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Went out tonight with just the pup, not the best conditions, warm still and ambient light from a nearby industrial estate but the rabbits obliged lol. First rabbit, jumped about 10 yards away, he never saw it ?, second one, good run and put 3 turns into and unlucky. Third one, a squatter, took it out the seat ? two laps of the field later and he dropped it at my feet, well crunched ? Fourth one, he ran it into the hedge and it popped back out and he had it, couple of small circles and he brought it back, almost to hand. ? Had a few more handy ones but he wasn't looking d

Because if he hadn’t spent it all on silly cars and holidays he could be taking his foot off the gas now, instead of treading water till the grave, I go to work keeps me fit healthy and out from under her feet , but if all the fuel runs out or the next lockdown arrives I won’t be crying about being skint and how unfair it all is as I,ve made provisions, so I will enjoy a few months wandering the countryside, I know we are all very different, but I calculate most things into days of work, so the 60k Audi that you need to go to the shops in and do the school run, equates to about 2 years graft,

No one forced the young man to take out a 35 year debt, it’s part of the problem everyone wants it now and pay for it later, greb is a prime example moaning he can’t earn enough to live on yet a short while ago asking which car he should buy, Audi or merc, my answer would have been neither but one you can actually afford, I sacrificed a lot worked my but off and payed off my mortgage as soon as possible, I,ve never owned a vehicle that cost more than a grand and most half of that, as I,ve mentioned before I am uneducated have no qualifications, and spent a few of my early years in Borstals an

There is only problem to this driver shortage and that’s the fact the DVLA have a backlog of over 50,000 renewal and new applications for HGV licenses. If those useless fukctards did their job we wouldn’t be in this mess ……..

I don’t buy into all this saving for a rainy day. Last Friday was the first year anniversary of my best mate Chicky dying of a brain tumour. He was 47 years old had a very successful business and was earning real good money. Whenever I asked him about getting himself a new truck or a real nice Holliday he kept telling me he was putting it away for a rainy day etc …. Well that day never came for the poor f****r … he worked his bollox off and never really got to enjoy it. So my take on it is as long as my bills are paid then if I want something I buy it fukc the rainy day ……

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I've always struggled to get geese with a muzzleloader and be legal at the same time! Steel is a joke in a muzzleloader, not enough velocity really. Then one day in summer my local had a choked Pedersoli 10g double so I snapped it up. He also had some old Kent 12g cartridges loaded with #3 TM, so I got them too. A good friend got me under some flighting geese and around 50g of shot got one goose per barrel at about thirty yards plus. The next outing was not so good but I had some good fortune. The geese saw me and so turned meaning my friend and his son st

Just going topping up feeders this morning and this brute popped out . I haven’t seen him before , and as it was next to the edge of the shoot I might not see him again so , he had it . I reckon it will medal .

The paddy’s were brought in as cheap labour, the same as I was in Germany late 80s early 90s not given houses when the natives couldn’t get one or an unfair benefits system that payed out more than wages in there home country’s, i,m guessing you live somewhere rural and see it from a media point of view, I,m seeing it as someone that lived in a small English village, were doors were left unlocked Turned into a 3rd world shit hole were I recognise no one all the shops are foreign and old people are scared to go out at night ,this happened over 30 years in a place I thought I would never leave,

Let the fckin Afghans do it. My wife has problems with her thyroid. When her medication isn't right she sleeps constantly and has terrible memory. She does home care and crisis care for people with mental health issues. Currently she's only working half days as she's so ill. She colaspes and sleeps from 4pm every day. Supposed to get levels checked every 6 weeks, she's been asking for bloods to be checked since June and can't even see a doctor. Just been told she can get bloods taken in 3rd week October. Not at village clinic, not at hospital in next town but big hospital 24 miles away.

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I also pick up taps pipe and anything else of value, again more trouble than it’s worth for most, back of my van is full of it, I can earn around an extra 5k a year by picking up other people’s rubbish, again below most people today, Coal costs money, makes a lot of dust and gets on your chest, 10 mins on the drop saw will give me 24hrs of burning, plus I,m at work being payed as well as saving on skips all done and bagged ready for a cozy night of free heat ?

Those sinks will never burn ……

My daughter went through uni and left with close to 30k debt ( first person ever in my family which I’m extremely proud of) , she works and earns well, when she could not get on the property ladder she took out a 5 year loan and rather than spending it on cars and holidays she bought a boat,which she has lived on, the loan repayments were less than rent and she has almost payed it off, her boat is now worth between 40/50k which she can use as a deposit if she wishes to, the amount of people we know that visit us and say oh what a lovely way of life but I could never live like that, whilst livi

Nice to see you back mr sd? missed reading about your escapades! so much so I got me own sd?

Nice to hear from you Bernard. I think I can speak for most of the lads on the rifle section , “ about f@ckin time”.???

We have around I million unemployed, there should be none when the job market is full of jobs and wages are climbing, wren kitchens near me, £700 a week driving a van ffs, no immigrants needed just an attitude change and a belief in our own ??

Just made these bad boys. Cheers Arry

If we needed EU drivers before brexit that means there was already a shortage of homegrown drivers. I'm an hgv driver, my dad was a driver and most of my mates are drivers the shortage is nothing to do with brexit, its to do with the poor pay and conditions we've had for years. Instead of paying and looking after the drivers we had employers decided to get cheap labour from elsewhere. The big wages they talk about are for 50/60 hour weeks and some include weekends and Bank Holidays at standard rates. There's a driver shortage in Europe as well what's that got to do with brexit, France are star

Yet another take on the cheesecake; This time layered with orange and strawberry jelly. Cheers.

Welcome back Bernard, proper chuffed you're not dead.

Though I agree with the comments on the credit culture we have I don’t think it’s fair to treat mortgages the same. There simply isn’t an alternative. Renting would kill your savings and inflation constantly pushes the amount needed up. What’s the alternative? The reality is that young people are doing well to be mortgaged these days. Never mind buying outright.

I only have to read the above post from Oldphil to be reminded that whose employed in rabbit control know that, being paid does without a doubt change the dynamites of everyone evolved & it can become VERY stressful very quickly . Sport(craig) & paid rabbit work are two different animals ,so that said here is how I look apron it .I never offer anything I cant deliver ,I'm careful as to the type of Jobs I take on ,my operation is dog based and lends its self to smaller blocks and holdings .I don't take on big jobs as my methods wouldn't have the required outcomes for the landowner .I

What Phil said about the squirrels rings so true. The dog marked one up a tree in a hedge row once and what ever side I went the squirrel shuffled around the other side . I could only ever see a bushy tail. We kept this up for an age as I was determined. I turned around and the dog had gone and then ten minutes later he came trotting back with his own squirrel as if to say your pretty shite at this so this is how you do it. Bloody smart arse dogs hey

I don’t often shoot these , but he was on the border of the shoot and I haven’t seen him before. So before he disappeared or someone else shot him. He is now in the chiller. I reckon he will medal .

Had the old deer/grey cross Lima put down today. 12 1/2 year old, retired her at 10. She had mammary tumours for a while, which didn't seem to bother her, but it spread to her lungs and I didn't want to see her suffer so the deed was done. First cross deer/greys seem to have gone well out of fashion these days, and are derided by some, but were the go to dogs back before the Saluki crosses came along, up here at least ! Lima was a decent bitch, all round, considering she was 29" and around 75 lb. She lamped and took daytime hare, fox and roe; had her first go on the wh

There is not a shortage of fuel. There is just an excess of morons.

I have never had a decent radar, wether it was modelling tracksuits with Jimmy Saville, Shopping for sparkly jumpsuits with Gary Glitter……my building apprenticeship with Fred West or my Thursday night singing lessons with R Kelly…..it always seemed to go wrong for me

Has Gordon the Gofer been silenced ?……the country demands answers !

Alright, calm down with your fcuking Devon pasties ? Cheers, D.

My mate who now keepers a shoot in Northumberland breeds them , and works them to fox . He has got one or two to work to heel like a Labrador. But most of them are like hounds and get on a scent and are gone .?? He used to have a pack of Teckles turn up and join up with his and we used to have fox drives . They all had trackers on and it was great fun and productive. He imported a stud dog from the Ukraine recently, that is a very good earth dog . They have all got great noses .

I'm home alone.No kids No wife ,so I'm dancing in my sock feet to some good tunes.

Save for what ....a rainy day ?.....i think the rainy day has pretty much arrived dont you ?.......if a man cant enjoy a few luxuries in such depressingly bleak days as these then what was the point.

Cheers Arry

Housing will be the next problem, I'm waiting on selling my place abroad not so I can buy something here but so I can borrow enough to get a 25yr mortgage for somewhere half the size. I read bits about how single mum lived on nothing for ten years, now mortgage free, but how much have her kids gone without regards experiences and time as a family etc, it's a difficult balance, and unless you're left property you're a bit stuck if you want to buy something that isn't in a ghetto or deprived area, I've made my priority my kids , I want them to have stability and loads of life experience and tryi

I nicked another one this morning. Nothing like the first . I just thought I’d make it worth putting the chiller on .

Ive had the discussion many times over the years it comes down to torque versus horse power for me.....Joshua has lots of horse power ( explosiveness ).....but very little torque ( core strength )......comparing to someone like Joe Joyce will give the best example....he is the opposite Joyce has bundles of torque ( raw come forward,hard to to hurt type strength )....but very little explosive power......Joshuas gyms lifts are not particularly impressive for a big muscular guy as he just doesnt have the skeletal strength,joint strength....thin wrists,thin ankles etc but has massive fast twitch/e

Who are you calling a geek, turnip ead!?

I did paid rabbit control jobs for a while but to me it turned a passion into hard work and took the enjoyment away quite a bit. People whining about you not catching rabbits that don't exist on their land, they see the same one or two in different spots and think they have hundreds, lol. Expecting you to hand over all rabbits caught, insurance, GST. It beats most jobs but I prefer to call all the shots in my hunting time.

But if you didn’t have your nice car. Sky sports and put that money away you would save

Never ending job mate but don't let them know I need a larger rifle!

Please don't let my foxes find out 17hmr don't work on them lads? shot dozens since my last visit lads with hmr. 100% success rate. Now I use to berate the hmr but ever since I manned up over and got one it is my go to rifle. In fact my 22 is all but redundant! And to be honest, all though 22 ammo is cheaper I spend more on it, why? Because its that boring I plink a box away whenever I go out with it! Noise wise I find the hmr unobtrusive. It's supersonic crack is nothing really. Anyway. You all OK?

Theoretically,..that small jaw spread of the BMI 55 would seem to be ideal for a grey squirrel getting his head into,.and then,..crack,..lights out..? I have had good results when this has occurred, especially when using the trap in soffits or small gap entrance holes in roof spaces, where the animal is forced to place his head into that crucial kill point,...but, other than that,..I'm not confident of a quick, clean,...humane kill...? Early on , when I first brought these wee traps over from the States,.I wanted to have evidence (for various Governing bodies?) that these traps were

Like all things mate, it ain’t just black and white is it. Depends how many hands are helping themselves to that 700 quid? My pal has a really “good” job as maintenance supervisor on that big new port round my old way, he is a time served welder….skilled bloke. I think he gets around 40,000 a year and he was telling me his family never has any spare money, ever ! He ain’t a big flash type, not living big or beyond his means, just a normal lad. All he does is work to pay bills and gets very little for himself…..how f***ing soul destroying is that ? That ain’t right in my

Sounds like my last wife, when I'd piss the bed ?

Ducks are starting to arrive in Dixie.

An otter usually swims under the water with only his head above water.On certain occasions I have seen an otter float on top of the water exposing his back.When they float in this manner they are angry and will return to a terrier for another tussle.This little devil returned to the terrier and started up again.