Recent content by Cullachie

Where have you learned that from?

@Buckaroo8 Please don't feed the troll. Otherwise he will be back spouting yet more rubbish.

@baguio I fail to follow your thinking. You dive off on tangents rather than follow up with a logical response to a valid point. I suggest you read the Pests Act 1958 and subsequent Spring Trap Approval Orders before subjecting us to your views.

@baguio Stoats are strictly carnivores and very selective ones too. They wouldn't even look at peanut butter, ever. On the other hand, grey squirrels go mad for the stuff. So. placing a Fenn with peanut butter in an environment with trees, a judge and jury would never convict you on the charge...

I guess if you baited a Fenn Mark 4 with rabbit on a grouse moor with no trees around, you would not have much of a defence. But if you used peanut butter (on the edge of woodland where there were squirrels) and you happened to catch a stoat then you'd be totally safe. Surely it all comes down...

Havn't heard of anyone getting done for this yet. As reasonable defence surely would be to have a few mates say they had never seen stoats in that area;)

3,500 is an awful number of DOCS. How many assistants does he have to help out with them?

Does anyone have experience with using pork fat as a bait for trapping stoats?

OK, but coming back to the original question,,, would you put up with the effort of baiting a trap if that trap was legal and cost one quarter of the price of a DOC, Tully or Perdix trap?

I have it on good authority that there is a new type of spring trap going through the approval process at DEFRA. It is specially designed for use on stoats and will retail at around £12 each plus £10 for a tunnel. It is much smaller and lighter than a DOC150 and so many more can be carried out...

Would be interested to learn of users experience of using any of these for stoats? Given the price of them plus the cost of an appropriate tunnel, is it fair to say that they have not been taken up in any great numbers. and that stoat numbers have increased substantially since Fenns were banned...

Sure, but there is a case to start lobbying the government now that we are out of the EU. Please read up on how this situation arose https://www.gwct.org.uk/advisory/faqs/aihts/#uk

Fenn Mark4s are still 100% legal for weasels and squirrels - as confirmed by the Spring Traps Approval Order. It is only in the UK that they cannot be used (intentionally :)) on stoats. This is an anomaly that occurred because DEFRA messed up the negotiations regarding the AIHTS, Agreement on...

We all have rifles we like because they have a favourite trigger pressure but here's am interesting example of how one can set a Fenn with a hair trigger..

Well, here's two less, courtesy of Fenn Mark4 trap. Got them (the traps that is) on a special from www.trapbarn.com