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4 hours ago, FOXHUNTER said:
Partridge....was it English or French ?
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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6 hours ago, Stavross said:
The problem was, thick lad here, took the IR out the mount, put it back in with the shim in the wrong place so couldn’t see it through through the scope because it was pointing at the fu*king moon
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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10 hours ago, foxdropper said:
A landowner shot my lurcher back in the day for coursing a fox .All legal but it spilled on to his land and he was a hunting man .Slung my dog in a ditch before I got through the hedge but there he was with shotty under his arm and a shot fired few minutes ago .Said he took a shot at the fox but missed .I looked for the dog rest of the day until I went back and combed the area finding my dog in a ditch .The two were 20 yards apart as they went through the hedge so he did it on purpose .
23 years later I still had the perm next door and he still farmed the same piece .My mate had a unit on his farm and I just happened to be there with the terriers in the truck one day getting his digging gear when we found the farmers cat had been shut in his unit .
Was a struggle but dog eventually caught it .Placed it by the farmhouse with a note saying we were even .He told my mate he knew that day would come .
Every action has a reaction mate .Treat me as you wish to be treated and we will get along just dandy .
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 bank, it's for life!
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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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24 minutes ago, David.evans said:
Ian
glad you had a great day out , and shot a few , please explain how you managed to hang up a plastic decoy pigeon ( see photo 2 )
to much wine may be
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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15 hours ago, Stavross said:
I love going bunny bashing at this place, there’s very few places around us that have rabbits in these numbers, I cant think of anywhere else I shoot where you can do a 100 in a night
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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4 hours ago, Sausagedog said:
What a specimen and what a tag!
17?
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.
2 hours ago, shovel leaner said:What a beast !!! I shot a 20lb fox last week , my pb . What’s your heaviest Ian ?
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 back over his shoulder and I shot him in the boiler room. I knew he was a good one when I walked up to him. He weighed in at 21.5lbs.
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5 hours ago, bumpy22 said:
Had a 223 years ago. But just use my hmr and 243 for everything for the last ten years or so. But bought a 223again this week so now need to develop a load for it. Only reason being is noise and I want to leave my drone on it permanently.
Luckily I have stocked up on bullets for 243. Just need to try and sort a round for 223. Mates got some 53gn vmax to try first
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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1 hour ago, shovel leaner said:
From my understanding there isn’t a lot of difference in performance with any of the “Wildcat” variants. I think it’s more a case of the easiest to modify from my existing.223 .
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 flatter than 20 prac and components ( brass etc ) easier to obtain so i don't really know why you have been advised to go 20 prac. As a night time foxing round the 204 has everything you could wish for if you run it as it was intended to be run. Fast and with 32grn bullets is the way forward. One of my rifles i have used for eleven years now and i bought it from a chap that had used it before me. He gave me some of his homeloads when i bought it and they where only doing 3,200. I soon sorted that out and upped the anti by 1,000fps. I recently bore scoped the barrel at my mates gun shop and it is still very good after all the use it has had, so they aren't barrel burners. I use Hornady 32grn vmax which have been very reliable for me, i have also tried nosler varmageddons 32grn hp and barnes varmint grenades at 26grn hp but the Hornady are my favourite.
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6 hours ago, Sausagedog said:
Looks heavy, I prefer lighter myself.
Glad for you though.
Got to ask, in the blurb. It says "100% inspection"....what would a 90% inspection detail?
I love manufacturers blurb me.
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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18 hours ago, Stavross said:
It likes 70gn BT sako’s ( it’s like having a second wife, it’s got expensive taste
) and for the deer I use 90gn there’s minimal difference in zero but the good thing about putting the wraith on is I can zero it with both rounds and switch between them
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.
The Unintended Keeper ( Diary of a keeping blagger )
in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
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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.