Consistently low numbers of rabbits this year

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

  On 28/12/2023 at 18:31, Luckee legs said:

It's difficult to be certain with RHD because the numbers just collapse and you don't see carcasses but I feel it's the main problem. I have in the past ferreted and shot on one farm and numbers always bounced back

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Definitely RHD ..we used to ferret and shoot a farm all year round in the Borders taking thousands but the next year you would think we hadn't even been they always bounced back.

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

  On 28/12/2023 at 16:58, Whoknows said:

Got to be honest though. There is little as fecking boring as pinging rabbits with a rifle and night vision 

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Fishing is much more boring

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

  On 28/12/2023 at 17:04, Daniel cain said:

Much prefer a session on the rats at night

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Much prefer but we dont have many

 

[brambles 3,311]

I'm quite fortunate got a couple nice pieces of land that hold good numbers of rabbit, and I only take them with lurchers and ferrets and never feel the need for to play the numbers game

Edited December 28, 2023 by brambles

[brambles 3,311]

  On 28/12/2023 at 19:01, FOXHUNTER said:

Fishing is much more boring

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No never, no when your getting specimens like this

Edited December 28, 2023 by brambles

[Black neck 16,308]

  On 28/12/2023 at 19:02, FOXHUNTER said:

Much prefer but we dont have many

 

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Fecking shot um all u c

[Black neck 16,308]

  On 28/12/2023 at 19:07, brambles said:

I'm quite fortunate got a couple nice pieces of land that hold good numbers of rabbit, and I only take them with lurchers and ferrets and never feel the need for to play the numbers game

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What sort of sandwiches shall I bring  

[brambles 3,311]

  On 29/12/2023 at 04:57, Black neck said:

What sort of sandwiches shall I bring  

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I'd need to ask for a reference off a mutual friend 

[saluki bouy 763]

  On 28/12/2023 at 19:00, FOXHUNTER said:

Definitely RHD ..we used to ferret and shoot a farm all year round in the Borders taking thousands but the next year you would think we hadn't even been they always bounced back.

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Farm near me I walked over the other day not a rabbit to be seen 15 years ago study by Edinburgh uni estimated 1 million rabbits 

bushing with a terrier and a whippet pointless here now there’s more roe than there is anything else so much so that there a pain in the arse 

[Penda 3,341]

  On 29/12/2023 at 04:57, Black neck said:

What sort of sandwiches shall I bring  

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Sausage bacon and egg will do mate il meet you there 

[Black neck 16,308]

  On 29/12/2023 at 06:29, brambles said:

I'd need to ask for a reference off a mutual friend 

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I'm fecked then

[Black neck 16,308]

  On 29/12/2023 at 06:53, Penda said:

Sausage bacon and egg will do mate il meet you there 

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Square slice

[jukel123 8,927]

  On 28/12/2023 at 19:16, brambles said:

No never, no when your getting specimens like this

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Nice salmon mate. You see the redness near the vent? It's a parasite which reduces fertility. It's not advisable to eat the flesh until its been deep frozen. 

Yet another problem for the species.

Cracking fish despite the vent infection...looks in good nick. Lots of salmon now look thin. Not enough feeding for them.

Take a big dog ferret to bolt that baby?

 

Edited December 29, 2023 by jukel123

[Black neck 16,308]

  On 29/12/2023 at 12:57, jukel123 said:

Nice salmon mate. You see the redness near the vent? It's a parasite which reduces fertility. It's not advisable to eat the flesh until its been deep frozen. 

Yet another problem for the species.

Cracking fish despite the vent infection...looks in good nick. Lots of salmon now look thin. Not enough feeding for them.

Take a big dog ferret to bolt that baby?

 

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Nah its bin bummed

[low plains drifter 10,805]

  On 29/12/2023 at 13:38, Black neck said:

Nah its bin bummed

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  On 29/12/2023 at 13:38, Black neck said:

Nah its bin bummed

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Oh fcuk you, you guinea cack sucker 

Oh fcuk you, you guinea cack sucker

You know? 

You know?