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My eldest son Dylan and I headed out for a couple of hours with the ferrets and the lurcher today, the ground was still hard after the

recent frosts and there was also a light covering of snow on it which fell during the night.

 

The first hole we done was a single in the middle of a gorse bush.

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Dylan entered the albino jill and heard a rumble soon after, 10 minutes later and I got the locator box out and got a reading of 4ft so we decided to wait a bit longer.

 

 

I took the polecat jill and netted up some nearby holes leaving Dylan to wait on the Albino.

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I got one rabbit out of this bury.

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Eventually the albino jill resurfaced and we moved on to a hedgeline, not the nicest bit in the world to net.

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I entered the albino jill and a rabbit bolted instantly but the net didn't hold it, it crossed the lane went through the other hedge and was gone.:doh: Not long after another rabbit bolted, rolled in the net and again was off and running, thankfully it wasn't me who set those nets.:hmm:

 

 

We moved further along the hedgeline and got the nets set again.

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Both jills were used and it wasn't long before there was a rumble and then a rabbit pursed the net and this time Dylan got to it a bit

sharper.

 

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As Dylan was dealing with the netted rabbit we could hear another one rattling about underground.

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This rabbit wasn't keen on bolting but eventually the Jill forced it out only for the net to hank on a root and again the rabbit was away.:o

 

We then decided to move away from the hedgeline and do the ditch in the field.

 

Get up.

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I'm telling you there's something in here.:D

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We got the nets on and stood back.

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It wasn't long untill we heard the noise that told us the ferret had found, 10 minutes later and with nothing happening except bumping I put the albino down and got a reading at 2ft. Out with the spade and just as I broke through a rabbit pursed the net behind me. I checked the hole i'd dug and the polecat jill had a rabbit bottled up in a stop end which I extracted.

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As I was doing this we heard another rabbit rumbling about underground and a few seconds later another rabbit was netted and the albino jill followed it out.

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We ended up with 5 rabbits but it could,ve been more.

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