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I've had St George's mushrooms before, and they were very nice indeed.
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I'm just round the corner, try sending lee kinsman a msg, he has some good stuff a few pages in, sure he will be able to help or know someone who can.
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46 minutes ago, bruno22rf said:
Normally used "U" drills on the CNC's but I learned early on in my engineering days how to sharpen twist drills to cut to size/over-size or like a reamer or specifically to cut Brass, Aluminium etc - just a knack I guess but I ended up doing just about everybody's drills in the factory. Year ago now since I ran my last 2 - Colchester's with Fanuc operating systems.
I'm stood here working hard
on a twin spindle twin turret nakamura tome fanuc controlled lathe, and udrills are why my grinding is pants, plus someone such as yourself got paid ot for grinding drills, these days they get sent out.
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1 hour ago, ClemFandango said:
I've never controlled squirrels in an area that has also had reds so I can't speak from experience there.
If I wanted to have fun, I'd shoot. If I want to kill serious numbers I trap.
There's no reason why you can't do both at the same time though.
The fact that you have shot more than you've trapped in itself isn't really proof of anything, is that covering a similar area? similar amount of man hours per animal? similar cost of ammo V traps? Are your shooting and trapping techniques equally as efficient?
Last year I trapped far and away more squirrels than I shot.
The majority of my squirrels last year were taken from my garden, anything that was shot which was most, had ignored the one trap i had out, but this year the few squirrels I've had in the garden have been trapped, this has drawn them in from a decent area of public land, you don't need access to a full wood to make a difference.
I agree that both trapping and shooting work well together and both are fun but it comes down to time and access.
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2 hours ago, Sciurus said:
Mice, I agree it is very time consuming, I don’t know how you do so much and work as well. As a volunteer for Westmorland Red Squirrels, it is noticeable that the great majority of volunteer trappers are all retired. It is generally accepted that the legal requirement is to check traps daily however RSNE recommend twice daily. Like Formby, we encourage householders (particularly those near to sensitive sites) to take a trap and monitor it. It saves us a lot of time and effort and the householders seem to enjoy it., particularly the older ones who wish to see reds return and flourish. However, we do trap in woods, hotels and caravan sites on a rotational or needs basis. The trapping season is fairly short (except around houses) so some of us are also now shooting where permissible. I take the view that there are good arguments for both shooting and trapping, the important thing is to do something! At the end of the day, some of us are better at trapping and some at shooting, I just enjoy the variety.
Incidently, some of our important sites, the greys do seem to be ‘trap shy’, so this year I have particularly enjoyed ambushing the odd rogue grey which had invaded red areas.
Thanks sciurus i missed this earlier. I only normally get out once a week but thanks to my shifts i can sometimes go after work as well. Fisher UK is out several times a week and has been for years. Between three of us a small patch with confirmed reds is being kept on top of, trapping doesn't take place because of the time scale.
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11 minutes ago, Zapp said:
am also a .177 fan for rabbits, but that's a can of worms in of itself.
ha ha ha, great for when its quiet and you need to stir things up.
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7 minutes ago, Lord Geordie said:
BIG shed
My caravan is one of these
ok then, you could make it into a table then come winter, put some hinged ply wood on top.
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52 minutes ago, ClemFandango said:
I get that it's a big commitment but trapping is far more effective than shooting.
I would have to argue against that unless you have a massive number of traps down and are doing it full time, if you've got reds then you can only use live catch traps. We are having good success bringing squirrels to feeders and shooting, this is working in the lakes in Anglesey and other areas around the country, you will struggle to find two squirrels near my house where twelve months ago they were everywhere, I've shot more than I've trapped.
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58 minutes ago, ClemFandango said:
I meant where in the FC.
I know of a few people who trap on FC land as volunteers and a couple of their own staff so maybe it's done in house where he applied?
I see my apologies, only problem with trapping is its so time consuming, how many people can check traps twice a day?
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18 hours ago, ClemFandango said:
where did you try?
Think he means the forestry commission, their website says they control grey squirrels as part of a management program but not heard of anyone being given permission to shoot or trap on their land.
19 hours ago, Headshot 303 said:I took a lovely picture of a red squirrel in Formby couple of months ago I was videoing it and then I took a picture and this was the picture I got I was feeding him monkey nuts they love them the red squirrels around the Formby area are travelling out because of friends Who has been shooting grey squirrels on a farm for years and he has seen a red squirrel on one of his feeders in Rice Lane Liverpool he is waiting to catch good footage of it but he says it looked perfectly healthy to him he spotted another one couple of weeks ago Rosemary wood Fisheries Lancashire which is a good sign, we cover a couple of places culling grey squirrels around the Northwest and a Place in Runcorn we have been doing for couple of years we have had good numbers of Grey squirrels we use feeders to cull them in from the outside sometimes we are lucky to see one we must be on the winning battle in this area just got a keep up the good work ?
Cracking picture fella
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2 hours ago, oowee said:
I had seen plenty but they were usually running for cover, in cover or unshootable. I decided a few months back to go out specifically to find one and had even turned down a Roe buck on the basis that i would get lucky. It seemed that the harder i tried the less likely I was to be successful.
Today up at 0430 and at the wood for 0530. Timing was good but rain when I left was not promising. Then as dawn approached it the rain stopped and i began to think the effort might be worth it.
In the wood and I am the quietest, slowest person ever to walk through there. Looking, more than walking, along one of the old tracks. After about 50m A movement catches my eye and a doe Munty comes into view at about 25m. I can barely breath as i lift the rifle and she disappears into the undergrowth. I rest the rifle on the sticks hoping to see her appear further back in the wood, when just behind her a buck comes into view. He stops and looks at me, barely 20m away, and about 1m below me. I slip the safety and he drops where he stood.
What had been so hard now looks to be not so difficult after all.
Persuaded by my shooting mate to keep it for the freezer, I have just processed it. Don't think I want to do another, it did not want to part with its fur coat.
The first of a few, I hope.
I had seen the picture but still held my breath ?? well done.
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9 hours ago, Lord Geordie said:
Anything else I can help you with today?
I shall be building a large shed soon and an laying a full on concrete base! The idea is, the shed will double as a garage for the caravan, and be a workshop!
so where are you going to put all the stuff when try and put the caravan away for winter.
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just remember things can get under your shed if you use sleepers, sounds like a good idea just make sure a terrier can fit.
joist hangers are good and not that dear, i would use them if you do a frame.
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might also be worth asking your local gun shop to chrono the rifle for you, give you an idea if it has enough power to shoot the rabbits.
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6 hours ago, bruno22rf said:
Easy to sharpen a drill to prevent it grabbing and ensuring that it does not cut over-size if you know how - in fact you can get a drill to cut pretty much like a reamer if you have experience with drill sharpening - used to do it a lot on CNC Lathes.
Been on cnc lathes all my years and i can only just grind a drill to cut size ? the thought of someone with a hand drill near a gun barrel makes me shiver, pillar drill with the barrel clamped sounds less scary.
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can't plant in the ground as its all tree roots where its going so everything will have to be in containers or grow bags.
thanks
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Falconry sounds similar to stalking from reading your replies, i did a falconry experience years ago in Scotland probably 6 of us paying £100 a pop lots of talk and not much going on.
I asked if we were going to fly a hawk at pheasant as they were everywhere, o no that would cost us money? It was supposed to be a hunting experience but we ended up by a massive old rabbit warren me five townies and the fella in charge of the Harris hawks who wasn't really interested. We saw two bunnies bolt with the hawks missing.
I had another session with a local guy for my 40th, that was just an experience not hunting but it was loads better, I've always been a hawk fan but seeing him flying his falcon to the lure!! Just wow.
check what your getting for your money or have a google for local groups, you may just be able to go along and see what happens?
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10 minutes ago, Pigeon Shredder. said:
I have a golf course permission and am very grateful for it, when l first acquired it l asked what they wanted shooting and what they didn't.
Shoot rabbits, squizzers, magpies, rats, muntjack, fox, canada geese, pheasant and duck when in season, but don't shoot the hares ok, why not the hares l ask, because the members like to see them running about, fair enough.
Plus the bird life is fantastic when your laid up waiting for a shot with too many species to name.
l can sit there for hours without a care in the world, charge them l don't think so.
The only bugbear is those idiots who turn up to wack a ball about at silly o'clock in the morning when you're having a good session.
Are you sure its a golf course not a private estate ?
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Simple enough but I'm still checking.
I'm putting a green house in the garden amongst some trees so guaranteed to get a branch through the roof but there you go.
My plan is 6*2 frame put down some weed sheet stuff then hard core and whack it, then put flags on the hardcore.
Anything I'm missing?
cheers Mice!
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Just been round to turmoil on my way to work, one working one not, glad i checked.
Thanks again Turmoil ??
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we are the dirty secret Bruno and you know it. Conservationists often don't like the idea these days that to protect one spieces you have to control another, grey squirrel / red squirrel or mink / water vole.
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where i grew up was by a lake and this was a common sight watching them chase each other away from their nest or territory, always found it strange how they didn't chase mallard away? Must just be a coot thing.
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you got the pic you wanted then ?
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1 hour ago, Headshot 303 said:
Do you use squirrel feeders Mate
He does with a bloke who's job is to top them up no less, if you go on the vermin section you will see a couple of threads about feeders, i think his pics are on there plus other folks as well.
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I'm similar to you guys 41 kids are nearly 7&4 i would have liked to have started earlier but you don't realise that till your older, we enjoyed being able to come and go as we liked.
I escaped yesterday up to Carlisle for the day rugby festival and beer ? staggered in about 11