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I was reading a write up on Countryman's Weekly about hoop ferret nets and was wondering if anyone has tried them? I wanted to make a few up but don't know what he had used to make the hoop with. They were saying a few rabbits can hit the net without having to change the net as soon as they hit and you can put them on the entrance of brambles and hedges where a regular net would get hung up. Most the places I am ferreting I have to spend a good deal of time hacking back bran=mbles before trying to set nets and these sound perfect for me. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

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I was reading a write up on Countryman's Weekly about hoop ferret nets and was wondering if anyone has tried them? I wanted to make a few up but don't know what he had used to make the hoop with. They were saying a few rabbits can hit the net without having to change the net as soon as they hit and you can put them on the entrance of brambles and hedges where a regular net would get hung up. Most the places I am ferreting I have to spend a good deal of time hacking back bran=mbles before trying to set nets and these sound perfect for me. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

used them and been successful,one occasion 2 rabbits bolted,with a purse net one would have got away with the hoop we got both

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I was reading a write up on Countryman's Weekly about hoop ferret nets and was wondering if anyone has tried them? I wanted to make a few up but don't know what he had used to make the hoop with. They were saying a few rabbits can hit the net without having to change the net as soon as they hit and you can put them on the entrance of brambles and hedges where a regular net would get hung up. Most the places I am ferreting I have to spend a good deal of time hacking back bran=mbles before trying to set nets and these sound perfect for me. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

used them and been successful,one occasion 2 rabbits bolted,with a purse net one would have got away with the hoop we got both

 

 

beat me to it :laugh: get a pic u :victory:

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I was reading a write up on Countryman's Weekly about hoop ferret nets and was wondering if anyone has tried them? I wanted to make a few up but don't know what he had used to make the hoop with. They were saying a few rabbits can hit the net without having to change the net as soon as they hit and you can put them on the entrance of brambles and hedges where a regular net would get hung up. Most the places I am ferreting I have to spend a good deal of time hacking back bran=mbles before trying to set nets and these sound perfect for me. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

used them and been successful,one occasion 2 rabbits bolted,with a purse net one would have got away with the hoop we got both

 

Did you make them yourself and if so what did you use as the hoop? All I could find close to it was wire for pop up tents.

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I was reading a write up on Countryman's Weekly about hoop ferret nets and was wondering if anyone has tried them? I wanted to make a few up but don't know what he had used to make the hoop with. They were saying a few rabbits can hit the net without having to change the net as soon as they hit and you can put them on the entrance of brambles and hedges where a regular net would get hung up. Most the places I am ferreting I have to spend a good deal of time hacking back bran=mbles before trying to set nets and these sound perfect for me. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

used them and been successful,one occasion 2 rabbits bolted,with a purse net one would have got away with the hoop we got both

 

 

beat me to it :laugh: get a pic u :victory:

ive no got any pics,theres pics a them in cmw but they are handy things...lad gave us them to trial them out see if they where anygood before he made more....dont go in your pocket like a pursenet but there handy things that work a treat
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I was reading a write up on Countryman's Weekly about hoop ferret nets and was wondering if anyone has tried them? I wanted to make a few up but don't know what he had used to make the hoop with. They were saying a few rabbits can hit the net without having to change the net as soon as they hit and you can put them on the entrance of brambles and hedges where a regular net would get hung up. Most the places I am ferreting I have to spend a good deal of time hacking back bran=mbles before trying to set nets and these sound perfect for me. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

used them and been successful,one occasion 2 rabbits bolted,with a purse net one would have got away with the hoop we got both

 

 

beat me to it :laugh: get a pic u :victory:

ive no got any pics,theres pics a them in cmw but they are handy things...lad gave us them to trial them out see if they where anygood before he made more....dont go in your pocket like a pursenet but there handy things that work a treat

 

Do you know how to get in touch with him, I've been searching the interweb with no sucess :cray:

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I was reading a write up on Countryman's Weekly about hoop ferret nets and was wondering if anyone has tried them? I wanted to make a few up but don't know what he had used to make the hoop with. They were saying a few rabbits can hit the net without having to change the net as soon as they hit and you can put them on the entrance of brambles and hedges where a regular net would get hung up. Most the places I am ferreting I have to spend a good deal of time hacking back bran=mbles before trying to set nets and these sound perfect for me. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

used them and been successful,one occasion 2 rabbits bolted,with a purse net one would have got away with the hoop we got both

 

 

beat me to it :laugh: get a pic u :victory:

ive no got any pics,theres pics a them in cmw but they are handy things...lad gave us them to trial them out see if they where anygood before he made more....dont go in your pocket like a pursenet but there handy things that work a treat

 

Do you know how to get in touch with him, I've been searching the interweb with no sucess :cray:

im seeing my mate at the weekend ill try sort some details for ye mate
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easy to make or just use an old fishing keep net :laugh: you can make hoops as win says out of fence straining wire if you cover the hoop with chicken wire and hinge them there good for stopping rabbits bolting hole to hole, use to do it when i was flying bop years ago,

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you could make them with fencing wire and have like big u nails to fix them to ground made of fencing wire to about 4inch long the pegs

easy to make or just use an old fishing keep net :laugh: you can make hoops as win says out of fence straining wire if you cover the hoop with chicken wire and hinge them there good for stopping rabbits bolting hole to hole, use to do it when i was flying bop years ago,

 

How do you attach the two ends of the fence wire? And what do you use for the net?

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you could make them with fencing wire and have like big u nails to fix them to ground made of fencing wire to about 4inch long the pegs

easy to make or just use an old fishing keep net :laugh: you can make hoops as win says out of fence straining wire if you cover the hoop with chicken wire and hinge them there good for stopping rabbits bolting hole to hole, use to do it when i was flying bop years ago,

 

How do you attach the two ends of the fence wire? And what do you use for the net?

you bend the ends into a loop then bend another piece of wire into a u shape then pass the u through the loops to make a hinge the ends of the u shape are the pushed into the ground, i didnt use nets i covered the hoop in chicken wire so it was used like a one way lid to stop rabbits hole hopping but you could attach a net.
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