"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 21:27:21 +0100, Alan Holmes wrote:

None on the Isle of Wight as we only have the Reds :-))

Lucky you, wish there were reds around here!

Reds around here and a "hotline" number to call if a grey is spotted.
Brings out the guns...

Will the hotline number apply to berkshire as well?

And what is it?

Alan



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"Judith in France" wrote in message
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Thanks O and for the additional information via email. The price of
some of the beautiful shotguns made me wince ut one can see the work
that went into them and the precision.

Not hugely expensive but my .410 has a beautiful stock Will send pics
if
you like
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Had a look at this site, but could see no mention of guns!

Alan

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"Judith in France" wrote in message
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Thanks O and for the additional information via email. The price of
some of the beautiful shotguns made me wince ut one can see the work
that went into them and the precision.

Not hugely expensive but my .410 has a beautiful stock Will send pics
if
you like
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http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Had a look at this site, but could see no mention of guns!

???

Alan, if you really want to know where to buy the air pistols I mentioned,
my email shown here is good.

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On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 21:36:33 +0100, Alan Holmes wrote:

Reds around here and a "hotline" number to call if a grey is
spotted.
Brings out the guns...

Will the hotline number apply to berkshire as well?

If you pay the return mileage and overnights from Cumbria I expect
so. B-)

But have you any Reds down there? TBH we aren't going to elimnate the
Greys without expending an awful lot of effort. We do need to protect
the areas that do have Reds and I feel the only practical way of
doing that is to have wide, flexible, buffer zones around those
areas. If Grey pops it's hed up in the buffer zone it gets it blown
off. The zones being flexible meaning that if the area the Reds are
using changes, so does the outer edge of the buffer zone.

Squirrel Pox is devasting to a population of Reds. Went to Formby
Nature Reserve on the Flyde coast before 2007/8, the woods were
almost running alive with Red Squirrels. Made a return visit a couple
of years later and nearly all the squirrels where dead due to the
pox. I think that population has recovered a little but it only takes
one Grey to get too close...

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Dave.

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"Judith in France" wrote in message
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Thanks O and for the additional information via email. The price of
some of the beautiful shotguns made me wince ut one can see the work
that went into them and the precision.

Not hugely expensive but my .410 has a beautiful stock Will send pics
if
you like
--
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http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Had a look at this site, but could see no mention of guns!

???

Alan, if you really want to know where to buy the air pistols I mentioned,
my email shown here is good.

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http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Do you mean this site?

Alan

Had a look at this site, but could see no mention of guns!

???

Alan, if you really want to know where to buy the air pistols I mentioned,
my email shown here is good.

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http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Do you mean this site?

Alan


You could always try your local gun shop, look in yellow pages.
David

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"Judith in France" wrote in message
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Thanks O and for the additional information via email. The price of
some of the beautiful shotguns made me wince ut one can see the work
that went into them and the precision.

Not hugely expensive but my .410 has a beautiful stock Will send
pics
if
you like
--
--

http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Had a look at this site, but could see no mention of guns!

???

Alan, if you really want to know where to buy the air pistols I
mentioned,
my email shown here is good.

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http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Do you mean this site?

Alan, that site is the one I always use as my sig and is for the
Helpforheroes charity. It has nothing to do with the thread about air
pistols. If anyone wants a suitable place to buy the pistols they can easily
find one through Google.

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On 02/06/2012 19:37, Jake wrote:


Incidentally, whilst greys are vilified for feeding on the contents of
birds' nests, let's not forget that reds will also feed on them.

Tufty eats bird eggs, say it isn't so.

"David Hill" wrote in message
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Had a look at this site, but could see no mention of guns!

???

Alan, if you really want to know where to buy the air pistols I
mentioned,
my email shown here is good.

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http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Do you mean this site?

Alan


You could always try your local gun shop, look in yellow pages.
David

In fact, he will probably have to buy, in person, from a gun shop, with
proof of ID, etc.

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"David Hill" wrote in message
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Had a look at this site, but could see no mention of guns!

???

Alan, if you really want to know where to buy the air pistols I
mentioned,
my email shown here is good.

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http://www.shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/

Do you mean this site?

Alan


You could always try your local gun shop, look in yellow pages.
David

In fact, he will probably have to buy, in person, from a gun shop, with
proof of ID, etc.

Yes, face to face is necessary.

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In article , Alan Holmes
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A friendly request -
Can people please try to snip all the irrelevant guff when following up
messages? It really isn't necessary or helpful to leave in all the
previous rersponses - which have also been in most of the previous
followups. Each one takes a load of scrolling or multiple space bar
hits - just to find in most cases, half a line of (often irrelevant)
text added.

[You should have seen the unfirendly version]

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On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:25:32 +0100, news
wrote:

In article , Alan Holmes
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A friendly request -
Can people please try to snip all the irrelevant guff when following up
messages? It really isn't necessary or helpful to leave in all the
previous rersponses - which have also been in most of the previous
followups. Each one takes a load of scrolling or multiple space bar
hits - just to find in most cases, half a line of (often irrelevant)
text added.

[You should have seen the unfirendly version]

Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't. Those of us with a decent
newsreader that has a "hide quoted text" switch will often forget as
we don't see the precursor messages, only the one we're actually
looking at. I usually hide the headers as well.

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling from Swansea Bay. Dave's at that
end; I'm at this end. Bill's in the middle.

"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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As for shooting them you have to have a firearms licence which I do not,
and even shooting them can cause them a great deal of pain because they
run from one end to the other of the traps, and they do not stay still
enough for you to get them in one shot, you may injure them and you would
have to have several attempts to manage to make the final fatal shot, in
the meantime they are suffering a great deal!

Alan

So do not trap them, if you don't have a clue how to despatch them. No fox
suffers a great deal in a catch alive trap. One was asleep in mine.
They all go to the foxy heaven in the sky when they are trapped in my hen
run.
It's sad to do it, but I've had a bad time with foxes killing my hens during
the day which means we cannot do foxes here.