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Luck not on my side on this occasion.... The wind, although promising when I left home had dissapeared entirely by the time I arrived at the drop Ran out anyway but the combination of no wind and heavy leaf litter on the headland gave the bunnies the edge. Next time..... HH all.

Hi Folks, Due to horrendous unforeseen circumstances, the net I made back in Feb 2010 http://www.thehuntin...nished-at-last/ is still virgin stock!! But not for long Off out for a drop tonight and hoping to finally give the wee lass a work out. Wish me luck guys, the wind is dropping.... HH all. G.

Thanks that has pretty much got me sold 1 last question, would you say the image is as bright on this scope is as a Hawke sport HD 3-9 x 50? I am told the bigger the front the more light can get in and the better the image in low light. That said, I am also told the tactical has superior optics which may cancel out the smaller front end... Finally, did you mean that the 4" wheel was too big for use with an S410? "to be honest the supplied larger wheel is more than enough for the x14 mag I had" . Many thanks for the info. G.

Phew, that's a lot to digest. Many thanks guys, much obliged. I have been using a laser for the last year and despite it being really useful it isnt entirely reliable. The problem I have is that sometimes the laser reads off the ground in front or behind the target. The result being incorrect holdover calculations and missed rabbits that should have been straight forward shots. My range estimation (unaided) is poor so I really need the help of either a laser or possibly side focusing scope. I have mapped out my gun using targets at 5 yard intervals and know the curve well, but without dist

Hi Folks, I,m thinking of buying a side focus scope and had a good look at the Hawke side winder tactical. It seems well built and I had no problems with my current hawke 3-9x50 so I am tempted to make the jump but a couple of things are niggling. Can I expect to get tight accurate rangefinding using a side winder? When I say accurate I mean in particular the 20 - 50 yard range and to within a yard or 2 accuracy. The scope body graduation marks jump enormously from 30 yards to 50 yards....though if I add a larger wheel, presumably this can be improved. But I guess the core of the questi

In my humble opinion, camo is not as important on the body as it is on the scope.... I have spooked more bunnies by not having scrim net over the front of my scope than anything else. Even when absolutely stationary, and prone, if the bunnies catch a flash of sunlight reflecting off the scope they will be off every time. The same applies when shooting from the land rover, but put a piece of scrim net over the lens and as long as you are slow and deliberate when moving the gun in to position they seem to be unaware that your there. That is of course assuming that you are downwind, not smoking

Thanks for the kind words gentlemen. It took 89 days and is a total of 100 yards in length, 100% bagging on 50 yard lines. I think I could have done it a bit quicker but the fear of slipping knots made me quite exacting about the knitting. I'll be putting it to good use in the coming days and will update here on its handling, catchability etc. Many thanks to Tiercel & Netrigger for wise words along the way. HH all. G.

I opted for 100% bagging on my hand made net.....and after advice from some good men on here, used spun nylon 10/6, double knotted with a single strand of 10/9 for the selvedge. It is 12 meshes deep, 14 including the selvedge. The meshes are 4 and a quarter inch. After many weeks of knitting and suffering hands I finally finished it a week or so back. I couldnt wait to rig her up and see for myself what all the fuss about hand made netting is all about..... It was being blown up the lines but, to my eyes it looks under bagged...at least another 2 meshes depth required and

Cheers TC, 10/9 doubled up it will be. HH G.

F.A.O long net makers. I'm coming to the end of the body of my first long net. Question: Suggestions on choice of material and size twine for the selvedge... The net body is spun nylon in 10/6. I have a couple of spools of spun nylon in 10/9 which could be used for the selvedge but I am hoping for advice first. Am I right in thinking that a double selvedge increases friction along the head and foot lines thus helping to reduce the problem of net sliding up the lines in a cross wind? If so, do I need to go up to 10/9 and double that, or would it be as good to use the 10/6 doubled up.

Seasons Greetings All Out with the gun last night practising my resistance to sub zero temperatures Anyway, I had parked up the truck with the passenger window facing a hedge where earlier tracking had revealed a few bunnies might be around, set up the NV add on to the scope and had just settled down when out came the first customer. 1 fat winter buck droppped like a stone. As there was no twitching I left him where he fell rather than disturb any others that may be on their way. About 5 - 10 minutes passed and suddenly theres movement in the mouth of a hole about 5 yards from where

Thanks for the thought Allan, Your right about the geography, good tip about the wind As luck would have it the option to long net has been reduced by the recent heavy winds... the remaining leaf on all scrub and hedge in the locale has been obliterated leaving skeletal, gappy, twig like hedges. The road to the south of the pic lights up the field with each passing car, and unless I do a post midnight session midweek there's little chance of running out undetected. Light pollution is fast becoming the bane of my long getting life... The odd return trip with the ferrets may well be the simp

Thanks for input guys. Tiercel, I couldnt agree more about the blanking bit, I'm not worried if I do.... as you say yourself, assuming one puts the time in to thinking through where it could have gone wrong, the blanks are often more informative than the great drops. In our neck of the woods we have fields known locally as "Slinkets". This word apparently defines any field that is essentially a feeder or access field to others. They tend to be long and thin in nature and almost always have parallel hedges running along the longest edges. No doubt these occur in many places in the UK a

Hi Fat Ferret, Yes your description is right, I guess the reasons I would prefer netting in the position marked are that: 1. The scrub behind the net location is tall giving me a good solid background when running out and less likely I will spook them. 2. The distance between the hedge you are referring to and the grazing area is only 20 - 30 yards in which I doubt I have the stealth to run out without spooking. That said, the latest I have checked it with the NV gear is 10.30pm, maybe later would be worth checking? 3. Its the easiest point to reach when coming on to the site.

On the pic below the yellow patch is where the rabbits are feeding, the red dots indicate bury locations (approx 15 holes between the 2 sites) and the green lines indicate my simplest long netting option. The bury locations are currently empty having just ferreted 14 rabbits from them and another 11 from further down this hedgeline. The area behind the long nets lines also contains rabbits which are exiting through holes in rabbit fenceing marked as blue lines and crossing the meadow out to feed in the cereals on the other side of the hedge. My question is will... the rabbits that liv