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  1. comanche
    Nature blessed us with three means of defence. Fight or flight and cynicism!
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    Just entered the modern World with a digital camera and been playing. This was taken on the" mackerel "setting but hand held so is'nt maybe as sharp as it might be.All the best.
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    If you are looking at fishing rods ,a new gun ,a decent knife ,walking -boots ,etc and she says ,"Why not treat yourself for a change.Go for the more expensive one",it really means,"While you are in a rare spending mood I've seen a lovely saddle/bridle/jumper/dress/engagement ring(Eh!)round the corner". My old Headkeeper insisted that he wore the trousers in his household.It was just that his wife always told him which pair to put on. Remember ,there are three sides to every argument. His side. Her side, and the truth!
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    Too right .The way they rushed out the Mk111 so quickly indicates that even the manufacturers had doubts about the M11. If you get a Mk111 make sure you keep the batteries clean and everything tight n dry.As Stubby has said the volume sensitivity knob is an important aid to location especially as the LED indicaters can be a bit ambiguous at times:thumbs:
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    you should go out with other people more you might not be so quick to judge other breeds .No "Bull " here but each to his own. :thumbs:pre ban pic saluki /collie /grey
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    what do them white hare's run like mate To be honest I saw her after it but then she was over the brow.Only hare she ever actually caught.The few others she ever chased were browns so maybe the blue ones are a bit slower.This one was.
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    Febuary 1988 Pre -ban .
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    Ha nice one .But surely children can detect a hint of chocolate naturally. That Star Trek tricorder probably slowed the poor girl down.
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    Thanks .It could've all gone wrong and I'd've felt a real Milton.
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    When a few weeks ago a brace of pheasants was reduced overnight to a cock and a head I blamed next door's cat.When last week one of my hens went AWOL in broad daylight ,something tried to tear into the ferret cage and two dead squirrels -earmarked as ferret food-were nicked from my kitchen porch some people might've whispered ",Karma .The fox strikes back". As it happened it was the spur I needed to get off my ar*e and source the last bits for my ongoing fox-trap project.Thanks to some skip raiding ,a lovely manageress at a local shop who let me have some old wire storage units ,a bit of am
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    Incredable how those chaps with black tape over their eyes manage so well.I guess their lurchers are trained by the Guide Dogs Association ?
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    Foxes,feral cats, stoats ,rats,even a rabbit once. I well remember ferreting with my brother in the early 's in the middle of a Febuary freeze- up.My dog marked a frozen bank and we bolted a rabbit and a fox.Because the ground was too hard for the pegs we'd tied the nets to logs .It worked with the rabbit but the fox kept going half in the meshes ,half out,dragging the branch several yards with an irate mongrel in hot pursuit. Eventually it threw the net and escaped. If I'd had one of those LLama hunting ferrets from Derby things might 've been different. At the next bury the ferret bolted o
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    Oh Man ,The Relum Tornado was the posh one I could,nt afford!About twelve pounds I think.Actually the Relums were notoriously easy to tune a bit.Very accurate compared with the BSA's of the day. Now I know that the picture below shows the Relum with a telescopic sight aboard -a cheap "Mountie " -but it's in keeping with the spirit of the subject matter I think.I could take you to the exact spot where I shot that bunny even now. I was my first .
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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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