Jump to content

Stavross

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    7,282

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    25

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Stavross

  1. Stavross
    Thought I’d have a break from the work around the shoot this evening and take myself for a walk around some local fields to shoot a few rabbits, now I know it was a full moon and as still as it could be but I expected to see a bit more than I did, half a dozen rabbits seen, 2 rabbits shot and one of them wasn’t on my fields, I did notice a hell of a lot of mice through the thermal, no wonder there’s so many barn owls around, well, not much shooting but it was nice to be out on my own for a bit
  2. Stavross
    Depends where you live
  3. Stavross
    For what you pay for jack pike I think it’s ok, the shirts, jumpers etc are all good enough, I would say that the wellies and the boots are absolute sh*t but there’s very few shooting clothing companies that make good footwear, if you pay a few quid more you won’t go wrong with deerhunter or seeland. Harkila make some really nice gear but it’s top end price wise and if I was spending that kind of money I would buy schoffel or Musto ( personal choice you understand, I’ve got nothing against Harkila ) two expensive ones to stay away from are shooterking and swazi and another good mid range one t
  4. Stavross
    The stuff is fine, other cheaper brands to look at are Seeland, Percussion, Game and a little bit more expensive Deerhunter when I’m out on shoot days and want to look like a posh knob, I wear Musto, Barbour, Schoffle, Chameau and the likes, but my Musto shooting jacket was about 300 quid and is no more waterproof or warmer than my 60 quid Game smock I wear when I’m out fox shooting in winter
  5. Stavross
    It depends on what shooting you are doing, in daylight you will never beat good quality glass, on a night you will never beat good quality glass as long as what you are shooting at will stand long enough in a light for you to shoot it, if it won’t and you want to make your life easier use nv for the night
  6. Stavross
  7. Stavross
    We’ve all been there, I’ve missed a couple of sitters in recent months
  8. Stavross
    I used to moan about it every day but I guess that’s because I did it for so long, my last job was 7 years at IVECO I was paid more than anyone else in the garage because all they could get was car mechanics and needed someone who knew about trucks, before that I was gaffer at a tanker/road haulage company where I specialised in chemical tankers ( that was a good job, before they were bought out) if you are thinking about it, I’d look at the HGV side, it pays a lot better than a car mechanic, a few of my mates still do it and they are all on 40+ a year and cars are to small, you can’t hit them
  9. Stavross
    It’s been a cracking afternoon and you’ve certainly made the best of it ?
  10. Stavross
    I was more pushed than jumped, I was a HGV mechanic for 25 years and always worked 4 on 4 off so worked with my mate doing all sorts of groundwork on my days off ( drainage, foundations, patios, horse arena’s, anything outside) when the virus came they furloughed everyone apart from 4 of us and put us 4 on 5 days a week and knocked 10 hours pay off us, the buggers at home were being paid more than me, so I told the gaffer to fu*k off and started doing this full time, it’s been a bit up and down but I’m lucky, my missus is an accountant and has a really good job, my old gaffer has rang me 4 tim
  11. Stavross
    Job finished, sanded and brushed ( by hand ?10m by 30m ) the bloke doesn’t like it, I think he was expecting a five a side football pitch, not fake grass, his missus and the kids love it so seen as that’s all that counts fu*k him, I think it looks really good
  12. Stavross
    That looks lovely, I’m doing that this weekend ?
  13. Stavross
    Speaking to my mate, he said a ruff guess 180 for feed wheat, but could go a few quid ether way, he said the harvest was really good, they weren’t expecting it at the beginning of summer seen as we had no spring, but since then it’s been perfect growing conditions
  14. Stavross
    They are an absolute shower of sh*t, the lad rang me last night to ask me how I got on, he got a proper blasting and then said thanks for going up, like he was my boss and I’d done him a favour ive been told 180 a ton for wheat, but we’ll see, we don’t pay for it until February
  15. Stavross
    It’s Louis Lamb and if you have take it form that little girl for your own pleasure you are a bad man ?
  16. Stavross
    Back up feeding this afternoon and I’m about to lose my sh*t, the last two feed days another member has been to feed, ( this is a pain in the arse for me, but it’s a syndicate, so if they want to help I can’t stop them ) after they have been they have rang me to tell me what they have done and what I’ve asked them to do, clearly lied ? to me, not a scrap of feed in any of the feeders, the birds are all over the place looking for food, I could hear the birds banging the springs on the empty feeders, ( 14 bags of feed I used in and around 2 pens, I normally use no more than 8 every 2 days ) they
  17. Stavross
    Fake grass all down, glued and screwed, brush up and sand in the morning as long as it’s not raining, turns out the bloke doesn’t like it, he wanted more of a playing surface ( well he should of got the Astro turf people in ) but his wife loves it and says it’s not just about the little boy, it’s ideal for the little girl to play on as well and as we know the only opinion that matters in a house is the wife’s
  18. Stavross
    11 grand of fake grass to finish it off, it’s the biggest area I’ve done, it will be finished tomorrow, all this for his kids to kick a football around on
  19. Stavross
    Not to bad for someone who spent 25 years as a HGV mechanic and fancied a change
  20. Stavross
    A lad me and my mate do a lot of academy school work for asked us to have a look at his back garden that other so called landscapers had had a go at, he said they give up when they couldn’t sort the drainage problem by digging down, no idea why they didn’t put land drain in and come up, that’s what we did
  21. Stavross
    Up to the shoot tonight and as we only had a couple of hours we just focused on one area ( the piggeries) it wasn’t long before we spotted 2 a long way off, a few different calls from pheasant distress to vixen in heat, but nothing, after 15 minutes or so they both disappeared through the hedge and I assume across the road, 15 minutes later another put in an appearance, again a long way off, as we kept an eye on it another came for the caravan field into our field, walked along the top of the hedge ( a good 400+ yards away) before going through the other side, caller on full volume pheasant di
  22. Stavross
    It must of been ok because the missus didn’t complain about anything and got me to make her chicken and mushroom soup with the left over sauce
  23. Stavross
    Chicken and leek pie, new spuds cooked in a butter emulsion, tender stem broccoli and a white wine, cream and chicken stock sauce, ?
  24. Stavross
    Much of it comes down to what type of shooting you want to be involved in, are you interested in target/range shooting, pest control, rabbits, foxes and the likes ( even though fox shooting has become its own sport now, it’s still pest control to me ), deer stalking or a mix of them all, if you are interested in joining a club then you will start off with.22LR using club rifles gaining knowledge, skills and safe practice of handling a firearm, over a period of time being a member of a club and proving you are the right sort of person to possess a firearm you will be granted a FAC allowing you
  25. Stavross
    I don’t mean to put you down and don’t take this the wrong way as I know we all have to start somewhere but if you are thinking of applying for FAC you really need to gather as much information and preferably experience with firearms as you can before you apply, it’s not as straight forward as filling out a form for what you think you want and away you go, 90% of firearms departments will not grant centrefire on first application, most people start with rimfire, even with rimfire you must have suitable land and a genuine reason for possessing that firearm, if you don’t have land to shoot on or
×
×
  • Create New...