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    i think my lad has just picked it up. either that or he has got some grass seed in his lung. you can get a course of antibiotics which help but essentially it just runs its course over 2 or three weeks. the others will get it, its bloody catchy and they probably already have the been infected even if they haven't showed signs of it. don't run your dogs at all when they have it as it f*cks up their wind good and proper. i am certainly no expert and i am sure there are lads on here who will have a deep er knowledge but thatsa what i have been working on. on-point
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    sika sika sika....i'm going to the freezer now. bloody marverlous
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    well the thing was that i was working on the assuption that it had died of illness, and i was wanting to get on and it was blown up...so yes i left it. don't get me wrong they can be fine blown up but i didn't really want to be finding it had something dodgy and then me be up to my elbows in its blood and then up to my chin extreamly tender but possibly diseased venison. had enough of the sh*ts lately. it'll get eaten by something, and then i will probably try to run down that something later on in the year with my dog....circle of life. on-point
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    could have been but there are only bloody small moor roads (25 - 30 mph jobs) within a couple of miles. i suppose it could have been RTA but there weren't any obvious scrapes or cuts to be seen on my brief inspection. ah well, poor little bugger. on-point
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    i didn't have a camera with me so this is not going to be a very visual account but.... w as out last night and came through some spruce that have very little bottom to it and makes a very good silent pathway to a bank side i like to spy from. so there i was gently picking my way through when i thought i saw a fawn laying up. so i gingerly stalked up to it and realised that the poor bugger was dead. it was blown up a bit, stone cold but its coat hadn't flattened yet and the ground under it showed it hadn't been there long - i was guessing it either died that morning or the night before.
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    raynard = french for fox charles james fox was indeed a polititian as you say and everything else is right apart from him being a huntsman. quite the opposit, he introduced the equivelant of a private members bill to the common that would effectively restrict the hunting of foxes and accest to land by the hunts. everyone in the hunting world therfore thought that he was a t**t and so took great plaesure in nicknaming their quarry after him "charles, charlie etc" and ripping him up in covert in the winter months. who-woop on-point
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    i bought a kit from them, 170 lamp with a 20 amphour bat, shoulder carrier, chargers and spare bulbs - £135 in all, not cheep but its had a fair amount of work and never let me down. they're good kits but you are paying for what you get. on-point
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    if she's in kennel, get down to your local ag merchant and get a 5 kg sack of salt. mug of that on the run now and again combined with meths dip will get them hard sharpish. as she'll always be walking about in the thin layer of salt it'll draw the moisture out of the pads and harden thenm up just as she stands there. best to build the work up slowly and get as much road in as you can. just my thoughts on-point
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    anyone? there are a lot of folks on here who know a lot - would apriciate any help or guidance 0n-point
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    sorry all, been away. i'll try to borrow a camera to get some photos up. ploecats: 4 hobs, 3 jills albinos: 2 hobs, 1 jill
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    right, i was wondering if anyone could help. i'm off on holiday next week with a couple of mates to south west argyle. i have spun fro sea trout there before and caught a couple, also we vave set gill nets and done quite well from those althought the seaweed is almost prohibative. we do lots of lobster potting with limited success but i am interested by a thing i saw on tv the other day. it was a bloke (might have been one of theses chef types hugh fw or someone like that) and they set what was essentially a massive long nightline for bass etc. on a beach at low tide. baited with ragworms,
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    just got back from a nice productive walk with my hound and springer, ground sure as hell isn't too hard in n. yorks, silage fields with spray at every turn. i'd much rather run the lad on this than the frost and ice in winter, each to thier own though, on-point
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    as everyone else has said, and i've seen - there are a lot of rifles and bullets that have been shown to work on a great range of deer species. if ou are confident with your rifle and ammo, know its limitations and can shoot where you are aiming a .308 will be alright (doesn't if you butterfly the munty's head in the process). i would have gone .270 but thats just me i like it, i have a nice (in my opinion) one and at the end ot the day its has been shown to do the job over the range of stuff that we're talking about. having said that have been out with a bloke who has had the same range but o
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    mate, if somebody who has the authority to do so says that you are allowed to come to shoot deer on a piece of land you may do so. you only need the permission of the owner/holder of the stalking rights although it is more than wise to let everyone associated with the land know where and when you'll be. with regards to size, its more the way you use it i find. obviously if the bt of wood is the size of a ford ka, then you are not going to have much success, but it depends more on the deer stock in the area. that wasn't a very helpful reply but i hope its of some use on-point
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    bavarian mountain blood hounds are the future, i only have limited experience with them (a week with a mate in germany doing helping with a culling opperation on 3 estates) but they were brilliant. the ones i saw worked from 7 till 5 for 5 days out of 6, they pointed, marked, chased and pulled deer down when directed. the sence of smell is second to non: i saw one mark out the exact line in a wounded red deer the day after it was hit, take that line 7-800 yards, put up the hind, chase it for a hundred yards, pull it down and keep it pinned/ at bay until we got there to dispatch it . incredibl
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    i started taking my spaniel out with me about a year ago, he's normally wild as a hawk so i would leave him in the car as a back up incases something went wrong as he has a serious nose on him. anyway after the first few mornings and some success he twigged that while i was away these deer were getting shot and he quite fancied joining in. anyway he started to get into a habit of barking and whining when i left him; so i thought i would see if he would be alright coming with me. justincase i had him on a lead, he was ok but when we got into a stalk and i was about to take a shot i thought i be
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    hi there, our Jill had 10 kits which are now 7 weeks and need homes. mate of ours is taking 2, but the rest are to go, save mabey 1. from working parents, kits well handled, had free access to ferret food and had a rabbit a day since they started on meat. 7 polecats and 3 albinoes. i'll try to get some photos up but can't get them between my phone and the computer. PM for details, address number etc. on-point
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    you can certainly tell a dumped city fox once you get hounds behind them...pre ban we chopped four in an acre of gorse covert in feb...couldn't have happened if those foxes were local. a city fox in the middle of the countryside stands out a mile - simply doesn't have the local knowledge on-point
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    mine has had 10, there going if people are looking for some, workers, meat fed, kirkbymoorside, n. yorks - £10 or beer money or something. that makes: Total 49
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    thank you all for the replies. It seems 243 in UK is what 6,5x55 in Sweden . i wonder if you have no problem with bloodshot and spoiled meat? because these liltle high velocity calibers can spoil a lot of good venison if you hit them in wrong spot. i have turned to 8x57 for deer hunting with heavy rather blunt bullets at low velocity. regards dan_hunter you're not wrong about blood damage.i use a .243 win and tend towards head and neck shots because of this: being slightly off on the shoulder can leave a lot of damage. Also the chap who takes most of the deer off me tends
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    same as in my experience, pottasium permanernate mixxed with meths or surgical spirit, meths on its own also works but not quite as quickly on-point
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    going to try to make it on the sunday.... looks to be good weather, on-point
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    has it been in the kennel or in the house? also whats it like with other dogs? Cheers, on-point
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    just check its not been a tick bite, they seem to be out quite early this year. colouration on a bite like that if it were tick might be an indication of possible lyme's disease - knew a stalker in argyle who got it, not fun (little f****r bit him on his guishe) its probably not, and you'll probably know if you have been in an area with ticks about but it might be worth checking out. but then don't trust me i'm a yorkshireman not a sdding doctor afterall. on-point
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    duncombe park is a bit better than it was, i went last year and it was a god day out. worth a trip out if the weather is good, on-point
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