Stavross
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I can’t fault it mate, sunshine and shooting ???
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It’s certainly been a day to be out and about, it makes a change from the past week, long may it continue ?
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Back up feeding this morning and bagged another 6 squizzers so that’s over 20 in the past 2 weeks with 90% of them shot around the farm house, as I was riding around on the quad I seen at least another 40 so plenty to go at and I’m definitely having a squirrel day for the youngsters on the shoot and maybe longshanx if he’s a good lad in early February
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Hand feeding this morning and what a difference a day makes, with all the rain we have had I’m sure not only the pheasants but all the wildlife will be glad of a bit of sun on their backs, I didn’t see loads of birds but there was a lot of activity up there today with dog walkers and forestry cutting back trees on the roadside and chipping them into trailers, I’m sure this will of kept them under cover, so after putting a bit of straw out under some thick evergreens and hand feeding it in preparation for the cold weather that’s forecast for the next week I hopped on the bike and headed over to
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The Beauty Of Nature, "add Yours"
Stavross replied to kriti's topic in Wildlife and General Photography
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Good on you for getting out, the weathers looking decent over the weekend up here, we need a few days for the water to get away, some of the roads I’ve been down today were under 12” of water and it’s just run off from the fields
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I might be starting to loose my sh*t, I’m working with the other quad key holder and it is lashing down, I thought we’d be off home, came back from collecting a few bits and he’s done this, they know how to spoil me
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I’m surprised they haven’t had it converted to run on coal, they are that tight, I had a little dig at one of the other lads that I’d put petrol in it AGAIN and instead of saying he’d put some in next time, he just said bill the shoot for it, I said it was 6 quid and he replied “ I would bill the shoot “, ?this is what I’m working with
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Just another thought, but have you considered a shotgun to begin with, days on the clays mingling with people that are also involved in game shooting, farm pest control and the likes, get to know them and offer your help, the more people you get to know the more opportunities may come your way, best of luck getting to where you want to be ?
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It belongs to the shoot Dave, well sort of, only 3 of us have keys for it and I think there’s only me who puts petrol in it, but we did convince the members to let us use the shoots funds to pay for it ??
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This is just my little bit to chip in as the others have covered the application side well, do you know anyone that shoots? That would maybe show you the ropes, don’t take this the wrong way but it worries me when people say want a rifle and want to go hunting, we all started at the bottom, most with help from people already involved with shooting, mentors are a fantastic way to to learn, I take a young lad out now and by the time he comes to apply for his own FAC he will have the experience they are looking for and I will also vouch for him, if you don’t know anyone then I would recomme
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Your more than welcome mate, I’ve always liked to give people the opportunity to have a go at some new shooting, just like some people did for me in the past, one thing that has always bothered me about shooting and the shoot community is that some treat it like a secret society not allowing outsiders or people who are trying to get involved in, shooting is and should be for everyone who wants to be involved ?
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Don’t have second thoughts, you can never have to many rifles, if you didn’t spend it on some useful hardware the missus would only buy frivolous things with it ?
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Back to the sheep farm tonight and straight out with the vixen in heat call, 10 minutes in and we have a customer, now I’m 99% sure we have met this chap before, it came from the same direction as the one we didn’t get a shot at last time and I’m convinced this is the one my mate took a shot at previously and missed, it was really interested in the call but would only work it’s way along the wrong side of the hedge or sit in the back field approximately 160 yards away just on the top of the hill, not presenting a shot as I would be shooting towards next doors farm, after 30 minutes it decided
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Arr got you, in that case I’d put it in random places with some stinky bait and hope for the best ?
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You can’t kill them all mate, you may of missed a few but you were not the only one, I know there was a fair few inexperienced guns there yesterday but Andrew has just told me the shot count and for 44 birds it’s mental, but everyone had a good day and that’s all that matters ?
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I always put mine along a fence line or around some trees, always well away from the public if I can, sometimes it’s a bit hit and miss what I catch on it, I’ll normally give it a week to 10 days in any one spot
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My missus would ring my neck if I was responsible for the demise of pet tree rats
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That really looks like a roe, I’ve never seen a young muntjac, I thought the ears didn’t look right, I retract my previous statement ?
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Late births are not uncommon in roe, but this this little chap is about 5 months late and sadly probably won’t see the winter out, they normally give birth the end of may beginning of June, I’ve seen them in late September but never in November
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They have been having a right old time of it Gav, those days are over now, you can really see the damage to the trees, I’ve never seen this amount up here, forestry used to trap them but they don’t seem to bother now, we will definitely be having a squirrel day once the season has finished and until then I’ll be making a conscious effort to shoot every one I see to top it off I got home and this little beggar was hiding his nuts in my garden, this is what you get when the missus feeds them
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Feeding up this morning and there’s still a blanket of low cloud, the birds have made there way back into the main drives and those that survived the barrage of shots yesterday are back on the feeders and seem none the worse for there experience, perhaps a little on edge and not wanting to hang around for a photo opportunity but who can blame them, with the next time we shoot been half way through our season we are now concentrating on feeding the long drives with the heavy cover that hold the majority of the birds, all we can hope for now it cold weather and a clear day next time out, but loo
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On the way home from feeding up, I’ve checked the camera for my little mates first fox and nothing but a hare and a couple of pheasants, the rabbit bait was still there so I’m guessing this ginger has bit the dust on its nightly travels, so I’m ether going to have to wait until another turns up or come up with another plan, I would prefer it to be here because I can afford a miss here, I’ve brought the camera away with me as the batteries were going flat, I might set it up on the bottom end of the land to see if that produces anything over the next week or so
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Up at the pheasant shoot to feed up and shot another 11 squizzers, the 5 in the picture were all shot outside the farm house on my arrival and all within 60 seconds , 5 quick shots, 5 dead tree rats ?
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Now that’s day three over and it was certainly a wet one, from the moment we got there the rain didn’t stop, 44 was the bag, I managed 8 myself and the rain didn’t seem to stop them getting above the trees, providing some nice sporting birds, everybody got some shooting which is always good to see, as we moved out to the back of the shoot the cloud lowered as you can see in the picture, that’s longshanx on the next peg to me, on this drive you could hear the birds coming long before you could see them, it was a early finish today, so all back down to the pub for a warm, a drink and a few nibbl
