will.f11 24 Posted October 11, 2008 Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 Had a call from my mate today asking whether i wanted to go out this morning. so he picked me up and we went off to our friend Lee's farm where we knew we would catch 30 + rabbits. We got there and saw that someone else was out, and that perticular person gets a bit ratty if we go where he is, so pissed off we drove on to find somewhere else. We have permission for most of Bodmin moor so we just went to a few ground sets, etc. Armed with a load of purse nets, a 35 yard longnet a 12 bore 3 shot semi-auto camo shotgun and about 5 ferrets we walked about a mile to our first small set to start off me young hob. we put some nets down (about 5-6 holes) put the hob in behind my experienced jill and stood back. after about 4 minutes we heard rumbling, and out popped a rabbit from one of the holes we missed (bugger) but luckily we had the gun on hand and took that rabbit. another few minutes went and we heard more rumbling, out popped a bunny into one of our purse nets. he was well in so i quickly dispached and re-netted the hole. we waited for another short while and after the ferrets were showing alot more we boxed them and moved on. we moved just down the field and bolted another 1 from a small hedge set. We didnt bother netting that and just shot it. my friends cocker retrieved nicely (hes quite young and still learning) we walked another while and decided not to bother as we thought that particular place had been a bit over ferreted this year by lots of people. we drove to our next place which was a bit more succesful. we bolted one to the gun, the ferret killed one but luckily I managed to reach it from down the hole and we moved on. We did a few more sets like this and just bolted to the gun. We hit one set which was teeming with rabbits but had a fair amount of cover on the other side making it hard for us to net or shoot. either way we decided to go for it and put my jill in. about 5 bolted from there and only shot about 3 as alot were just hole hopping. we reached our last ground sets and netted and dropped a couple ferts in. only to find on 2 of them the ferret had killed and on 1 we bolted 1 into the net so that was a bit annoying as wwe had a fair old hike to get there lol. we got back to the car with about 10 rabbits ready to be gutted. we left the really badly shot ones and just gutted about 4 for the table and a couple for the ferrets. It was good to get out even though the bag wasnt as high as we wanted. the weather was brilliant and the sport was good so how can I complain. lol. Im sorry but no pics as for 1 I left me phone at home and also i cant transfere them to the comp lol so thanks for reading and i will post next time im out properly Quote Link to post
will.f11 24 Posted October 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 I must try and get pics next time. it kind of spoils the post. but im out again tomorrow so i will try and get some pics up Quote Link to post
diggermad 154 Posted October 11, 2008 Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 sounds like you had agreat day out mate cheers DM Quote Link to post
richie 1 Posted October 11, 2008 Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 I must try and get pics next time. it kind of spoils the post. but im out again tomorrow so i will try and get some pics up sounds like you had a gooden... if you cant host pictures, e-mail me them & ill put them up for you... Quote Link to post
will.f11 24 Posted October 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 cheers buddy. it was a great day, it would of been even better though if we could of gone on the best permission. lol Quote Link to post
scothunter 12,609 Posted October 11, 2008 Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 well done wilf good to see you enjoyed yourself Quote Link to post
will.f11 24 Posted October 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 cheers scot. you been out much? Quote Link to post
scothunter 12,609 Posted October 11, 2008 Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 Was out last saturday with mattski.Possibly going to ferret a cpl of burrows tomorrow morning,but was working today so will see what time i surface at lol Quote Link to post
will.f11 24 Posted October 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2008 lol Quote Link to post
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