Stavross
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Back up this morning for pen repairs, thought I’d come early before the ? got out, seems they beat me here
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Back to the shoot tonight and what was looking like a promising evening quickly turned into a waste of time, we gathered up a couple of hoppers for the traps from around the farm and after setting them we headed over the far side of the shoot for a call. A two mile walk taking the long way round to see what was about and fog started to come in, within 20 minutes you couldn’t see 20 meters in front of you so we had to call it a night, at least I got to stretch my legs
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You may mock, but the don’t call me stav yard stride for nothing ? ( maybe should of said 154 paces ? )
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Yep, very still, ideal conditions for the fat air rifle ?
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I’ve had one side on that ran never to be seen again, I put it down to bad shot placement, I must of been to far back I only ever use .17gn in mine now, if it’s for fox or rabbits, they get the same treatment, I’ve came for a walk around the sheep farm now and brought it with me, just took this chap at 154 yards, he didn’t know I was there or what hit him ?
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Dusty bin I call it, it’s full of sweet and chocolate bar rappers, he hides them in there because his lass won’t let him have them at his time in life ? a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips ?
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Looks like I’m going to have to try and sell my little Tiguan ?
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Yeah, it’s got full dealer history, it’s done about 50,000 miles, it’s still got a years warranty on it, it’s got a few little marks on it, but it’s been used as a work truck, there’s a little bit of damage to the o/s front bumper where he hit a deer, but I know a good body lad, I’ve been looking at them and I can’t find one for less than £17,500 and that was high mileage
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A little one to help the big one blow harder, ( Oow errr missus ) reducing lag, I’ve driven this a lot and it doesn’t half shift for a big heavy truck, mind you, so does the fuel gauge when you put your foot down
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Nowt to do with shooting but, Have any of you lot had any experience with these, I’ve been offered this it’s on a 66 plate, automatic 2.5 bi turbo, I can have it for £12,000 + VAT, looking at them it’s well below book price, just wondering if there’s any common problems to look out for with them
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Everybody loves the 45 but it takes someone special to wave the long stick around ive never known another calibre that divides opinion like the .17 hmr i love them, they are a cracking bit of fun ?
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????????????? welcome to the world of marmite rifles, them mice ? will be quaking in their little boots with a top marksman like you on the loose with a precision weapon ?
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???? go for it Bernard sausage, they are a bit of fun, I’ve had mine out tonight picking off hoppers on a big back garden, all between 100/150 yards, missed a few but you can’t get anywhere near them so it’s the ideal tool for the job ?
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A fine looking beast and two lovely looking stick tops sat on its bonce ?
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we have a local butcher and every now and then you can get wood pigeon and sometimes rabbit, the problem is now they are not ment to buy direct from the shooter so he told me that financially it’s not worth buying from a game dealer because people won’t pay 4 quid for a pigeon I was asked to supply all sorts for a dog food factory, not that long ago, deer, rabbit, hare, geese, we had came up with prices and it was looking like a good little earner for me, then the people behind the legislation on running the factory moved the goal posts and wanted to see traceability ( for f*cking dog
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I’ve got that problem with everything I shoot, game has definitely fallen out of fashion and is only something most people eat in restaurants now, people used to ring me to ask what I could get hold of, every now and then someone will ask for a couple of rabbits or a pheasant in winter now, my shooting now is 90% pest control
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That’s a cracking evening out, there seems to be quite a few about at the minute ?
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When they are in season we can take them from the fields, but not in the forestry, I haven’t shot them up here for a long time, but we were discussing it last night as we now have someone to butcher it properly for us saving us time, so if we shoot on an evening we can drop it off to go in the chilller on the way home and he will deal with it the following day, taking his share of course, we have a very good head of fallow up here and more recently the roe are becoming more abundant the fallow buck season is August 1st til April 30th, fallow doe is November 1st to March 31st ?
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Well, back up at the shoot last night to check the traps, I arrived a little earlier than Hugo’s dad so grabbed the .17 and pointed it out the window of the motor, on getting to the entrance of the farm I looked down the track to see a crow feeding it’s young, no doubt with some poor pheasant’s eggs, from there nest raiding along the field fence, so the mother got it first and the the brancher. After that I popped my head over the hedge of the garden and spotted a hopper in the middle of the veg patch, so I chucked another one at that, a miss, but it was very close and I gave it a centre parti
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Cracking pictures and a lovely looking front stuffer, it’s great to see people like yourself still putting them to good use, unlike me who is obsessed with new modern plastic rifles, well it’s up to the shoot for me now to check the traps and hopefully bash a few hoppers and maybe a ginger, wish me luck ?
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I love shooting them with the little.22, a 15 session certainly goes a long way to help out your area, the amount we have just on our little shoot is mental, sometimes you can go up, not even see a rabbit but one thing is for certain you will definitely get a few squizzers
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Thanks for setting me right on that ? that explains why a lad I know in west Yorkshire sell to a game dealer without DSC it wasn’t that long ago that you needed nothing to sell to game dealers around here, a phone call was all that was needed and if they wouldn’t take it you just took it to the local working mans club in the boot of your motor, sadly now I give all my game away, 20 years ago it was a good little earner, £1.50 a rabbit, wood pigeon £ 1.00 each, pheasants £2.50 each and when we got venison you could do half a weeks wage off one animal
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I’m 90% sure that if you want to shoot it to sell to a game dealer you must have dsc at least you do around these parts, but if it’s for yourself you don’t need one on private land or where you have permission, I’ve never bothered with it and a few proper stalkers I know don’t have it, the people I know that do, sell to game dealers or think a bit of paper makes them look like they know what they are doing
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I’ve just had a look at that. That’s a good way on for this time of year, it must of been an early litter to be that size now ?
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Cracking job, with a bit of luck you’ll get to clear up a few cubs on your next visit ?
