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    Laurel provides quick fix cover solution and is hardy and is evergreen - the birds like getting in under it and will roost happily in the branches when it gets a bit taller. Rhododendrons do the same but be careful about where you plant those as they will quickly take over before you know it, and the ground is bare and dark under them and the birds won't appreciate it too much. A mixture of structured coppicing and replanting will go a long way to help your woodland be don't try to do it all at once, these things take time. Some sunny spots within the woodland would help to create a su
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    VV yes the snares are of 7/7 cables, single strand wire is not very useful for snares IMO. Thanks for the tips - do you find that the smell of the spray paint lingers at all or does it wear off pretty quick? OTC
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    That is a fairly difficult question to reply to LL as it depends on so many things - soil type, size of existing woodland, acreage, permanency, what is there already etc etc. Give a little more information and I am sure that we can help you some how OTC
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    I agree totally with your post TBF but I also feel that it would be next to impossible to persuade the powers that be that a population regulation plan for those animals mentioned be employed. Despite categoric proof that the removal of badgers is directly linked to a dramatic reduction in cases of bovine tuberculosis the Ministry have never (publicly) admitted it. Who, for instance, would be able to direct which species, and how many per acre should be quota'd? I doubt that any one person or group would have the authority and non-biased opinion to do that properly. It would be a p
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    We could add to that our lunch breaks and perhaps a timetable of work for the week ahead so you will all know which coverts we are working in, our Land Rover reg numbers, and let you know if we are feeling a bit under the weather and won't be out on the ground at all . . . :ok: OTC
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    Thank you again Ian and the rest of the team. OTC
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    Thank you Ian OTC
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    I made some up yesterday and I have just hung them out on the shed to weather off until I need them. They cannot rust so it does no harm and takes the shine off the wires eventually. I have used brand new wires before and have caught foxes with them, but for these I ran a pinch of wet red clay along their length before I set them which did the same job. OTC
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    Jigsaw, It might be time to change your boxes for a top opening type and use good long strap hinges in brass to avoid any problems in the future. The hinges on some of my boxes have been on them for 20 odd years with no problems at all. OTC
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    Small pieces of pigeon breast on skewers with large mushrooms, tomatoes, onion and green peppers are also very nice - just brush with oil and get them on! Muntjac mini-steaks have to be the finest BBQ food though, my mouth is watering just thinking about them OTC
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    A cold frosty September dawn with the morning sun punching through the azure blue skies . . . And the smell of the earth after a summer thunderstorm . . . Priceless OTC
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    Start at the main food source, especially if there's water nearby and you shouldn't have to look too hard . . . OTC
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    That would be telling Gamekeepers are just Poachers on the other side of the hedge remember . . . OTC
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    Reared redlegs will use it well, especially in narrow strips on the headlands but not greys - they like an open sky above their heads. OTC
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    Maize, maize and more maize . Forget anything else. Nothing beats maize for holding pheasants. They feel comfortable in it, you can feed easily under it, they are protected from birds of prey and they flush well and not all at once. It is the answer to all of your needs, trust me ! OTC By the way - I would be up for a Gamekeeping area within the forum. Ian, Moddies - what do you think??
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    I have had a big cub in a larsen trap before and I have seen plenty of foxes go 'over the wire' of a release pen in my time (not many made it back over though . . . :whistle: ) so it seems fairly reasonable, especially at this time of year when they have hungry cubs in the earth - they will do anything and go anywhere for a meal for them. OTC
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    Thanks again to the lads who have PM'd me . Can anyone else help me out with any old traps? Anything considered OTC
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    There is absolutely no way that we could even begin to fight another conflict like the Falklands 1982, we simply do not have sufficent ships, men or firepower to do it anymore. The British Royal Navy and Royal Marines have been victim of cut after cut of Defence Budget spending to a point where the 'company' is virtually bankrupt. The 'Malvinas' was quite possibly the last true maritime based war that will ever be fought in conventional terms, certainly by British Forces. OTC
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    In a nutshell, the wax protects the trap from the ravages of rust and helps it to spring faster resulting in better catches. OTC
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    Great thread . . . and food for thought with educated comments from Ditch and Snareman. My question, that has possibly been asked before on here, is this . . . With all of the countless years of experience and knowledge of the members of this site up and down the land does someone not attempt to design and patent a new trap capable of doing the business? There was a mad rush of prototypes and inventions of the obscure and the downright impractical at the demise of the common gin trap in the 50's; why did that spirit and quest to create the perfect trap not continue, at least in s
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    The book was indeed called 'Pugs and Drummers' and was written by John Marchington. It was first published in 1978 (I think) and never re-published to the best of my knowledge. OTC
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    PM sent OTC
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    I have to admit that like most 'keepers of my time I used the Mk IV extensively for everything (rightly or wrongly) in the past, before I became clearer of the practicality and legal implications of its continued use against larger pests :whistle: :whistle: I also believe its action and efficiency does not transfer to the Mk 6 as easily. The Mk 6 is a 4 with longer jaws IMO and it is obvious that the power to size ratio is not the same. If Fenn (or Springer or whoever else) had designed or redesigned a trap that was bigger in every respect, like a perfectly scaled up model of the 4, the
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    I missed them too . . . OTC
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    Priceless
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