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  1. Stavross
    You would think that a variation would be through in no time as none of them are doing first time grants at the minute, but as Ian said they are using it as an excuse
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    My .243 certainly makes them deader than the .223 i gauge deadness by the size of the hole the round puts in them, I’ve shot them with the .223 55gn and you would think they were just asleep, then I’ve used the .243 with sako 70gn ballistic tip and you could use it as a glove puppet ?
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    I’d say it’s my favourite calibre, but to be honest I like them all ?
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    Chicken and mushroom pie with a chicken, white wine and cream sauce
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    I know something won’t be right, if he does only one thing right, I hope it’s hand feeding wheat in the straw and under the scratchers ?
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    Up again today and an early start so I could see where they were heading, as I expected onto the drilling and the stubble, there was not a many today as the weather is on the change now and it was a dull morning, keeping them a bit tighter in. I’m at the stage now where I’m swapping them over onto wheat and they are doing what they always do, flicking the wheat out the feeders to get at what little bit of pellet is mixed in with the wheat, I hung around until mid afternoon, doing a few jobs around the farm for the old girl and as expected there they come waddling through the yard heading back
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    They always say that and then it snows in July ?
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    Feeding again today and they really are starting to look like proper pheasants now, they are throughout the shoot but the majority are still coming back to the pens to roost, it’s the water that’s bringing them back as the whole place is bone dry, I’ve got a good number of birds that have set up home over in the piggeries drives, some ours, some next doors so I’ve got a couple of water troughs in the middle along with some wheat to hopefully hold the birds, again the only water over there is what I’ve put out, usually by this time of year it’s soaking up there, but this good weather looks like
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    They are spot on there, did me a good deal on my .223 and did an overnight RFD transfer to Northallerton shooting and didn’t charge me ?
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    I know someone who has a few goats and they are horrible little tw*ts, all they want to do is headbutt you, I was working in one of the paddocks, on my knees with my back turned and one of the little sh*ts ran from the other end of the paddock and butted me in the back, took the wind out of me, good and proper
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    Is it because they put up more of a fight that a ewe ???
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    The only aim in life for a sheep is to escape or die in the most random way possible ?
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    It was an adult dog and the back of its head was missing, I said, send me a picture and he called me a sick basta*d and said he’s chucked it in the hedge and was not going back to take a picture of it ?
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    Cracker that mate I had an hour at the sheep farm tonight, seen 2 on the farm but nether was having any of it, disappearing onto next doors land, at one point a cat almost got it, it was only when I got it to come into the field that I noticed the tail and the little round head, it just goes to show, never take the shot unless you are 100%, when I left the farm I drive past a reservoir that the farmer has ewes in, looking into the field I seen the unmistakable head of a fox through the thermal, pulled over, loaded the rifle, rested between the door and the windscreen, the fox didn’t move
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    I told him not to forget to water it, I think it was lost on him ?
  16. Stavross
    Cheers mate, since the virus came and people were stuck at home the type of work we were doing changed a lot and money that would be spent on holidays is now been spent on gardens, the amount of India sandstone I’ve put down in the last 12 months is nuts, I’ll be glad to start a ground source heat pump job tomorrow, back to what I’m good at, digging holes ?
  17. Stavross
    Around 30 grand, there’s about 15 grand in the grass and the cushion matting, then there’s 120 tonne of type 1 stone, all the drainage gear, about 3 1/2 grand in the sleeper wall and fence, then there’s all the other bits, 40 bags of postcrete, half a tonne of paving sand, decking screws at 50 quid a box etc, it soon adds up
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    He’s not daft that lad, turned up in shorts knowing that I’d be putting feeders out and having to walk through nettles and brambles “ oh look I’ve got my pasty bread stick looking legs out, you’ll have to do all the work”. I work with him as well, I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to winter ?
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    But will she, I’m worth more dead than alive to the missus ?
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    My missus has been really sick the last week, cough ? runny nose sore throat, 4 COVID tests later, it turns out she was the only person in England to have a cold ?
  21. Stavross
    6th of November is the first day, we’ve only got 7 days this year, just the way the weekends fall this year, we have a day pencilled in for the 1st of January but a good 50% of the syndicate aren’t happy about that day, that could be a cracking day if we go ahead with it, because we can do all the boundaries because 100% next door won’t be shooting
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    Big busy day for me up at the shoot today, feeders placed out, feed around the pens, tracks made to get the quad down, new security light fitted and signs ( for dog walkers to ignore) put up for the old girl, I was joined later in the afternoon by a rare beast in these parts, the lesser spotted shoot captain who had brought me half a tonne of wheat, he told me that a couple of members want to help out, (REALLY) they want to do what I do, up there every 48 hours, no matter what the weather or what the missus has planned, oh, it’s the weekend and she wants to go shopping and out for a bit of di
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    Good little trip out that, some proper little trouble makers sorted out there ?
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    That’s top class that mate, I can’t see you ? oh, wait a minute, your behind the camera ??
  25. Stavross
    Simple answer is no foxes / small deer .243 covers both rabbits .22lr 99% of people who have FAC have one and I would guess for the majority it was the first rifle they had on their ticket cant answer about range’s because it really doesn’t interest me
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