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  1. alan81
    take your gun and hold it with 2 hands then throw it up fast as if your going to shoot a rabbit and if the gun sits nice against your shoulder and your line of sight is bang on then it fits you if not it doesn't. I don't know if your tall or short, it could be that your tall and using a gun with a short stock or you could be short and using a gun with a long stock these would make a difference to also weight will make a difference atb.
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    you need to spend loads and loads of time with the pup. get into its run with it and just sit there talking calmly to it, you need to get the pup coming to you freely before you do anything else. patience is the main thing if you haven't got patience get rid because you will only do it harm.
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    if your looking for a good budget gun then you cant go wrong with a Baikal, they do a nice semi auto as well. when it comes down to u/o or s/auto it comes down to witch you like the best. I have a s/auto because I like just one barrel, how light it is for carrying around and the 3rd shot I have even if I don't use it much. but as said above go to a gun shop and try a few different guns both u/o and s/auto and see what fits you best and stay away from Turkish guns.
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    you cant go wrong with Baikle there a cheep but good gun.
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    looks like you lads are going to have a good year unlike me I wouldn't see 20 rabbits a week around here.
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    mate im after skipping 6 pages just to say wheaten x dogs are as good as you will find. I have never owend a strait wheaten x but a mate of mine is mad into them and he has had some serious dogs, better than a lot bull x iv seen.
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    There is a way to get close to any animal an old way some might even say an art sadly lost to a new generation of hunters it works for amateurs and professionals (even the ones who pretend to be) it dosent require the latest gadget, flatest shooting rifle or the latest camouflage it is quite simply fieldcraft nothing more nothing less those with it wont realise and those without wont care That's the exact information I'm trying to get people to impart on me I dont beleive fieldcraft can be learnt on the internet the only way to learn is by being out in the field by having success and failure
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    i think I am picking him up properly I pick him up behind the front legs. the lad said he was put to a few rats under the chicken house twice. ill try next time without the glove maybe it was just the glove and him still getting to know me. thanks lads.
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    sound lads thanks for all your replies just one more thing the hob I got is fine when in the hutch or in the garden but I brought him out today just to see what he would do and I brought a glove just in case and it was lucky I did because every time I picked him up he tried to take my finger of. he is six months old now and I don't fancy putting my finger down his neck at that age. is it to late to stop him biting and will I always need a glove now? he was used for rats a few times before I got him today was his firs time on rabbits and he bolted two
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    thank you lads for your help it looks like ill be getting another hob. is it ok to put them together straight away and keep a close eye on them or should I keep them divided so they can still smell each other for a couple of days thanks again.
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    I got my first ferret yesterday and iv been told that they cant be kept alone and I should get another one to go with him. can ferrets be kept alone or will I have to get another to go with him and if I do should I get another hob or a jill. hes 6 months old thanks.
  12. alan81
    witch ever gun you like the best and feels good when you hold it. I have a 452 without the thumbhole and I cant fault the gun in any way I love it. it feels good when I shoot it and its light witch is a big plus if your like me and you do a lot of walking with your gun.
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    Hi. I have had a .22lr for 35 years but I have just got a wmr added to my ticket, not got a rifle yet but looking for another CZ. What range do you take rabbits at and what do you zero at, I'm thinking of using 30 Grain Hornady V max. I've never had a problem with the .22lr but range is a problem now that the legs are getting a bit older. DD I zero my wmr in at 100 yards with hornady 30 gr v-max and with a 1 mill dot hold over it will take rabbits all day to 160 yards no problem. I have a cz 452 lux, if your going to get a cz its a very good gun nice to shoot and light for carrying
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    nice going, its looking like rabbit hunting isn't going to be great for me this year mixo showed its head around hear over the summer and almost done away with them all.
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    no yappers here mate I never had one and if I had it wouldn't last long.
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    nice pup mate but f**k me you must spend hours in that garden
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    some feed for the mutts chicken and a pig I killed. and these 2 can handle any bones
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    So morally what is the difference between a terrier coursing catching and killing a rat and a lurcher doing the same to a haregeordie well a rat is a horrible little bugger and hare is a lovely animal that should be left to get on with its life. its all about perception. no one cares about rats so the doggy boys are welcome to them. anything bigger should be left to be cleanly dispatched by rifle. its more humaine. You just have to look at lurcher to know they are raggy old muts from a bygone age. the breed should be left to go extinct like pit bulls and the like. id say everyone re
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    ill swap you my good saluki/collie/bull/hound dog for your gun
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    I ask YOU a question do you disagree with our fathers and grand fathers way of life? do you think the gun is the only way forward? if you do you are deluded. can you tell me why your a better hunter with your gun than I am with my dogs when we get to the same end. as you I like to see our prey in the cross hairs but I also like to see my dog on the chase and do his job. with gun or dog there's still the same end.
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    I ask YOU a question do you disagree with our fathers and grand fathers way of life? do you think the gun is the only way forward? if you do you are deluded. can you tell me why your a better hunter with your gun than I am with my dogs when we get to the same end. you as I like to see our prey in the cross hairs but I also like to see my dog on the chase and do his job. with gun or dog there's still the same end.
  22. alan81
    so you would like to do away with true working type dogs? dogs that have helped people hunt for food and control unwanted pests for thousands of years. dogs and people have had a relationship since people started using wolfs for hunting. hunting dogs are mans real best friend and represent thousands of years of tradition and you would get rid of them just like that. THATS WRONG.Its tradition in NI for the marching bands to give catholics the finger every year, tradition is not the be all and end all , I dont like anything that is cruel, tradition or not. you could say its cruel to take a li
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    good luck with that I look forward to reading I of your posts about how you stalked that target
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    nice looking pup
  25. alan81
    a fox that has been coursed and gets away is very wary from then on and hard to course again but iv yet to see a fox get away from dogs wounded above or below ground. Yes in the same way that a fox that has been shot at in the lamp beam and missed is a very wary fox and will usually run at the first sign of a lamp, that said I have yet to see a fox get away after its just caught a grain soft point in the chest. a fox that has been coursed and gets away is very wary from then on and hard to course again but iv yet to see a fox get away from dogs wounded above or bel
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