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Back out tonight on longshanx’s land, we stopped off in the gateway of a field just down the road from the farm for me to have a go at the rabbits with the .22, before we go out the van I spotted what I thought was a deer, looked again and it was a fox approximately 200 metres away, sadly there no fox shooting on here as it’s part of the zetland hunt, so shooting 1 rabbits we made our way to the farm where we set off out after a buck, walking to the bottom of the field of wheat and along the field of rape, it wasn’t until we were heading back that a lovely looking roe came from the end of the
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That’s right up my street, top notch ??
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Well I went through the camera and I’ve clearly got a fallow doe with a another smaller one in tow, I got a fleeting glimpse of what looked to be a young fallow buck, not much of a head on him at all, all the oats are down around the piggeries and the old girl has said the rape and wheat at the back of the farm should be down next week, she said she can’t wait until the rapes down because the deer are jumping into her grass field pulling the electric fence down, the good thing about this field is once the wheats off it gives you access to the oak wood drive and there’s normally deer grazing t
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Haven’t gone through it properly yet, I’ll check when I get in ?
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There’s a few more fields cut up at the shoot if you fancy an evening up there, I’ve just been and picked the camera up and there’s loads of deer on it ?
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I tie feed bags to the fence posts and bird scare tape across the pens and it works well, once the birds are out on the rides all I will say is “ good luck to em “ there’s a lot of BOP up there, to make things worse some sort of eagle has escaped from an estate down the road and took up residence around the shoot, the old girl has seen it a couple of times and she said it’s massive, they have been up from the estate to try and catch it, but have told the old girl the radio tracker isn’t working anymore so they are not sure how they will find it, god knows what havoc that thing will cause if it
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On my mates place there’s just me and an old boy that comes when he wants a deer, I’ve seen people on next doors land but I don’t know who owns it
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Up to my mates farm tonight with longshanx as all the rape has been cut over the past couple days, on the lookout for a buck, when I got towards the bottom of the field I clocked a buck and a doe in next doors wheat, shortly followed by another doe, although he was shootable it wasn’t worth the risk, taking it from next doors land, he looked to be a old boy and we’ll definitely be back up as soon as the wheat is down along the wood, if the weather holds the wheat will be down towards the end of next week ? ( bucks on the left )
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That’s mad, I’d never heard of courgette cake before, but when I was up at the shoot over the weekend the old girl give me my first courgettes and a chocolate cake made from them, it’s very nice, moist and light, but has a little weird after taste, didn’t stop me scoffing the lot mind ?
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That looks top notch that ???
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It will of been the cabbage ???
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Back up to the shoot this evening to walk my dinner off, the intention was to have a look for some fallow, the wind was terrible, blowing in all directions, I didn’t see any fallow but when I checked the camera trap there was a nice roe buck on it, I also see another 4 roe on my way back to the farm, as soon as these oats and rape are down and with a bit of luck something will turn up, still a nice way to kill a couple of hours on a Sunday
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Cottage pie, garlic and thyme roast spuds and veg that I mainly tapped of people I’ve been working for over the past week, I do like free food, even better if they let me rummage their veg patch on my own
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Putting 800 down this year, we’ve still got a good few knocking around the far side of the shoot ( mainly cock birds ) and a few hens around the farm with young, I’ll put feeders out over the far side before the poults come and hopefully the cocks will stay over there and not come poult bothering around the pens
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We used to have a right carry on with water, having water butts fed by old water bowsers, the birds would paddle the area up in no time, now we have the IBC’s on frames and poultry drinkers hanging from frames off the ground fed by the alkathene pipes running through the pens it’s much better, and they last a full season on one tank
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Always nice to get somewhere new to have a walk around ?
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They have already drilled the big field of barley they cut last week with rape, I hope they leave the piggerie fields in stubble a bit longer than that, it’s nice to have them a bit further out on the stubble
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Yeah, it’s the top of the piggeries, all the fields around the piggeries are still in crop as soon it’s down they tend to graze along the edge of the fields, I haven’t seen much at the minute apart from them 2 doe’s and a couple of roe bucks but the cover is really thick
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I’m up there in the morning so I’ll check it ? normally nothing uses it for the first couple of days, but once they are used to it they keep coming back, as soon as the oats are down it’s much easier to spot them along the forestry
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It just started when I left, the up side to the rain is it keeps the fly’s down, they were mental up there today I put a couple of drinking butts out today along with the camera, I normally do this in the spring but never got around to it this year, everything uses them so it’s a cracking way to see what’s about, there was a couple of fallow doe’s walking the edge of the oats about 20 yards from where I’ve set the camera so fingers crossed that a buck puts in an appearance
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Finally managed to get up to the shoot today to sort drinkers and feeders out, clear a couple of feed area’s and a few other little jobs, it was all hands on deck, me moving feeders about, my shoot captain cleaning the IBC’s out and filling them and the old girl moving stuff about with the load all, I am so far behind this year, the birds are due in 10 days and with a bit of luck all the combining will be finished by then. The lad informed me that we will not be selling days this year, which is a bit of a bugger and he could of told me sooner as I had a good few people lined up for them, lucki
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A long time ago, when I used to go out with my sheep farmer mate “ Mosh “ with his dogs we had a spot that had a good few black rabbits on it, he would only lamp it with a clear light because he wouldn’t kill the black one because he thought it was bad luck , this is what listening to your p***y mates and their old wives tails does to you. I would go back up and shoot them when he wasn’t with me ?
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That’s why I dig holes and smack sh*t with hammers for a living ?
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?from proper Yorkshire stock me sunny Jim and the best Yorkshire, northyorkshire ?
