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  1. greenman
    Alarms guns can be set whenever they are just a blank firing black powder cartridge or you can cut the shot off a live cartridge and fit that in if you have a sgc as they are cheaper. The new ones are designed so a live cartridge can't be fitted, this could easily be modified, bravado aside you won't be able to stop anyone nicking your dogs while your inside for setting a live cartridge in a gun, besides one day in a hurry you may forget it's there, I've done it with blanks which is bad enough. In my grandads day the keeper would take the end of a cartridge and pack it with wheat then set
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    I'd been getting a bit fed up of THL recently, my basic haunt of the lurcher section had become a shopping list for dog thieves and locked coursing topics. I've always had a catapult about, started with the old milbros and naturals which I've always copied the milbro style by drilling through and pulling the rubber through and holding in place with a bit of match or a length of nail. Used to use square rubber and shoe tongues for pouches, then moved on to ready made Barnett tubes although they always perished quicker than the square rubber. Been busy clearing wind blows after the sto
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    Rat Bite

    greenman replied to patterdale's topic in General Talk

    A fair few years ago my pal who's head keeper now but back then was a beat keeper had problems with feral cats on the rearing field panicking the partridge at night so they bundled in the corners. One morning he came onto the field to find a big tom hanging from the window of a shed which he proceeded to strangle to death. Now strangling an angry feral tom to death is harder than you think, his arms, chest and stomach looked like he'd been attacked with a hedge cutter! Needed stitches, ab's and still ended up with an infection! We still laugh about it now explaining to the triage nurse in a &a
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    Got to agree with that, My lurchers have always been from pups and always been with me till they dropped. In the past I'd taken on some older cockers and springers to either train for the owners or when people had given up on them and had made reasonable dogs out of them but the bond wasn't their, they never felt like 'my' dog. My old lurcher bitch is coming up 7 and been here since 6 weeks, we just know what each other is doing and very little needs to be said. My young bitch is an ulcer inducing twat, in time she will come good I'm sure, but I have a real bond with her I don't thin
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    Don't understand people slating the saluki cross I got her to use as an alrounder never had a lurcher with saluki in before. Yes she is hard work but smart as a button. Bitch will mark game in the hedge like a pointer, no fear of cover, had her beating a few times. Hardest lurcher I've had to train compared to the bull crosses and German shepherd cross I had before, but for prey drive and hunting ability both sight and scent she is right up there.
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    I could just put that one of Ronnie's ears up again they are the spit of each other. I'll get some up over Christmas. She's doing well, very testing on my patience, never had a coursing bred dog before, feels like having my first dog again, learning as I go. If it could shrug its shoulders it would! I am suppressing my overwhelming urge to rip one of its legs of and beat it to death with the soggy end as I know the bitches potential......
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    ok see what i can do over xmas . The press as it is will press 10/12 gallons a cheese the cheese is 14x14x4 inches x5 . The top of the press swings over and i start it off with a small scissor jack then on to a 5 ton bottle jack then a 20 ton bottle jack (although may cut out the 20 next year as it wasnt really worth it , it depends how many apples we get) the thing i will be looking at for next year is a new scratter as this was the hold up even though both my mrs and my mates mrs did a good job it needs one with a wooden roller and stainless steel screws not a disc and a blade as it is now .
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    Nice set up that oakey, any chance of a few more pics of the press and some rough dimensions! I am going to build my own this year ready for next season.
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    We all work our dogs for different reasons I guess. I never have or would break any law, I feel no more need to photograph what my dog catches for the pot as I do photographing what my wife buys from the shop to go with it. Is there any money in forums? I might start one called 'the shoplifting life' where people can post photos and generally drop themselves in the sh*t.
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    I have read this topic and until this comment had felt the sarcastic comments had been a bit harsh for what sounded a naive initial post. The comment is there much of a market for lurchers at the moment has changed my mind. Your dog is either a worker or a pet or like most on here both, not a commodity to be speculated on. Therefore in my opinion you are a twat naive or not.
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    I don't get a chance to go to that many gamefairs, but I really want to see a fight between a man in a leotard, a man in socks and sandals (can only be were the name came from) and a really out of breath lad beating them in less than two minutes!
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    Why won't he use full stops? If Aaron does meet socks and hot meat at a game fair and speaks without punctuation he will of passed out through lack of oxygen before he finishes telling them the extent of the thrashing they are about to receive.
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    Nelly, very similar to yours Ronnie. Biddable, hunts up a hedge like a spaniel, has had one rabbit out the hedge and a pheasant. Good with ferrets, did a days beating and steady then too. Retrieving is f**cking abysmal, but I'm hoping that will come with time and patience. This is my first saluki bred dog and I'm chuffed to bits so far. If that last pup that's being offered hadn't gone yet I'm amazed?
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    My bitch 'Nelly' would be just shy if 23" now. I'm over the moon with mine.
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    I agree you shouldn't take a risk, but why keep a dog or a ferret for a rabbit, works out cheaper to buy chicken from the supermarket? Puffballs and field mushrooms are superior to most shop brought ones (although farmed chestnuts mushrooms are close). I've tried a few different types under the guidance of someone who knew what they were doing. I have to say the taste doesn't make up for the slight fear of 'am I about to shit my insides out, fall into a coma and die?' feeling as I was chewing.
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    I believe the MFHA tried to offer coursing in exchange for being allowed to continue hunting? Never could understand why all the shooting lot went when one of the hunts arguments was if you ban us the foxes will be wounded by shooting and snares are cruel? The march was put out as a countryside march for rural housing, post offices, all field sports........ Bollocks the hunts just wanted us there to swell the numbers. It broke my heart when the ban came in but if you think the hunting fraternity will include lurcher work in any appeal you are very naive. Very little has changed for most hunts
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    And here's another of my 'kitchens' at work.
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    Here's a haunch of venison cooking on my 'oven' at home.
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    THIS IS JUST A GUESS FROM A GRAINY PHOTO ON AN IPHONE, DO NOT EAT THEM. The first one, does it have 'teeth' on the underside of the cap rather than gills? If so very possibly 'urchin of the woods' very nice cooked. JUST A GUESS FROM A PHOTO, DON'T EAT IT. Does the second one stain yellow if it bruises or breaks? Hard to tell from a photo but if so at best some people can eat it with no problem, some get guts ache and an unlucky number end up in a coma. Possibly 'Agaricus xanthodermus'. DO NOT EAT IT THIS IS A GUESS FROM A PHOTO. Last one could well be field mushroom if the frill
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    Sorry posted it twice.
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    Bit new to the area maybe? They do love a blackbirds fancy.
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    Cast iron kettle, frying pan and that grill are more important tools than my chainsaws, don't leave home without them!
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    Still clearing up wind blows near one of Hampshires finest chalk streams when this silly bugger leapt out the water and landed on the fire! Unfortunately the bailiff wasn't around to help save the poor bugger so made the best of a bad situation, Waste not want not.
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    I've just read the words 'go sit in the ming mong corner' and fired scalding hot tea out my nose. I assume as a result I should sit there too?
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    My old boss had the elements from the old electric hen pheasant brooders built into his raised beds so they slept on a warm floor. His kennels were spot on, dogs were still shit mind.
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