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    Yesterday was the third shoot for us and we had a decent day finishing with 71 head. I managed to account for 4 mallard 6 pheasants 1 partridge and a pigeon. Then this morning we went out for the pinks and shot 14. Tonight was a duck flight on some pits and I managed another 4 mallard.
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    French but we have some English as well.
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    Second day at our shoot today. The birds flew well considering the weather ( bright sun and next to no wind). We finished up on 63 head, i killed 6 mallard 5 pheasants and the only partridge of the day. One of the cock pheasants was a white one which incurs a fine but i don't care because it was a really good bird.
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    We have all done something daft. Why did you take it out of its bracket?
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    £600 is a p*** take for a tripod. I haven’t tried an alpex it will be interesting to see how you get on with it. Oh and what do you mean you didn’t know he was filming anything? If that lad goes for a s**t he films it!?
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    Stavross starring again. When are you going to replace the wraith and what with?
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    I had a similar experience. It was my 21st birthday and never being one for pubs/clubs or parties i went for a run with my dog. She put a hare up and ran it, a minute or so later i heard two shots and the dog didn't return. I looked for hours but didn't find her. I went to the local police station the next day and they told me the farmer had reported shooting a dog. It would be a similar time frame when i acted on it 20+ years but it cost him a lot more than a cat. Over the years it has cost him repeatedly and now it costs his son. I never settle anything when something is logged in the grudge
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    I am liking the build so far Wolfie. Oh! and the best bit is Biden and his clowns won't like it one bit.?
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    I think someone just hung it up so it doesn’t get lost or carted off with one of the dogs.?
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    Well it was our first day today and it lashed down all morning and early afternoon. There where some really cracking birds considering it is the first stir up. We finished on 52 head comprising of 30 duck, 7 partridge, 1 teal and 14 pheasants. I happened to get a good peg on the first drive and the next to last drive. My own contribution was 6 duck, 8 pheasant and a partridge.
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    To be honest I don’t know what they sell for. I saw some at Stafford for £75 and they weren’t as nice as these. I have promised these two to a mate and his son. Another mate wants three. I have eight that haven’t coloured up yet so I don’t know what there is amongst them but if there are four cocks you can have one with pleasure, I don’t want paying for them.
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    Here is the first two cocks to colour up that I have bred this year.
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    Yeah i was trying to make you feel better but i can see my efforts are wasted on you, i won't bother in future! ? When i was younger my wages where fifty pound a week. I used to go out Friday, Saturday and sunday night if i could and i tried for 100 rabbits with the lurchers. If i got the 100 on the first night which we did quite often then i wouldn't catch anymore till the next week. Me and a mate went all over the place for them usually with four lurchers . It doubled my wages, i wouldn't know where to go now for numbers like that.
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    Errr a night foxing or shooting scabby rabbits? No contest for me! ?
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    No not last night, i used the 243. I think my 17 would have bounced off this fella then he would of been really mad and set about biting my ankles.? My heaviest was actually over thirty years ago and was a tad over 23lb. Again it was a dog fox that had decided he had more right to my poultry than i had. I convinced him otherwise with a face full of no7s at 20 yards out of my Baikal sxs at the bottom of my garden. Both of my two heaviest have been at the edge of big villages where i suspect they get plenty of grub.
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    I decided to go to a place tonight that I haven’t been to for a couple of months. I thought there would be one about because there usually is there. I parked at the side of a farm building overlooking a big field and put the foxpro on a fence post about forty yards away. Fifteen minutes of jack rabbit distress had a fox flying in. Unfortunately he came so fast he got to about forty yards from us and saw us. He turned and went away straight down the field. I followed him through the scope hoping he would stop which is what he did around one hundred and fifty yards away. As he stopped he looked
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    The 223 i had really didn't like the 53grn bullets. It was a 1-12" twist and every other bullet out of it would tumble and keyhole the target. I changed to 40grn and it shot well with those.
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    A mate of mine modified a fairly new 223 tikka supervarmint a couple of years ago. He bought the 223 and then bought a 204 shortly after. It wasn't long before he realised he would never use the 223 again. Now being both left handed rifles which are difficult to get he decided to rebarrel the 223 to 204 instead of selling it. So off we go to Brock and Norris to see Mike Norris whom i have had dealings with before. The rifle was left with him with instructions on what my mate wanted and several months later we picked it up. To say it shoots superbly is an understatement. The 204 is faster and
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    90% would probably mean that they check 9 out of every 10 barrels produced. ?
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    Nice barrel, it will be interesting to see how it shoots.?
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    I have used both of those in the past. I would think your Tikka would like the Norma. I used federal premium 40grn in a 223 i had and it liked them but at £29 a box eleven years ago it ought to like them.
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    What canary did you use to breed your mule? I have managed to get thirteen goldie mules out of my red diamorphic hens this year which is better than the four i bred last year.?
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    I am using 55grn nosler varmageddons hollow points at the minute When they have run out i have a couple of hundred 55grn nosler ballistic tips to use up then i will be on the Hornady 58grn vmaxs that bi have stored up. My mate is using them and really likes them.
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    What bullet weight are you going to use in the 243 for foxes?
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    Pistols aren't my thing but that looks like a lot of fun. Excellent group as well.
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