Locaters

[keepdiggin 9,567]

I'm sure its been done to death but does everyone use locaters?

[mhopton 807]

I mate I would say so ether that or you end up sitting for hours

[stealthy1 3,964]

[andy97 209]

I wasn't going to use them but if you want to keep your ferrets I would say its the best way forward there abit steep but worth it in the end 240 for 2x collars and mk3m

[Joe67 239]

have one, havnt really used.. i should...

[Hot Meat 3,109]

Some ferrets won't stay with a bottled up bunny so I don't think they need a collar. Other ferrets will stay so a collar is a godsend saves waiting and you get the bunny after the dig lol it's about knowing your ferrets. I wouldn't go ferreting without my locator

[Tiercel 6,986]

They are a good tool to have, but I have never owned one and never will. And before the righteous brigade start moaning about losing ferrets in over 50 years of ferreting I have only lost one. That fell down a crack in limestone on the brecon beacons, even then I knew where it was, just could not get to it.

 

TC

[keepdiggin 9,567]

cheers lad

 

looking at getting into ferreting so might be asking a few more questions as time goes by.

[The one 8,577]

Personal choice , costs a few bob to kit yourself out with them these days

[Hot Meat 3,109]

They are a good tool to have, but I have never owned one and never will. And before the righteous brigade start moaning about losing ferrets in over 50 years of ferreting I have only lost one. That fell down a crack in limestone on the brecon beacons, even then I knew where it was, just could not get to it.

 

TC

Are your ferrets bolters?

[Rabbiting man 1,192]

I never leave home without one work my ferrets with collars on, don't get many digs, but they there if I do.

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

ive owned them but dont use them now they cost too much and theirs a few tricks to use to get a furt out but i dont mind waiting!

[Tiercel 6,986]

 

They are a good tool to have, but I have never owned one and never will. And before the righteous brigade start moaning about losing ferrets in over 50 years of ferreting I have only lost one. That fell down a crack in limestone on the brecon beacons, even then I knew where it was, just could not get to it.

 

TC

Are your ferrets bolters?

 

Probably no more than any other ferret, they are just run of the mill workers. However, when worked right I think most ferrets are bolters. 99% of my ferreting is in hedgerows, I have found if you work the hedge with the wind at your back so the ferrets are entered on the upwind side of a warren the rabbits usually bolt as they can smell the ferret coming. Does not always work of course, but more often that not it will. Another factor is unless it is a really big warren I only enter one ferret anything over 30 holes I consider big, I expect my ferrets to work a 30 hole warren on their own.

 

Even onthe bigger warrens I always enter the ferrets up wind to give the rabbits time to smell the ferret before the ferret is on them. Only little things I know but they all add up. I do agree though that a locator is a very good tool to have and when people have been out with me and used their ferrets with the locator on it has been easy to follow them in the hedgerows.

 

TC

[Phil Lloyd 10,739]

 

They are expensive,.but,.there is no way round it....

Edited September 28, 2013 by Phil Lloyd

[Hot Meat 3,109]

I agree fieldcraft will make the job easier, and so does a locator, use both an it's bound to help, sort of belt an braces job lol, the ferrets I had until recently never needed dug out. Since losing the line tho and getting new stock of had to dig a few bunnys, I don't mind at all and neither does the land owners I'm ferreting for.