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    As you have never trained a Labrador I would be interested to know why you think a pointer would be more versatile. I think you are wrong by the way, I have never seen a pointer used as a blind dog or drugs dog or a variety of tasks Labradors undertake.
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    There is an old saying “ Labradors are born half trained and spaniels die half trained “. I have labs and they are extremely versatile, they will sit in a pigeon hide, swim in open water wildfowling, sit on a peg game shooting or track shot foxes for me to name just a fraction of their versatility.
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    All depends on how good your firearms dept is. It is something of a postcode lottery , some are incredibly efficient and others are dire!
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    My sons is due on the 1st of July and had to wait two months for the useless doctors that are still hiding from a cold to fill his form in. They wouldn’t even look at it until you paid them fifty pounds. Anyway due to their incompetence the paperwork wasn’t submitted until the 20th of June for sec and fac grant. The FEO paid him a visit today so a week and a half after the paperwork submitted. Lancashire are pretty damn good to be fair.?
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    The mate of mine that I generally shoot with departed to Cornwall for his annual jollies on Saturday. So I was quite surprised to get a call from him on Sunday night. He said “can you do me a favour “ and I said go on what’s up? He told me an old chap that we shoot at now and again has just had a visit from a fox and it has made off with most of his chickens. I said I would see what I could do so he sent me his number. I gave the chap a call and he told me what had happened. Apparently the fox had visited him between 7 and 8, killed 3 out of the 4 he had and took them all. I said I would come
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    At 9.30pm just after making a brew I realised I was nearly out of milk. A trip to the local spar in the village was needed and so I set off. I decided to take the long way round so that I could check on some fields down the road. The farmer said he would cutting grass this week and I wanted to get on it when he had. Two minutes down the road and I was pleased to see two fields had been cut and the grass still on the ground. A trip out tonight was on the cards. I left the house at 10.30pm and was on the field four minutes later. The foxpro was out 50yds to my left and field mouse distress had b
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    This was the vixen cub I shot, it must have been born quite early.
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    They do tend to be long rangy foxes up there. I waited at a cut grass field as well to no avail, but it is only a few days since i shot two on there so perhaps a bit early for the next customers to have moved in. It is very pleasant in decent weather but a different story in winter. In the second picture there is a gate in the middle of the picture. Look to the left of that at the edge of the fir plantation you will see a light patch on the ground. That is actually the entrance to a sett and at dusk i watched a gang of the occupants emerge. Four adults and three young ones. I sa
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    The dead ewe!
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    A mate of mine that shoots a fair bit of ground in Cumbria asked me to accompany him on a foxing trip on Sunday night. The shots would be a minimum of 250yds and I don’t think he just had the confidence to take them. The set up was to shoot from one hill across a valley to the hill opposite. We arrived in the Jimny in plenty of time and I got him to walk out to the killing area and spread some sachets of dog food about. A good hour or so later a fox appeared at the top of the hill opposite out of the hedge and sat down on the newly cut field. After ten minutes it started to trot down towards u
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    I spoke recently with a friend who has a mate in the gun trade. He told him that it wasn’t a case of gmk not importing any tikka or sako 204s but a case of not being able to get any. Apparently a while ago in the land of the brave and free everything was 6.5 creedmore and now it is 204 that is the in thing. As we all know whatever America wants America gets, hence the shortage here.
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    He is a cracking looking young dog. A real nice sort!
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    Do you not eat rabbits sd,I can’t remember the last time I had one, there are precious few rabbits about round here but loads of hares.
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    Back to the farmer who breeds our ducks on Thursday night. I knew there was one about because I had been on Monday night and my mate shot a vixen. He had seen another but didn’t manage to get a shot at it. I thought I would leave it for a couple of nights then have another look. I set up on a track 200yds from the gate into the next field where I thought it would come from. I was set up for 10.15pm with the caller 50yds off to my right. I saw it in the next field about 10.50pm and switched the caller on. I had already preselected “rat distress “ and it was only a matter of seconds before it sl
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    Thursday I got a call from a mate of mine to ask if I could help a chap out that was losing chickens to a fox. I went to the same place last year for the same reason. I said the earliest I could go would be Saturday night, so we made arrangements for then. A mate of mine went with me and we set up the same as last time. I had a feeling it would be a vixen with cubs as it had been digging into the pens to gain access to the chickens. Anyhow at 10.13pm I spotted it coming into the field. It was using the available cover to make its way to the pens. I turned the foxpro on pheasant distress and it
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    Meanwhile, back on the lettuce patrol tonight. Hartley and his mates were giving the newly planted lettuce a bashing. We had to show willing and go and thin them out a bit. Anyone with a choked shotgun can have it bored out for thirty pounds a barrel. I have had three AYAs done and they are just fine using super steel. I have also been buying rifle bullets and storing them in case the lead replacement is crap.?
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    I know someone that bought a savage 17 hornet with a thumbhole stock when they first appeared. He had all kinds of problems with it for the 18 months of his ownership. I think when you buy something like this you need to be prepared to change things and do some "fettling" to get them how you would of liked it to have been in the first place.
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    He has bought one now! Have you not seen it in every picture he has posted since ?
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    I think that all depends on where you are going with them. Thats how i would want a dog bred if i were still going out around where i live. It was by far the most successful cross i used around here and i have tried a lot of them.
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    I once had a Buddy bred dog out of a very good bitch. To look at you would think he could of run anywhere but he couldn't run full stop. He simply didn't have enough pace to get to a hare and neither did his litter sister. I kept him till he was 22 months old and he never killed one hare.
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    I always give it a real good try and i will with these. Although looking at the vixens i reckon the cubs will be self sufficient by now. If i can't just get at them i will leave them a regular supply of canadas etc until i can get to them. I wouldn't like to starve to death myself so i am not going to inflict it on something else if i can help it.?
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    I have been throwing quite a bit of bait down recently on one of the farms I go on. Canada geese, pigeons out of date chicken etc and all of it has gone in no time. Anyway I was helping with the silaging there over the weekend and on Monday night I thought it would be a good idea to go and try a few different loads I knocked up. I also thought there might be a Canada or 50 about. Myself and my mate went up with the hardox fox targets and shot at them up to 400 yds with the 243s. As darkness fell I had a look around with the thermal to see if there were any foxes about. Well at 10.30 one appear
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    It may be worth looking on guntrader etc and phoning any dealers selling an armatic . Sometimes they are traded in with extra mags that they may be willing to part with.
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    “Foxtrot Oscar “ worst look at my new bipod post ever! ?
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    Deer are nothing but a pain in the arse. Shooting them is the easy part, then the ball ache starts. Gralloching, carting them, then doing something with them. You can’t just lob them under a hedge ?. Even the “deer stalking terminology “ gets on my tits. “ Glassing “ round here that gets done in a pub and generally means a trip to A and E . ? “Grassing a deer” wtf ? has it been dealing drugs, what are you going to grass it for.?
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