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    Hi DUCKWING, I know Glenn is sending you a pm, so you will know by now how to go about it. I just felt I would like to try a go. I am not a very experienced fox snarer, but when after them, I've had a few. If I'd to try snaring a fox in a bunker, I'd set the snare in the deepest bit of the bunker, with the outside of the snare touching the bunker face, with the hope that foxy would nose along scenting for other foxes. You could hide peg and wire in the sand with just a wire tealer and the snare in the darkest place. Am I anywhere near a plan?
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    set your fox snares higher ten inches minimum to bottom of loop in open ground and 12 inches in higher grass , weeds, etc. to many people set their fox snares and rabbit snares far to low , Got to be good advice, ask one who knows. Thanks Glenn.
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    Basically if you can see the runs just treat it like a grass field. I think you would have to use the GSW type snare set up as anything else would be a bit obvious. Take care pal, ian.
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    Hi mate, I've certainly heard of rayon though never in a net application. Is it UV degradable, how much stretch is in it, and how strong is it. I feel that if the stuff is strong enough, then try it and see how it goes. I wonder though why it hasn't been used before, because it's been around for fifty years. take care pal, ian.
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    If you lie him on your knees, open your fly enough to get his face in then start on his ears, he won't be able to get your fingers.
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    Hi mate, I sympathise, I have two hobs, and both are pretty sharp smelling at the moment. They usually have the warm musty ferret smell, but just now they are pretty ripe, with acrid undertones, and a decided lack of hollyhocks whooshing up your nose ala Gilly Frazer. I think we have to tolerate it, I mean they tolerate us without complaint. The extra pungency really shifts the rabbits too, no doubt about who's lurking round the corner. take care mate ian.
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    I'm afraid it won't stop up here mate. The poll tax was brought out in Scotland first as was the smoking in pubs ban, and many other less noticable things. They use it to test the water. Personally I don't know who to contact, but wouldn't mind a pm if anyone has any info. If they do anything in Scotland, it'll filter down to you if it decided by the powers that be, that it is a success. Incidentally, I have it from an excellent source, that it is only fox snares that it applies to, (at the moment), and that they are unlikely to ban them altogether, rather they will probably hav
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    its only scotland thats affected moley and just fox snaring , i heard the government only received two hundred submissives , out of thousands who snare and mine was one of them , its always the same few who keep trying while the rest sit back on their arse and think it will go away , but these same guys will be the first to shout their mouth of if anything does happen . What are these submissives Glenn, what do you do or who do you contact.
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    Well done mate,
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    Hi mate how are you. Yes you can post on here, Pleased to welcome you, enjoy, ian.
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    a good do there pal I've not used the magnums, will they take rabbits in runs, or do you set them in the hole like a fenn?
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    I found this tekny it has some good stuff.http://www.thehuntinglife.com/html/sections/articles/ferreting_trapping/index.html
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    Hi mate, there are loads of pro snarers on here, so I felt it best to give them first stab at this, but as no-one has replied, I'll give you my three penneth. I usually use a hazel tealer, or as we call them where I live, set pins. A hazel stick about 20" long about 9mm thick at the thin end. Point the thick end and split the thin end so that it will allow the snare slip into the crack. I then usually bind this with tying wire or copper wire to keep it firm. You can set the snare like a rabbit snare and even set it on good rabbit runs. On roads and loanings, if there is a gate, look for a hole
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    I use an old Post bag with a dodgy buckle that sometimes can be so f*****g annoying but I've had it thirty years. The pin on the buckle is so worn and the strap so soft that sometimes, usually in the pissing rain, and the dark, and the windy and muddy and unhappiness, it slips and falls to the ground spilling its contents everywhere. I usually say oh dear. One of these days I must get a new one, trouble is this ones just the right size. ian, why don,t you put a piece of an old rabbit snarewire through it like i did with mine , as i experienced the same problem. and it saves any aggrivati
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    22 1/2 inch , six strand snare is more than enough,for pegged snares , who the hell needs an 8 strand snare people who make and sell these don,t know much about snaring, they are usually salesmen with their mind on nothing except profit , ive tried 24 inch nooses also the loop is just to big and misses occur thats why i do not use them , i make all my nooses 22 1/2 long and use them for pegged snares and also fences , because all fences are different and some times the wires can be five mil. in diameter and 6 inches apart , therefore the usual shop bought shit is absolutely no use , people hav
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    I use an old Post bag with a dodgy buckle that sometimes can be so f*****g annoying but I've had it thirty years. The pin on the buckle is so worn and the strap so soft that sometimes, usually in the pissing rain, and the dark, and the windy and muddy and unhappiness, it slips and falls to the ground spilling its contents everywhere. I usually say oh dear. One of these days I must get a new one, trouble is this ones just the right size.
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    Aye ditch is right. These look ok, but for one thing I know that these are 8 strand, that's a handicap right away, they are also quite expensive. PM geordie he'll make you some with six strand 22 1/2" wires on them, that's what the pros on here use. Thanks to their advice that's what I now use too and they're the business. Read Glenn and Woodga's articles, they know their stuff mate. there fence fence wires ,peg snares are 24 inchs A 7 1/2" by 5 1/2" loop only needs 20 1/2"of snare anyway micky, and I don't suppose an inch and a half divided by pi would matter to a bunny. I used to c
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    Aye ditch is right. These look ok, but for one thing I know that these are 8 strand, that's a handicap right away, they are also quite expensive. PM geordie he'll make you some with six strand 22 1/2" wires on them, that's what the pros on here use. Thanks to their advice that's what I now use too and they're the business. Read Glenn and Woodga's articles, they know their stuff mate. there fence fence wires ,peg snares are 24 inchs Well spotted micky, I wondered if anyone would spot the deliberate mistake.
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    Can't help with the trap, but you sure write an eye catching headline.
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    Can you let us have the email address BD and the name of the guy. I admit I fear the worst, these b*****ds have money behind them. It's them we should be snaring. They can't leave anything alone. I mean cormorants and starlings protected what next, badgers? ( ) just kidding. perhaps the agriculture guys are worth contacting, surely defra won't want snaring banned. I'll send a few emails off tonight, and remember chaps Keep it polite. Its gonna be a fight
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    Aye ditch is right. These look ok, but for one thing I know that these are 8 strand, that's a handicap right away, they are also quite expensive. PM geordie he'll make you some with six strand 22 1/2" wires on them, that's what the pros on here use. Thanks to their advice that's what I now use too and they're the business. Read Glenn and Woodga's articles, they know their stuff mate.
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    Yep much the same as everyone else. If you have a pool of surplus rabbits, ie a railway embankment, then the rabbits tend to re-occupy within a couple of weeks or so. Obviously in isolated pockets of rabbits, once you've been through it, then it could take possibly a year to recover.
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    I like mine hung about a week or so. Lovely done in red wine cook in sauce.
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    Rabbit and rabbit guts, thats if I'm using bait. Often you don't need it.
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    Hi there, Well for a start off, the tealers developed by Glenn waters act as a swivel thus lengthening the life of your snares. They do away with the need to have half a yard of string on your pegs. They are stealthy ie difficult for the rabbits to see. I have snared for nearly 50 years as an amateur, and on some occasions as a semi pro when the opportunities arose. I was advised many years ago by the grandson of a professional to use big loops set high. It was very very effective, yet until discovering Glenns writings, I was occasionally ridiculed for it. Glenn is the man. I can and still do
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