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    horses for courses. i have a lightforce 170 with 17 Ahr bat - lov it to pieces although it will blow fuses given any chance - i capped that though by replacing the fuse with a spent .17hmr case which is fine but you have to keep an eye on how long you have it on for i think. the clulite is very useful if you are doing more covert lamping as the lamp fits nicely into a coat pocket and with battery underneath you only look like a fairly dodgy bloke walking your dog in the middle of the night. i would stick with my 170 though, light up the other side of a field like midday. others wi
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    i talked to BBB on here and he said to get some stuff from a taxidermy firm on ebay called liquitan - apparently its magic but i haven't got around to getting any yet on-point
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    my dad has a H&H .244 mag the round for which is essentially a necked down .308 win case. they only made these for a few years as a few saudi princes and hugarian bearded boar bashes accidentally put the .308 rounds in, they slid home, pulled trigger and got the best part of a hand crafted bolt and action in their face. H&H realised they were killing too many folk so stopped making them......but all the Ammo i have used with that is in exatly the same style and type of boxing and will prob be from around then. i have dropped red,roe, sika, fallow, boar etc with it and nothing has e
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    i'm riding out horse to get them fit at the moment and my dog come and does 2 lots a morning, thats 2 - 2 1/2 hours of walking, trotting (around 8 miles) on tracks, stubbles and roads - keeps the dog happy, gives me someone to talk to and is getting him hard fit - perfect. jogging 2 miles is not going to do any harm and it will bring him up a lot better than just going on walks on-point
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    mate there is a propper beating forum where a lot of keepers get spare beaters if they are short. having said that the keeping section of this site seems fairly active so you might do well.
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    keats make and ave made all of the english type horns for a century and a half or something like that. they are very good and seem to be the "industry" choice by preference:- but they will set you back a bit ( i would have thought their cheapest new horn would take the lions share of £120) avoid the shit you see on ebay like the plague - they are the occasional real on but most is spun cheepo stuff that sounds terrible. if possible you want to ask to try a few before you buy one and don't let them convince you that you can do that in the car park - get out into a valley and have
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    surely just click on the ad on the top right of your screen....
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    right, because our kitchen scales are like something from gosforth park (old and knackered) i have had to go down to the post office. only the local one so i just waited until there was no one about and asked if i could wiegh it...thank you sarah but i doubt if you are on here... it came to 0.499 KG that is just whats seen in the photo does that make it any clearer? whats the actual procedure for working out the marks/points? cheers
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    cage traps, boxes, signs, vets and word of mouth (poss talk to any local gamekeepers etc). unfortunately thats about all you can do really. last year i had one escape. thought it was goner after a week. eventually one sunday i got a call from a farmer 3 1/2 miles away that he had found a ferret under his chicken shed and was it mine. i get down there and it was indeed out polecat looking very thin and sorry for its self but that was afte a month and a half, it had crossed 2 deep valleys, 2 rivers 3 small roads and a main road minimum to get there, glad to see him back though. hope it
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    look back through the topic in ferreting i asked the same question a couple of weeks ago....opinions vary as they always do but it basically boils down to: when you think they are strong and old enough to put up with getting knocked about by a bunny in a stop end. if they are confident and strong then have a go on an easy hole in the open. its not worth frightening them though as they then take longer to enter on-point
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    Broody Hen

    on-point replied to shepp's topic in General Talk

    we've always soaked their arses in cold water and then locked them in a rabbit/ferret hutch for a couple of days/week. always seems to work here, on-point
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    i went for a day with them last season, johnny greenall was still hunting hounds and they ran like hot snot, certainly worth a look i would have said, they have some very nice country. on-point
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    i wouldn't be able to say, i haven't got a decent spring ballance and there is some trik to dipping it in water isn't there - saw a bloke doing it at a game fair once. if anyone can tell me how to i would love to be able to find out it it was a medal. remmy - this was out galphy way - close to studley royal - but NO it wasn't in the deer park at night with a lamp and a couple of dogs. on-point
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    kind all, he is learning the nack pretty sharp, went out last night to the field in front of my house for ten minutes with a lamp. slipped him on a 4 rabbits and he had 2 of them - difficult as it was wet and they had not come very far into the field. best thing was on the last two he went down the right hand side of the beam - trotted down and then rocketed the last few yards - i'll be chuffed if he keeps that up. i'm capped to bits. although he is currently chewwing my foot which isn't so great. ah well on-point
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    and some more....
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    just thought i would put on some photos of the the Red - 15 month Collie x Greyhound. photos are a bit art and gay but thats because the sister took them on this fancy new camera, he is pretty sharp on rabbits in the open, bolted by ferret and on lamp( he's only been out a few times but did a hell of a lot better than i thought a young dog would). there have been a number of accidents however and i regret to have to say that a number of hares have come a cropper. damn shame and unintentional. anyway he's getting on grand with me and we'll have fun once we get some corn lifted.
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    At long last i have managed to get the camera working and all linked up to the laptop and everything and can now pick your brains, if i may. at the opening of the bucks this year, must have been first week in april but the exact date i can't remember, i was stalking on a friend's spot over ripon way. we went for a long old hike about and evetually came to a set of hay field on the edge of a piece of woodland. i spyed a young buck at the far end of the field looking intently down and to my left. He got very angry, barking walking away a bit, barking and walking away a bit and then galloped
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    good haul, shame about the battery....i think i might get mine topped up now and have a walk out this evening, i'm all in the mood now despite this sodding weather....f**k late harvests on-point
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    decent downpour before hand and then a warm bright morning with a decent wind, branches drip and move the deer out into the field. well thats what i hope for anyway but as has been said horses for courses and i don't think it would make a vast amount of difference just makes it a little easier sometimes, but then no one said that it was meant to be easy and if it was we wouldn't enjoy it as much. on-point
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    i've got the same scope 3-9 x 50 on my .17hmr. love it to bits but it gets knocked quite easily, perhaps i'm too rough with it....i get excited and carried away in the rush to get the cross hairs up sometimes. good scope though. on-point
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    Really sorry as this has prob been discussed before but i notice that there is quite a lot of variation in the entering ages that the books give. i can't remember what age ours were when we first started to work them. thing is we've had some kits which have now all gone (save one) thank god, and i was wondering... when do you start them? i realise it depends on the litter and how outward the strain are but about when on-point
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    i don't know why we seem to get the odd blind one, must either be a disease related thing or part of the genetic make up in the local population. infact i woulod love to know from some of the pros what makes deer go blind, why its generally only one eye (although i have seen cloudiness in both before) and if it affects them a lot (as i have shot a roe that was old old that had a blind eye). any help would be great on-point
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