Hunting & other rural pursuits

[habanerocat]

The rats of the sky.

Wait until the seagulls start coming. You’ll have great fun then. I hear Drogheda is plagued with them.

[TheBird]

@anon67715551

Would the Larson trap resemble a laundry basket by any chance. If so then we have considerable experience in this system. The heady days of TFK… Time flies.

That’s it. Multi chambered with a live magpie or crow in it to attract in more.

[ciarancareyshurlingarmy]

Eddie Finch. What a name for a bird catcher!

Video: Man builds crow trap to combat bird attacks on lambs - Agriland.ie

[Malarkey]

@TheBird

@anon67715551

Would the Larson trap resemble a laundry basket by any chance. If so then we have considerable experience in this system. The heady days of TFK… Time flies.

That’s it. Multi chambered with a live magpie or crow in it to attract in more.

I had a look at those traps on YouTube. What is the agreed humane way to dispatch a caught magpie?

[glenshane]

With a kango hammer

[the_mixer_walsh]

A small dose of rat poison each morning for a week

[TheBird]

@Malarkey

I had a look at those traps on YouTube. What is the agreed humane way to dispatch a caught magpie?

Wring it’s neck is how I’ve done it.

[ironmoth]

Earlier on in the summer, I picked a nice little batch of wild strawberries in the garden. With the small amount that wasn’t scoffed, I decided to use a John Wright recipe and made a type of rumtopf. Equal amounts of wild strawberries and sugar in an old jam jar, topped off with brandy. I cracked it open this evening and poured some over ice cream. It was absolutely delicious. Long after the taste of the alcohol has abated, I’m still left with the taste of the strawberries. Highly recommend this for any of the forum’s hedgerow foragers.

[ironmoth]

Very enjoyable 15 mins. Shooting grey crows and the butchering of a sika deer.

Shooting grey crows - Fieldsports Ireland, episode 9

[ironmoth]

@TheBird

Did your old man ever use a Larson trap? A great yoke for the crows and magpies.

@FatChops

Neighbour of mine catches magpies. He’s one fat fucker in the middle, in a sort of inner cage, that he feeds. The others then see him ateing and enter but can’t leave. He leaves them for the fox then.

The trick with the Larson is to have a foreign lad in the middle as bait. If you can get a magpie from a few miles away, you’ll make hay. The ones you catch can then be sent on their holidays to a Larson trap in another townland.

[Julio_Geordio]

Would you have to wave at the magpie everytime you walked past or is once a day enough when it’s the same magpie

[ironmoth]

Whatever tickles your fancy.

[anon67715551]

What you need in that or any other scenario involving the lone magpie piseóg is a green watch strap.
Touching something green repels the bad karma attaching to a lone mag.*

• Another piseóg

[carryharry]

The odd stranger who’d be in the motor for a spin would be perplexed at my waves & 1 fingered salutes to the Magpies on my travels.

[glenshane]

10 rounds at 75 metres…and a stray from another target. Kinda puts limericks so-called triumph in the shade

[Fagan_ODowd]

Picked this years sloes this evening. Haven’t weighed them yet but it’s a good haul.

[Thomas_Brady]

Give us a pic.

[Special_Olympiakos]

Overrun with Foxes out my way. Hounds were deployed today for cub hunting. Welcomed by all

[maroonandwhite]

22 with a scope?

[habanerocat]

Sorry to say but your grouping is shite. Grouping is more important than a bullseye.