lancashireunter

Does anyone on here keep game cocks? Iv kept allsorts of poultry for years but have always wanted to keep some real gamecocks. I like the English types but was wondering if they had been ruined by show breeders as most serious cock men seem to keep indian types. There seems to be a right craze for aseels. They are a bit ugly but sell for hundreds of pounds and looking at pics they certainly dont seem to of been made into soppy show birds. Any advice would be most welcome. Many thanks, Ian

Id say its false, as you said it bleeds for a while and is all red and needs covering. Think I might get LOVE and HATE on my pit bulls knuckles!

Well do it then!! All hunts are still out there testing the law to the limit. Get to Wales this weekend and I'll show you some hunting, within the law of course!

Bury them under a row of runner beans. My dad used to control ferals on all the big railway stations in the UK, from Devon to Scotland for British rail (as well as all the foxes and rabbits, lucky ******) He would shoot a bag full over night then wait till a cargo/coal train passed through and throw the sack into/on top of one of the carridges. He often wondered how far his bags of dead birds travel and ended up.

Iv always had a yerning to work in Africa and iv got a contact out there on a game ranch, so next time I have an argument with our Peg, im GONE

They sometimes come up in poultry/cage bird auctions. Look in the back of shooting times and there are dozens of game farms.

Wot was he trying to do to this swan. Maybe it was the Queen, it is/was hers.

I have upto sixty traps set at a time and I never worry about wearing gloves or burying traps/hiding sent. I wear nitrile gloves to keep my hands clean but not for any other reason. Iv even set 10 traps that have been buried for a week plus ten with a squirt of aftershave on and ten with diesal on as an experiment. Results were all the same with no trap shyness with the smelly ones. Never buy cheap traps buy british made, they are about the same price, maybe a quid more but will last years. Cheap traps have weak springs and will lead to moles becoming nervous of the traps. I spent weeks gettin frustrated with poor results with a new batch of traps, until I saw a trap spring up while I was watching it, I half lifted the trap only to see the mole pull its head out and escape! One trap to avoid is a make of trap called the big cheese.

If youve only just started shooting dont stress about chokes. Shooting is partly down to confidence and if you start thinking maybe im going to miss cos iv got the wrong choke in then your making it more difficult to begin with. There will be plenty of people on here who can give you plenty of in depth info about chokes but for now if you want to improve get a couple of shooting lessons and work on getting the gun pointed where your aiming!

When we were kids we were digging out rats down the canal, we got side tracked by a wasps nest in the towpath banking. I struck a match and dropped it near one of holes they wre going in and out of. Unfortunatly the grass was very dry and the whole bank went up. We ran as fast as we could, when we got about half a mile away we heard the fire engines. When they got it under control it had burnt 3 fields of hay, a small newly planted wood and quarter of a mile of banking.

There are companies that skins and wings etc for fly tieing but the amount they pay is just so small, a couple of pence each maybe ,it just isnt worth drying them. Maybe if you could supply other items such as feathers and tails then market em yourself it might be better but not by much. I would surgest curing a few and giving em away just for the sake of utilizing what you trap, I swap feathers and skins for flies with a few fly tiers. Plumbers sometimes use them when soldering pipes I believe. I keep meaning to attempt making a waistcoat out of them.

Im a capable shot but when chasing stock worriers its not like shooting off a rest at a stationary target, iv shot from the back of a quad alot of times at a moving taget. Again im speaking in general aboutproven stock killers and not about the case in question.

Some strong opinions here and no wonder, we see our dogs as human and one of the family so I would be gutted and prob want to take out my anger on the guy, even more so as there isnt any evidence that it was worrying stock. BUT as someone who has worked on large sheep farms close to large towns and so have alot of experience of stock worrying I can see the other side of the argument. You cannot contain a stock worrier. Scare it off and it goes and kills elsewhere and will ALWAYS come back to where it killed before. 'Scare it off and follow it home' Get real youve no chance! We would only shoot a dog SEEN killing stock and Ive seen some horrible sights of dead and injurd stock especially at lambing time. After a dog is shot then it has to be reported to the police, the stock is always kept as proof and a bill for the stock, the bullets and staffs time is always sent to the dogs owner. Court procedings usually start and the the owner is forced to pay. As for dogs being more important than stock , I see owners of stock killers as the same as the people who steal my mole traps or poach a keepers birds, ie. irresponsibly taking peoples livelyhood. This is a terrible case and it seems wrong your dog was shot by a trigger happy farmer if it wasnt worrying stock. But you still havnt explained how it got out of the kennel?

Theres a number of boats fish out of liverpool, do a google search for liverpool charters. As already mentioned Gethins my way is a top boat and its an easy drive on good roads to get to Anglesey.

Do you think its just a poorly made/balenced gun, as some of them do seem to be expecting it and bracing themselves but it still kicks up. In my limited experience of big bore guns they have all tended to roll back into the shoulder but this seems to really flip up.

Im shocked at peoples comments that 'his sort always get away with it', he didnt do anything for ****s sake. 'His sort' have a right to pursue fieldsports in peace just like the rest of us. I grew up on a council estate and have hunted and shot with lords and celebs and have never found a snobby attitude from any of them in the field, no matter how the media tries to portray them.

Hello mate, There is quite a few members from chorley preston area. I go upto scotland to shoot the foreshore, I drive past preston so if you ever want a ride up let me know. Ian

119 miles is nothing for a days shooting! I know lads who live near Ribchester and are members of syndicates in Scotland. I often drive 120 miles just for evening flight!!

Why can you not shoot the field with the swans on? You dont have to shoot the swans!! Would of thought the farmer would want em moving on, forty is alot on one field of rape.

Remember that this was reported in the mirror, it was most prob an air gun! Im surprized they didnt imply that he was an arrogant toff just back from blasting pheasants. I remember a few years ago, I read in the mirror that Madonna was argueing with guy ritche about his pheasant shooting which she thought was cruel. When actualy the day before she had been on a shoot herself but not hit a bird all day, so the keeper had taken her into the wood and let her shoot one out of a tree!! Not the most reliable paper the mirror!!

I prefare 6's or 5's for pigeon. Was given a load of eley maximum in larger shot sizes years ago and found em great for ducks etc. no probs at all with em. Thats quite a large load of sevens isnt it? Give em a try.

Look what happend at Langholm. Birds of prey rise to a certain level, shooting grouse becomes uneconomical, keepers loose their jobs and homes (families homes) grouse not protected so grouse, waders, black game AND birds of prey all disapear. The RSPB and goverment refuse as usual to even consider the people who are responsible for manageing huge areas of upland areas. Until they realise that the people on the ground hold the key to raptor protection and agree to work with keepers and protect their jobs and homes, as well as hook beaks, no common ground will ever be found.

Was it defo a rook not a crow? Maybe it had caught the stoat not the other way round?

I think the problem with all the modern gadgets is people who only shoot pigeons at harvest time when decoying is at its least challenging use all the latest kit, magnets etc. and get the birds wise to them to soon. Birds at harvest time with a good number of young birds about, dropping in to the first cut field in the area, would decoy to a milk bottle but Ive seen people in this situation have two magnets set up. Its no wonder pigeons jink away from magnets later on in the year! If a large part of your shooting is on massive winter rape fields the consider a magnet but the rest of the year id recommend practising your field craft first and defo buy some floaters as a main part of your armoury.

You do know that whenever you get a new permission that its tradition to invite all the PW forum members down there for a day dont you?? lol.