Jax13
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Since I saw (possibly yourself as the pic of the pen looks familiar) someone say about this last year I put a hanging point in the pen for bunnies to go on, gives them a meal and a workout at the same time.
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In the process of sorting out a new, bigger hutch for my 3 and was looking for ideas for in hutch entertainment for them. There will be a couple of hammocks, some pipe suspended on chains as well as some pipes to get up or down onto the different levels but was wondering what else is worth considering putting in there for them.
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Holy sh1t. I need to push a litter or two of kits next year and give them a stupid name! Could pay for a new foxing rifle for the sake of a couple of dozen frozen bunnies!
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If your leaning towards it being used for fox on a fairly regular basis I'd go wmr rather than hmr. Having used both on fox, the wmr is going to give you headshot accuracy out to 100 yards easily and beyond once you know how it behaves. Me and my shooting buddy use both cals out to a known 200 yards on bunnys and 100 - 120 ish on fox purely because they need one in the head, even at closer range we have had runners with both calibres but wmr does seem more effective on body shots (though far from ideal imo) It all depends on if your looking for a fox rifle to take bunnies with o
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Mcavoy's currently have 2 different models at a shave under 300 quid NEW gotta be worth a look if your in the market for one.
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I wouldn't ferret my own land without one, let alone a farm miles from home. Maybe it's just me but I don't see any of mine as 'just a ferret' and getting home with the same number of ferrets and 0 bunnies is more important to me that dropping a ferret for the sake of a bun y or two.
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The reason is simply that we didn't get a winter. We had months of dreary, wet weather but no real hard cold snap. Look at slug and snail numbers, have you not noticed how many there are compared to normal? Likewise with a lot of flying beasties. It didn't get cold enough to kill them while they slept / slowed down so there will be far more breeding throughout whatever it was that happened instead of spring and summer!
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she's not stationary long enough to get a pic of her standing! never known a dog like it to be honest. gave her a good 6 mile walk the other week, came home and she was play fighting and charging around after the lab for 2 hours straight, its no wonder I still can't get any weight on her and its not helped the last few weeks because i've been stupidly busy with work and all the fields have only just been cut for hay so the 4ft tall grass was stopping me running her on the ball each day. she seems to be coming along well on the collar, beep and vibrate are both working for getting her to
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Fair play to you rew. A lot of people would just let it get bounced around. Mabel is coming on well, recall is still ropey because she just ignores everything and sticks her head down as soon as she gets her nose on something. Resorted to an electric collar and just using the vibrate function which seems to be working, only needed to use more encouragement a couple of times but she is responding well to it. It's a daft problem to have because I dont want to discourage her from marking and hunting but the little sod needs to listen or she can't be trusted enough to be worked! I've pi
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my 3 will drain 2 jumbo bunny bottles in a day when they are on dry food and barely take an inch if they are on bunny / pigeon / game carcasses. i swap mine about all the time between dry and meat depending on if i've got anything freshly shot or remembered to defrost anything for them the day before. it never bothers them because they are used to it but i must admit i did tend to feed more dry through the summer and just chuck in the odd 1/4 or half bunny / small pigeon if i knew it was going to be a cooler day or two. i just use the pets at home own brand stuff, its usually 11 quid f
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I was given a dozen nets when I bought my kits, picked up another couple in my local rfd but bought the bits to make my own from there on. Very satisfying when you realise they catch bunnies just as well as bought ones plus you can tailor the size to suit where you work. Looking at the tutorial videos from agouti (now on fourteen acre) there are loads of other videos on YouTube too which I found a lot easier to follow than written instructions.
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quite the opposite. i know some folk around here who have happily put a shot over a poachers head. I won't do it as its just not a sensible thing to do. regardless of the situation and despite repeating it god knows how many times, that is exactly what i'm trying to say. if you don't know that the land is being shot and a shooter doesn't know your there you are essentially walking downrange of them which is not a good situation for either party to find themselves in. i think the years of looking over the shoulder have taken their toll and made a lot of you guys a bit paranoid!!!
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because they were poaching and were fully aware of it. they didn't have permission on a single acre of the land they worked that night and were seen on 4 different farms / plots of land to my knowledge so why would I (or any of the other farmers / landowners)? they didn't have the courtesy or decency to come and ask at any of the places they went on so why would I offer the land to them after their blatant disregard for our property. as I said in the beginning, had they asked first we would happily have told them where they could / couldn't run the dogs (and as we have done in the
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i'm not for one minute saying its a weekly occurence - but i'm sure if you got clipped by someone in that one off tragic accident that does unfortunately happen from time to time your loved ones would be trying to point the finger everywhere apart from at you! then there are all the ten men who seem to think they are harder than batman when it comes to vigilante justice when they feel wronged! as for the laser... if you saw a wierd red glowing circle about 5 foot in the air in the distance would you not look at it to try and work out what it is purely out of curiosity? i know i probably w
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there it goes again... i'm not talking about an "accident"... i'm talking about an honest, genuine accident because we don't know someone is walking / hiding / waiting / having a pee / drinking a brew behind the hedge out of sight of any passers by / land owners. the chaps we spoke to were humble enough, shook our hands and were on their way which is fair enough and all you can ask for. they've been told politely they aren't to be on there again and next time (if there is a next time, which i hope not) the situation will more than likely play out differently as they now know they aren'
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really? no... really? the whole OTHER SIDE OF THE HEDGE AFTER A RICOCHET statement followed up by mention of it specifically not being a 'i'm gonna shoot you' but a genuine terrible accident as nobody should have been there thing. maybe this is the problem, people seeing aggression where there is none. is this mistrust and paranoia a by product of constantly looking over your shoulder? who knows. the guys had 3 lovely looking dogs with them that have probably taken more than a fair share of stuff and regardless of the dog or why it was there in the first place, i would be m
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yes. we probably would but you seeking retribution for getting caught out knowingly trespassing is like trying to get compensation for cutting yourself on the window you just broke trying to break into someones house. the fact we know she has the potential to react in a less than positive manner because of her past experiences is the very reason its handy if we know someone is going to be knocking about. again, just in case you are slow of thought - this is why asking first might actually be a sensible thing to do, you run the risk of learning something you didn't know before and its an
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We have never had problems from badgers digging to be honest. Foxes are more nuisance and are controlled if they start getting too close (we keep poultry and geese as well as my uncle having racing pigeons) Hare don't appear very often but when they do don't do much damage to anything other than field grown conifers as they will strip the bark off about a foot up and knackered them. The rabbits will strip leaves off some varieties of roses for food, others they will eat off at ground level to reinstate their runs. 2 years ago we planted on a field of ours that has a main road on
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he is looking spot on rew. had my moron out for a decent wander this afternoon as i was away for a few days over last weekend and early in the week and didn't get her out much so she is absolutely knackered now. recall is coming along well considering i've not managed to put in as much time as i had hoped YET... and she is retrieving pretty well too considering (luckily she has started to copy the spaniel in the house and she has picked it up a bit from her!) she's just hit and miss with the delivery at the moment. I don't know if i'm expecting too much of her on a retrieve to b
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It is family owned. Outright. Has been for nearly 70 years. No mortgages, loans or anything else. At the last count, we probably have 7 or 8 people with active shooting rights, I've helped another few get started in shooting personally (and introduced them to get them onto the 300+ acres behind us) and there are 4 or 5 groups of lads who ferret on here for time to time. Jax your full a shite and on wind up, all them folks shooting and ferreting the same land it must be as barren as the land surrounding the thunderdome ffs or yous are all wallys and couldn't catch your cokc in your zip
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It is family owned. Outright. Has been for nearly 70 years. No mortgages, loans or anything else. At the last count, we probably have 7 or 8 people with active shooting rights, I've helped another few get started in shooting personally (and introduced them to get them onto the 300+ acres behind us) and there are 4 or 5 groups of lads who ferret on here for time to time.
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Naa, just the ones I've already had from other people in the sport who are gobsmacked at some of the replies!
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Please correct me if I have misunderstood what your saying, So your mindset is you have no respect for other people's private property but you respect your own word? If that's true, do you carry the same feeling of I'll go where I please to your own property? Would you feel the same if you walked outside one day and found a family sat on your patio using your bbq because they have the philosophy that it's a free world and they will go where they please and do as they please? As for the dog. You are knowingly trespassing, you have no idea who or what may be on that land yet you would
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Exactly. As a rule we don't let people on lapping with the lurcher because of the risk of damaging the roses BUT we currently have 3 fields that are free of trees (and bunnies now, as it happens!) and would be happy to help someone out with a couple of runs. To answer the questions on poaching, not once. In the past I've had land that I've shot bare and gone 6 months without a bunny on, but I've never wandered onto adjacent land if I didn't have perm. Don't get me wrong, I've scanned adjacent land to see if there is anything there but I've never taken a shot because I've not wanted to risk m
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Exactly. As a rule we don't let people on lapping with the lurcher because of the risk of damaging the roses BUT we currently have 3 fields that are free of trees (and bunnies now, as it happens!) and would be happy to help someone out with a couple of runs. To answer the questions on poaching, not once. In the past I've had land that I've shot bare and gone 6 months without a bunny on, but I've never wandered onto adjacent land if I didn't have perm. Don't get me wrong, I've scanned adjacent land to see if there is anything there but I've never taken a shot because I've not wanted t
