Smellydog
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Nicely done
THE PRETEND KEEPER
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Foxyboy43
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Our farmer msgd me with this yesterday:-
and a polite request for £140 (lamb is clearly doing well). The strap was put up by us at the foot of a tree stand to keep cattle off maybe 4 seasons ago but this year kamikaze sheep replaced the beasts. Fair enough - our fault, loads of apologies and money transferred so good relations maintained.
Well, we said we would help dispose of the carcass and remove the straps to avoid repetition so two lads who live handy went down just after teatime and set about the removal of said sheep. In the middle of untangling it one pal happened to look across the field and seventy yards away was a vixen and cub in the hedge just quietly watching them, needless to say 3 inches of carbon steel was no good for fox control but we now know that a family is in residence 150 yds from a pen so they have to go pdq. Would loved to have left the sheep for a while as bait but farmer wanted it gone soonest.
At least some good came out of it…..
and a polite request for £140 (lamb is clearly doing well). The strap was put up by us at the foot of a tree stand to keep cattle off maybe 4 seasons ago but this year kamikaze sheep replaced the beasts. Fair enough - our fault, loads of apologies and money transferred so good relations maintained.
Well, we said we would help dispose of the carcass and remove the straps to avoid repetition so two lads who live handy went down just after teatime and set about the removal of said sheep. In the middle of untangling it one pal happened to look across the field and seventy yards away was a vixen and cub in the hedge just quietly watching them, needless to say 3 inches of carbon steel was no good for fox control but we now know that a family is in residence 150 yds from a pen so they have to go pdq. Would loved to have left the sheep for a while as bait but farmer wanted it gone soonest.
At least some good came out of it…..
stavross
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Arr, the good old sheep, always looking for a new way to dieOur farmer msgd me with this yesterday:-
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and a polite request for £140 (lamb is clearly doing well). The strap was put up by us at the foot of a tree stand to keep cattle off maybe 4 seasons ago but this year kamikaze sheep replaced the beasts. Fair enough - our fault, loads of apologies and money transferred so good relations maintained.
Well, we said we would help dispose of the carcass and remove the straps to avoid repetition so two lads who live handy went down just after teatime and set about the removal of said sheep. In the middle of untangling it one pal happened to look across the field and seventy yards away was a vixen and cub in the hedge just quietly watching them, needless to say 3 inches of carbon steel was no good for fox control but we now know that a family is in residence 150 yds from a pen so they have to go pdq. Would loved to have left the sheep for a while as bait but farmer wanted it gone soonest.
At least some good came out of it…..
Foxyboy43
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Yep and only another 249 to go…….Arr, the good old sheep, always looking for a new way to die
BenBhoy
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What's actually happened there, can't quite fathom it out??Our farmer msgd me with this yesterday:-
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and a polite request for £140 (lamb is clearly doing well). The strap was put up by us at the foot of a tree stand to keep cattle off maybe 4 seasons ago but this year kamikaze sheep replaced the beasts. Fair enough - our fault, loads of apologies and money transferred so good relations maintained.
Well, we said we would help dispose of the carcass and remove the straps to avoid repetition so two lads who live handy went down just after teatime and set about the removal of said sheep. In the middle of untangling it one pal happened to look across the field and seventy yards away was a vixen and cub in the hedge just quietly watching them, needless to say 3 inches of carbon steel was no good for fox control but we now know that a family is in residence 150 yds from a pen so they have to go pdq. Would loved to have left the sheep for a while as bait but farmer wanted it gone soonest.
At least some good came out of it…..
BenBhoy
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Foxyboy43
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Sheep decided to graze through the straps where obviously the best ever grass was in an enormous field of erm, best grass, then managed to put it’s head in a loop which it had cleverly made and for reasons unknown decided to spin a zillion times which of course, err, throttled it - very successfully. If you zoom in on the foto the strap was twisted tight as a drum so I guess it didn’t suffer very long….
PS
no snares were used in this foto; the sheep merely thought it was a turkey and crimbo was coming….
Rhodesianjess
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Only the pheasants on a rearing field have a greater urge to commit suicide 
stavross
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It was a trip up to the commercial this evening for a few more hoppers off the game cover, it looked like we were in for a thunderstorm but it held off, we’ve put a proper dent in them now only taking 12 more of which I took half for fox bate and the other 6 went for bait in the trap’s around the shoot, I shot one that only had one ear, it never heard me coming 
anyway a nice way to spend an hour even if the flies were mental 
anyway a nice way to spend an hour even if the flies were mental Gets me every time when you see woolly head stuck in fence so walk over to err free it but get within ten yards or so freaks out, frees self and runs offSheep decided to graze through the straps where obviously the best ever grass was in an enormous field of erm, best grass, then managed to put it’s head in a loop which it had cleverly made and for reasons unknown decided to spin a zillion times which of course, err, throttled it - very successfully. If you zoom in on the foto the strap was twisted tight as a drum so I guess it didn’t suffer very long….
PS
no snares were used in this foto; the sheep merely thought it was a turkey and crimbo was coming….
foxhunter
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After doing my jobs today , painting the fence and cleaning the pvc around the windows I popped out for a few hours armchair shooting as too hot to walk about.
I have seen 30 odd rabbits on this field but tonight they never showed but got a few which I left for the foxes.
I have seen 30 odd rabbits on this field but tonight they never showed but got a few which I left for the foxes.
stavross
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There was loads up there tonight but the hedge witch seemed to do it’s job, buzzed around me but no bites
I found a tick on me this morning, I must of picked it up when I was up at the shoot last night, it’s only the second I’ve had from all the years I’ve spent on the moors
stavross
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.17 still on point
Smellydog
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I got a ticking off from my Mrs this weekend but that's situation normal here abouts
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