Stavross
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It’s not looking good, 12 people missing and thick fog and rain
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Well done young fella thats like taking down a horse for the mouse gun ?? p.s. I like the way the ir mounts on the rifle
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Knowing the person who gave me it, it would of been rubbing on his diamond encrusted cartridge belt ?
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I’ve got my fingers crossed, it was perfect conditions today, we are forecast rain by mid morning but that can easily be snow up there
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Well, I’ve been given a few more items and sadly with the covid spread and the over indulgence of Christmas they are a little bit on the snug side for me, so though I’d offer them to the more athletic members first off is a Beaver of Bolton gamekeeper tweed vest/gilet it’s 44” ( large ) now it does have a hole in the lining but when you have it on you can’t see it, the outside is in very good condition, I had a look on line and these are between £140 and £170 new secondly is a Beaver of Bolton wool v neck tanktop size large with an embroidered duck logo, this is new and has never be
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Feeding this morning, pre shoot day, when I set off it was cold but clear, by the time I’d got on the top there was between 3 and 4 inches of snow, first port of call was the farm to load the quad with wheat and off to the forestry pen, that’s where the problems started. On getting to the pen there wasn’t a bird to be seen, so I walked around the back of the pen as I could hear a bird taking flight and going mental, where I was greeted with a black spaniel running riot, now I know that this little tw*t belongs to a lass that works for forestry, so off I went to find her as this is not the firs
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that, I knew someone who had one it was a good bit of kit, very similar to the pulsar but without all the crap you don’t need and a lot cheaper, still needed a good ir
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This is just my opinion and as it means nothing in my house I don’t expect it to mean anything here everyone does different types of shooting and in different ways, You need to try a few and see what works for you, if any. What works for one may not work for the other, if I was to go out with FH I’d use the lamp because that’s how he does it and it works for him, where as when I go down to Robin Foxers I use NV and thermal because that’s how they do it, there’s no right and wrong, just different ways and what works for you, around here some of the RFD’s do NV evenings where you can go and
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First of the year (a post by IanM)
Stavross replied to BenBhoy's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
Another cracking ianm write up and well done for keeping Ben busy, giving him less time to send me disturbing selfie’s on WhatsApp ? -
I like the wraith I use on the .223 but it’s not without fault, there’s probably 3 things that annoy me a bit with it, first and most annoying is when I have it set on the mag I want it on ( normally x8 ) and want to put it on standby it drops a mag down to x4 ( the mag goes up in 4’s ) so before I put it on standby I find myself going up a mag to x12 so when I turn it on it’s on x8, secondly, it goes up to x24 digital mag, past x12 it’s pretty much unusable, x4, x8 are very clear x12 is ok for a long shot, the rest is a waste of time, thirdly, the ir it is supplied with is pants and it works
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Glad you are getting on with it, I liked the calibre the first time I used it but still know a lot of people that for one reason or another hate it, I had a similar opinion to the .223, I always thought it was a bit pointless.243 does whatever.223 does and more and I thought.22-250 did what the .223 did, only better and always said I’d never have one, but now I think it’s a cracking little rifle for night time foxing, I guess every calibre has its place if used for the right job and if it suits the type of shooting your doing then it’s right for the job
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Up feeding this morning and it was a lovely clear frosty morning, looking out to the east over Helmsley and beyond you could see for miles, looking out to the west towards Richmond it was white, we are forecast some snow on the high ground this week, so we’ll see what comes of that. The birds are still in the drives I would expect them to be in this time of year and are still eating well, only shot 2 squizzers today but seen a good dozen as I bombed around on the quad
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It’s crazy how many there is this year, I normally shoot a few every time I’m up feeding but you wouldn’t think I’d shot one, I’ll hopefully organise a squizzer day early February, see if we can help the song birds a bit?
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That’s what I normally do up there if they are not dropping in and I’m on my own there’s loads of pheasants, partridges and ducks up there and a few bolting rabbits for a place that’s not very big
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Now I know that’s not true because she hates everyone equally
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It’s not about shooting pigeons it’s about keeping farmer john happy so I can still do what I want up there, shooting them on winter rape is ok as long as it’s not freezing and they are not flocked up, I’ve had some good days at them in the past in January and February on rape when the temp is up a bit and there’s nothing else for them to eat
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I really wanted to go for a ruff wander today but I’ve been getting plagued by the lad at the sheep farm about the pigeons on the rape, so me, Mosh and longshanx met there for a go at them, god, I wished I’d gone for a wander, 4 hours for 3 pigeons, it’s not even they wouldn’t decoy, they just weren’t about, I even tried the make a cup of tea trick, but still they didn’t come Feeding tomorrow, so maybe I’ll have a walk around the forestry with the little.22
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Who’s been telling you that your a good man ?
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A quick trip to the sheep farm tonight as lambing starts in a few weeks, when I left the house the weather looked perfect, very dark and a stiff breeze, by the time I got to the farm it was raining and blowing a hoolie but I thought sod it I’m here I’ll give it an hour, well nothing showed and who could blame it with the rain beating down and the wind strong enough to blow me over, I had a go at a 75 yard rabbit on the way back to the motor and couldn’t even hit that with the wind blowing me all over ?
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I use the primos gen3 trigger sticks and I love them, they are very stable and I can follow what I’m looking at, I had the gen2 tripod before these and I liked them but the new ones are a lot more stable, I do like quads for deer mind, especially when your in a fixed position waiting for one
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No, it’s just as easy to switch it on from the back when it’s on the side, I started putting it on the side when someone lent me a nv add-on years ago and I found it easier to adjust the ir
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I find it sits better, I mount it on the left so my hand is already on the left hand side when I want to switch it on or if I need to adjust it while looking through the scope
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If I use a torch on a scope I use a nightmaster 800 with the big head, the nightmaster mount is to low so I use a bigger one that you can get off eBay, I also mount it on the side of the scope not on the top
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I was never very good just using my hand, my mate Mosh is really good at it, In the summer I used to use a thick blade of grass between my thumbs, that worked well, sounded like a hare death call
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There’s nothing better than doing it with a lamp and a mouth caller, ( or just your lips and hand ) I know a lot of people who have only used NV and thermal, they are not proper fox shooters to me, it’s great when you just go out to see what you can find, on a couple of places like the sheep farm and the shoot NV and thermal has made my life a lot easier, where I’m expected to do a job ?
