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whitelegg1

Joined: 05 Apr 2005
Posts: 409
Location: Woodford Green

Posted: Sun Dec 17, 06 6:49 am Post subject: Re: Tonight's bag

pricey wrote:

Going to arrange another weekend soon I promise.

Pricey,

Have you dusted off your diary?

Unfortunately Whitelegg2 has.....so I may be unlucky this year!

Hopefully not....

Let me know..

Thanks
Pete

countryman

Joined: 07 Jan 2007
Posts: 137
Location: Cornwall

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 9:54 pm Post subject:

pricey wrote:

bodger wrote:

With an air rifle , thats great going !

It's the only thing we can use here for H&S reasons.

Why not use a lurcher~?
Or am i just bias?

whitelegg1

Joined: 05 Apr 2005
Posts: 409
Location: Woodford Green

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 10:14 pm Post subject:
I don't think the residents/walkers would appreciate a dog chsing rabbit arround their cabins! P

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Mon Jan 08, 07 11:22 pm Post subject:
One of the campsites near here uses a falconer for bunny control. I think mainly in the off-season though.

pricey

Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Posts: 6444

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 07 4:53 pm Post subject:

countryman wrote:

pricey wrote:

bodger wrote:

With an air rifle , thats great going !

It's the only thing we can use here for H&S reasons.

Why not use a lurcher~?
Or am i just bias?

Dogs are not allowed off the lead on site, except 1 very well behaved Puppy eh BK

It is hard to describe to those that have not been here, but I personally don't think the Lurcher would work well. To many places for the Bunnies to hide, I think the dog would have a headache by the end of the night running into to many chalets

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 25795
Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 07 5:04 pm Post subject:
I'd be a little worried she'd run off the cliff and on a day like today I'd also be worried about some of the chalets following her. How's the wind been down there Pricey?

pricey

Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Posts: 6444

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 07 7:17 pm Post subject:
Very windy, not been at work but been hearing reports of Bay view 97 roof being blown off, thats 2 away from where you lot stayed, next to the one that was knocked down that we had the rabbits in

whitelegg1

Joined: 05 Apr 2005
Posts: 409
Location: Woodford Green

Posted: Thu Jan 11, 07 7:44 pm Post subject:
Baggsy not sleeping in No.97 P

fish (the other one)

Joined: 24 Dec 2006
Posts: 319

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 07 12:27 pm Post subject:
here ya go HFW's very own: this also works well with venison ,duck and also pheasant!

Old-Chads-Orchard

Joined: 07 Dec 2005
Posts: 394
Location: Malpas, Cheshire

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 07 6:48 pm Post subject:
Thats good shooting. Do you have plenty of cover on your shoot? Mines a bit sparce, spend ages hiding in the few hedges for only one or two bunnies

countryman

Joined: 07 Jan 2007
Posts: 137
Location: Cornwall

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 07 9:36 pm Post subject:
https://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i123/ajsandry/Picture219.jpg Heres my BSA Tactical XL, this ones for feather/ rats only as i use the lurchers for things that run. Ill find some pics off some pheasants its accounted for later if possible

lettucewoman

Joined: 26 Sep 2006
Posts: 7834
Location: Tiptoe in the Forest!!

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 07 12:49 pm Post subject:
very interested in this - however I would like to know how the current spread of myxomatosis is affecting your shooting - in november we came across a young rabbit that was obviously suffering from myxi - there was nothing we could do for it. It has put us off rabbit for the forseeable future.

whitelegg1

Joined: 05 Apr 2005
Posts: 409
Location: Woodford Green

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 07 3:32 pm Post subject:
Myxi... A good point. I haven't seen any on my two shoots since the summer. However whenever I do, I make sure Ideal with them, for their sakes... You see them running round the field, without a clue in the middle of the day!!! Easy prey for fox or crow.... Wouldn't eat one though. Pete

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 07 3:37 pm Post subject:
I think that the incidence rises and falls locally. There was quite a bit round here a couple of years ago, whereas I haven't seen any suffering bunnies recently. (And there are still plenty around.) ISTR that they're OK to eat, though I wouldn't particularly fancy it myself.

Leveller

Joined: 07 Aug 2007
Posts: 14
Location: Somerset

Posted: Sat Aug 18, 07 7:00 am Post subject:
The rabbit population is at such great numbers that you shouldn't need to eat a diseased coney really, I believe they are fine to eat but quite often they're that sick there really isn't a lot of meat on them and it's not to hard to find a brace of healthy plump bunnies for the pot.

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