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  1. Edgar
    I think the bull barrel has a silencer incorperated. It probably sounds loud to you because you are firing the gun. Try getting someone else to fire the gun (obviously in a safe direction) while you are standing 25 yards away and it probably wont sound very loud at all. My HW 57 sounds fairly loud when you are firing it and yet you can't usually hear it from 50 yards away.
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    I have an HW 57 which is lighter than the HW 77 and has a different loading mechanism. Both are exelent guns.
  3. Edgar
    BSA lightening or super sport might be better, light enough for kids but good accurate guns. Bit more expensive though.
  4. Edgar

    funny signs

    Edgar replied to Wxm's topic in General Talk

    Very funny especially like the family planning, and the balls!
  5. Edgar
    Hi all. I have a question. What do you say if someone says your cruel or whatever for hunting? Do you just tell them to go away and mind their own buisness? or do you take the time to explain why you do what you are doing? even thought they probably wont listen? I usually try to explain to anyone why I am doing whatever it is. What are your views?
  6. Edgar
    Ferrets are prone to food poisoning especially botulism.
  7. Edgar
    If you have permission from the land owner to shoot them you can shoot the birds named under general licences. Rats, rabbits, hares, mice (exept dormice), grey squirels, mink, stoats and weasels. You can shoot game birds but always check with the land owner what he wants you to shoot. Permission need not be written but it is a good idea to carry this incase you are challenged. There is no law which says you may not shoot foxes, but don't as an air rifle is not powerful enough and would be inhumane.
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    I've been reading about different breeds and apparently the really big rabbits like flemish giants eat a lot more than the medium sized ones but don't convert their food into meat as well. So I'm going for medium sized ones. I'm building a wire floored run so they can eat the grass and they can also eat potatoe peelings, carrot top ect. Thanks for replies everyone.
  9. Edgar
    Chest shots are fine, but don't aim too far up as you could hit the crop which can stop a pellet if its full of grain.
  10. Edgar
    "I'm pleased with them having kept going for 3 and a half hours on only their second trip out but they were proper knackered at the end of it!" Watch because if they are tired lay ups are more likely. Well done 1 is better than no rabbits at all.
  11. Edgar
    I think the only difference is the colour of its fur but as already stated light coloured ferrets stand out in green/brown surroundings.
  12. Edgar
    Hi all, I would like some advice about keeping rabbits for meat. What breeds to get, where to get them from, breeding, housing, feeding. I have kept chickens, ducks and ferrets and make their houses myself but I don't know much about keeping rabbits for meat. The reason I want to is because there are fewer rabbits about now because of myxi so I don't like to hunt them too much until they recover. But I still want to have lots of rabbits for the table. Any help much appreciated.
  13. Edgar
    Depends what you want it for and how much money you want to spend on it.
  14. Edgar
    Read up on ferreting and talk to people who go ferrteting to find out what they do. A good book to get you started that explains keeping and working ferrets is "The ferret and ferreting guide" by Graham Welstead.
  15. Edgar
    I agree best to make your own, its ever so easy once you know how. You can make lots as you want them. I make the pegs from hazel ash or whatever which is free and the twines cheap enough. I make the rings myself too. I don't know off hand how much I spend to make each net but its a lot less than buying them and they are better than the cheap nylon nets and they don't tangle often either. Give it a go. Good clips on you tube to shows you how.
  16. Edgar
    Are they still quite young? My ferrets have calmed down a lot since they got a bit older they used to always be trying to get away. They now seem to enjoy being handled.
  17. Edgar
    I mostly feed mine rabbit, pigeon, corvids, chicken, pheasant, duck and fish and feed them dry food when I have no fresh meat, usually James Wellbeloved. This has the advantage of not attracting flies and not going bad but I wouldn't feed mine dry foods all the time. Apart from anything else wouldn't you get fed up of the same thing every day?
  18. Edgar
    Well worth the effort. Saves money and you can make much better nets than can be bought.
  19. Edgar
    Don't have a locator. But even if i did it could stop working.
  20. Edgar
    Don't know if it makes any difference as far as the numbers of rabbits bolting is concerned, but i think its sensible not to but a ferret to ground any later than 2pm because if your ferret lays up you want plenty of time to get it back before it gets dark.
  21. Edgar
    I never feed my ferrets rats. I read somewhere that 65% of wild brown rats carry leptospirosis which can be fatal to ferrets and humans.
  22. Edgar
    Yes I was planning to cover the cage with gorse or whatever to help keep the ferret warm. Anyway I hope I won't need to.
  23. Edgar
    Cut the toe off an old welly boot.
  24. Edgar
    Well I do seem to have asked a controversial question. The point was I simply can't afford a locator, can't afford to spend a couple of hundred pounds a hobby. I had already made up my mind I was going ferreting without one but wanted to hear what other people did. I can see a locator is definitely a handy piece of kit. But even a locator could break. And the ground can be almost impossible to dig even if you do know where it is. Why is the cage trap not going to work if I have to leave a ferret behind? I did go ferreting the other day, a small warren with seven holes. Caught 2 rabbits. Ve
  25. Edgar
    Well I
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