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    it'll be fine.
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    back in the second week in feb we got down to a vixen that had a litter with her- must have been at least 3 weeks old then though. its the earliest i heard of but i'll be the first to say i haven't been into earthwork for a long time.
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    don't buy them from anywhere, i was bought a set for a birthday and was shocked to hear how much they were for something so simple. as said above the plastic coated sticks are best as they are much quieter, drill and bolt at 4" in from the ends, bit of elastic or rubber and thats your lot. the sticks i have are brilliant - shot a sika buck 317yards plumb through heart from standing. wouldn.t normally have taken a shot like that but the rest was better than many prone shots. OP
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    rodenators are, from my admittedly fairly limited experience, a useful and practical tool for the control of large numbers of warren dwelling pest species. i have only seen them used on moles once - to devestating effectto both the mole population and the piece of lawn - thus i can not really comment on that side of it. however as a practical tool for reducing rabit populations in woodlands and covert they have been shown to be very effective. crop damage from rabbits and rats has been reduced to nearly zero in the areas that we have used the rodenator and this makes for much happier farmi
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    as has been said above the use of shotguns is generally not regarded as the most humane method o dispatch but they can be remarkably effective - i was on a deer drive in april last year and all of us used shotguns, no slugs just BB to AAA. if you get the right stand and work out the runs etc then you can topple them effectively. seven of us had 14 in a morning - great fun and did a very helpful job for the tennant farmes.
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    sounds a good plan, after the rut when the bucks near us had got shy and quite happy to stay in their own little thorn bush and not come out i started a bit of feeding. a friend had a load of wheat that had chitted and gone black and then got wet in storage and so there was about four tonnes he couldn't sell. i left mounds of this out on rough grasses, beside woods and likely spots - they picked up the habbit and then in september when the first cold snap came in the deer were lingering a bit longer on a morning feeding on the corn. got some good result from that. good friend of mine s
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    good man for ammo in chester le street - sorted me out with PMC 160grain .270 when no one else in the country seemed to have any. can't help in the city its self but there is quite a lot local
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    if its for their own consumption i haven't got a problem with it, just as long as what ou order is what you get. visited a chinese in beauly one year - great food. next year it was closed and the locals said that the food inspectors had found the freezers full of seagulls not chicken. ah well. i've had fox, in a stew and it was fine, quite good, until we were told what it was at which point you start to think its rough. wasn't as bad as the badger ham that i tried to cure with my ma a few years back - that was really bad...bloody badgers. op
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    he's pretty sharp, and will give good chase but won't put in that final hitjust lollops along behind them not really caring either way....
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    bloke who likes near me has taken 11 from one wood next to his house this year so far, dog is as keen as mustard on them but has a bust bone in its foot a couple of weeks ago so is off work. all roe but still quite a feat. all accidental as he walks his dogs past it every day and everyone knows you can't call off a lurcher once they start. but to add my own question - how would i start an 18 month lurcher on them, in theory? he might be of the type that gave good chase but slackened off when he caught them up although he would get a few turns in. he might just seem to loose interest/n
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    john, i mayu have to do that then. could you recomend any CHEAP scope mounted lights. not doing anything that requires shots over 100 yards so does not need to be massively bright.
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    not sure thats why i thought i would ask, there has to be something that would do - even if i got it so that the beam was central at about yards...that would be something. anything would be better than the current set up of balancing the rifle and lamp on each other and trying to keep the whole thing lined up while taking a shot
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    i have a problem: i have a lightforce 170 lamp which is great and i love to bits. i normally use it to run my dog on and occasionally clear up a few bunnies with a .22 with a mate from the car. as it is i now have an additional use for it which involves me both lamping and firing the rifle while walking about on my billson. now if i was feeling flush with cash i would get one of those 170 scope mounted lamps witht the squat handle - but it has to be a waste of money doesn't it? there is a perfectly good brass thread going into the bottm of the lamp handle and there has to be a piece of kit
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    if you are on good terms with them get down to your local hunt kennels and ask if the KH wouldn't mind doing it for a pack of fags and a pint. thats where i get ours done
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    on the west coast of scotlan where i occasionally go up to stalk a bit and mess about the reds and sika will happily ramble a couple of miles down from the hill during the night to get to the silage fields but i think roe won't go nearly that far if there isn't a shortage of food. i would have said that arround us its mabey 400-500 yards but then again there is a lot of food about and i suppose its the same as with anything else - different place, different surroundings/covert/food - different habits. O-P
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    good man. thank you. i'll try to find some and give it a go
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    i have come across two types of leach fly pattern - both in america and both pretty simple to tie. the first was an "egg sucking leach" pattern in alaska that we were catching big river rainbows on. such goog fun and the fly is essentially just a long shank eye down #12 with a red plastic ball at the front followed by any streamy hackle of about an inch. the second was again in canada but on a king salmon river and also went under the name of a skagit minnow. this is th one that i think you are talking about as it has an articulated shank and trailing hook. bit more difficult but stil
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    cheers man i may have to do that, hassle but ah well. just wondering if there were any fixes though as i have worn them in well and i don't know how well the people at lacrosse will take it. anyone? O-P
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    good going seem to be getting through a few - best thing for them. 4 on top and the rest under - you want to get a better stopping team together although that is sometimes difficult if everyone likes a dig.
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    Right, i have a new-ish pair of lacrosse 10" boots - they are great, just perfect and i would thoroughly recomend them but they have just started squeaking. well i say just started but they did it when i first wore them a bit but it has now got a lot worse. its only the sole that squeaks not the leather bits as they are all well oiled. they only do it on hard walking like tarmac or rock track etc not on grass or mud or soft ground. so my question to you is.....how can i stop this? can i soak them in some cunning solution or rub some tincture into the rubber or something as i can't go
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    i had this the other day, seriously annoying but found out that it was just theat the negative connection to the battery terminal had come off under the caseing, nipped it back on and sorted. bad when it ruins a night and after a drive. my charger has never worked propperly either, i just give it 12 hours now and hope that is ok.
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    get the sheep off, don't let the buggers back on until they have been dipped and keep the dipping regular to bring down the tick base population, there are places on the north yorks moors that haven't had a day this year and that is simply down to tick - weather has been as good as it would ever get for grouse, predetors at very low level, heather in good age ratios and well maintained but the tick population problem is perpetuated by not controlling the sheep gates and ensuring they are dipped regularly. damn sheep.
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    blame the bloody badgers.... injuries sound as though they could be stoat, wheasle or mink? seen a lot of pheasant polts have similar injuries from the american little t***s.
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    we do the rabbiting on a fairly large piece of ground and its pest control. tennent farmer complains = tells owner = tells keepers = they tell me and we get to work we have had nights of just shy of 300 and yes a lot of those get picked but it does take time and disturb the field - if there is no decent price from the game dealer on rabbits that week then fewwer get picked and visa versa. yes it seems a waste but i am there to do a job, it needs doing, and i want to get it done efficiently and without causing too much fuss - therefore i am quite happy to leave the deep in hedges/wo
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    serious scope - but also at serious money i'd love it but then again i would also like to be able to eat for the next 6 month. hope it finds a suitably sexy rifle to sit on top of
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