Another Good Days Work

[Rolfe 2]

Just returned from a steam rally where they have all sorts of old farm junk for sale and auction. I was looking for a "Spud Thistle" for Snareman.........But alas there was none to be found. What i did get though was.....Another lovely little small vermin gin trap.......in perfect condition, A Victor Conibear trap also in good nick, A hammer that would be useful for trapping (Not a true Trappers hammer though.....may be a flint knappers hammer) A fabulous old ratting and rabbiting book.....full of old recipies for mixing and making rat poisons all probably highly illegal now And last but not least...... a wonderful hand made 22 yard Hemp stop net......free of charge from my good friend Dick Hawkins...the master net maker. All the other bits were obtained for under £15.00........Another lucky day.

 

Rolfe.

[hound 1]

a nice little buy there. you carnt beat going to a farm junk say

[Guest traceyg]

well you little bargain hunter you early night with a good book eh cant beat it

[ianrob 2]

well done Rolfe, a good deal. I'll have to get out more.

[john b 38]

That book is a belter. The author is Guy. N. Smith who is most famous for his horror books but he wrote a number on ratting / rabbiting / gamekeeping after he moved to his shoot in the Black Mountains.

 

The bit about breasting a pigeon at the back was the first time I'd ever come across that method and was worth buying for that alone. The info is fairly well known though now.

[Rolfe 2]

That book is a belter. The author is Guy. N. Smith who is most famous for his horror books but he wrote a number on ratting / rabbiting / gamekeeping after he moved to his shoot in the Black Mountains.

 

The bit about breasting a pigeon at the back was the first time I'd ever come across that method and was worth buying for that alone. The info is fairly well known though now.

John do you know the "Greenhill" (i think that is the name) method of removing a pigeon breast with just bare hands and no knife involved? I use it all the time and can remove a breast from a pigeon in less than thirty seconds and it makes light work of a bag load of pigeons. If the procedure is carried out correctly you are left with the pigeon breast in one hand and the rest of the bird in the other to chuck in the bin.

 

Rolfe.

[The one 8,530]

That sure seem's like you got a bargin

[snareman 3]

That sure seem's like you got a bargin

rolfe, i found a small green booklet, in my shed on rabbit catching , with longnets, by young,s of misterton, do you want it .

[Rolfe 2]

That sure seem's like you got a bargin

rolfe, i found a small green booklet, in my shed on rabbit catching , with longnets, by young,s of misterton, do you want it .

Yes please mate.........that would be great........thanks.

[victor 10]

nice find.

[snareman 3]

That sure seem's like you got a bargin

rolfe, i found a small green booklet, in my shed on rabbit catching , with longnets, by young,s of misterton, do you want it .

Yes please mate.........that would be great........thanks.

remember and keep your glass eye polished up for that spud thistle , i,ll send it down this week.

[doga 50]

the hammer is pritty much a trappers hammer i used to have mine done out of old hammers smackin end nearly off and a beaten howe welded to it as is that one in the pic,nice little find that lot.

[mellors 0]

That book is a belter. The author is Guy. N. Smith who is most famous for his horror books but he wrote a number on ratting / rabbiting / gamekeeping after he moved to his shoot in the Black Mountains.

 

The bit about breasting a pigeon at the back was the first time I'd ever come across that method and was worth buying for that alone. The info is fairly well known though now.

 

Guy Smith used to live across the valley from me on the Black hill near Clun ,Shropshire,I never new the man but know he wrote other good books including hill shooting and upland gamekeeping,ferreting and trapping for amateur gamekeepers and gamekeeping and shooting for amateurs.

[Hob&Jill 258]

I found an old gin trap last week buried in a pile of rubble on the back a rotting old tractor trailer. Must have been there for years and years.