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Stavross

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  1. First go with my new dslr, using it in manual so please bear with me, was going for a good walk but due to the weather had to take them from the car ?
  2. Thanks mate, that makes perfect sense, I’ve watched a couple of videos on it and most of them are a bit to much information to take in all at once
  3. Well I got finished early today so sat down for an hour with the new camera, it took me 20 minutes to work out how to set the date and time and another half hour to work out the app, so by then, no time to go out so the pet rabbits got to be my subject, I’m trying to use it in manual so I get to know what it can do, the one thing I want to learn is blurring the background so an evening of YouTube is on the cards, cheers for the help ?
  4. That’s it, over for another year, 41 was the bag and there was some screamers, two of the drives produced some very high and fast birds, kids all got some good shooting and everyone went home happy, we will be having a squirrel day for the kids over the next couple of weeks, we put 750 birds down and we are around 450 shot and picked with a few more not found, so you will get no complaints form me with them numbers from our little shoot ?
  5. Ha ha, it was like Christmas Day this morning, I almost didn’t want to go on the pheasant shoot so I could go and have a play with it, no doubt I’ll get home tonight and there will be a million pictures of the bloody cat ?
  6. Once again lads thanks for your help, got in from work and the missus had pick it up for me, battery on charge and she’s picking me up a couple of sd cards In the morning while I’m out on my last day at the pheasants, she a good un, hopefully get to play with it after the weekend ?
  7. I haven’t got the sd yet so I think that would be the way to do it, I mentioned it to the missus this morning and she went out and bought it and said if it was left to me to make a decision about spending money I’d never get one, I hope she doesn’t want the cash off me ?
  8. Well thanks for the advice, I’ve bit the bullet and bought the canon with the extra lens, I’ve watched every review I can find and although it’s an entry level camera no one says it’s not worth the money and if I learn to use it it’s a lot more than a point and shoot, so we’ll give it a go ?
  9. Cheers mate, yeah, ten minutes from my house and I work out the back of saltholme, I quite often sit up there with my bino’s and a bit further up watching the seals
  10. Thank you for that, them pictures are amazing, I think I’m going to treat myself to the canon and see how I get in with it ?
  11. Wow, that’s a lot of fox, looks like you have made a good start on them, nice work ?
  12. Well we had an hour out and it was positively tropical at -4, even the rabbits thought better of it with just a handful about, no fox, the bait has gone but the camera didn’t catch it due to the lens being frozen over, put another camera in the front field near to the spot where I’ve been seeing it, it’s looking like an early morning thing now so depending on work I might put a night shift in and do the pheasant shoot first
  13. Yeah, they shouldn’t be doing it but they seem to think they know best, my mate who runs the shoot sent someone home last year for shooting at a hare, he didn’t like this and never came back this season, you don’t need to be shooting with people like that
  14. We have a no ground game rule on the shoot, but for some of the more experienced guns they take this more as a suggestion than a rule with a couple been shot on the drives last season, this is all well and good until someone gets hurt
  15. That’s what it’s like around here, we do have residents on the shoot that we try and get at, but these will also wander onto other land and other lads from around us keep at them as well, so we help each other out, last year we had 7 off the shoot but the shoot out the back of us took 16, the sheep farm I shoot on has no earths on it so what comes on there is wandering in from surrounding areas, I once watched a documentary about foxes and some will travel miles in a night and some will stay in one area, most of this was the availability of food but for some they just went on the wander, what
  16. I’ve managed to get them to come in earlier with baiting quite a few times but only by a few hours, like you say there’s a good chance it’s coming from a good way off, there’s also the chance that it’s not the one I’ve been seeing in the front field because it’s a big area for just one of them and with the surrounding farms and woodland it could be from anywhere
  17. Hello chaps, I’m after a bit of advice, I keep looking at cameras as all my pictures are taken with my phone at the minute, now I know nothing about photography so was thinking of an entry level DSLR, the one that keeps coming up is the Canon eos 4000d, would this camera be any good for general wildlife photography and is it worth the £350 price tag, it comes with a 18-55mm and 75-300mm lens, any advice would be greatly received or any other recommendations, I don’t want to spend thousands in case it’s not for me and it need to be pretty much idiot proof with me behind it ?
  18. Ha ha, you need to smell like wildlife not my dear old grandad ?
  19. I think I’ll put a jumper on with my shorts tonight because there is a little nip in the air?
  20. Well I’m going to give it an hour tomorrow night see if anything is about, might try another spot as well seen as this fella is turning up a daft o’clock, so if longshanx’s lays off the old spice we might come across something ?
  21. It’s all about time, I’m a very busy man ?
  22. Working on the farm today so I had a trip down the road to check the camera, ginger bollocks turned up just before 5 this morning and took one of the pigeons ( other one still there ) so it’s getting a bit earlier, I took the .22 with me for a bit of rabbit bait as I’ve been warned to leave the cat food alone ?
  23. We will have to see, I wouldn’t mind catching that on the camera
  24. Where I’ve been baiting is about 75 yards from my pigeon hide I’ve made in a hedge back so as long as the wind is the right direction I’ll be in there failing that if it’s the other way I’ll be in another spot about 130 yards from the bait, the problem with that is it’s a bit open so would need a bit of cloud for that
  25. Bloody hell has my wife set up a fake profile on here to troll me, is that you Jac ???? she always blames the booze and said something very similar this morning ?
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