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No problem. It is here and unfortunately in French it appears even more certain that you cannot legally use a gun for pest control unless you hold a PdC. http://www.oncfs.gouv.fr/Destruction-animaux-nuisibles-faq284
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Just to put a fly in the ointment I found this on the ONCFS website: What is a pest and what determines that a species is harmful? The hunting license is it necessary for the destruction of pests? Not totally clear, but I interpret that as being that you cannot shoot vermin.
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All the information I have managed to find list regulations concerning shooting or trapping nuisibles other than the ones listed in the link I put up earlier for rats, mice,moles, etc. Each department has its own lists of what is and what isn't allowed. For example in my department of 16 fouines (stone martens) cannot be killed, yet three kilometres up the road in 87 they can be killed. Also there seems to be regulations nationally concerning controlling of corvids, starlings, weasels and other species regards seasons, methods and specific locations. Regards the coypu, given the ranges at
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I was going on this list........ http://france-nuisibles.fr/ Magpies and crows are definitely on my personal list for next spring given the way they have hammered the song bird nests. I put a couple of shots into the earhole of an adult ragodin with no harm caused. The .177 was shooting at about 14 ft/lb.
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I picked up very early in the season from radio phone-ins that many ManU fans were disgruntled about the way they were playing. Of course when that was mentioned the die hards simply came out with their ABU defence. They wouldn't accept it. But, over the course of the season LVG has proved that he has no idea of what is the best ManU team, where his players do well and where they struggle. He has played Matial and Mata all over the park and his early season tactics stifled the raw talent of Depay and others. There have been some stats published about their lack of shots and propensity to p
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That is brilliant information - Many thanks I too was under the impression that you could not shoot any live animal using an air rifle. So much so that I have hardly used it in almost four years except to ahem, accidentally 'deter' a coypu on the farm pond where we used to rent a cottage. Contrary to mapletree's advice above, I found that the 14 ft/lb (19joule) .177 wasn't man enough to 'deter' the coypu no matter how many times it strayed into my line of fire. Shame that coypu aren't classed as nuisibles or I might have invested in a .22 rimfire. The Pros Sport won't really go much fur
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So You Think You,s Can Shoot A Springer
Nicepix replied to bigmac 97kt's topic in General Airgun Discussion
Good job our Grandads didn't mind using open sights on those .308 rifles they were issued with. And I bet the German snipers didn't realise that they were so lucky with their 1.5X telescopic sights -
So You Think You,s Can Shoot A Springer
Nicepix replied to bigmac 97kt's topic in General Airgun Discussion
We all had Airsporters when we were kids and surprisingly we managed to hit a few things with them too. When it was all you had you didn't know any different. In later years I had an Anschutz .22 rimfire with a poxy 4 x 20 scope on it, and could hit a clothes peg at 100 yds. So why have I got a super-duper 3 - 9 x 40 mildot scope on my .177 springer? Because I can -
If they were shooting 'branchers' the young rooks just leaving their nests there are usually three days to shoot them as typically the three eggs are laid a day apart and the chicks emerge from the nests a day apart - weather dependent. I used to love thinning the rooks out. Around the 11th to 15th of May I'd be watching the rookery every day. Just spotting them amongst the leaves was an art, then if it was windy the shot could be challenging. Usually I was told to take out one for each nest and then go back the second day and take around half of the number of nests, around 70 to in all,
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I think that it was the Dutch extremists trying to keep LVG in his job for another few days. Either that or they have destroyed the parcel containing his best syrup that had come back from the dry cleaners in time for Wembley.
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They are Benbo, not Benro. Th best way to value them is to look on ebay for similar ones that have sold. The one without a name could be the Trekker, Mini-trekker or Classic. You'll have to compare it to the ones for sale to be sure. Also, the price will depend on the head if any are fitted. Benbo did at least two types of head, one pan & tilt, the other ball & socket, and the previous owners could have fitted a different type.
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Before " educating " people its probably better to learn the facts.......with a 34,000 ground sold out every week and a season ticket waiting list of 17 - 20k over the last 4 years what would be so surprising about 52k season tickets being sold straight away....." tourists " dont by season tickets. Never let facts get in the way of his arguments. I mean he thinks you Hammers fans are jealous of his team's life or death relegation struggles every season. He doesn't realise that you've been there, done that and now have moved onto biting your nails over whether you'll get into Europe or
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Great article. We had a few pairs come to our bird table at the end of last winter. Lovely looking birds.
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Go in on a Thursday. No one will be able to smell it with all the old folk in drawing their pensions
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I nicked it for my little fishing film............
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I grew up in that village and the neighbouring one. My Dad worked at Grimey Colliery and died in his 60's as a result of the injuries sustained dahn t'pit. It is probably the most moving and true record of the demise of the coal mining industry. The pit was levelled by 1990 and the whole area is now a large industrial estate. The pit used to employ over 3,000 men and there would be almost as many other tradesmen dependent on it. And those houses, White City we called it are still there today. They were built as pit houses, owned by the colliery. Now I bet there isn't half a dozen workers on t
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The French refer to 'tadpoles' as the much smaller poison chat, an invasive nuisance species that averages around 2 - 3oz and swims in vast shoals. When they are very young they resemble tadpoles in size and the fact that they cluster together on the bottom in shallow water. I see them regularly around the end of May through early June and if I can I'll net them out and leave them on the bank to die. This is the lighter coloured version, they are usually almost black........... A fish of 3oz will take a 20mm boilie and usually they swim in shoals of many hundreds, making some carp
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Because escaping relegation by the skin of their teeth again and again, year after year must be so disheartening they have to cling to any little sliver of light in their dark tunnel.
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Why would I joke about being ginger, it's deffo not a joking matter It isn't! Have you noticed that on Tipping Point 90% of the contestants are carrot tops? what are you a cheese eating surrender monkey or an immigrant.? I'm doing missionary work. Trying to educate the French in proper cooking, Yorkshire style.
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Looking like Benitez might be able to add the Championship Title to his many awards next season
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Why would I joke about being ginger, it's deffo not a joking matter It isn't! Have you noticed that on Tipping Point 90% of the contestants are carrot tops?
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That's the problem with STD clinics. They attract the wrong sort. So I am told
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So nobody should be picked to play for England if they get a yellow card? Well this month alone, that's Rose, Walker, Cahill, Ali, Rooney, Kane, Vardy & Drinkwater fooked for the Euros then. And it makes you wonder how Terry and Rooney ever got selected.
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And you need a new coach You talking about LVG or the actual coach---or both? What's the betting Wilf claims it was an accident or blames the blacks? Both obviously. One is totally useless and the other has broken windows
