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On 15/05/2023 at 09:13, philpot said:
I have never shot a deer so forgive my ignorance but what do you mean when you say it was ' clean ' as I can't work that one out.
We have a lot of deer in the part of Lincolnshire where I live, in fact I have seen quite a few wander into the village and many a night when I have been out on the rabbits, the deer showing up on the nv were only 40 - 50 yds away. The ones we have thought of shooting are the muntjac which are getting more common but not sure if an hmr would be suitable as I only have .22lr, sako quad with hmr and wmr barrels. I was told the muntjac are a bit of a bugger to skin, is that true.
Phil
No rimfire is legal to shoot muntjac with. .22 centre fire is the minimum.
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15 hours ago, FOXHUNTER said:
Great shooting. Out of interest what was the holdover for 258 yards?
To be honest i couldn't tell you in inches. The reticule on the Drone that i use is a tiny cross in the centre of the screen almost like a dot. I just see a sight picture that i am happy with and shoot, a bit random i know but it works for me.
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The farmer that myself and my mate shoot for asked if we could have a look at night over his newly planted lettuce. The hares are a real problem for him, they destroy vast amounts of his crops. We decided tonight would be a good time to have a look and so we went about 10,o,clock. Sure enough the hares had found them and where in the process of going down the rows and nipping the centre’s out. I had taken the ruger precision hmr for the job. It has a Drone prox10 on it and I used the Solaris SRX laser with it. The little hornady 17 grain v max’s did an excellent job on them. I managed to shoot ten the closest of which was 90 yards and quite extraordinarily the furthest was 258 yards. I really like this little rifle for these type of jobs. It is light years better than the cz hmr I had before. Not decrying CZs because I think the second hand one I had was probably on the verge of being shot out.
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On 08/05/2023 at 14:27, FLATTOP said:
Good bit of teamwork there Ian nice write up I like the bit
I reckon the farmer will be well pleased with that well done.
The farmer was very happy that it had been removed. He said that whenever he has had serious damage done, it was always a small vixen like that one.
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Well another potential problem sorted last night. I have spotted a fox on the cameras on and off for a while at the game and sheep farm. It had a really peculiar pattern. It would turn up early hours of the morning between 3 and 5 . The following night between 9 and 12 then disappear for 5/6 nights. Anyway it hasn’t been around for 3 weeks but turned up last Friday early hours again. It also made an appearance early hours of Saturday morning. The farmer rang me to say he had smelled it around the duck, pheasant and partridge pens. I decided to go last night to see if it made an appearance. I took a mate of mine with me in his own vehicle so that I could set him up watching one area whilst I watched another. Just before 10 my phone was buzzing in my pocket and I saw the caller was my mate. I answered and he said he had seen it and it was making its way towards me but behind me. I quickly turned around and saw it two fields away mooching along. Hares began to run about away from it and all the lapwings were in the air making a fuss. It turned towards me and started to come in my direction. At this point I changed position on the Jimny and stood on the nearside door sill looking backwards. It kept coming towards me and slid under a gate into the field i was overlooking. It then turned to to my right. I followed it through the Senopex A7 and when it stopped I touched off a shot. I saw bits of it fly into the air and the fox disappeared in the longish grass. I called my mate and told him it had been shot and to come and help me find it. It took a bit of finding but I eventually spotted it with the thermal. I had forgotten about the grass getting up a bit and left the dog at home, I won’t be doing that again. It was a smallish vixen that had cubbed and had been just over two hundred yards away. I know where the earths are and have asked another mate to go today to deal with whatever is there with the terriers.
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11 hours ago, FOXHUNTER said:
Did they escape from a deer farm?
They where released nearby by a bloke that had a collection of different deer. He just opened the pen door and away they went about fifteen years ago. They are all over this area now having bred well over the years.
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2 hours ago, foxdropper said:
Nice one Ian .Is the blond colouration common with you .We see about 1 in 50 of that shade.
They are nearly all that colour.
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43 minutes ago, FOXHUNTER said:
Great result
was the buck with the 1 antler not just casting .
It could of been but it looked like it had been knocked off to me. The spiker was really poor and has ended up being fox bait.
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Well my son and myself caught up with them tonight. There was sixteen does and four bucks. One spiker was in poor condition and was limping due to a badly damaged front foot. I think it might have been in a collision with a car. One of the other bucks had lost an antler probably due to the same thing. Anyway my son managed two and I accounted for the third. All three were neck shot so no meat damage.
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Farmer has just called me to have a thinning out session on the fallow. He is a bit peeved that he saw 27 on a 20acre field eating his silage. I will start with these three.
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5 hours ago, sparky the hunter said:
Listening to David Attenbrough talking about how we can leave the country in a better state for the next generation got me thinking.
I walked around one of my permissions and saw Lapwings, Oystercatchers and grey partridges. I feel that all the Predator control i carry out must fall into this category but the BBC wont acknowledge it. We did not create modern land use practices but we seem to be supporting the wildlife that does poorly in our modern agricultural landscape, when do you think the mainstream media will wake up to this?
I have absolutely no time for that hypocritical old twat Attenborough.
He has spent decades globe trotting with a huge production team chatting shit about wildlife then has the temerity to lecture us on not travelling etc for the good of the planet. F**k him!
The best way to leave the countryside in a good state for those that come after us is to leave the management of it to the people that (A) live in it and (B) spend a lot of time in it. Not some Herbert that has done a uni course or a mealy mouthed politician.
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If these are any use to you Stav I will post them up. I take it he just wants the antlers not the skull. PM me your address if you want them.
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Back to the sheep and game farm last night. The previous night I had about 8 alerts on my cameras. It showed two foxes where about but unfortunately it was pouring down rain and high winds. Anyway as I was getting my gear together tonight the camera alert went off and when I checked a fox was already there on the bait at six o, clock. I had several more alerts as I was driving there so I knew it was hanging about. After driving through the farm to the bait site I could see the fox a hundred yards or so away to the right of the bait. It had obviously been taking bits of bait there to eat. It had seen or heard me though and was just sat watching. After a 20 minute stand off it ambled off through the tree’s and up the bank. I repositioned myself meanwhile and waited watching the banking 180 yards away. Thirty minutes later it returned and I waited until it was at the clearing of the bait site. As it stopped to pick up a meal I gave it 55grns of bad news out of the 243 Drone combo. It turned out to be a barren vixen of 12lb.
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3 hours ago, FOXHUNTER said:
I appreciate that but only really needed for long range shooting, factory ammo is good enough for the average guy with most shots sub 200 yds and most probably around 100 yds.
I've shot factory ammo for 30 years with no problem, foxes and deer don't notice the difference
But crows and magpies aren’t the same size as foxes or deer, unless it’s different where you live.
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5 minutes ago, FOXHUNTER said:
Reloading used to be a cheaper option but with todays prices plus the cost of setting up it is no longer.
You will need to be using a serious amount of ammo before recouping your investment which most recreational shooters never will.
A lot easier to walk into your local shop.
Trouble is no shop in the country sells anything as good as i load myself.
Cost is neither here nor there for me as i have had my gear for years and stocked up whilst prices and availability was very good.
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42 minutes ago, KimE said:
308w, bullet £1, powder 0,4£, primer 0,07£ =1,47
LEE reloading set ~190£ + tools for each cartridge
....but its not the right time to start now with low component availability cant find primers prices has gone up on everything.
I know, i am down to my last 7.000 primers, 3,000 bullets and sixteen tubs of powder. I need to stock up while my local rfd still has piles of everything.
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On 15/03/2023 at 14:32, Stavross said:
I said that to the lad in the shop, if it worked out at 5 quid a round the likes of you and me would still pay it because we can and it’s what we love to do, but for some it’s pricing them out, I know an old boy who loves his shotgun shooting, he lives in a private rental ( because the council don’t give a sh*t about housing the likes of him) and is really struggling with the way everything has gone up, when I seen him a week or so ago he said he hadn’t been out on the pigeons because it was a toss up between electric or cartridges, I went home and got everything I had left over from last season and dropped it off for him, I wanted to go and buy him a slab but I know he’d be offended by that, I was looking at Bismuth in the shop and they were £1400 a thousand
I am surprised you haven’t set yourself up to reload. It is cheaper and you can tailor the rounds to suit your rifle far better than factory stuff. I have just prepped some cases for loading this week. Crow and magpie battering season is here so I will need them.
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14 hours ago, FOXHUNTER said:
No sign of lamb killer so tried next door and called one immediately. Unfortunately it came that fast had no time to mute caller and it literally ran in to the caller before circling off and watching in an unsafe position.
Well I know where it is ....would have been better off with shotgun ....might try that next.
You will be lucky if it comes to a call again now it is educated to them. Might be better forgetting the caller and try to kill it over bait.
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Back to the game and sheep farm last night. It stopped raining about 7.30 and the forecast was clear for the rest of the night so I thought I would go and see if I bumped into a particular fox that I knew was on the ground or it’s mate. This vixen is another that completely ignores any calls and is very wary . I have two cameras up on this farm and before I set off I had an alert on my phone. When I checked it there was a fox on camera 2 at 8.06pm. I met my mate at the farm at 8.45pm and we went to where the fox had been heading. After 45 minutes of nothing at all I thought we may be better at the other side of the farm. Through the gate hole on this 30 acre field is a very convenient hard standing to park on. It offers an excellent vantage point as well for spotting any vulpine activity. In front of us is fields with low hedges eventually leading to the marsh bank. To the left and right are long woods. I have had foxes come from all directions here. About 40 minutes into the vigil I spotted something in the next field around 400yds away that could well be a fox. There are dozens of hares on here so you need to check everything carefully. After a minute or so it moved off towards the wood on our right. I could tell instantly that it was a fox by that gliding movement they have. It came to the corner of the field I was in then entered the wood. It made its way along the edge of the wood coming in and out of view through the thermal. When it was almost opposite us it jumped through the sheep wire fence and into the field we where set up in. After trotting towards us for 15yds it turned to go right. A quick shout stopped it in its tracks and a 32 grn 204 round put an end to its marauding at 190yds. I always knew that killing this vixen would either be a chance encounter or over bait but she didn’t keep a regular pattern on the bait making life difficult. She was in cub but a couple of weeks away from giving birth. The farmer was ecstatic because vixens with cubs have done him a lot of damage in the past. Its mate showed up on camera 1 at 3.03am so that will be next to be dealt with.
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3 hours ago, bumpy22 said:
Did you get a mount for yours of Kev Ian?
Yes i have Kevs mount on both my Drones.
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10 hours ago, David.evans said:
Can you still get parts for them tho Ian
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There is a chap called Kev Gundry that can fix them but to be honest there is very little in them to go wrong.
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14 hours ago, bumpy22 said:
I have told him
Needs to try one
Thing is you can buy a s/h Drone for the price of these new offerings and they are the best n/v scope ever made or ever will be.
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4 hours ago, BenBhoy said:
Reckon my lambing bonus is going to one of them. Higher base mag than alpex too.
Buy a Drone!
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I set one up for someone I know and I thought it was really good. He hasn’t had any problems with it.
Buck your ideas up
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That looks a nice buck.