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At the start of the season game dealers were paying £1.00 a brace, one of the shoots I go to they're paying 27 pence a brace (yesterday) and many shoots are getting nothing for them with the game dealers offering to pick them up for free. a guy I know runs a big shoot on the Cotswolds and most of the birds get buried after the shoot if the beaters don't want them, I can remember the days I got a £1.00 a trout, nowadays I give them away, a 1000 birds would cost the estate that lost them much money but the person that took them would earn more working in McDonald's Yeh true you wouldn't get muc
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At the start of the season game dealers were paying £1.00 a brace, one of the shoots I go to they're paying 27 pence a brace (yesterday) and many shoots are getting nothing for them with the game dealers offering to pick them up for free. a guy I know runs a big shoot on the Cotswolds and most of the birds get buried after the shoot if the beaters don't want them, I can remember the days I got a £1.00 a trout, nowadays I give them away, a 1000 birds would cost the estate that lost them much money but the person that took them would earn more working in McDonald's Yeh true you wouldn't get m
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At the start of the season game dealers were paying £1.00 a brace, one of the shoots I go to they're paying 27 pence a brace (yesterday) and many shoots are getting nothing for them with the game dealers offering to pick them up for free. a guy I know runs a big shoot on the Cotswolds and most of the birds get buried after the shoot if the beaters don't want them, I can remember the days I got a £1.00 a trout, nowadays I give them away, a 1000 birds would cost the estate that lost them much money but the person that took them would earn more working in McDonald's
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i don't even do that mate, I'm just taking my dogs for a walk, in the countryside, and at the moment that's still legal, it's also not illegal to occasionally get lost and walk for miles across private land in an attempt to get back to the public footpath you were trying to follow, I,m quite a solitary person and very rarely take anyone out with me which I think is one of the biggest problems with poachers, they tend to work in groups of two or more, which makes landowners more likely to phone the police than just come over and tell you to feck off, I got in much more trouble pre ban going out
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the trouble is saying it is easier than doing it, your obviously a caring person that's had the piss taken out of you over something that's still a little raw, but when your blood pressure returns to normal, you will be back to the caring person you are and hopefully carma will bring you something to return your faith in mankind,
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Jack Pyke Catapult/ Starship Conversion
Greyman replied to Kal's topic in Catapult & Slingshot Hunting
Nice one dude, if you look up a guy called blue skeen, he is an American slingshot legend, and uses a catty very simular, they call it a longtom, he was winning everything with it many moons before starships were fashionable, have you tried it with tbg on, I get a seven foot draw on my starship, and with 30mm tbg, and 12mm lead ammo, it's like hitting birds with a gun plus it puts less stress on your joints -
Part of my weekly wanderings take me across a lot of acres of marshy wetland, I don't know if it's the amount of fertiliser that gets washed out or the fact there is a landfill in the middle of it that leaches out all sorts of funny coloured liquids when it rains, but at certain times of year my dogs seem to get very sore underneath leading to scratching and nibbling and the odd bold patch, as it comes and goes, but is a regular occurrence, going back and forward to the vet to try this and try that gets a bit expensive, now when it flairs up I give them a good dusting in athletes foot powder,
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I was told when I bought it,that it would wear me out, before I wear it out, and I,m starting to believe it, proper marmite motor
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thats down to the stupid things they stick on like the egr valve and the dpf, they work alright when the engine is new and running clean but as it starts getting a bit older they just clog everything up with crud, it's all done in the name of the environment, but seems more like deliberately giving motors a shorter life,
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there is a compressor built inbetween the chassis rails, which runs off of the pto on the gearbox, so it's always been classed as machinery and never taxed or mot,d, I used to be allowed to run on red diesel until they changed the law a few year ago so it's been a very cheap and useful bit of kit to own, I even have air hoses, jackhammers and demolition guns with it that all still work fine and because of the extra weight in the chassis it's much better in the mud than a normal landy
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your right mate, today's Diesel engines are total rubbish compared to the engines of even the 90s, too much goes wrong and a fecking fortune to fix. To much electronic stuff on them nowadays. I know it's mental, my landrover still has a starting handle, once the glow plugs are warm the electrics cease to matter, I can start it with the handle and as long as the airfilter is above the water level it will keep running completely submerged, I have sat waste deep in water in the drivers seat driving through floods and don't even consider it stopping, gives me a ton of smug pleasure pushing a big
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your right mate, today's Diesel engines are total rubbish compared to the engines of even the 90s, too much goes wrong and a fecking fortune to fix. To much electronic stuff on them nowadays. I know it's mental, my landrover still has a starting handle, once the glow plugs are warm the electrics cease to matter, I can start it with the handle and as long as the airfilter is above the water level it will keep running completely submerged, I have sat waste deep in water in the drivers seat driving through floods and don't even consider it stopping, gives me a ton of smug pleasure pushing a big
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This is another reason I have just stuck a new engine in my 96 banana transit, as there is nothing on the road that will live with it, they may overtake me but nothing out there will out last me,,I am upto about 260,000 on the clock and with the engine change should be good for another quarter million miles, I have a mig welder to patch up the rust spots so there is know reason for it not to last me until I don't need a truck in my life anymore, i know another guy that has just sold off his nearly new van for work, bought a smiley face transit and had a nut and bolt restoration done on it for
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I always thought iveco was ford, just made in Spain? And in truth modern motors are as shite as each other because they share things like cheap tacky fuel pumps that will fail regardless of the badge on the bonnet, so I,d be looking for the lowest miles and most well maintained, sadly the days of transits doing 300,000 miles are becoming a distant memory,
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Fixing Flats To Gypsy Tabs
Greyman replied to poachers apprentice's topic in Catapult & Slingshot Hunting
the band goes round a small pin, I use a bit of tube,or a matchstick, you just double the last bit, around the pin, stretch the elastic and pull it down into the slit, takes a few seconds if you want a close up piccy let me know and I will stick one up -
Fixing Flats To Gypsy Tabs
Greyman replied to poachers apprentice's topic in Catapult & Slingshot Hunting
alright mate, if you have the tabs and like them, the easiest way I have found was to put a small piece of rubber pipe on the tab and whip to it, but usually I either button the top of the fork or put a small slit down the fork with an hacksaw, I will stick some pics up, the starship is whipped to a bit of petrol pipe, works well, and the natty,s are buttoned or slit, the hacksaw slit makes for the fastest band changes with know tying, cheers -
Just off to the PO here are your bands,tying strips and a bit of paracord to pull through, also a little brass and bone catty I,ve just finished polishing for someone in the Netherlands
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Moorhens live in and eat simular things to a duck, which tastes lovely, also all this talk of shotgun only quarry, we used to go out as kids with 9ft lb webley Hawks and bsa meteors, Mercury,s and shoot bucket ful,s of the things, in fact if you sit still near the water you could wack them with the butt as they come so close, I would think it mad overkill to use a shotty and there certainly would,nt be enough left for a meal after, have even shot loads with a catty as a kid, so get your field craft sorted out
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you are right as a carp angler of 30 plus years it's about holding the fish out and getting the camera as low as you can, but a big fish is still a big fish and if not photoshopped that's still a big old hare
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Just incase anyone is worried about the head or simular rare and endangered species, (because badgers are really rare and need all the help they can get )I think if you write to defra and explain the circumstances of your find they will give you a document, I had to do it last year when a sparrow hawk hit my mates window and died, know one would stuff the bird without the letter, but once obtained all was good and the bird was stuffed vigorously and legally
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will do you four sets for rogues and runners if your interested. Cheers
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My house is a very open one, for many different reasons, and at the moment I,m up to eleven for dinner, but that could still rise to around fifteen, if someone chooses to have Christmas alone good luck to them, but if someone is alone through death, divorce, or other shit in there life, I will make a space for them at my table,I don't even have to know them well, but that to me is what chrimbo is about, I could not give a shit about the latest must have gadget, but I would find it really hard to leave someone out in the cold, on the one day of the year when family and friends should be togeth
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Poachers On My Permission (What Would You Do?)
Greyman replied to Blueboybilly's topic in Lurchers & Running Dogs
The permission belongs to me though. Utopia for me would be that I am the only person hunting on my permission. And I bet that you wouldn't call me a dick if we were face to face pal Maybe the landowners need to get someone else as their eyes and ears ....if you need to ask the question on here how to keep poachers of your land you are not the man for the job ....poach.jpg A farmer who woke up to this last month with lads poaching his ground and its been an ongoing problem has contacted me through another farmer ...when I get back I have got permission on his ground now and the poacher pr -
someone asked me in November if I had my tree up yet, I said yes, up in the loft until Christmas, it's rediculous even the January sales start before Christmas
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how many sets of bands you after mate?