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ive lost two when i was younger :icon_redface: one was on a old railway the jill went in and never came out i left a fresh killed rabbit in one hole and blocked them think i read to do that somewhere . i went back the next day and charlie had dug the rabbit out and opend the hole i went back every nite after school looking for a week but never got her back the otheer was when i ratting on a stream and it never showed i waited then went to get my dad while i was away my mate decided he would try and trace the hole back and totaly fecked everything up :icon_redface: that one realy upset me because it was preventable and she was a cracking little jill we tried are best but in the end even my dad and his mate couldnt find her both wouldnt of happened with a coller

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Yes mate bang on, nice to get a thread without the bickering but others seeing other peoples ways and not jumping on them for being different in their approach.

I'm very similar in that I have never lost a ferret so far, but as a kid I spent hours someday just waiting and hoping. Sometimes I used a liner, but mostly, just the wait.   Locaters...............

Man after my own heart there rake, they are more than just a ferret, only when you have done a lot of digging to them, then you realise the hazards they face under the sod. Cheers for the honest reply

Great kit in some senses, but lets not lie, they are an over priced piece of badly made shit :laugh: I'm f*****g sick of trying to figure out why its not working, and you KNOW if it says 4 foot, it's either 3, or 5, never fecking 4!

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Whin how come you,re spelling is great in the morning and gets worse as the day goes on? Lol.

Nice to hear of the effort put in to find the lost ones guys. And yep locaters are stupidly expensive for what they are, but cheap if you value the ferret, and the size of the bag you can get with them.

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very handy piece of kit and when i done rabbiting serously on some big hill land in scotland very good piece of kit dug 2 3 4 5 6 out of stop ends and shallow warrens with good strong dog ferets who lived for it , i still use old mark 1 or 2

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Whin how come you,re spelling is great in the morning and gets worse as the day goes on? Lol.

Nice to hear of the effort put in to find the lost ones guys. And yep locaters are stupidly expensive for what they are, but cheap if you value the ferret, and the size of the bag you can get with them.

IMO its got nothing to do with if you value your ferret, my ferts are cared for really,really well. Not using a locator dosen't make me think any less of my ferts, accidents happen even with locators fitted, like I said earlier what if your fert went off the box and was lost, you've not only lost your fert but £60 of collar aswell.

 

Theres many positives to using them thats a given, but at £200 for a locator and 1 collar also very expensive. :thumbs:

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bought my last grey box of shamus on here another fellow dog man with collar for fifty quid and had 2 spare collars i had bought of another guy with box for fifty quid to so handy at times but one day ille maybe have to get that stupis niosy orange thing

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Whin how come you,re spelling is great in the morning and gets worse as the day goes on? Lol.

Nice to hear of the effort put in to find the lost ones guys. And yep locaters are stupidly expensive for what they are, but cheap if you value the ferret, and the size of the bag you can get with them.

IMO its got nothing to do with if you value your ferret, my ferts are cared for really,really well. Not using a locator dosen't make me think any less of my ferts, accidents happen even with locators fitted, like I said earlier what if your fert went off the box and was lost, you've not only lost your fert but £60 of collar aswell.

 

Theres many positives to using them thats a given, but at £200 for a locator and 1 collar also very expensive. :thumbs:

 

Think if it is at the max on an 8ft box then its probably way too much for most to dig out, even i would leave it 20 mins or so before i started with the blade at that deprh lol.

Yep cannot deny they are overpriced, badly made tat. ( apart from the mk 1's.).

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Whin how come you,re spelling is great in the morning and gets worse as the day goes on? Lol.

Nice to hear of the effort put in to find the lost ones guys. And yep locaters are stupidly expensive for what they are, but cheap if you value the ferret, and the size of the bag you can get with them.

IMO its got nothing to do with if you value your ferret, my ferts are cared for really,really well. Not using a locator dosen't make me think any less of my ferts, accidents happen even with locators fitted, like I said earlier what if your fert went off the box and was lost, you've not only lost your fert but £60 of collar aswell.

 

Theres many positives to using them thats a given, but at £200 for a locator and 1 collar also very expensive. :thumbs:

 

Think if it is at the max on an 8ft box then its probably way too much for most to dig out, even i would leave it 20 mins or so before i started with the blade at that deprh lol.

Yep cannot deny they are overpriced, badly made tat. ( apart from the mk 1's.).

If I could afford one I'd buy one in an heartbeat to be honest if purely for not leaving dead rabbits down warrens, its just with young kids and being out of work theres things that are more important. :thumbs:

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I do like my collars at times, if i'm on my own at a big set, in the woods, especially in the early season with all the cover still about, it's nice to know the ferret is still to ground, and roughly where she might be.

 

But even with locators we always seem to find places where you are f****d for digging, either off the box, or in such a place where digging isnt an option.

 

And johnny is just bitter cos the one time we put the colars on his jiills, we had to dig a man sized hole through rock on the side of a mountain, to two collars stuck on some submerged metal. We dug through a fecking car. And only got one collar back. :laugh:

 

Not everyone ferrets in fields.

 

However, you cant beat it when knowing you ferret is stuck to ground in a wee bank, you whip out the spade and dig through 2 ft or less of soft soil, to pull out two rabbits in five mins, rather than a 20 min wait and no bunnies.

 

But if you think about it and you were smart, in that situation (and with a good dog), might you have figured out where to dig anyway? :hmm:

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