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    fiesta

    Stavross replied to big sid's topic in General Talk

    Yeah, they are definitely of there time, the whole Ford thing still has a massive following, 3 or 4 years ago a lad I know sold a series 1 turbo for 36k and a 1995 escort cosworth for 80k and took early retirement in his mid 50’s, we used to do all sorts to them trying to get as much power out of them as we could and thought they were fast, even the cosworth is sh*t compared to what my missus has been driving for the last few years, these will be the next collectors car
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    fiesta

    Stavross replied to big sid's topic in General Talk

    I loved the fast fords, I’ve had them all, 2nd car was an E reg mk2 XR2 when I was 18, I used to drive it like a tw*t, I’ve also had, fiesta turbo, escort xr3, xr3i and RS Turbo and saf cossie, this is the one I wish I still had, MK1 absolutely untouched and mint, you can see my 93 RS 2000 in the back, now that was a bag of sh*t
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    I hope so ? I’ve put some graft into it this year I’m happy if I can put some good birds over the guns, up there the amount of birds you see to the amount shot can be poles apart, all comes down to who they go over, for example, if it goes over my mate Mosh there’s a good chance it’s going to die on the other hand, if it’s over me I like to think I’ve given it a fighting chance ?
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    There’s always someone who wants something out of something they are not involved in one of my drives ( oak wood ) has a boundary with next door and we put walking guns on their field to follow the beaters up shooting at anything that goes back over, next doors keeper hates this but the land owner doesn’t want to upset our landlady because he no doubt makes to much money farming her land, another reason the keeper hates it is it’s his birds we are shooting at ?
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    Well my birds are getting there, hopefully they’ll will have tailed up probably by the time we come to shoot, 2 weeks on Saturday, they are hammering the feed and I’ve managed to pull a few more in a bit further out to where the majority of our shooting takes place, the only place that seems a bit light on birds is the 2 piggeries drives, but this is to be expected as the forestry pen feeds these drives and that pen is 200 birds light this season, I am starting to see more every time I go up and I’m pulling a few into the tree side by feeding up the hedge backs so with a bit of luck they will
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    We have a good number of natives up at the shoot but don’t shoot them until after Christmas allowing the migrants to settle in a bit, a lot of the guns don’t shoot at them and that’s fine, some do and we have a couple of members that like to eat them, that’s fine too, I will shoot them late in the season, they are unbelievably fast through the trees and a real test, I won’t shoot at them going across a field but that’s just me
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    30 tonne of 20mm limestone chipping down and rolled, tidy enough, just need to talk him out of resining the full place next year now
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    You’d have no problem knocking a Russian tank out with a .22, I’ve been watching some videos of the Ukrainian drones and they are blowing the tanks up with what are basically fireworks ?
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    Mince and onion pie yesterday and roast beef today, I’ve got a lemon sponge in the over for later with a cup of tea ?
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    My mate asked if I’d go up to his farm this evening as he’d seen a fox in the yard, so I got there around 7 where I was met by him and his dad, well, it turned out that there was some terrier lads having a dig on his land without permission so that was the first thing to be sorted, now I won’t go into it because here isn’t the place, but what a complete bunch of disrespectful tw*ts, if you are told no then accept it and move on, anyway, after that carry on my mate said he’d stay out with me so we headed to the far side of the farm, no need for the caller, I spotted heat the other side of
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    We get absolutely tortured by them up at the shoot, it’s rare that I don’t come across someone where they shouldn’t be, summer is the worst with the caravan site next to the piggeries, once I was up there with Hugo’s dad just after combine and there was a group of teenagers running around in the field we were having a call in, they didn’t know we were there so I turned the caller off and waited hoping they would fu*k off, then for some reason only know to him, my mate lit them up with his lamp ? well, they all ran around screaming, I had to go to the campsite reception to explain what had happ
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    There was a lot of road kill up there today, I turn off to go to the shoot at the Wass/Ampleforth junction ( if you ever go that way towards Helmsley you pass a field on your left and when the trees start that’s my shoot right down to the little caravan park ) and that little patch of grass is where the fallow like to jump into the traffic, there’s always at least one dead a week on that corner
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    This weather needs to sort itself out, rained for days then 16 degrees today the birds don’t know what’s going on, the cocks are out on the rides fighting and younger birds are heading out far and wide i’m seeing a lot of tree rats around the feeders now the natural feed is disappearing, so the little.22 got an outing and I managed 5 of the buggers, it’s taking longer to complete my rounds now as I’m feeding right throughout the shoot, even feeding well away from the main drives, trying to create some smaller fill in drives by drawing a few birds in ?
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    This week I have mostly been playing with concrete, cobbles and type 1 little concrete pad for a wheelie bin shed, cobble edging for flower beds and grade off the yard and put down 40 tonne of type 1, rolled ready for gravel on Monday. Mad thing is it’s just to tidy it up until the shed is replaced ( with a family entertaining building ??) then he want the whole yard doing in resin, my mate worked out at about 70k to prep and resin it ? people might be struggling with bills but there’s definitely still money out there
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    Last night, sausage, mash and onion gravy tonight, chicken casserole with dumpling ?
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    Second batch of the bramble gin on the go, going to have to get another jar if I’m to get the other 3 done by Christmas ?
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    Alright windy Willis, don’t piss on me chips, I’m ever the optimist ? the weather looks more like spring than autumn for the next couple of weeks, temps not getting much below double figures over night I seen a few fallow today over the piggeries with a prickett and a slightly older buck at the back of Gordon’s pen if you fancy a walk out at the beginning of November, at least then we can shoot most of what we might see, with next door starting to shoot they will move further over out the way of the disturbance
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    Well it was an absolutely filthy day up at the shoot today, I’m managing to feed the birds into the drives now, cutting the feed down at the pens so they are getting off roost and going on the hunt for feed before the majority of them head back around the pens to roost, apparently next door had their first day yesterday, from what I’ve seen their birds aren’t quite ready but if they want to stir them up that’s up to them and I’m willing to feed them into my drives now I’m starting to see them on a couple of my boundaries, what I want now is some hard weather but at the minute that doesn’t look
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    When I was mechanicing we had a couple of contracts moving large steel section and it was 2 pairs of drivers, 2 paddy’s and 2 Polish, they all worked unbelievably hard and you never had any problems with them, they used to leave the yard on Sunday evening and return the following Friday, they were given £12 a night stop over and I sure they took it as a challenge not to spend it on frivolous things like a shower or soap, when they came back into the garage the place would empty because no one wanted to have to get inside them 2 trucks, I used to just see who pissed me of the most that shift an
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    I know, I’ve done it again look ??
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    Yeah ? got to keep my hand in ?
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    Yeah ? got to keep my hand in ?
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    Nice when you get a few, even better when you can put a smile on someone’s face who is greatfull when you drop them something off, I think I’m going to have a walk out myself with the shotgun this weekend as I’m home alone and it’s not often I get the time just to have a walk out on a Saturday afternoon ?
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    Your welcome, let us know what missiles you make with them ?
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    I was just interested in what others do, the rounds stuck in the barrel was mainly due to faulty ammo ( split neck ) but to be fair I should really take more care of the .17hmr and will do from now on, I was always told by an old gunsmith, don’t clean the .22lr but everything else run a few patches through after use just to make sure they are dry and clean them periodically ( whatever that means ??) I knew an old boy that had a single barrel 20 bore and he fired that when it had soil in the end of it, the end of the barrel looked like a bulb, he just sawed the end off and carried on u
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