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    Last big feed of the season, with only three shoot days left ( well two really as the last day is a clear up day ) we feed hard all the main drives, we have 4 main drives that are still holding good numbers of birds, it is very wet up there and it doesn’t show any signs of drying out, so this has put the mockers on two drives as the guns can’t go tramping across the crops to get in position, with a bit of luck the birds will stay where we have got them and I’ll be up for a hand feed on Wednesday or Thursday ready for shooting on Saturday ?
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    A cracking result for a winters day wander, I’ve used Remington ammo in .22 and HMR and most of it would be better fired from a catapult
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    That’s a bonus, never in the dog house, this might sound a bit miserable but to me it’s not, I can never forget my wife’s birthday because it was the day my dad died ( he always was a joker) 15th of April, we were about to go out for a meal but got the dreaded phone call, on the up side I got to spend the evening with the people I love the most even if I had to say goodbye to one of them
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    Age is nothing but a number mate, someone told me this a while back, the same bloke said you are only as young as the woman you feel, which is good for me as the wife is 8 years younger than me? Merry Christmas and happy birthday young man ?
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    Well that’s it, over and done with for another year, I have to say that I was dreading it because I had all the in-laws, kids and my mam and the brother in-laws mate ( this was because the brother in-law is at her majesty’s pleasure at the moment) , but to be fair I really enjoyed it, everyone enjoyed dinner ( that took me hours ) and we all drank and had a good laugh, the brother-in-law rang and we all got to speak to him, ( I love that lad and have known him long before this lot have ), the kids got everything and more than they wanted from me and the missus, a top day and it’s been an absol
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    Merry Christmas lads i’ve been on here now for about 18 months and I’d just like to say thanks too a few of you on here, even when life getting me down a bit I know I can come on here and read through other people’s adventures and cheer myself up so thanks to Bernard sausage, benbhoy, David Evans, Luke, baldcoot, ianm, shovel leaner, si brown, Gav, walshie, gooner, rimfireboy and of course my long mate longshanx also a few that have recently popped over the other side of the fence, viz, villaman and philpot cheers fella’s and all the best for the new year, if this sounds
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    Nice work Dave and Viz, I’m saving myself for Boxing Day night, otherwise know as grounded by the missus tonight and tomorrow
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    I like looking through old year books, I had a look through one from Bell’s estate, I think that one was 1918 to about the mid 1920’s and what I noticed was the amount of wild game shot was much greater numbers than you get now, hares, grouse, wild duck, it just goes to show what effect the changes in farming methods have had ive shot on gisborough estate at scugdale it’s very posh ive got a quick story about gisborough hall. A good few year back when I was in my teens two lads used to take me fishing, at the time one of them ( Pete the shed ) was well into his pike fishing and his u
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    On the bright side you know that you have a couple to chase around over the festive period ?
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    Combine them with your pj’s and it’s a sure thing ?
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    One of the members keep a record of what has been shot but I suppose it would be nice to keep a more detailed record like numbers shot in the drives and what time of year to show how it has changed over the seasons
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    Day 5 over and done with, it started off very foggy but with me in charge of the beaters for the first drive we put out some cracking birds, flush them in twos and threes over some of the young guns, there was a lot of the members that didn’t turn up today but we still managed to put together two teams of guns and made do with the beaters and dogs we had, the fog lifted around 12 so after lunch we headed over to the piggeries drives, the first half of the drive was mine to beat and from the off the birds were getting up, half way along the ride I had a deer come out the thick cover no more tha
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    Cracking result using your fox whispering skills to get it in that close for a .410 dispatch ?
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    I’d definitely leave that one be, 10 or 12 years ago someone who I sometimes work for court someone dragging sheep down on one of his field, now the dog was a long way from its owner so he went across the field in his landy and shot it from the window, the owner disappeared off the land, a week or so later a barn mysteriously went up in flames, costing him thousands, now you couldn’t prove it was the dog owner because nobody knew who it was, but it’s a pretty safe bet
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    ??reply of the day ?? ??
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    Them pheasants are beggars for giving you up to the Charlie ?
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    That’s because I do such a good job ??
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    The problem we have had is the bloody weather, we have had half the outings that we would normally of had this time of year and although we don’t get them every time we go up, you can’t shoot them sat in the house, I wanted to go out tonight but it’s raining again
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    Feeding today, we now have the birds where we want them, it was very wet and the majority of the birds were in the shelter of the woods, I was there at first light and walked the roadside drive, to my surprise I came across a woman almost at the end of the drive, now this is well off the beaten track, she immediately asked if she was in trouble, it turns out she was collecting holly and pine sprigs to make displays for Christmas, I told her it was not a problem and pointed her in the direction of a very nice holly bush loaded with berries, she seemed a bit shocked to bump into a ruff looking f
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    Yep, raining here now, it had better clear up before morning when I’ve got to do the birds
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    Good on you for getting out. It was a proper pea souper up last night and it hasn’t lifted all day where I’ve been working and now we are forecast rain, I just want clear and cold ? is that to much to ask
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    A cracking way to spend a few hours, I can’t remember the last time I took a few different rifles out to fling some rounds about, them bergara’s are a lovely, it’s a shame I can’t get one in .22-250 lefty
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    I’m in Stockton, first time I’ve been there, good people, I’ll definitely be going back
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