Stavross
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Wood duck (male)
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They are all big and shoutie but he soon hopped back over the fence and carried on walking ? by the way I’ve had your estranged joiner round, he said he can do the job in about half an hour then spent an hour talking and said he’d come back and do it next week, if he stopped talking he could of done it then, I had to have a lay down after he left ?
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Orrr, ain’t it sweet ?
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Most keepers I’ve had dealings have been spot on, but this fella is a complete plank, we’ve caught him dogging birds in off our land, walking one of our drives through, bombing around our shoot on his quad and god knows what else when no one is looking, it almost came to blows last year over the way he spoke to the old girl at the farm, with a bit of luck his boss will of sorted him out, I haven’t seen him over the summer so as long as he keeps it that way he’ll get to keep his pretty smile
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Is he sure they are wood ducks, they are rare, the mandarin looks similar and is more common, ether way as far as I know you can’t shoot wood ducks or mandarins
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You had a better night than me, got up the shoot and waited 10 minutes for Hugo’s dad to turn up, he has served his centrefire ban so I decided to let him shoot, we headed over the far side setting the caller away with pheasant distress, 10 minutes in and a fox was seen crossing the field at a little under 200 yards I lit it up, he then said turn the light off, which I did and said what’s up, he said, I’ll try and get it closer. No chance it was trotting off across the field, I lit it up again but by this time it had reached the hedge back and slipped through never to be seen again ? we moved
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WoW, I can’t compete with that, it puts the lefty racism’s I face on a daily basis into perspective ??
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I think they were about 12 quid a 100
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I asked if the .243 rounds were made of silver because I don’t have wear wolves ? where I shoot so lead would do me just fine, at £35 I won’t be chucking them at anything but foxes
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On another note, I popped into the gun shop on the way home, 100 .17hmr, 100 .22 and 20 fox rounds for the .243, I almost fell over when he said 79 quid, we settled on £70 but still, at that price I better not miss
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Thread back on track back up at the shoot this morning, a bit of hand feeding wheat around the pens and a few feed areas, the birds are moving out around the shoot and autumn is definitely here, the leaves ? are changing and coming off the trees and with the rain and the temperature it was almost like a winters day, back up tonight on fox patrol so we’ll see if anything comes of that ?
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LEFTY LIVES MATTER, we are a proud people, persecuted for our wonky lefty ways ?
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Are you mocking my man boobs, my little Welsh sheep botherer ?
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Cheers for that, that looks like something that’s right up my street, I think after the shooting season I might have a go at that, I’ve think I’ve seen them when I was working up at chopgate on our side of the hill
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I’m not to bad with some reclaimed sandstone dwarf walls and I can lay blocks for steps and beds, I’d like to learn how to do it properly, I watched a bloke build a slate wall, now that’s a proper skill
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Put a grass path in going out the garden on a bank, looks really good but completely impractical, steps might of been a better idea, but the customer is always right apparently ?
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Customer is over the moon, tomorrow’s job is to fence around the top of the wall to close it in and make it a private space, I think that will transform it again, especially if they let me paint it dark gray to match the windows and slate roof on the house ?
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That water feature was a nightmare, the builder who did the wall didn’t think that the pipe would have to go through the wall so made it 2 foot thick and back filled it, I had to dig out the back of the wall and put a core cutter through it, the plank ?
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This is what it looks like now after 16 hours hard graft
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Nowt to do with any of this but I thought I’d put it here because I’m really proud of what I’ve created over the last to days ?
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Haha, I was just typing blooming eck ? that a belting night out ?
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I was once out with a lad a long time ago and he rested his rifle on the ground, covered in mud and sh*t, he washed it off in a stream and it was a Howa I’m surprised it never dissolved ?
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I use mine just for transport as I travel far and wide and the police don’t like seeing just laid on the back seat, once I get to where I’m going it’s out the motor or in the footwell, you’ll never see any mud on mine because I’m far to knackered to be laying on them, I’d never get back up ?
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Back up at the shoot at first light ( ish ) this morning, strimmed out a couple of feed areas as the birds are on the move, they are not taking masses of feed but they are enjoying the brambles and acorns, there seems to be fallow about in good numbers so with a bit of luck and if I can address my work/ shooting balance I’ll sort out an evening with FH for a look out after a buck ?
