Stavross
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For an all rounder you won’t buy better than ridgeline, for when I’m with the posh nobs on shoot days I’ve got my Musto keepers jacket ( not cheap, but the best jacket I’ve owned ) shooterking is to expensive and doesn’t look as good as Musto and shoffel, just my opinion, it means nothing in my house and I don’t expect it to mean anything here ?
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Back up feeding today and the dog walkers are driving me mad, I’ve put a sign up at the entrance to one of the the drives, for what good it will do, no doubt they’ll ignore it or kick it over, on a brighter note this weather is what I’d expect and the birds are tailing up nicely, so long may it continue, my feeding of next doors birds is working a treat, they are spending all day in my fields now and were enjoying the last of the sunshine this afternoon along the hedge back I’m feeding them on. I was told they had their first day yesterday, I hope it was a partridge day because their pheasants
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Weather is looking decent coot, hope you have a cracking day ?
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I’d shoot them now, just to annoy him, obviously I’d want him there to see me do it ?
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This is what it should be like, lovely clear blue sky and about 6 degrees, we need a bit of frost on a night now and I think my birds will be ok for the first day in November ?
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Yeah, it’s a lot of woods, it does make some really good pheasant shooting, it’s all farmed for timber in forestry blocks by the forestry commission, but it’s privately owned and leased to them, we have got a few fields and if we were to put strip cover in ( like maize ) we could probably hold partridge but that would just be another thing for me to worry about and most of them don’t appreciate what I do now, so sod’em?
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You should be grateful that this fine land has welcomed you with open arms, even though your lot has a dubious history with our woolly friends ?
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His birds are no where near mine, ( they put about 3000 down ) by this time of year they know where they live, so what you get is his birds coming out onto my shoot and you just need to keep them interested with feed and go around them to stop them heading for home, we are not set up for partridge with it been 80% woodland, saying that nether are they, that’s why you find them walking down forestry track looking confused
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That’s the plan, I’m thinking I might push them through the rape and over the trees and stand the guns on the track the other side of the trees ( that’s where the gutter is we walked past that looks like it should be full of roe ) I’m getting a few of their partridge along my oak wood drive as well, which will be something a bit different as we’ve never put partridge down its a shame he is the way he is, the keepers that have been there before have always been spot on and we would help each other out and never do anything like this, but if you are seen dogging birds off my fields, if I ca
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I find it the ideal gun to have on the front of bike, there’s not a pest it won’t deal with ?
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Up feeding this afternoon and autumn is fully here even though it’s about 20 degrees, the birds are starting to tail up, some a lot quicker than others. I’ve got birds throughout the shoot now and at the minute they are doing what I want them to, by moving around in groups and not all just walking off together. Speaking to the old girl it seems next doors keeper is being his usual dickhead self, by bashing his gums at the old girls daughter, so that’s it fu*k him, I’m going to carry on feeding his birds onto my land and then I’m going to let the members shoot them all ? I was telling the shoot
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I like the little.22 for shooting them off the feeders around the shoot, I used to use the hatstand semi for shooting them out the trees but I don’t have that anymore, I like to leave some up in the trees for the kids to have a go at on shoot days ive always wanted a hushpower, but for some reason I’ve never got round to getting one
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I’ve screen shotted that, I’m taking you down Bhoy ?
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Was that baaaarbra ?
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Sorting out someone else’s mess
Stavross replied to Stavross's topic in Home Stuff, Building and Leisure
I’ve been a HGV mechanic for the last 25 years, I’m just making this sh*t up as I go along ? -
This is a nice one, like a bottle of pop
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I’ve just dug the luggage scales out the cupboard ( don’t think we’ll be using them for a while, I don’t like going on holiday anyway) and put them in my rifle bag, bit like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted but you never know I might come across another big’un in the future
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That looks amazing ?
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No, I don’t take scales with me, I really should put the luggage scales in my gun bag, it’s not very often I get one this size
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Saturday seems to have turned into whatever is left in the fridge, make a pie out of it, chicken, potato, carrot, shallots pie cooked with white wine and chicken stock, bit of veg and a few new spuds
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I decided to have an hour or so up at the sheep farm tonight, I thought I’d give the far side of the farm a go, so set off. When I got to the top of the first field I ran the thermal along the hedge backs where I spotted some heat at the bottom of hedge, I wasn’t sure what it was but thought I’d give it a mouth call, it moved from the bottom of the hedge but through the thermal I still couldn’t make out what it was, so switched the NV and IR on, the eye shine told me it was definitely a fox but I still couldn’t see enough of it for a shot, a few more squeaks and out it came into the field head
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Looks like you’ve had a great day of it ?
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I’ve been asked by a couple of different people in the past for myxy rabbits to drop on their land, it’s something I’d never do, if I shoot one I always remove it
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Showing your age there mate, that was on the idiot box before I was born ( only just mind ) ?
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