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    Still use the ten quid Relum break-barrel .22 I bought in the early seventies with my school lunch money.(Damn ,let's hope me Mum does'nt see this).Open sights are quick to lay on target and are not prone to get out of adjustment if the rifle gets rattled about a bit .I do own an HW 97 K with a scope but the Relum is my is daily companion for cage trap work and opportunist shots. It's sad that so many decent modern break- action air-rifles have no provision for iron sights as after a few years of use play in the barrel joint makes it impossible to zero a scope.
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    That's a lovely black whippet...Afraid I'm going to add to the pictures of not-quite-whippets with a photo of my little whipuki.The reason being that I've spent the last week struggling to load pictures my son in Law took into the computer and I'm desperate to see if I've done it!
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    Home rule for Tibet!
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    Quite right .They have to be surgically removed and properly tested :blush:
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    For a strange topic this one has run a while which must indicate something. Spect we all thought ,"Why?. Is someone starting a dating agency?" .... Variety of comments,probably representative of Society in general. Spect there's loads of gay people,straight people and in-betweenies in fieldsports just like there're loads of similar folk involved in hang-gliding,football,boxing ,marbles,you name it. I used to do a lot of fishing with a lesbian but I caught more when I switched to worms..... Sorry .The first bit is true .The second bit is rubbish ,didn't matter what I used as bait I
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    my cattle dog cross,God rest her, would've eaten a mole I bet.Would've been nothing after a 3lb frozen trout complete with plastic bag,after she opened the freezer,Sunday joint and a tray full of roasting hot fat ,after she opened the oven,and a pot of chilli powder after she opened the cupboard.etc etc etc.No sense of taste,cast-iron,digestive system,neck muscles like a python ,always down in one before you could stop her.Number of times I had my hand down her throat trying to hang onto the back-legs of the bunny she'd just "retrieved". Loved that dog but suspect she owed some of her genes
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    Frank Buckland was a famous Victorian naturalist ,who not only became, I think ,the first Government Fisheries Inspector but had a penchant for eating anything that swam flew or walked just to see what it tasted like.He even had an arrangement with London Zoo for taking their fallen exotics for culinary experimentation.Miffed at missing the chance of a freshly dead leopard he had it dug up some time later and despite it being obviously passed its' sell -by date he gave it a go. Apparently this taste for the bizarre had been inherited from his dad who was a Bishop of all things.Anyway Bucklan
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    I'm torn here.Had a collie/spaniel/mongrel thing years ago that marked superbly , was soft mouthed on badly netted bunnies & nimble enough to nail an escapee before it got into its stride.Mums 'whippet marked and caught well &would've faced hell-fire let alone brambles to get his rabbit -but the vet bills! Bought my present whippet/saluki /heinz 47 after seeing a mates'genuine Whipplington.Having seen em work together I'm not sure the Bedlington blood adds anything but a rough coat and a cute face.. Would'nt want anything smaller . A valid criticism of very small,lightweight dogs i
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    Hello .As Deker mentioned ,It's not always about having a big area to shoot over.A decent acreage of rolling land with few footpaths or houses stands a good chance of being passed.Having said that,the owner of a small turkey farm I used to help on had a .22 despite being very close to a housing estate.It was granted due to acceptance that a moderated subsonic round would not disturb the nervy birds in the way shotgun would and all shots were taken from upstairs in the house toward the waste heap(where the foxes tended to be anyway).A good friend only has a few acres but an FAO considered the
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    Don't some fish emselves contain narcotics? Sure I saw a kiddy smokin a roach once. Sorry.
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    Think Veinards pay about 40p a skin .They put em in a plastic bag and sell them as body -dubbing to fly -tiers for nigh on a couple of quid !.Jolly expensive plastic bag.
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    THINK MAYBE BECAUSE FREDS HAVE BEEN DOMESTICATED FOR SO LONG AND FED ON SOME PRETTY UNATURAL DIETS THE SURVIVORS HAVE GENETICALLY BECOME MORE TOLERANT OF A JUNK-FOOD DIET THAN SAY A WILD POLECAT WOULD BE .PURE MEAT ALONE NEEDS ADDITIONS TO MIMIC A NATURAL DIET AS A WHOLE BIRD/MAMMAL CORPSE PROVIDES FUR,BONE VITAMIN LADEN ORGANS,AND DIGESTED VEGETABLE MATTER,UNLAID EGGS ,UNBORN YOUNG ETC.NOT JUST PURE MUSCLE FLESH.THATS A PRETTY MIXED DIET IN ONE HIT. I KEEP HENS SO MY FREDS DO HAVE PROBABLY THE EQUIVALENT OF AN EGG OR TWO A WEEK EACH.sOMETIMES MIXED WITH A BIT OF MILKY MASHED POTATOE OR UNSA
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    Must be a wind up surely, although a couple of weeks from now you'll probably be dishing out advice which seems to be the norm on here. I know I'm not as experienced as some on here, or owned ferrets as long but for what it's worth I've bred just about every incestuous combination possible and never had a deformed kit. Maybe you have very sturdy stock,Maybe the deformities are on the inside,Maybe the mummy fred dealt with any Milmans before you got to see em...Do they have ,"Real pretty mouths"or get excited when they hear a pig squeak?.
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    @ Rolfe and Mole trapper.... Waz,...if you HAVE to do the job,.then charge the guy a good price that suits YOU,... Domestic customers are used to paying plumbers an the like £50 just to turn up on the doorstep so they find my no mole ,no fee policy a bit hard to comprehend.Sometimes I have to feign total horror as they push "petrol money" money at me before a trap has even been set.Usually given a cup of tea as well and have been paid in full twice for a mole "shared"by two adjacent gardens.I did'nt rip em off,they just would'nt agree to split the fee as I suggested!...Moles on f
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    To be honest What Dicky boy (and MISSIE)says has a lot of truth in it.The qualifications come with Certificates that indicate to Officialdom&"Those it may concern" that you are not a total Milman and can be trusted with chemicals ,chainsaws,traps ,machine-guns ..etc .I've actually done some of the Brinsbury courses and found that the main problem was pinning em down to firm dates when the courses were going to run instead of ," you're on the waiting list for sometime in March orApril".In other words theInstructor is making too much dosh with his day-job at the moment. The chainsaw course
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    Thanks "Chalkwarren"
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    ay? Hmm,hmm,hmm .I agree. Is this an Anti trying to gain evidence against fieldsports by inciting the illegal transport &releaseof a pest species!
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    Recent Hancock dogs looka bit too bred for "type and colour (ie genetic warning -sign merle)" for my liking.Sturdy looking but a bit "distant" in attitude.I should'nt really judge on looks though ,should I. Had a Richard JonesxRene bitch in mid 's.Nervy,sensitive to train,cold sort of temperament.Once she twigged something though she never forgot it.Took long time ,lots of patience but at2 an half/ 3 yrs she blossomed>Won obedience,was fast for a 1st cross,took fox,loads of bunnies.Above average dog but a lot of effort to get there!Sadly killed in freak accident by of f-road joyriders.My n
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    As someone else said"whippet type pups like to creep under rather than over stuff".Thing is not to scare him by trying to force him over jumps.My method is a bit repetetive and might bore the pup at first but it ain't gonna scare or hurt him.Someone has already suggested laying a log on the ground but to start even a bit of 4"x2" will do .Put doggy on a lead and walk him over the obstacle.As he comes up to it say",Over"(or whatever command you favour)once only.The dog won't notice the "jump "but he will come to realise that "Over" means something will pass beneath him as he walks .BUild up,
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    Mine's not a totally straight saluki/whippet (carries a bit of bed by looks of the dam) but in size looks and temperament she might as well be.Very( sometimes too) affectionate,fast and obedient.Was a bit tricky to obedience train as she seemed to think being made to obey was the same as being told off. Trick turned out to be to wind her up with some fun jumping and lure-work in between the boring recalls and retrieves +finish every training session with wild game.Only 2 an a bit but I 'm happier with her every day.
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    Check out those ears!
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    Recent Hancock dogs looka bit too bred for "type and colour (ie genetic warning -sign merle)" for my liking.Sturdy looking but a bit "distant" in attitude.I should'nt really judge on looks though ,should I. Had a Richard JonesxRene bitch in mid 's.Nervy,sensitive to train,cold sort of temperament.Once she twigged something though she never forgot it.Took long time ,lots of patience but at2 an half/ 3 yrs she blossomed>Won obedience,was fast for a 1st cross,took fox,loads of bunnies.Above average dog but a lot of effort to get there!Sadly killed in freak accident by of f-road joyriders.My n
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    Spot on, most lurchers take a 2 or 3 seasons to become good, and they dont catch them all BIRD I'm no expert but I started running a saluki/whippet cross.Last season , when she was a year old ,I tried her lamping out of interest .She too was fast but over-ran and was overawed by the whole procedure .What's more when she did catch a couple she let them go again ,and again until they reachedcover!.Spent the summer doing basic training ,swinging a lure on a string and pole in the time honoured fashion and took her ferretin as soon as the season started.Also
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    A local butcher will usually take a few gutless ones for£1(like Ditchshxxter says ,same as 30 yrs ago!)£1.50 skinned.If Itake in toomany I have to skin em because his "Boy" gets peed off coz it's his job to undress them and they also have a problem with waste disposal regulations (so they say anyway)with regards to the skins. Similar deal with a farm shop/game dealer.He'll take bunnies on a Sunday and he is only a5minute drive from my mates' ferreting ground .He sells to the public&restaurant trade at £3.50 a rabbit .We get £1.50 skinned but he supplies a room to do it in ,knive
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