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    Creature of habit apparently, that one hasn’t read the script
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    I use quite a lot of HMR ammo and a couple of years ago I was checking it all and finding a lot split, then the lad in the gun shop said what I bought was new, I continued to check it and didn’t find any split from about 600 rounds, so I stopped checking them, as I said previously I checked what I have now and none split from about 250 Winchester HV’s and just over 100 Hornady
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    Cottage pie tonight
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    Couple of these, while doing her tea listening to radio 2, there’s worse ways to spend a Saturday evening
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    Yeah, she’s ok mate, had to have her pet put to sleep that she’s had for 15 years, so she feels like she’s lost a family member
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    CCI sorted the split cartridge problem and that’s why it’s rare to see a split cartridge now, I checked all the Winchester I’ve got and the Hornady ( CCI cartridge) and none of them are split, you do get a lot split after firing but I’ve had no issues with them
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    That’s strange, I thought that had been sorted, I haven’t had any split for a good couple of years now, the worst for it were Remington, closely followed by Horady, it only happened once but I got a round stuck in my browning from a split cartridge, I’ve got a couple hundred of them Winchester, I’ll check them tomorrow
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    The cull has done wonders for the ground nesters, it’s a shame it only came about for the spread of TB and nothing to do with protecting wildlife, there’s a hell of a lot around us and the cull never made it to us, if they had looked at it from a conservation perspective instead of a farming/financial one the countryside around me would be in a better place
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    Not sure, it didn’t look like it had been ragged about, but where it was and the tyre track on the field say it wasn’t natural causes, maybe lead poisoning
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    First day back up the shoot for a few weeks and it’s all settled down and looking like spring is on the way, I spent the best part of 2 hours cleaning the pens up and the shed where we have our elevenses, I filled my 2 feeders I keep running until the end of March and then had an hour walking around the piggeries smacking a few squizzers out the tops of the trees, it’s nice to have it back to myself whilst over the piggeries I came across a dead badger, I noticed some tyre tracks across the field and looking at where it was I suspect foul play ? Over the past week I’ve mainly been u
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    Very sad, but I fear it won’t be the last
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    I never said it wasn’t 50ft/lbs of energy at 200 yards is not a lot for an animal the size of a fox, I wouldn’t think many would drop on the spot, I would of thought even a light .223 would still be doing over 700ft/lbs at that distance, I’d be more than confident in that, to me that makes the .223 a better option than a hornet
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    That’s what I’d be using
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    At that distance I’d use the centrefire I’ve never had a hornet, shot a couple only on rabbits and they don’t half wack’em
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    Just got back home now and it’s completely clear, I spoke to the farmer before I left and he said “ I didn’t think you’d see much in this “ he could of told me when I text him to say I was coming up, I’ll ring him on Thursday before I set off, he said to me as I was leaving “ you might as well go and give Sarah a hand in the sheds seen as you are here”, no ta John, I’ll head off home, might see you on Thursday ??
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    I think they are the perfect tool for small pest control be it rabbits or crows ive just come up to the sheep farm as lambs are out, left home, nice and clear, got here pea soup, nightmare, seen a fox straight away through the thermal, not a chance of seeing it through the scope, so back home for me
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    I knew you’d get to like it, I’ve always liked them but a lot of my shooting mates all said they were sh*t when I got one, now most, if not all have one now, when we cleaned it and took it for zero we thought the group would get a bit tighter after a few more rounds through it and 21 for 22 says to me it’s shooting spot on good bag ?
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    I’m going to have to pass on Mosh’s number, you can try and put each other to sleep, he asked me the other day how you were getting on, I said your just as weird as him ?
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    Farms are not the problem, the problem lies with sites that don’t allow pest control I.e. anything to do with the RSPB quite a while ago I knew a lad who did the foxes on an RSPB site not far from me, the lapwing population was unbelievable, you would easily see 1500 together, to cut a long story short a new manager was brought in and decided that’s not the way he wants it ran and stopped him, now there’s still lapwing on that site but in no way the numbers that were there, it’s sad, I know it as Packham blindness
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    It’s a load of shit mate, everyone I know would do it for free just to have access to the land, the only way it will happen is if they get contractors in like the badgers and deer and it will just end up like that nonsense
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    It won’t happen, what you going to do, turn up with a dead fox and collect your fee, bounty hunter style ?
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    Worked out in rain and snow for a month, now the weather is good I’m inside prepping for the floors to go in next Wednesday, this place is a joke
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    Nice work Mr Sausage, I’m definitely fancying a bit of squizzer bashing with the shotgun up at the shoot when I’m a bit more mobile ?
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    The job I’m on at the minute needs to be finished before the next lads can come in, hopefully another week or so and I’ll get a few days off
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