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  1. thankyou fatchap I thought I was alone and going soft in the head for I too have been reluctant to go out and kill anything I have been finding all sorts of excuses to tell my shooting buddy lately to avoid going out except clays preferring to work my dogs instead I still take the gun but rarely fire it unless I want something for the ferrets I had to shoot a vixen last year that was hammering my chickens she leapt out of the hedge in my meadow and ran across in front of me in broad daylight and swiped a hen I was unarmed at the time she hammered my mate up the road and the lady across the lane and accounted for nearly 30 chicken from us my mate suffered most as he has lots of poultry she outwitted us severel times with her antics I once waited all afternoon and popped indoors to make a brew to carry back up the meadow the feathers were still floating in the air I had only been gone 5 or 6 mins when I finally caught up with her I walked over to her knelt beside her as she lay ther panting with a .22 in her chest I put my hand on her side she lifted her head and looked straight at me as if to say ok you got me then lay her head back down and died [ admired her brazen behaviour and felt sad having ended her career I am 61 now and find the older I get the less I want it perhaps it is an age thing I expect her offspring will be around this year eyeing up the chicken I hope they aint as smart as she was
  2. sent many rabbits spinning head over heels with records and a baikel single wish I could still get them would use them for everything [including stubble burning]
  3. also got an e mail excellent news well said 12gauge82 good posts concur with you all the way
  4. barney my springer billy and Charlie my smooth fox terriers previous dogs were tia and duke Belgian shepherds bobby jack russel jet lurcher fern and Dillon whippets and megan jack russel
  5. my area is not stoaty lucky to see one once a year my mate up the road hundred yards opened up his call ducks one morning last year and a stoat ran out the door way too big for a weasel but it had got thru a hole in one corner not much bigger than a 2 quid coin it had murderd all 9 call ducks almost decapitating them not seen one since but he got a brigade of rats to contend with
  6. I traded a mk38multi for an older3800 ex trap gun which has been teauged 1/4 an 3/8 fixed my shooting has improved and I am happy as larry with it
  7. thankyou for posting this info if they bring in a ban I will go back to the nv/.22lr combo was fixing to buy more fenns but think I may hold off for the time being
  8. thanks when and why are these becoming illegal I don't have a colony just noticed as I do every winter numbers increase a little so I thin them out a bit I keep a dozen chicken and live in the sticks surrounded by corn fields so always got a few rats around its country life they are always in good nick as the get good eats winter and summer my mate up he road on the next small holding is invaded by them but he got ducks an geese as well as chicken
  9. hi all I have never been one for trapping always preferring to wait with the nv on the .22 and give ratso the good news that way but but with work commitments and 4 30 am starts I am knackered in the evenings and don't feel much like going up the poultry pens waiting around in all weathers so I recently bought half dozen fenns and they have been catching well now they are starting to rust up abit and I was wondering if you trappers lube them up and if so what with as I don't want to use anything that will repel rats or will rust not matter thanks in advance for any tips cheers foxxer
  10. I did similar last year went into heart foundation shop and saw a Sherwood jacket in mint condition I thought as I picked it off the hanger and knowing my run of luck it probably wont fit me ........but it did like a glove and on closer inspection it looked almost flam new I chucked it on the counter and asked the lady to hold for five mins while I ran down the cashpoint it was £19 couldn't leave it there for that warm as toast on a cold day
  11. nice one agree with this thot an ex squaddie would be more tidy tho wouldn't ya
  12. no mate you are not alone all country folk I know detest wounding any critter
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