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  1. Stavross
    To be fair I like driving tractors ( I’m a bit weird like that) just not after I’ve been at work all day and just wanted a wander out in the fresh air ?
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    That’s a cracking write up, I want to read memoirs of ianm ( a true fox smasher ), I’ll only take 2% for coming up with the title, but would like to be acknowledged in the book ??
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    When I got the new .243 we first tried it with hornady 58 grain and it really didn’t shoot them well so the lad at the shop went and got the sako 70 grain and bingo lovely grouping, my last one wouldn’t shoot 100 grain but would shoot 90’s and that one would shoot the 58 grain no problems, I guess it’s just a matter of seeing what works in yours, but if you have a few ideas of what works for others at least you have a place to start ?
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    I don’t even work for them but still end up leading grain out the fields for them, I think he thinks it’s payment for having the run of his land
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    I should of mentioned that these are what sako use for the testing of sako and tikka rifles, no doubt you may find something better but they are a good place to start, they also do a nice 100 grain deer cartridge ?
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    Some that’s definitely worth a look is the sako, these shoot very well through my tikka.243 lite ?
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    The last one I did was to put a .243 back on and add a second.17hmr and it was back in under 48 hours, I can’t fault Cleveland firearms
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    Another hour out and another 5 hoppers, all taken along the edge of the crop, the barley is looking about 2 weeks off coming down and the oil seed rape has been sprayed off so not long to wait now for some summer foxing and the mad couple of weeks where the rabbits have no idea what has happened ?
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    I’m loving the .17 at the minute, it got a bit sidelined for the .22 but with shots at them distances it’s back in favour, them mice better take cover ?
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    Well a text off my mate and this is turning into a weekly therapy session, can we get out the house for an hour she’s driving me mad, yes we can petal where would you like to go, anywhere there’s rabbits, so off we went to a little place I go to at the foot of the moors, only taking the .17hmr with a fiver in the pot for the longest shot, he got to shoot first taking a nice 134 yard with a smile on his face, thinking he’s 5 quid up we had a walk around shooting another 4 all under 100 yards, with it been my turn to shoot and spotting one a good way off, I thought this is my chance to take the
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    Common emerald moth, not so common around these parts so lovely to see ?
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    Ooooow, that’s very nice, I hope the appreciate been shot with such a lovely looking semi ?
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    There’s definitely something amiss with this oddment ? even though he isn’t dead I think he should be donated to medical science
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    That’s a proper introduction ?? welcome a long ??
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    One thing I have always struggled with is the idea that someone can give me a telling off, firstly I don’t care what you think and secondly I’m not 12 years old and just took your sweets off you, I treat everyone the same I work with, I’m not bothered who you are or what position you hold, you are just someone who has a different job to me, I’ve come across a few people that would do well to remember that respect is earned not given ?
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    It certainly felt good to shout him down, I would normally never leave a job on bad turms but sometimes needs must when people think they are better than you. Well I was hoping they would tell me to go home and not work the Saturday/Sunday but after our little chat nothing else was said to me, this could mean one of two things, ether my gaffer wasn’t in or when fat lad told him he thought sh*t we can’t afford to get shot of him when we have all this work in over the weekend, so fingers crossed they will bin me next week ??
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    Nothing to do with shooting but as I was looking through the hunting life as it happened I thought I would share it, now I’m at one of my jobs today ( the one I don’t like ) and for some reason the owner of the business is here wandering around the workshop ( horrible little tw*t ) and for the purpose of this little story we will refer to him as fat lad, so I’m having an unofficial tea break and looking through THL and fat lad walks up to me and says fat lad - do you know we have a no phone policy in place here stav - yep fat lad - so why are you on yours stav- I’m having
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    One farm, burning muck heap, another furnace and the rest worm food, all the farmers like to see what you have shot but that might just be my untrustworthy face
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    There’s a massive social divide up here, there’s those that have and those that are financially embarrassed like me, scraping a living off the landed gentry ?
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    Out on a little fencing job today and I’ve just been talking to the woman who owns the land, apparently her husband bought her the land next to there house for her to ride on, it’s just short of 160 aches and almost finishes at the bottom of the hills behind that handsome fella in the picture, now this chap is on the Sunday Times rich list so small change for a man of his standing, the amount of rabbits on it this morning was mental so before starting work I’ve offered my services as the last thing she wants is that 100 grand pony breaking a leg, fingers crossed her sugar daddy agrees when she
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    He comes on the shoot, my little mate and top beater Hugo is his son ?
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    Sadly there’s some things that have gone on in his life lately that don’t lend themselves to possessing a FAC
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    Lovely little roe buck, wish I’d of had the dslr with me when I stumbled across him
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    Well out again for a couple of hours, my mate seemed a bit happier today and I like to think some of that is down to me getting him out and about, so first off we head to the foot of the moors on the hunt for rabbits with the .22 and .17hmr, managed a couple but spent most of the time there watching a lovely roe buck and it turns out he’s got a bit of an injury to a rear leg so we may be back to take him in the near future, after that we headed back to the posh gardens where we accounted for another 11 between us before we lost the light, I’m starting to enjoy the.17 more and more, tonight was
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