professional poacher

[mad dog]

  looking for work

[Tony C]

Would you be able to stop my wife rabbiting whilst I try to watch a bit of sport?

[mad dog]

Would you be able to stop my wife rabbiting whilst I try to watch a bit of sport?

 

YIP  

[Guest bakes]

had 18 rabbits  yesturday with terriers and ferrets rabbit stew with massive dumplins got to be done you cant beat it.

[Guest Hjaltland]

Would you be able to stop my wife rabbiting whilst I try to watch a bit of sport?

 

Slip the ferret in with her...

[mac1]

venison for dinner tomorrow  

[REDCHEQHEN]

venison for dinner tomorrow  

 

is it well hung (kewl)

[mad dog]

venison for dinner tomorrow  

 

     fox first then bambi ;D

[Guest stb-]

I have 6 duck eggs any chance of poaching them for me lol

[mad dog]

its the government making me go back to work

[Guest]

 

is it well hung (kewl)

dirty girl ,is that always youre first thought ??                                  andy.

 

 

[BLACK W F]

typical woman

[mad dog]

  looking for work

 

 

     ANY ORDERS

[Guest bakes]

its the government macing me go back to work

 

dieing to get back out with me mates on the lamp me lightforce blitz when a cropper last season middle of no were had to walk an hour in pich black with 3 lurchers lost count how many times i fell over my mates was peeing them self laughing i wasnt fell down ditch covered in crap funny now

 

one of my old lurchers

[mad dog]

its the government making me go back to work

 

WHAT ARE YOU EATING TO NIGHT  ?

[Guest bakes]

 

WHAT  ARE YOU EATING TO NIGHT  ?

 

?? is that ment to be for me  mate

[mad dog]

 

?? is that ment to be for me  mate

 

NO  M8

[blaz]

could not poach an egg

[mad dog]

could not poach an egg

 

I RITE M8  GID YIN SON

[blaz]

an less i am with him

[Guest chrisss]

had 18 rabbits  yesturday with terriers and ferrets rabbit stew with massive dumplins got to be done you cant beat it.

 

lucky lucky man you cannot get rabbit around here for love or money :o :o :o

[Guest bakes]

 

lucky lucky man you cannot get rabbit around here for love or money :o :o :o

 

i get loads mate always  making stews pies with rabbit beautiful my nans rabbit pie is amazing brillent on a cold day ferreting the hedgerows you cant beat it flask of soup a massive slice of pie sitting on my ferret box waiting for the rabbits to bolt into the nets

 

all the best

[Guest HEATHLOFTS]

 

i get loads mate always  making stews pies with rabbit beautiful my nans rabbit pie is amazing brillent on a cold day ferreting the hedgerows you cant beat it flask of soup a massive slice of pie sitting on my ferret box waiting for the rabbits to bolt into the nets

 

all the best

sounds good when can i come ?

 

[stantheman]

Bakes you can come and clear my land of rabbits anytime you want theres loads of them and its not far from you cheers stan

[Roland]

You know, dogs and guns aren't needn't in the least to poach Rabbits / Pheasants / ducks etc.

Indeed any thing like a lamp / dog / gun etc. is a hindrance and gives away chances of being seen or located.

In the 50's, like now - and not using a long net, 2 -3 hundred rabbits (Knew over 400 once but that was with two Gill ferrets and a unsociable buck0) with just flans.

At 1/8d (8p nearly) for two, between 12 was a lot of money.

That what the government laid down as the most you could charge for rabbits. Same and even easier with the population of Rabbits today.

Looped on pole or a trench with raisins for birds. (Yes some used a little alcohol but then a trench dug.

Was a time with the wide bush when we trampled the outskirts and just filled in the holes with feet till rabbits were centralised.  Coat off and scraped away the earth and 12 – 18inches hole down we’d reached in a take out a rabbit putting the coat I the hole. Coat out, rabbit out, coat back in.

Would lay the Flans, as many as we had – used to make own, though I haven’t done for many a year and forget a little now lol, but we covered the holes along the railway lines.

Go back just after dark and take the rabbits out that were caught leaving. Then replace. Around dusk we’d retrieve any rabbits caught going back in and take away the flans. 8 gutted rabbits to a pole over and upon your shoulder were a heavy weight. So had to refrain from taking too many and leaving traces, because we didn’t go back for a while to that stretch.

A 4/5 inch trench wide and 8inch deep (Deeper at the ends) with raisins in them meant the pheasants would pop in to eat, but – like all birds pigeons included – they had to open wings to hop up and out. Of course they didn’t have any room to do so. Would wait patiently till you got there.

Remember when Keeper about one could lay flat and not be seen. But if he had a dog, most likely that could sniff you out, though of course not intentionally, so even then you just laid still. Ah the good old days eh.

Now that is more professional. Line the rivers etc. for ducks with bread.

Now for deer of course many cross such as the Irish Wolf hounds with Pit Bull Terriers, for both speed and strength of jaw bringing them down.

Never went for deer, but again the walks got to be known and upon the tree one would fire a bolt from the crossbow just inside the left shoulder downwards for the heart. Sadly this - though of course very effective with a good bolt, many were badly injured, and sometime  they got caught looking up to sniff the air, and the bolt would hit the nostils - even going into them, or damage and leave in pain. So I personally thing that that is rightly outlawed. Some use the gun exactly the same, but of course this could be heard, where as the crossbow isn't which has to be better for the poacher.