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LuckOrJudgement

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  1. I just like the heads-up shooting position. It's very comfortable and perfect for static ratting. All I need to compliment it is a basic thermal spotter. A question for Pard users: Is it possible to mount a screen on top of the unit, so that it works like the Nite Site?
  2. I posted on here a while back, explaining I had a problem I couldn't get my head around; I was having to re-zero my scope whenever I fitted the viper - with test shots always being wide of the point of aim. I've now worked out that I had been canting the rifle. Because I never took care to mount the screen perfectly plumb to the windage on the scope, I was holding the ns screen level but the rifle was of course canted as a consequence. Now I know to dial in the windage by adjusting the vertical position of the screen, or better still; make permanently corresponding marks on the scope
  3. Definitely. I take a lot of care with my sets and to me it's obvious when a mole isn't having any of it and a change of game is required. Thankfully it's not often, but when it does happen it's a bloody pain. You can't credit a mole with much intelligence, but they do have instincts like all wild animals. If you're the wrong side of one that's spooked then it's just a case of getting creative and varying your traps and tactics.
  4. When you have a single mole consistently back-filling or going round/under multiple trap sets, there has to be something else in play other than poor trap placement. I've been trapping moles for over 20 years and I would beg to differ.
  5. I call 'em Wise - Guys. I did a job for a farmer who'd trapped the moles in his garden all his life but had been unsuccessful with one that had been giving him the run-around for a year. It was no small thing for him to call me in, but he was at his wits end. It took me six weeks to get the little bstard, making a mockery of Duffus, talpex and putangues, and eventually falling foul of a Trapline well bedded into the floor of a run. I think you do get moles that have a 6th sense for when something isn't right.
  6. available next month apparently. Don't know cost?
  7. Try some JSB's through it. You can get selection packs of different brands as well. Really important to experiment with pellets - airguns can be fussy about them. My weihrauch hates Field Diabolos sprays them all over the shop.
  8. Have you tried any other pellet brands through it?
  9. Can I ask why you use Diablo Fields?
  10. Need someone with a couple of terriers to work a garden with burrows and runs in heaps of spoil, compost etc CO8 postcode area. please message me if interested
  11. I still have some of Clives that are going strong. Get good strike rate with putangues. in garden work, I tend to set where I first break in to the run and use whatever trap best suits what I find. Don't like wasting time searching in vain for the perfect terrain. if one end of the dig is galleried out with a hallway and/or multiple runs funneling in, then I'll use a Duffus. If the customer has been spooking with Chinese scissors, then the talpex is deployed. otherwise it's mostly putangues I favour. Brilliant traps, but not the be all & end all of mole trapping.
  12. Using a trail cam over a period of several nights prior to shooting is a great way to gauge how many rats you are up against and the times they come on parade.
  13. I reckon Devon & Cornwall FEO have more questions to answer than 000's of responsible law abiding gun owners. In anyone's eyes, that devil was a feckin wrong un and should never have been in possession. I wonder why he owned the gun and how often he used it? Isn't there some clause that says if you don't use the gun with a certain frequency for a stated purpose you stand to lose it? Someone will put me right.
  14. Yes - I was called out to a kitchen a few weeks back, described as being 'swarming with wasps' - same thing - lots of dozy queens had ingressed from an old nest in a ceiling void. At the time I thought we're in for a bumper year. But those queens have dissapeared totally. Where are the foraging wasps in the hedges and shrubs? I'm seeing nothing here.
  15. Seem to have dissapeared here in north Essex. I have some old sheds and panel fences in the garden and normally these would have wasps on them harvesting pulp, but there's nothing. Also been looking in other people's gardens in the course of my mole work - nothing. Plenty of bees of all species though.
  16. Bit of a tangent, but I think moles are a protected species in Bavaria, requiring a permit to trap them. Interestingly on genuine talpex packaging, the German language description reads as 'Wuhlmausfalle' which translates as 'vole trap'. All very confusing, because I bet voles are protected there as well, and in any case, a talpex for a vole is like using the proverbial sledge hammer to crack a nut!
  17. I had this double in the putanges a few weeks back
  18. Nice write up. I thought slugs were only any good in fac rifles so this is very enlightening. Will be trying some myself.
  19. My nephew has one. It's not a bad gun, but there are a couple of things to look out for: The ring/ bracket that secures the barrel to the air cylinder is sloppy - even with this fully tightened, the barrel can be easily manipulated to 'lock' either left or right of centre- you're better off removing it and having the barrel free-floating. Make sure the cylinder ports in the loaded magazine line up with the entry and exit holes on the casing. If they don't (as was the case with my nephew's)you'll get deformation of the pellet as the probe pushes them into the breech, which will effect
  20. I agree its a head scratcher, but its a fact - there is a 10mm difference (high and to the left) when Im using the NiteSite. ?? I'm just as confused.
  21. I don't mind heads-up nv, but it only really serves you well with a mildot reticle and when shooting from a comfortable static vantage point with known ranges for your kill zones - otherwise its pretty shitesite. I do have to say I can be very accurate with my viper in this situation, but walked-up stalking is a non starter for me.
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