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  1. Stavross
    I’ll be there .17 in one hand rainbow flag ?️? in the other ??
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    I like this form of therapy, I don’t have to listen or show any interest in your problems because you have to be quite and then once the session ends my patient goes home feeling better, I think this could be a new line of work for me ?
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    I don’t know if any of you lads would be interested but I’ve just got myself a lovely pair of boots for when I’m out with the .17, for me if I’m not styling it right when out shooting then I might as well stay in with a face pack on and a glass of fizz ??
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    I love a .17 I find the ammo fits very well in my handbag ?
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    Well the wheat is down and my mate is still a miserable little sod in need of some cheering up and even though I’ve been at work all over the bank holiday weekend I felt it my duty to cheer him up a bit, now it looked like rain but I thought we’d give it a go, so off to the cut fields and a short walk away from the car, we waited until we lost the light and with the caller 30 yards out in the field it wasn’t long before I picked the telltale eye shine in the NV spotter of a ginger looking in the direction of the caller but not sure if it wanted to investigate further, giving it 5 minutes it c
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    The wild poults around the farm are very dark coloured compared to the birds in the pens they also seem a lot more alert and aware of there surroundings, we also had some partridge at the back of one of the sheds this year, I counted 14 young, sadly they haven’t been seen for over a week so I don’t hold much hope for them
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    Good job, we still had standing wheat on the shoot before the weekend, hopefully it will be down now, so we can get at the remainder of the gingers around the farm, we also have a few wildie’s around the farm but as you say the odds are stacked against them, once the crops down they get bothered by everything from raptors to the bloody farm cat
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    A lovely way to spend a warm summers late afternoon, farmer happy and some pigeon meatloaf if I’m not mistaken ?
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    That looks in cracking condition, lovely summer coat on it, nice work ?
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    Good going on the squizzers, it’s been a lovely day for a wander, looks like we have got a bit of summer back, shame I’m at work for the next 4 days Good luck with the evening session ?
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    Well the novelty of been a part time keeper for the shoot members has worn off already, trying to get people to go up to feed has proved impossible so it looks like it’s left to the 3 of us again, I don’t understand some people you even get to ride around on the quad looking important, the birds seemed to have settled in well with just a couple dead in each pen, with no real rain forecast for the next week or so all they have to do is eat, drink and bask in the sunshine ?
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    Another that’s worth a look is this, I can’t speak highly enough of them, they weigh nothing, won’t bankrupt you and come with a lifetime guarantee ?
  13. Stavross
    Can’t move the drinks, in the other pen we have gravel around them an that works well, the birds don’t stay in the pens very long, we like to get them out in and around the woods as soon as they have settled in and know where they live especially if the weather is good ?
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    This is why we have put the drinkers in, we’ve had a big problem with disease in the past, so this seems to be the way to go, a quick tip out and a wipe when feeding and we are good to go, I think someone has put something under them to stop them paddling the ground up around them as well
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    I’d go .17 HMR for all of them but some think they are better suited for mice, there’s also the 17 and 22 hornet
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    About 7 years ago I had a 2008 disco 3, 2.7 V6, it was a lovely thing to drive on and off road, the missus used to drive around in it like a footballers wife and every time she came back in it there was another light on the dash, luckily I’m a mechanic so was able to look after it myself, it was also horrendous on fuel and 400 quid a year to tax, the main problems with them are air suspension, hill decent and the different settings for what you are driving on, if any of these don’t work walk away from it, they also have engine management faults normally relating to the EGR, saying that I have
  17. Stavross
    That joe rogan pod cast is quality, the Brian cox one was really interesting and the one with Steve-o from jackass was crazy the thing he did ?
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    Arrr, good point, you don’t want to over scare them, I’m sure there’s something in the general license about taking the scaring of birds to far, I think there comes a point when it’s more humane to shoot them
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    That’s a proper cannon that mr sausage, is it not to quite for scaring pigeons, I was given a load of them victory mini mags and I’ve found that the squirrels hate them ?
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    The lad in the picture, he’s a shoot member, he owns a fabrication company, I was impressed when he turned up with them, I was going to make the hangers out of fence rails
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    Well the birds are coming tomorrow another week later than planned due to the weather, this has given us a bit more prep time on the pens, so me and two others have been up today and put a new drinker system in one of the pens, we have been flat out on the tap and the hole thing has cost £15.49 for a fitting for the IBC water tank and 4 hours of our time, I’m very pleased with our efforts, no more manually filling the drinkers at the back of the pens ?
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    Make the most of it BenBhoy, not long now before the tups go in and it all starts again ???, my missus has booked us a holiday in September and I would happily swap it for a week pigeon shooting
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    Can’t be me I had a bath last week ?
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    We were discussing that on the way home last night, trying to work out if we could justify spending more than the price of my .243 on a windy gun, I know they are a fine piece of engineering but bloody hell they are expensive
  25. Stavross
    So longshanx took me to one of his spots last night for a bit of bunny bashing, a walk around the farm to start with, a few about but with the wheat and the beans still up they soon vanished into the crop, so after a couple we headed down to a cut rape field with a cow field to the left, again just a couple along the edge of the cut but when we got to the cow field “JESUS “ the place was covered in them, now this field os sat at the back of a holiday park so with the rimfires we are a bit limited as to where we can shoot, so trekking around so we could shoot down towards the rape field we mana
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