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Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?
07/02/04 01:38 PM

I hear their skins are quite nice. Sort of tartan like. The Scots first starting harvesting them for their tartan skins at a place called St Andrews. Makes a nice rug.

Here they are a pest too. The parks they inhabit have nice populations of bunnies but these damned golfers keep scaring them back into the bushes.

I understand their call "Four" is a call prior to their inane searching obsession in bushes. Perhaps to announce to others it time to root around in the bushes for a while.

I have a theory that they think they little white balls are like some sort of boomerang. They hit them as far away as possible. But they don't come back. Then they look for them and get excited again when they find them. They try again but it still doesn't come back. They do not learn and this habit can you used to the hunters advantage.

A clever idea is to build a hide. Then cut the grass short in a circle and plant a flag in the middle of it. Small flags seem to attract them like bees to honey for some reason. Then place a steel jaw trap in a little hole just bigger than a hand opened. Reverse the teeth on the trap so the caught "golfer" lasts all day. They seem to have to feel around in these holes if placed near the flag. This is sort of like the Bushman/fruit/monkey trap idea in the Kalahari/Namib. It is a mistake to put your own white ball in the hole. They like to put their white ball in the hole. When they do this they really get excited and you are sure to catch one as they can't resist putting their hand into the hole.

You have to be patient though as they can take an awfully long time to get to the flag sometimes.

When caught they tend to squeal a lot but this is good bait as they attract other "golfers" and a good cull can be done.

If you pick the right day you can harvest 100% female "golfers". Their tartan "skins" come off very nicely too and if you then let them go, they have regrown tartan next time you see them, sort of like wool on a sheep.

The males are often red in the face and bluster around a lot and do not smell as nice when the tartan skins are removed.

Make up a really nice rug with all those tartan skins.

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John aka NitroX

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To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	Dark_Helmet	06/02/04 08:21 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	475Guy	09/02/04 12:48 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	mikeh416Rigby	06/02/04 12:30 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	shakari	06/02/04 08:42 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	NitroX	06/02/04 12:55 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	shakari	06/02/04 03:39 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	NitroX	06/02/04 06:03 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	mickey	06/02/04 02:51 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	luv2safari	06/02/04 05:12 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	Dark_Helmet	06/02/04 05:43 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	luv2safari	07/02/04 10:05 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	NitroX	07/02/04 01:38 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	luv2safari	07/02/04 02:11 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	mickey	07/02/04 03:47 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	luv2safari	07/02/04 05:09 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	quigleysharps	07/02/04 09:57 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	atkinson6	11/02/04 03:58 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	quigleysharps	11/02/04 04:55 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	Dark_Helmet	12/02/04 07:52 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	475Guy	12/02/04 12:22 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	quigleysharps	12/02/04 09:30 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	Dark_Helmet	11/02/04 06:22 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	atkinson6	11/02/04 12:06 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	Dark_Helmet	11/02/04 01:43 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	NitroX	11/02/04 01:22 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	NitroX	07/02/04 11:03 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	quigleysharps	08/02/04 02:06 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	quigleysharps	07/02/04 04:50 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	Dark_Helmet	07/02/04 08:09 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	quigleysharps	07/02/04 01:18 PM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	cchunter	07/02/04 09:48 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	mickey	07/02/04 06:42 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	Dark_Helmet	07/02/04 08:06 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	quigleysharps	07/02/04 06:56 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	nopride2	07/02/04 07:30 AM
Re: To the PHs... how good do I need to be?	mikeh416Rigby	06/02/04 04:58 PM
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