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  1. Stavross
    It’s a lucky dip with farmers around here mate, the lads I do vermin control for around here only let me on because I’ve known them for a long time and in the past others that have been on have taken the piss, the best thing to do is knock on doors but be prepared to be turned down a lot, try stables, if they have rabbits they won’t want them around the horses, it’s not easy to get your own permission because farmers generally don’t let people on their land they don’t know, it’s taken me years to build up my land and 90% of it has come from working for the owners, sites like this sometimes hel
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    Like meece said there’s isn’t a bad rifle, ( well maybe howa but that’s just my opinion, because they fell like a nurf gun ) I’ve never came across one that didn’t kill sh*t, it comes down to what suits you and what you want to spend, maybe go and handle a few, you might find what you like is different to what others like, failing that buy a TIKKA ?
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    It’s always nice to have a bit of posh in the cabinet ?
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    He’s a chunky fella, no doubt full of your ducks ?, at 10 meters with 50g of BB I’m surprised you didn’t cut it in half, job well done ?
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    For me centre fire would be tikka, very accurate, reliable and cheap ( ish )
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    A fine way to spend a bit of time before the rain sets in, I love the pictures you take, I don’t mean this to sound like I’m calling you old but they remind me of simpler times when people went out to feed themselves, friends and family, no night vision, thermal or any other gadgets, just a simple gun and an understanding of your environment, I’m glad I’m old enough to remember these days, even though I was just a lad ?
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    I’m going to have to get one, I think I’ve reached the age where I carry one off now? I’ve just looked at the weather and I think I’ll have to dig out my oilskins
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    Well it’s day three tomorrow so I’ve been up this morning for a bit of hand feeding around the drives to be shot tomorrow, they are about in good numbers and with this cold weather we have had the birds have come good and are looking very strong, one thing that will need to be addressed over the season and after is the squirrel problem, I have never seen this amount up here, I stopped off in the yard and counted 11 around 2 trees, so everyone will be told tomorrow if you see them, shoot them, the weather is looking terrible for tomorrow, much the same as the first day with the forecast saying
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    That won’t of been me, I haven’t shot at range’s for years, there is another lad on here that used to shoot on them, not that long ago ?
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    I’m from norton but live in Stockton now
  11. Stavross
    you will find me in the rifle and shotgun section mainly, rabbits, foxes, pest control for local farms and game shooting, have a look through the rifle section, there’s some good lads that post on there
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    Yes, there is one or two of us ?
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    I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this on here before but a good few months ago a very good friend and my long time shooting buddy had a heart attack while out walking and had to be air lifted off the hills, since then he has gone back to work but has never been out shooting with me since he had his heart attack, he always said he was tired, but I always thought that a lot of this was he was worried that something would happen when we were out, anyway I’ve just got off the phone to him to see if he wanted to come to the shoot on Saturday 7th, I told him he could shoot all day if he wanted to and
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    You will of shot them all ?
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    I’ve never been to confident in no loss of zero quick mounts and to be honest I’m going to use this as an excuse to buy another rifle, it will have to be in the new year now, it will give me plenty of time to mull over my options, I appreciate everyone chipping in, it always bring up something I hadn’t considered ?
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    I’d have a quid on fallow, or a roe with fallow boots on ?
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    I’ve never been a fan of the.223 but they are cheap to run, I’ve always liked the .22-250 and I’ve never considered a .204 so that’s something I’m going to have a look at, cheers ?
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    It a cz 455 synthetic, with a hawke 4-9-50 scope and a SAK mod, cheap as chips, there’s loads of.22 to choose from and all do the job, but if you want a tool to do a job you won’t by a better rimfire than a cz ?
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    As the temperature had dropped to -1 and there was clear skies I thought I need to be out for an hour, for no other reason than a walk out in the crisp air, so I grabbed the little.22 and headed out to check the camera for foxy action, so first thing when I got there I headed over to the camera, I’d baited up over the past few days with a couple of breasted out pheasants, a rabbit and a squizzer, now the only thing that was missing was the squirrel but the camera had not triggered so I’ve no idea what has taken it, possibly one of the buzzards at a guess, so at the minute it’s not looking to
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    I’ve just been concreting at a massive egg hatchery unit and was testing the water about shooting, anyway as it goes they don’t need my services because nothing is outside anymore, I got talking to an old boy there that had been in the game all his life so asked him about the fox/badger thing and he said when they did a lot outside and birds were killed and you found the carcass you couldn’t tell if it was a badger or a fox because they both kill the same way and will both remove the head ( I didn’t know that) he said the only way they could tell would be a fox would kill everything and leave
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    Nice work, you are certainly getting amongst them ?, I’ve just got in from a walk out, seen nothing and got rained on a lot
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    Same up this way with the acorns, last year the trees were covered in them, this year the beech nuts have come good and the pheasants have been making the most of them, come to think about it that will be why there’s so many squizzers around the farm
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    We get a lot of dog walkers up that end of the shoot and if they get bothered early on the tend to wander, most of the time down to what’s known as the forestry drive, closer to the farm, there was a lot of birds at forestry today so maybe they have down where it’s a bit quieter
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    Had a few tree rats while I was out as well, they seems to be loads about this year, I shot 6 with the .22, I must of seen over 30, I could of made quite a bag if I’d taken the shotgun
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    Feeding up this morning and they are hungry, it was good to see a few feeders empty or getting very low, they are now taking a lot of feed now much of the natural has gone, I was there on my own today so had plenty of time to get around the full shoot to see where the birds move out to once they came off roost, there was good numbers in the 4 main drives around the farm, so with feeders filled and a good bit of hand feeding on the rides and straw we have put down I headed over to the far side of the shoot known as the valley drive and pen, not a bird to be seen and not a massive amount of fee
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