farms/landowners/equestrian people i now have enough to see me ferreting from mid-august until
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dress smart, print some introduction letters, join an organisation to get insurance and then go knocking on farm doors, livery yards,golf courses etc...no answer and leave the letter you have ready, leave a letter even if they say no....they may change their mind.......when you get permission do what asked abide whatever rules they set and good luck. Asking on here is preaching to the converted further i have had more permission with small farms/livery yards etc...than the typical big farms (who tend to have been abused by poachers and chancers more) and more luck with starting with fe
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it would if you blew it as well
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I'm not sure yet Flint. Local copper was asking my Dad what the best thing to do was, to bury him there or have him taken away, I'll let ya know when I do. has anyone else seen this clip??? suggest this and see if they go with it! http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/evidence/the-video/
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My brother has a KC border, she is his ferreting dog and when he had chickens she did a lot of ratting, saying that she has met two foxes and they are now both very dead
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i've always thought that ratting was a step towards foxing? and i have always considered that any work is better than no work, so drawing a hedge using its nose and bushing rabbits is better than being kept on the lead and used a few times a year on foxes....just my opinion, done a bit of foxing, not a lot, neve had the opportunity my brother had a very good JRT who bushed and did foxes, he would always kill rabbits and not sit and bay at them, saying that he wouldn't make much noise at foxes either and usually killed them before they could bolt or we could get to him I understand
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very conclusively illegal but what brilliant links stabs put up, very interesting and lovely old pictures I bet it was a spectacle and a half, we must all remember as well, although now they claim the 1911 act was all about animal protection and to stop cruelty, this is not necessarily true, the main reason that these things were banned was because of the large rowdy crowds that it drew?? Stick to running loose and wild rats and you wont go far wrong, but once its captured it must be killed quickly and not loosed for the dog!!
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did you back fill???
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12 yards would be OK, if you dont need all 12 yards just tether the spare to teh floor, personally i wouldn't be fixing a net to be used as a stop net to the wands permanently quiknet style, i have found that having a loose net that you can support where and when the opportunity is works better. I did contemplate fixing a wand to either end of my stop nets, however you cant always get the wand in where you want the net to be, on these occasions i have used the fence line, existing sticks in the hedge, dried nettles that are stood in the hedge etc.... dont fix yours permanently to the net a
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also a one man band most of the time, went ferreting with my son today, and i have a friend i occasionally ferret with, but 90% the time its me and myself reason being mostly that i work shifts and go ferreting mid-week where as my only ferreting mate works mon-fri and can only get out on a weekend often when i am working
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i want a ferret - will it be ok with that cat??????
COMPO replied to tinker's topic in Ferrets & Ferreting
is that yor cat tinker?? if so problem solved -
I got the 12feet ones cos they were only a fiver each, sometimes i wsih they were a couple of yards longer, other times they are too long, it depends on your hedges and how much cash you have, get a few different lengths if you can, but i have found mine to work well enough,
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Well the day started promising ,it was meant to rain and it wasn't raining when i woke up to the sound of the dustmen taking the christmas rubbish away, the loudest sound was my glass bin of empties :drink_nl: As i was getting dressed my lad jake says "dad can i come" so with a flask of soup a flask of tea and several packets of crisps thrown in a rucksack off we went. We pulled up at the farm entrance and parked just to the side of the entrance, we were going to be ferreting the hedge either side of the entrance. Jake threw himself into netting up as you can see we
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I have a couple of gate nets from KP&S nets. They are about 12 feet long and i use them to do exactly what you described, i put them at 90degree angles to the hedge and set them as far into the hedge as i can, i use hazel wands and set them in the traditional manner (not quikset) i often hang them on whatever is in the hedge rather than using the wands, i also sometimes set them right upto and flush with fences like you describe in the hedge, the end pin (actually just a small hazel peg that holds the two lines together-but used similar to an end pin on a traditional longnet) is then s
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Got the all clear for a days ferreting tomorrow...in fact the wife said are you doing any hunting before you have to go back to work? Friday i said is that OK! Anyway i have sorted out a bag with 50 pursenets in , changed the battery in my locator, fed the ferrets and got all the other sundries together and ready. I have a few bits left to ferret but some of them may be more than a 1 man job, some are capable of being done alone but are hard work, anyway i have the best part of a strip of woodland to finish at the side of a road, i can park the car close and have lunch and drinks
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didn't get any really crap presents this year. But on about mother in laws, a couple of years ago she must have thought her daughter was feeding me too well....she bought me some bathroom scales
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Or perhaps they will stay at the same price and just become comparatively cheaper as the lead prices over take them!!! i hardly shoot that many cartridges to worry about it, 250 last me a year
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If icant get it fixed i might sell it and i have 2 boexs of brass cartridges..PM me NOW FOR SALE £15.00 Does it work then, just doesn't eject?? MMMMMM Where abouts in teh midlands are you?
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Agree, i know what i have seen and it was a cat, bigger than my cocker spaniel but not much (my spaniel is 17inch to the shoulder) and the cat had a couple of inches on her, couldn't see the colour as it was in silouhette, and it also had a long tail
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cant find where 2 look, how do you get there?? very crap on computers but ok with bullgreyhounds I cant Find it either, i have been searching since i posted, there was a topic honest, it got a bit emotional with people who dont believe there are big cats in the Uk countryside and then others like me who do, There is a lot of theories about Hybrid cats (hybrids between moggies and wild cats) and there are obviously the people who know/believe there are true Big Cats released and escaped after the wild animals act in the 70's , there was an opinion put forward by i believe DawnB
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CCI Shotshell rimfire round.
COMPO replied to mole trapper's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
Just cartridges have the below on sale online http://www.justcartridges.com/prices/rifle.pdf there are .22 shotshells on there -
Search on big cats on the General chat forum.............I have seen a similar looking thing.......did you keep it? take any pics? the Sun are still offering £50,000 for conclusive proof, a body would do that. or contact the British Big cat society, it may well have been an hybrid or one of those new designer hybrid cat things....look on the thread i mentioned
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Roast Parsnips a true thing of beauty, especially when roasted in the tin after the Pork has come out, they soaked up the pork juices and crisp up very nicely