ianm
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It is one thing putting them up for sale and another actually selling them. Have the ones advertised sold?
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Unfortunately like a lot of things, production of these has moved to China and are suffering a quality drop as a result. My local gunshop has stopped stocking them now as he is sick of sending them back under guarantee.
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FIFY! ?
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Would that rifle happen to be a cz 511?
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No reaction at all, just curious if you could id it with the pard off, but obviously not. I always carry a nightmaster xsearcher in my pocket in case i need a proper bright light but more importantly i have a dog that will find them for me. Training that bitch to find foxes was the best thing i have done, she has saved me hours and hours looking for them. Nothing worse than scratching about in the dark looking for a wounded fox and i will say thermal isn't all that brilliant at finding dead ones. Sometimes you have to be virtually stood on top of them to find them with it.
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If i had to rely on a lamp i would probably shoot three foxes a year. By the time they reach anywhere i go everyone and his dog (literally) has had a go at them.
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Could you not id what it was when you took the pard off?
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Well gents, we are rapidly heading towards another 9 page epic. Something i had hoped we would never witness again in this hallowed corner of the forum. Has SD still got it or will he eventually have to slink off to mumsnet a broken man.?
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If you order anything from him you may get it in eighteen months time. He is a waste of space. 940 nm will certainly reduce the glow but it will also reduce the range, especially on rear add ons that rely on lots of i/r. Vcsel lasers if focused to a spot will take some spotting by a fox.
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Some of, well no all of the AS LED pilled i/r's are very bright even at great distances, I know because before i had thermal and more importantly trained a Lab to find foxes i used to leave the i/r shining on the area where i had shot the fox. I then used to walk "down the beam" with the aid of my n/v spotter to guide me onto the fox carcass. Lots of times i have looked back to the source of the i/r well over two hundred yards away and thought "sh** that is bright".
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Just a few thoughts here. (1) SD you know the rules on the slinky title. You need to submit an account of each encounter on here for official assessment by the "panel". If the fox is deemed suitably cunning by the said panel and not just a victim of incompetence by the hunter, then the title slinky will be bestowed on the fox.? (2) I don't believe for one minute a fox can "hear" light. It may well be hearing high pitched frequencies emitted by the cameras electronics. (3) I will concede the fact that some especially wary foxes will see the red glow from an led pilled i/r source
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Succinct as ever my dear boy! ?
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Well our first shoot of the year went well. It was cold but dry and a bit of sun appeared. Bag was 122 head comprising of 57 duck 56 pheasant 7 partridge and 2 pigeon. My own contribution was 6 duck, 14 pheasants and 1 partridge. I used my AYA yeoman 12 bore and was accompanied by my black lab for the morning. Then at dinner i changed to my highlander 20 bore and had my young yellow lab with me, who proved to be steady with birds dropping all around her.
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I thought that too.
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I have been on that sd before and i don't like it to be honest. Oh! and i don't give a flying F*** what those turnip "eads" think.? I would have been more motivated had it been foxes causing a problem, but deer can wait.
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Deer mullering postponed till Monday, i am not getting piss wet for some mouldy old Roe.
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A lot depends, on the area you are shooting in. Some have very high densities of fox others haven't. The week before last i went out three times albeit targeting one particular fox on our shoot that had been causing problems. I killed it the third night, there was no pattern to its behaviour. So very much a wait and see if it turns up job, not helped by the fact it was call and lamp shy. The following week i went out three nights locally and killed 1,1 then two. I am happy to kill just one then i get more nights out but if two present themselves then i will kill them. I can have two or three
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Our first shoot tomorrow , first drive thin out the four hundred mallard. They are flying really well now because we have been flushing them off the pit for weeks now. Loads of pheasant and partridge about as well. Todays job is going to someone with a christmas tree plantation that is having them damaged by Roe. My mate has volunteered me for this job which will likely turn into a trauma. The good thing is i won't have to mess about doing a deer count and a cull plan, he just wants them all off his ground. Time to dust off the 30/06, good job i loaded a pile of ammo during the first loc
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Chav! ?
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A friend of mine was headkeeper at Windsor. He has some tales to tell.?
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Good result! What did you shoot them with T'hornet?
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I was thinking the same.
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I was out three times last week and killed four foxes. I would rather kill just one in a night then i get to go out more often.
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The conversation at the shoot went as follows: Bloke with HMR: I regularly shoot fox out to one hundred and twenty yards. Me: Bulls**t i have had one and i don't regard it as a fox round in the least. Bloke with WMR: Well i can kill a fox with mine up to that distance if i need to. ME: no idea about WMR as i have never owned one, but if i was in the market for a fox capable round that i could also use on rabbits, crows etc i would probably opt for .22 Hornet. Bloke with HMR: why not a .17 hornet? Me: because i have had one and it is difficult to load for and .22
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The problem is you aren't your own boss. Especially when you work for a syndicate of ten, in effect you then have ten bosses that think they know more about running a shoot than the bloke paid to do so. The only decent keepers jobs are the ones where you work for a family that are more interested in improving the countryside than what they actually shoot. Those jobs are few and far between. You also have the problem of where to live when you retire as most keepers jobs come with a tied property.
