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THAT BOUGHT MY HW100KS OFF ME What a nice lad he is very respectful of my and vizs perm and listened to every thing i sayd to him not that he needed to i cleared it with sean first that i was going to take him and show him the ropes . Dont know what you lads are like but me and sean dont take any one on with out the other saying so any way got there after 6 and i got the hw97 out took the first one out of the tank window at 48yrds (paced) nice head shot All Chris could say was nice shot that jimmy set his zero at 30 yrds Hw100 177 ks using jsb 8,48,,, 4,52 d

he has just been offered a pup out of it lol

Likewise, wife and daughters off to watch Tom Jones me son and grandson left at home with this, and a night of female free boxing, what a bummer ??

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Went to some local perms this morning, first was allotments, seen a rabbit and got it, seen a fox on the path aswell so got a pic of it on my phone, zoomed in as it was far away thats why pictures crap, left there and went to some paddocks and got another 1 then went to a few fields, seen a few but only got close enough to get 1 so 3 in all.

£20 belly of pork, boned out last night coated in madras paste and placed in the fridge overnight in cling film, ribs coated in smoked paprika and Tommy ketchup for spare ribs last night, then it was time to roll out the spit again, it never gets boring and brings out the inner cave man

Get them fibreglassed will still have sitting water on but will remain watertight for long after you stopped worrying about it , ?

Hi to all, I’ve just posted war and peace in the welcome new members topic which sets the scene for this reply so I won’t waffle on too much again here but just to say a massive thank you to bigmac 97kt for taking me out last night and thanks also to vislauk for the blessing. what a fantastic night I had out apart from the rain doing its best to mess it up for us we plodded on and I’m thrilled to have christened the hw100ks with a nice 70yder although I admit I watched the first shot on 2.5 mill dots fall short and adjusted for the second to drop it cleanly... at least I’m getting to know

What the f**k was that all about last night what an embarrassment....besides all the nonsense outside the ring the fights inside it were diabolical Khans fight looked staged and why does anybody with the surname Fury get washed up old men or Bulgarian fishermen for opponents that lad Hughie has fought for a world title whats he doing in a 1/100 bout ! Should be a better show tonight im looking forward to Dubois v Gorman i think its a little too early for Danny he,s a shy quiet young boy in a mans body being brought along far too quickly in my opinion.....a defeat shouldnt hurt either of t

Nice one Stavross . Before I was keepering . I Had a plastering / outside rendering business and have worked for myself for years . But ultimately your customers are your “boss” while you work for them . Its only happened to me twice but I literally have left jobs before I’ve even got the tools out of the van . One customer didn’t want her flower beds ruined, that were next to her house , “we had to hack off the old render and re- render” what did she think was going to happen? Another guy when I arrived with the team to start work on his house appeared at the door in a high vis vest hard hat

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Feed them right from the start .......

,i know you need to assess and consider the temperament but as ive met the dog ,spoke to a man that used the dog as stud and he told me the offspring he produced have developed into very keen working dogs ,very biddable animals and in no way neurotic ,its enough for me to use him,the fact he was bought for one thousand euros ,im sure the current owner checked out this side of the dog as well as the working ability ,and he says he leaves the dog around the farm yard where the kids play with him and he is no bother to anyone,but always ready to do the job in an instant ,that for me is the the en

Think that’s it. There’s going to be good and bad on both sides. I have 2 dogs and a bitch pup. I feel like I have bonded better with the bitch. I think the more you have bonded with them the more you enjoy working with them.

No difference at all its just your own preference

One thing I have always struggled with is the idea that someone can give me a telling off, firstly I don’t care what you think and secondly I’m not 12 years old and just took your sweets off you, I treat everyone the same I work with, I’m not bothered who you are or what position you hold, you are just someone who has a different job to me, I’ve come across a few people that would do well to remember that respect is earned not given ?

If you ad up all the time you waste why the dogs cock the fecking leg up every post Bush and match stick on average every 3 seconds a bitches season is nothing, drives me up the wall lol Bitches for me?

Had a guy try telling me off once, I was doing a mate a favour an didn't even work there, this old guy says "while your here you can go check out the mains in that shed", me "no thanks", him "do you know who I am", me "no, do you know who I am?" him "no", me "well fukcoff then", he did a dance and walked off scratching his head, he was the owner of the quarry and even asked my mate if I'd return to work for him as he'd never been spoken to like that, and respected me ? I never returned, hated working in mucky ole holes ?

I no longer post to this site, however I watch. I saw Smithy several times at work, he was a very big lump of a dog. Not kept at a sporting weight as he was always kennelled, tall as yr knees. I saw him on couples let up the block end and staked down. Yes he was hard, but never ever saw him dug to, and as we know, any can be brave above ground, I saw him always the above. As were several other marvelous digging "STUD" dogs. That have now got fame. Yeah ! Great ten foot dig to a never mentioned whatever bitch but these inflated gladiators were all that got mentioned. They were all at it, p

A couple pics of carriage horses. They were invented by Henry Ford

Thanks for letting me join this forum and I look forward to learning from you all and sharing this great hobby. I don’t quite know where to start this post but here goes.... as a young lad I enjoyed shooting air rifles with my friends and it seemed like back then everyone had either a rifle or a catapult and we would spend hours out in the fields hunting ( before the days of PlayStation ??) ,then after spending a good few years of my adult life as a soldier which was undoubtedly influenced by many hours stalking and messing around in the fields(I’m now a civvy again). Now with 2 chil

£20 belly of pork, boned out last night coated in madras paste and placed in the fridge overnight in cling film, ribs coated in smoked paprika and Tommy ketchup for spare ribs last night, then it was time to roll out the spit again, it never gets boring and brings out the inner cave man

The mind just boggles as to what else is in there. To me, this just sums it up: https://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tvfilm/chris-packham-admits-he-loves-the-smell-of-a-grass-snake-s-anus-on-bbc-radio-4-a3290666.html

Having springer in the mix has certainly added some hunting drive......easier to tra8n than the collie crosses I’ve had too, not that they were hard to train. She’s just so bright and eager to learn.

Few pictures I was sent of the pups

Any dog will learn to catch stuff with brain rather than speed if its out enough. Ive a little bushing bitch catching rabbits all the time and had variety not even a year old. Just get them out amongst stuff. Seen coursing dogs only ever pointed and slipped learn to mark snatch up bolters point to birds retrieve off the water all that.

Nothing to do with shooting but as I was looking through the hunting life as it happened I thought I would share it, now I’m at one of my jobs today ( the one I don’t like ) and for some reason the owner of the business is here wandering around the workshop ( horrible little tw*t ) and for the purpose of this little story we will refer to him as fat lad, so I’m having an unofficial tea break and looking through THL and fat lad walks up to me and says fat lad - do you know we have a no phone policy in place here stav - yep fat lad - so why are you on yours stav- I’m having

are you serious... you want to know who bred a white bitch over a hundred years ago...why ?

Lots of lurcher will hunt , some better than others depending on the cross ,some are better equipped for the task , the amount of effort put in to getting them out ,where your hunting , if there's very little to chase then the catch rate will be low and the learning curve very wide ,and being around other dogs knocking stuff out and catching will help bring a dog on in leaps and bounds but I believe a dog that wants to kill it's prey will be a lot more committed in cover than a dog just hunting , commitment to the task is all important from man and dog combined !!!

send it too packham he can keep it in his freezer with his poodle ?

the old adage a bitch is a nuisance twice a year. a dog is a nuisance 12 months of the year.

Do you know who i am ,i believe is the latin for "you must have heard of mee im the biggest cnut that works here

for mooching , any herding type lurcher, collie ,kelpie , gsd , these type breeds , ave great nose for finding quarry , rabbits, birds ,all my dogs are brill in the day, and good lamping dogs . like been said most lurchers will use there nose to find game, but some xs like above are that bit more keener i think ., and that from messing about with different type lurchers in 30 odd years .

males, you can work them all year, haven't got have hassle when they come in to season (heat) , and in general males can have harder temp than bitches , not all ive got 2 males here with sensitive temps, and i had a bitch was as hard as nails . but as said on average a good male dog are the better working dog i think .

because like most rifles they can be improved with work, TX and pro sport can be smoothed out by removing the steel top hat, polishing the spring ends, polishing the piston rod and trigger sears, and adding some delrin bits, and very importantly correct lubing, especially of the synthetic bearings the piston runs on.

He was bred in Cork ???

I've been around a few Kelpies and Kelpie lurchers over the years and can honestly say that their temperament was spot on?

....or I will scream! Walked miles today shooti......scaring winged vermin on crops and had a blast. Got some good sho.....scaring done. Then near the end of the walk bumped into stoaty. A little squeak to get his attention and that was that. Don't tell me I can't do this as resus is a no go!

Well: My non indexing (2011 from new) .177 HW100 is finally fixed and working. After too long (my fault) and 2 different 'fixit' shop visits, my Rifle finally works flawlessly! I took it back to Gun Room Ivybridge (the original supplier) who assured me it was OK; it wasn't. Then much later (2 years) to Helston Gunsmiths & £42.00 later no different (worse in fact 'cos it lost pressure as well as not indexing), then back to the 'new and revived' Gun Room Ivybridge, they had it for 3 weeks and allegedly cannibalised a 'NEW' stock HW100, but whatever they did they have

It is...... Clever dick ?

I think of the sighted lost catch more than the banked or boated catches over the yrs, for me fish losses test. your passion and resolve for the game esp if you all but touched the fish before the hook falls out or some kind of other drama ,I’ve had plenty of success at loosing fish when all but played out ?the longest saga started almost 15 yr back and bounced back to create a double mind bender , always wanted a big jack over the years and on my lucky day a big horse eye was close to landing when mr shark thought it would be funny to leave me with the head only ok I can deal with th

Agree

Nice one jim.. always nice to show someone the ropes and even better when you get on really well? 72yards... you’ll be blocking his number if he keeps improving ?

Ego. It can turn a decent individual into a life long jerk for life in the blink of an eye!

Beddy x. Atb

Pm our team he would be the best to ask

Donny C ?

Just about an hour or so gone back to the beginning of this thread. What an eye opener. Brilliant. Headphones securely on and can't hear her indoors . Marvellous. Jok.

Not really my thing but my youngest lad has joined local club.never misses a day .also gets good advice of the old fellas .