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    Binoculars.

    Stavross replied to Greb147's topic in General Talk

    For the money I don’t think you will buy better than vortex, I use the cheaper 8x42 crossfire at about £150 for about £80 more you can get the diamondbacks, all are lifetime warranty
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    ?, it’s not all flat caps, whippets and woodbines up here, although I wish it was, I think I was born in the wrong decade, that’s exactly how I’d like life to be ?
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    I watched that a few months ago, simpler times ?
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    I’ll have my name in your flat cap for that my good man?
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    Good luck fella, I’d be on the flying Canadian cows in a hart beat, cracking bit of sport and a group that size will soon graze a field off ?
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    You are certainly having a good run of them, are you calling them, baiting or just letting them wander in
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    ?, all right, steady on fellas the sun was in my eyes?
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    They are only little you know, at 20 yards they would be testing for the air gun lads without that kind of magnification ?
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    He has just this minute rang me, firstly to say thank you for leaving dead rabbits all over the back of the farm and secondly to say he found out who the dog’s owner was and he’s gone through them like a dose of salts, he’s told them that a pest control lad was on last night and was about to shoot them ( I wasn’t ) but he stopped them from being shot ? it wouldn’t surprise me if he tells them they have killed stock and he wants compensation
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    To be honest where they were I wouldn’t of shot them, if they were in with the sheep behaving in the way they were that would of been a different matter, the farmers response was the usual one, if it had been one of next doors horses or a couple of lost ramblers he would of said the same, it’s very much his little island and in his head he makes the laws around these parts
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    I only wink at the nice boys Dave ??
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    A phone call this afternoon and I knew I would have to give Britain’s got talent a miss, apparently a farmer’s lad went to check on the pet lambs and a fox jumped out the pen and bolted off down the field, so I got there in good time, taking the .17 as shooting close to the buildings the .243 was out of the question, when I arrived I thought I’d have a walk about maybe shoot a rabbit or two for a bit of bait. In one of the fields I thought I’d spotted the culprit but it turned out to be two dogs running riot, as I hopped the fence one of them came charging towards me, I immediately jumped back
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    Yeah she has mentioned it once or twice?, She won’t recognise me when when all this is over and I’m allowed to roam free again without the stresses of a job I hated ?
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    I always admire people who are really good at what they do, I have a mate who is a Bricky, he mainly does sandstone farm type houses and what he can do with odd shaped blocks is amazing, me on the other hand, I’ll have a go at anything but always fell like I’m blagging my way through life ?
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    I’m just waiting for my first AandE picture of him, he’s bound to fall off it ?
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    My little mate Hugo told his Mam that he wanted a climbing frame like the one at school with a swing, she said to him that they are to expensive at the minute and sent me a picture say can you do this, so I got a few bits together and went this morning, all I’ve got to do is fit the tyre swing when I get the fixings, he looked over the moon looking at me through the window, still not really understanding why he can’t come an give me a hand, but at least I got it done quicker without him running around with my drill putting holes in the fence ?
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    Thing are different in every county, not just in Scotland, I’ve had an open ticket from day one and never had to have land cleared for a certain calibre, I was told I just need to submit a variation for my choice of calibre, I know someone who has .308 on his ticket and had this before he had any land to shoot it on, I also know someone in north Yorkshire that has .22 and is only allowed to take it to one place ( other than the rifle club ) and has to inform them about his movements. There’s no consistency in any of the forces, I’m glad that mine seem to part of the sensible few
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    Very interesting that Ben, I’ve just sent it to my mate because we were talking about something similar a few days ago, he is adamant that foxes don’t tend to stray more that 10 miles from their place of birth, I disagree with this as some seem to be nomadic ( more dogs than vixens although I have no real proof of this) and that sort of proves my point, so here you go Andy ( Hugo’s dad ) this is for you ??
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    Not sure how I’ll cope in the winter ?
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    All other legal quarry ?
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    Nowt to do with shooting but Im really enjoying my new workshop, no oil or grease, just the sound of lambs and song birds, very different to smashing away at trucks, this weeks job is a tennis lawn and to finish the week off a bit of fence repairs and a couple of field gates, all the while still offering my pest control skills to these town folk who have moved to the countryside ?
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    At the minute we are going ahead, we need to make a decision on how many birds to put down in about 2 weeks, once the order is in we are committed, don’t think it will be the same as last season but we need to make the best of it ?
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    I’ve just looked at this, read the top line and looked at the top picture, I was just about to explain to you that that’s not a fox, then I read the rest of it and scrolled down ??
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    I’ve never had many country foxes in cage traps but catching town foxes is like shooting fish in a barrel, if you put one around the houses your going to get a fox or next doors cat
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    Back at the small holding and no sign of the vixen, cat food had gone but that could of been anything, lad had 4 of these little buggers in the cage trap so they are definitely out and about, if only the adults were daft enough to go in them?
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