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you have to grab the head hard and give it a decent swing between your legs, stop the swing very sharply and the rabbit travelling backwards against the momentum breaks the neck....easier to show than to do i dont have to swing so much being an 18stone lump i tend to have enough strength for just a little flick to work but the speed the rabbits body is travelling at is the optimum thing
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f**k me, the old timers must be laughing from their grave! What a load of bollocks! I've done far more ferreting without a locator than I have with, and I've never lost a ferret yet! In fact, my locator is only used in the same way as a line (as someone has mentioned before). Ferrets get lost because of a lack of knowleadge, not a lack of locator! Good luck Crow only thing i can add is lack of patience as well as lack of knowledge Too many folk want the rabbits and ferrets out within 5 minutes or start digging wait a bit, sit and watch the world go by, the ferre
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This is an interesting thread that comes up on occasions on different forums. I do chop rabbits , i also stretch them and do another method that very few seem to adopt. Let me say when i chop rabbits they are always dead on the first occasion, but then i am a big strong brute, and no there is very little bruising, i just hit them very very hard in the right place with my big hands, i tend to use this when they are tangled well and truly, but there heads are sticking out, then i think its more humane to do this than try and untangle them.......i could never master the chin up method, i
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LOL@ Ditchshitter hanging off the wheelie bin Where i live it depends sometimes (mostly) its that day or the next, if however its for a kid they are a lot better and usually they squeeze you in between other patients or ask you to go up at the end of morning surgery and the Doc see's you before he goes off for his lunch. I am on medication for life being diabetic and have got to know the receptionists quiet well(up a lot with repeat prescriptions), we also have two kids and i think we get looked after well by our surgery, that said i have seen folk get fecked off by the receptionis
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good pics, why 3 threads? it has taken me ages to read them all I like using the longnets like you did
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mine eat them as does my little dog the ferts sometimes leave the skull intact and pick all the flesh off and from the head without damaging the bone, my lad loves the skulls then
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normal trespass yes, but there is trespass in pursuit of game which is a criminal offence
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i think in the circumstances you describe you will be granted a certificate. enjoy
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The below is from a legal database :- Hope this explains better than i did earlier Section 28 of the Firearms Act 1968 (as amended) creates the provisions for the grant and renewal of shot gun certificates. It states: 28(1) Subject to subsection (1A) below, a shot gun certificate shall be granted or, as the case may be, renewed by the chief officer of police if he is satisfied that the applicant can be permitted to possess a shot gun without danger to the public safety or to the peace. 28(1A) No such certificate shall be granted or renewed if the chief officer of police: (a)
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i dont think you can have a firearm of any kind if you have been convicted and given a sentence of three years or more, other than that i think time scales and the nature of the offence are taken into account, i would reckon after a few years of good behaviour you should be ok i was trying to find the link online where i read that but cant
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The lads on about parks in leeds, i lived in a high rise flat for a year (about 10years ago) over looking the fearnville sports centre fields, it wasn't you was it i used to watch at night running foxes that always tended to make for the allotments, fantastic sport for me, sat on the sofa with a beer watching that view was the only good thing about living there
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why dont you try contacting the club you put a link to and ask if you could use a stud dog over a greyhound?? You dont know if you dont ask, make sure you explain what you would be hoping to achieve they might say yes! Failing that where are the pyrnenea's??? you could import a pup? or take a greyhound on holiday when she is due in season and get her mated abroad, i am sure a farmer wouldn't be bothered his sheepdog covering your greyhound
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think what real animal welfare concerns there are, live transport, factory farming, etc...he was probably trying to be diplomatic in case you were anti hunt so he didn't lose your vote, so he tried to sweeten the loss of the ban with a promise to challenge animal suffering I have and will always vote conservative, the vast majority are pro hunt, they support you if you set up a business or if you try and make something of yourself, they always try and lessen the tax burden and they support families Labour no longer represent the working man, they are middle class lefties and un-employ
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dont know is there a KC forum within naive people who hate hybrids??
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why?? why is everyone scared of antis so much? they showed his face as well? Missed the airing on tv (nikey its not being repeated soon) i watched it on 4 on Demand (online channel 4) and it was fantastic i agree with SJM i wouldn't have minded taking them out, they seemed like kindred spirits and stated that was the best part of coming to england
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one dog can be too many sometimes
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i missed the tv airing and watched it last night online on 4 on demand absolutely fantastic, they loved it didn't they, obviously kindred spirits being hunter/gatherers themselves
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I have a cocker spaniel and also a teckel x...personally for what you want i would say a small hound cross There is this thread debating hound crosses and spaniel crosses http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/index...showtopic=26521 I have found my cocker works completely different to springers i have seen, springers tend to flail through all cover regardless, the cocker has a very good nose and will flail about but only if there is something worth flailing about for you could say she is a bit more selective but is useful never the less i would reckon a beagle,teckel,bassett or a
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Thats a really good idea ,a local gunshop to me helped me out when i was ordering some shotgun cartridges that i had bought from another shop by mail order but was unable to send them my certificate, they posted the cartridges to my local shop and i collected them from there-same principle this will benefit the gunshop doing the face to face hand over as the purchaser will buy pellets,gun bags etc..from them and they may have never been in a gunshop before and may buy other items in the future. Really is a good idea, just hope they get enough RFD's wishing to participate and seeing th
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MY AVERAGE IS 15 (that average is taken from last years diary and includes several outings of an hour or so, when i was home before lunch) last two outings this year were 8 (in two hours) and 17 when i ferreted from 9am until 2 pm And yes Woodga there is no need to wait hours for a ferret to come out, mine kill and move on to the next live one, I aint saying i never dig, just that its something i try and avoid and I ferret about twice weekly from august until march, and I may only have to resort to digging once or twice a season? My point and the point i believe that Ditchs
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Some people have a paranoid fear of Anti's My new ferreting partner follows hounds and the folk who follow hounds seem completely paranoid of any one who even questions hunting and seem to do all they can to avoid contact with such people. Last time i was ferreting with him a chap was running accross the footpath in the field, my mate" i hope he aint an anti" i replied "i hope he is we could have a debate and make a few valid points, i love an arguement" the bloke ran up, good mornings were exchanged, i explained what we were doing and he went away a little wiser and with a positive im
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When ferreting i act professionally and show respect to the landowners that have let me on, they want shut of the rabbits and if you dont do it they will get someone else (also on a few occasions i have been rewarded financially for removing the rabbits) i agree with Ditchshitter I grew up not using locators (we didn't have them and when they were about i couldn't afford them) the way that i worked was to look after the ferrets feed them well, handle them lots, and when approaching the warrens do so as quietly as possible with as little disturbance as possible, net up in silence watching w
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again this is a purely innocent idea that could be used for the wrong motives, in principle the idea is so that fieldsports companies can market themselves via e-mail, e-mailing potential customers. Whether the ANTI's will buy these e-mail addresses or not, would it make any difference?? i am sure they have enough details on us anyway and at the end of the day an e-mail address can be changed as Chris Jones said, i wouldn't worry about the ANTI's knowing my e-mail address, what does worry me is when they know what school your kids go to
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i would say rabbit kick as well, i have seen ferret's with completely bald and bleeding heads after being doled out lots of abuse by a bottled up rabbit, I have also had the same from rabbits when trying to pull them out of nets or holes i always win though and they end up dead I would just use some boiled and cooled water with a bit of salt mixed in and then rinsed with non salty cooled water, should be ok soon enough
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I know a fella that makes nets and he only uses sliders on the bourse nets with two pegs, he makes the sliders himself i believe and bends a ring and binds the centre with cord