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I haven't heard a Cuckoo this year yet Geoff, but I'm on a place tomorrow that could have one. There's been one for the last few years there but last year it was only around for two weeks then it disappeared. Some folk have said they've been hearing them since february, but that's impossible. They must have been hearing a dove. Found a Dippers today.
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What was all that about, Lampard ripping his black armband off and nearly having a thrommy in the process as he kissed and squeezed it as he dropped to his knees? Was he expecting a response from it? Very theatrical and typical of modern day britain. Surely personal grief should be kept to just that...personal! It happens every day to ordinary people in the real world. He should mourn his mothers death privately.
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Cracking find Byron. I've just heard a Grasshopper Warbler "reeling" in some rushes. Couldn't see it though.
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Yes, I'd say so but back in the early 1900s.
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It's a good read Lonedigga. It's a novel based on the authors days out with foxhounds hunting the south east of the lakes. It puts you right there amongst the fells, crags and hounds. Others have tried to replicate the storyline...unsuccessfully!
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There's nothing wrong with using your ferrets to the rats, but be warned....they will get injured, and possibly killed, so think carefully before you enter them. There again, if you don't give a flying feck about them, you shouldn't have ferrets in the first place. Not all ferrets will enter to rats. Some, as they term it, "jib" at the hole when there's a rat present so remove them, they don't fancy it. Don't force them down the hole or into the situation where there's a rat. Others positively take the lid off their box to get at the rat, so let them have a go. Most rats, will get the hell "ou
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We had a litter of five last monday. Found the cubs first, after finding a few footings in the snow. We went back in the evening and got both dog and vixen with the rifle coming in to see their family. Fieldcraft it's called.
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That's a bad do' John and a rotten thing to do to ANYONE! I nearly got stung a year or two back when I put some books up for sale. The total for the books came to about £200 and this guy said he'd have the lot. Details were sent of where to send the books and he said the cheque was on its way. In the meantime I parcelled up the books, got a price for postage and intended to send them the next day and wait for the cheque to arrive. That's the type of person I am, trusting of every fecker. I held back with the posting and I'm glad I did...nowt arrived and claims were made that the cheque was, "
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LL, you're obviously an expert ....and I'm out of my depth!
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They carry the crypto decease, shit everywhere, are aggressive and eat large amounts of grass intended for my farmers sheep. Sometimes there's over a hundred or more grazing on the fields near to me. The farmers won't tolerate them round here, hence the governments sensible move to all year round control. I've been doing them for years, either shooting or at the time, under license, pricking the eggs. In my eyes and those of my farmers, they are a serious pest. Each to their own.
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Why wait LL, get 'em hit NOW. They're on the open ticket. I've just started "moving" them on near to me.
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You say that a couple of places have no cover etc...ask the landowner if you can plant your own. If you get the nod, get to work and lay your own cover. There's plenty of places selling quick growing cover, like Kale, Maize, Millet etc. It's great fun being able to get your own shoot up and running and gives you added responsability. You'll learn a fair bit too. Good luck.
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The best was when he pushed over that excuse for a man, Paul Alcock, who was refereeing the hammers versus Arsenal. And then Winterburn tries to get involved and does a massive swerve thinking Di Canio was going to clout him. Di Canio was only scratching his ear.
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to The Stiffmeister. At the end of the day, who gives a feck, 'cos they still get their thousands, win, lose or draw. It'll be somebody elses turn next week to cry into their beer.
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Feck all to do with the topic but...We could be here all night with this one Stiffy, but I'd say those three you mentioned would be worth one Denis Law or the left leg of George Best, or the big toe of the mighty Duncan Edwards.
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Baldie's from over that way....I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of his, he'd sell the steam off his piss. Tell you what, if it is Baldies, then someones going to get a real bargain 'cos he packs a cracking fart. :sick:
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Many of you planning to go to CLA this year?
cragman replied to SportingShooter's topic in General Talk
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That was excellent Jasper . Tyson is the only guy that made me sit up and watch heavyweight fights in the late eighties/early nineties. I've a video here with some great action on featuring some of the best around, including my boxing hero, Jack Dempsey...."Kings Of The Ring".
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what they are teaching our children in school about fox hunting
cragman replied to timjim's topic in General Talk
I've recently picked up a copy of an interview (on CD) given by an old Anthony Chapman, ex-huntsman of the Coniston F.H. He says that on many occasions when he was a kid most of the class would run out of school if they heard the hunt approaching, to follow hounds....and the teacher would go too as he was a keen follower! -
Feckin' hell Stabs, talk about leaving it to the last minute! Like has been said, lots of fluid, little and often...Food? Start carbo loading NOW, that is pasta, spuds, bananas and wholemeal bread etc. Light meal the night before and a stonking breakfast of muesli and honey on toast a couple of hours before. On the run, jelly babies are good for a quick fix, as are jaffa cakes, a handful of raisins, bananas again and after the run, take a good milkshake or some beef jerky (packed with protein) to help repair muscles etc. Failing that, take a bible with you and money for a taxi! I'll be doin
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what they are teaching our children in school about fox hunting
cragman replied to timjim's topic in General Talk
Feckin' hell, who'd want to be a kid these days...not me . I can remenber when my school report had a section on it called "Rural Studies" and although I was pretty good with a football and at P.E. "Rural Studies" was my thing. Academically speaking, I was a waste of time, but "Rural Studies"....ahh, those were the days. Those of us that prefered the outdoors used to conduct nature walks for the rest of the class because our teacher knew feck all and she admitted it. We used to have an "Interesting Table" at the back of the class and come monday morning it used to be full of old birds nests, -
I've been telling people about these kind of places for ages now. I do one on a Pennine route and have had some good tallys. The truckers and day trippers sit there flinging out their grub and if you just watch, you'll see Mr Rattus take the food. Inner city or industrial estate burger pitches are the same.
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Ricky, there are strict guidelines from DEFRA concerning the shooting of Cormorants. I'm a named shooter on a couple of waters that have trouble with Cormorants. It goes something like this...Contact DEFRA with your complaint, seeking advice. And then something like the following will happen. The person/club having trouble with Cormorants must show their loses, fish and financial wise. They must show when and how many birds are arriving, who will be shooting, (up to six named I think according to DEFRA) etc. It goes on and on. A visit might be needed to look at the site from the landowners and
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Bryan Ferry, father of Otis. Doesn't Jeremy Paxman shoot? Zac Dingle. That guy who played Martin Platt in corrie, he fishes.
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Roger Daltrey and Roger Taylor ex-Queen drummer are both into their fieldsports.