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Useful shaped knife. If it doesn't have a slight error somewhere it is not hand made.

Wish I was 30yrs younger, the journey to Devon would be a pleasure. Hope you find some good working homes for them. I knew someone with a GWP x Lab dog which was a killing machine, point, pick up, hunt all day brilliant dog. A good mix.

Can't count can you...three tree rats there and two of them hanging on the feeder, following morning. Will not have the camera there much longer anyway it served it's pirpose by proving the targets would be there. Two largish woods link up with this small copse and some big ancient trees, so I think this set up is going to be long term. We will see. Don't know where the second picture went ... weird as it was there earlier. Hah Hah!! There it is.... enjoy

Booked two in yesterday from a new spot. Got it all set up nicely adjacent to a pheasant feeding area.

Picked it from the post office today and it is perfect or the idea I have. If you want any sticks and are passing or fancy a day out give me a call. Could probably cut you a hundred hazel and ash, maybe a few blackthorns.

I can remember buying my first tank of petrol and I believe it was(old money) 3shillings and nine pence a gallon wuth Green Shield stamps. I might be a penny or two out. I also remember paying 27 new p a litre for my LPG .... maybe 12 yrs ago and it is now 75p. Also remember when Range Rovers cost £1172 brand spanking new How time seems to change things BUT as my old granny used to say, charity begins at home, if we don't look after ourseleves how can we help others. Too true.

Plus 1.

100%. By the way who's Ben Fogle ?

Almost all I speak to do not realise they are omnivores and will eat anything. I saw a photo some time ago of a tree rat with a field mouse in its paws tearing pieces out of it. That albino in the news this week did not help. Can't you hear them all....HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Bunch of numpties. Had a discussion with HO official once and he was ranting about controlling 50 cal for deer not being allowed.

Crawling with tree rats round there.

Frustrated at the moment as my computer has been re jigged..new hard drive and somewhere my guru has lost my normal picture handling program so i can't resize. Yes I know there are ways to do it but this was avery simple program. I have some photos of one new set up and within hours of me leaving the site There where pictures of tree rats feeding on the floor and in the trees. I really did not need the flip top there as the farmer tips his waste brushings in a pile alongside a pheasant feeder but every little helps. Cannot wait to get stuck into them. There is little doubt the law needs re drawing on badgers as the damage they are doing is very plain to see. I have at least a dozen bumble bee nests dug up in my 10 acre wood this year and although I had 18-20 hen pheasants in early spring I have not seen one poult. My trail cams always include three or four badgers hunting the wood every night.

Good. I had not seen the program and was going from the write up and report in the Telegraph a week ago. I have neighbours here who are having bird feeders wrecked with tree rats and I suggest they buy an air rifle or invite me round for tea

I use an adjustable (car jack) rifle rest and the front rest is simply a piece of large insulating foam over a slice of plywood. I rarely actually shoot of the front rest as I like to zero as I will be shooting with rifle rested in my hand. I have shot off and used various bags filled with a variety of material but the pea gravel sounds a good one.

We need to shoot tree rats to preserve a lot of other wildlife as well but I noticed Packaham never mentioned grey squirrel control or even badger control in his new initiative to save British Wildlife. Just set up two new flip top feeders on a new area and a camera on both. The first camera revealed three at once on the pheasant feeder beneath the flip top in just 24hrs. PROMISING!!! Two ran off from the other flip top as I went in to set the camera. I'll give them another 48hrs to get used to the hides etc., but looks like they couldn't care less anyway.

Hah!!! The only guy I know is about as far away as you can get ...Folkeston Engineering in Kent and of course these days very difficult to mail it. Have you tried the importer or even the manufacturer to supply you with an outlet? Great powder, I use it in my 410.

Great fun seeing some new ground for a start and even a small bag is welcome. Just set two squirrel flip tops on two new locations and in 24hrs on the camera I have at least three tree rats showing up, makings of, as you say, a great afternoon.

Pick it up from the post office tomorrow morning so will know if what I plan will be possible. It should be different thta's for sure.

I'm afraid if you do enough for long enough you will wound something whatever shot you take. Big thing these days for head shooting deer but I wonder if those who do had seen a fallow doe still alive with maggots crawling out of her tongue and broken bottom jaw would still do it. I have and have shot too many in similar circumstances to want to take that shot ever myself. Same with tree rats, as much as I hate them. I have to be confident the pellet will go where I intend or I do not shoot. I was on a duck shoot recently and one gun who I had clocked earlier as being a novice to the game was shooting at ducks close to if not exceeding 100yrds and one or two other guns commented. If your going to kill anything, then do it precisely, and with cold efficiency to ensure as fast a demise as possible. Personally on my tree rat set ups I am between 10 to 12 yrds from the target area and my rifle is zeroed for that distance. I just wait patiently until the target area presents itself and to be honest at that range I do not believe the tree rat will know the difference in make or weight of the pellet. Accuracy is what I am looking for.

I use 10.34 Heavy Exact Diablo in my TX200 and find they do the job very well, accurate and knock barn pigeons down no problem. I did use the lighter Exact but find the 10.34 seem to hit harder in the TX200 but of course it is also a bit about what your rifle enjoys. My squirrel shots are always head and most all pellets will do the job there, you just need to be able to put it on target. The 10,34s however do punch through and make a big hole.

Nice .......Excellent.

I use peanut butter with a goodly dose of mixed birdseed/chopped peanuts mixed in it and then pressed into the holes in a brick. I do this as a comeon maybe a week before shooting so they find it and get used to it being there. I did have one problem in that when I went to shoot it, as dusk came on the farm cat came and sat next to the bricks it had obviously found that rats used the bricks frequently. The 22 Webley Mossies do the job on both rats and tree rats no problem.

Nothing like that at all. Need to have it in my hand before I can be certain it will fit what I want to do with it. Should be a bit different.

Bit of a run for me but we have the Nationals just across the valley from us on 13/14 October, looks like being a big show and some quality ploughing. Country show as well. I enjoy watching the horses work.