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Everything posted by yellowdog
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amber, ffs where have these people been looking. last week i counted over 70 between 2 canal bridges a distance of no more than half a mile According to what I see late spring here the Hen Harrier isn't faring too bad, The male did a fly by every day at 5-5:30 I might just have to rely on what other experts say of its status nationally though you saw one bird and you think it isn't faring too badly? If you'd have seen 70 then you are well within your rights to state that they must be doing well, but one? Sarcasm, my point is counts need a lot mo
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thanks for the reply lads, yellow dog i actually didnt know that they all had various rates of sinking! i dont no why but i just cant get my head around this fly line and leader business! ill get there tho! Put it this way with a 5# rod on a river for trout I should just stick with a floating line. The only great use for any sinker on these venues with a single handed rod is in fishing for lures deep for seatrout or large streamers during periods of flood for bigger browns in which case I should be using a 7-8# rod. Casting sinking lines is also a different skill r
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There is actually no best in foxing calibres I own and use a .243 win and a .22 hornet, different needs, different reason, different days, different venues and one is about the minimum one about the maximum. Perhaps the best all round fox gun is the .223 rem due to the fact that few can shoot reliably past its effective range. Fact is you cant kill them double dead or scare them to death with a big bang and a near miss. If your on a closed cert you might loose permissions waiting for clearances as most areas were deer are not or have not been shot tend to be classified as 22 cf by the cops on
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Lead me to the actual source please
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amber, ffs where have these people been looking. last week i counted over 70 between 2 canal bridges a distance of no more than half a mile According to what I see late spring here the Hen Harrier isn't faring too bad, The male did a fly by every day at 5-5:30 I might just have to rely on what other experts say of its status nationally though
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Who on earth has told you mallards are in decline. There's never been so many, and that goes for Greylag's too.The fact is that Mallards do need to be put on GL, they are everywhere and do not do the ecosystem any favours at all. and the fact that they're so god dammed tasty too I totally agree as a wildfowler this isn't about being able to murder grown ducks in summer its about egg spoiling
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Who on earth has told you mallards are in decline. There's never been so many, and that goes for Greylag's too. The fact is that Mallards do need to be put on GL, they are everywhere and do not do the ecosystem any favours at all. Common knowledge internationally and nationally from bird counts, all wildfowl are monitored and we have international commitments to do so every year. Greylag are locally abundant in a few areas, much work is being done to build numbers in others. Local GL has been done with other geese in the past as has been the case with
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Don't go near them. I had a run in with them over seat covers, mis-represented on spec and certainly not made on their farm in devon as claimed in their brochure (they were made in wolverhamton and dispatched from there) big issues getting a refund back even when promised. My goods were returned with only one bag opened and totally unused (oft got involved) . Spend your money elsewhere. The girl on the phone was really nice but obviously had lets just say "not a nice boss" behind the scenes.
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If you get hit by a brick thown at you might it hurt more than a pebble? That's kinetic energy! .22 WMR is "off memory" 340 ft lb an hmr 240 ft lb and a .22 lr with some ammo can reach between 160- 190 ft lb (hyper velocity). In all honesty I feel your wasting your money and I should wait that six months using you .22 or a shotgun at suitable ranges. .243 win is a lot of gun if you are not going out for deer with the same gun BTW and tends to kick up a fuss with the FEO with a newbie, you will also have more issues finding cleared land if your on a closed cert.
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You realise there are floating lines and various rates of sinking lines from neutral to hi-d but no such thing exists as a wet fly line (though there is a "wet cell" brand name). The line you need if your fishing rivers for trout (judging from your 4/5 outfit) is something like a wet cell 2 or a sink tip (indeed to save money just add a sinking poly leader to your floating line) this way you don't even need another reel or spool. I am however guessing your purpose here however if you take for instance fishing north country spiders (partridge and orange, snipe and purple, water
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The HMR is not a true foxing rifle (though can be employed just like the .22lr and even better the more powerfull .22 WMR), did you apply for a small centrefire for fox and get declined?
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You need some hand on mentoring here, so I am leaving the subject after this post. I was I admit being a little sarcastic about the clever bit, I thought you might twig onto the point I am about to make. The trick to training all dogs is to out-think them, it really isn't hard to outthink a 9 week old puppy that is basically has yet to develop true independent thought. Don't buy the junk and remember chews are not for 9week olds. It should be on regular feeds - just use them! chopped boiled egg, puppy food etc Kennel will them mean a nice feed and a good kip in a cosy warm
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It sounds like muscle / tendon damage to me, but the vet has seen it not me a pure amateur. I shouldn't exercise it or let it run around personally let alone work it and see what occurs over a good few weeks
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saw one in a program that was doing agility Is that the dog that tried to amputate its owners digit previously? They said it was a Jack Russel (it didn't look like a JRT to me mind)
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It gets worse than that, they want to allow the addling of mallard eggs on the open GL. (obviously they have been granting too many special licences for this) remember the Mallard is a declining national and international species, now we know the reason if council workers have been protecting the townie hoard from getting duck poop on their nice clean pink Nike trainers when out jogging! Greylag also are a proposal to add the the GL. Meanwhile Wildfowling clubs have just spent the last 50 years trying to re-establish a UK breeding stock, Geese live a long time and have to be fully mature befor
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Very true, especially if they run away. My friends daughter was bitten by a nasty ill tempered Bedlington (that the owner her close relitive still kept) it was only provoked by her going near ITS SOFA. I have tried many times to get her to near the Lab which is the best natured and safest dog I have ever owned, she will only look out the window at him though every time she comes over she says she will and talks endlessly about doing it. I think we as dog owners have more to answer for in not destroying suspect stock than the parents for passing on their nerves and fears t
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You have a point but a dog has a golden window of socialisation from 8-13wks (after this period it becomes far less moldable). The dog stays in the gamebag and its not in contact with other dogs, the floor or lampposts. I accept the risk because it works a treat. Socialisation replaces what a dog is programed genetically to do in its early life off the bitch within a pack. At the end of the day a puppy could pick up nasties off your shoes that have walked the streets, so a few old dears and kids giving it a tickle in the game bag is no biggie in my opinion
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Believe in what you are doing go to the kennel at feeding times and feed it in their with the command "kennel" the dog if it is clever as you say should belt in there (at first do this without shutting the door and trapping it till it gains confidence ie let it come out again). After a few weeks or months the dog should run to its kennel when you say in an exited way "kennel" believe in it and it will happen only you will be able to shut the door and cut the feeds down to treats in its bowl as it moves towards less and larger feeds
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Side by side box lock non eject, make sure its tight on the face when the forend is removed and you waggle it grasping both the wrist of the stock and the barrels (no movement is what your feeling for), then look so see if it has been shimmed to just look tight. barrel with good clean bores lacking pits, no cracks or splits in the stock, both pins in good order and round (fire them onto a coin and check the dents) be very choosy choosy £150 tops should find you a nice one. Spanish made AYA yoman, Zabala etc. baikels are ok but lack some of the quality of the little shot Spanish guns of the 70
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Lapua are my personal favourite now sold as SK and production moved to Germany I think, just that the OP never mentioned them in as a possible they can be also be a bit on the pricey side
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RWS in the subsonic are slower than most but offer very good accuracy in most guns and the speed only makes a difference of say 2" extra drop at 100 yards from say a 50 yard zero over slightly faster subs
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I suppose that depends on your garden and its location, although legal as long as nothing leaves your boundary, if it does even by accident you commit an offence. Most I know in town don't bother in view of neighbours and just attend their club ground. You will generally get lots of help and advice at a club anyhow
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At What Age Is Do You Stop Running Your Dogs.?
yellowdog replied to Dranny GLC's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
and the alternative is to what, retire it in home and watch it go down hill, sorry but ive done that and will never do it again, when he can no longer do it or in pain i will take him out to do what he loves and bury him where he has spent the greater part of his life. im not one for taking them to a vets and putting them through that stress, I think you might have missed the bit were I stated "no longer did she want to" PTS and retiring a dog from full on work are very, very different things. I don't view a dog as purely a tool, in pain or suffering beyond that which I can control PTS, ba -
If truth be known I bet not a greater than half of todays owners get a good std of retrieve and delivery from their lurchers or frankly care so how might they advise? I doubt its the fault of the website
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Thanks very much for the reply. She is getting a lot of 'socialising' through the day. She would sit in the middle of my garage door all day if we didn't have to leave the house at all, mention 'bed', whoooosh! Obviously a bright dog, try not saying it then? Not sure on your set up here with your mention of the garage door etc. This can have a big bearing on things, if you shut a dog in a garage attached to your house while people wander about and chatted etc. through the wall then I should expect trouble. An outside kennel were it can smell the smells and here and see the birds, inse
