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    We have had people asking the land owner where we pay to shoot on their grounds, this has always been turned down for the very reasons you say. We look after the fences, do odd repairs and help where and when we can. It is not a money thing it is a trust thing, and we are now friends. I was just answering the question honestly, explaning why at times money needs to change hands. we have i think 14 permissions. We pay for two, both have red deer on them, and they are way more damaging than bunnies believe me. The others are mostly vermin control, where we do not pay, but in most cases simpl
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    I am in aberdeenshire as well and you will find that there is plenty of shooting available in the the area. I think you need to get our there and speak to farmers and land owners. The local gun shops, i use sloans, can generally offer good advice as to who to ask. Most of the shops have a notice board with what is available, sloans had a few posters about rabbit shooting when i was last in.
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    Sounds like you had a almost empty bottle and when you undid it you loosened the valve to bottle seal. Just let it empty, and when it is, check the o ring, and if it is ok (it may be deformed a little) tighten the valve again and it will be fine. it does not sound like a disaster
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    The previous replies are correct, the 1987 is the date of the BS standard applied to the bottle. The bottle on you gun is an aluminium one, we can tell by the BS standard applied to it (5045 pt 6) and also because it has a flat base. Steel ones have a rounded base. Yours was made in 09/2002. However, testing this is easy, i bet a magnet will not stick to it! These cylinders do not require a pressure test. They are below the legal limit in size if they are 0.7 ltr. This has been debated many times over they years in the scuba industry, and even there there is still discussion. I contacted
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    Cracking Stag. I dont know anything about park deer or how any of that works, though i guess i would like to find out more and experience it. I am mounting my first Red Stag. It is capped out and in the freezer. I have done a number of roe and guess it is just bigger and heavier, and will be much more work. I have a roe to finish off this week and plan to start next week, i am just a beginner at taxidermy and can only really do one at a time. I am happy with the results to date and will post some pictures later. I have shot better beasts now, but no 1 will always be very special, I
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    I would be up for a deal on that, a nice shotgun of interest?
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    I pay a lease on a bity of ground. It borders a 1000 acres of roe and red ground we have, where we also have good grouse on the high ground ( 2 days tops a year walked up grouse) with rabbits and a very few pheasants on the low ground. On this ground we dont pay to shoot, but have struck a deal whereby we pay a very reasonable fee for each deer we take. It is more of a token for what we are shooting and is very well worth it. The bit we lease is slightly smaller, but gives us the whole hill, and also has reds visiting it so makes our licenses easy to obtain and we can also sign other people on
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    Thank you Sir, you clearly understand.
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    I dont hunt with a dog, i shoot and fish, i have not the skills to work a dog effectivly, and not the time to train one. I think if the (legal) ban continues then in time, perhaps 10 years or so many will have lost the skills necessary to course effectivly, this is probably the plan. it is afterall a whole generation to the dog. Many of you will still work away, harvesting as people have done for generations, quietly working your dogs and harvesting the surplus of the country. You will be invisible, like the poachers of old, you will not brag on the net and will not leave any mark on the habit
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    cheers Craigy
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    I watched his programmes most of yesterday whilst pottering away reloading, cleaning the guns and the like, as the rain / sleat was crashing down all day here and it was not worth driving out for a stalk. I though it was good entertainment, ok, it is not educational for folks who spend most of their time out in the countryside, but for folks who do not i thought is was good. It is so different to the countryside in north scotland i found it quite entertaining What is his story? Earlier someone mentioned an accident. He looks ok.Did he have a big accident and make money to buy his land
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    still celebrating!
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    I wish i had timed it but i would have thought 25 - 30 minutes. It was an excellent battle, and very nerve wracking towards the end, once i had seen it. At one point the Ghillie saw the tail, and told me it was a big fish with a huge tail, and i said "and look how far away from its tail its head is!" it was a cracker, and shot off after we had held it into the current for a wee while. largest salmon to date, on a crappy home tied fly, very happy! Dave
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    I had a rather good day today. I was fishing a lower Dee beat (asked not to say which one), and it was the first time I had fished as part of the extension, since year one, when I had a day at Maryculter, and blanked! My day started quite badly. Aberdeen was busy, and it took an hour and a half to get from Bridge of Don to Deeside, which is mad, perhaps we should build a bypass! I was hoping to get to the river at 0800 latest, but it was fully 0855 when I arrived, not my style, l like to be properly early. The others were all basically set up, and ready to get going so I left them to get
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    My Best video yet: http://sites.google.com/site/wadersrepairs/home/diverdaves-videos This one is a different league from my earlier ones, many of you will know where it was taken but please do not say. Although the fish will have moved by now they will return next season and are a potential poaching risk. This one is well worth the watching dave
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    I have one on my .243 and one on the HMR, both excellent, no complaints. Value well beyond the price tag in my opinion dave www.wader-repair.co.uk
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    I enjoyed my day on Ben Loyal last month I had a real hankering to have another go at the reds, so called Simon Blackett factor of Invercauld and organised a day for myself, Invercauld is far closer to home and I am really keen to get out and stalk reds more regularly. He had a day available, a Thursday, and this meant changing quite a bit of my work round, (sorry of your waders were delayed) but I was so keen nothing was going to stop me. I was to shoot the Baddoch beat, with stalker Colin and ghillie Davie. But the forecast was terrible, high winds, fog and rain all day. Even this however w
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    Sorry for the delay in responding, a stalking and fishing weekend kept me off the forum. I can certainly help you, i do a lot of these but the majority of my work is waders. Aquasure and cotal mixed or stormsure and stormcure mixed together and applied on the inside will do the job well. If you want i am happy to do this for you, or can advise dave
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    Taken in a deep pool in the Dee, in what is very dark water. Because of the lack of light, eg none, and the poor viz at one meter the quality is poor but let it run. It shows a catatonic salmon, waiting for water to run. It eventually wakes up after a bit of encouragement from me. it has some jaw damage, perhaps as a result of a hook injury as a parr or adult, we will never know, but interesting never the less. The Eels are also interesting, look at the eyes, both the salmon and eels have very bright eyes, makes me wonder i the lures we use should emphaisie this. Certainly shows
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    This is the best looking one i have had, it is a february Dee springer, caught at park on a brass willie gun fly. It put up a trememdous battle, and is what a springer should look like. It weighed about 15lbs. It was covered in sea lice so had come off the tide that day. The Ghillie had worked out that the fish would arrive off the tide and in our beat at 1130 and the fish was hooked at 11.25, so it had been speeding! neither photo is particularly good but it gives the idea of th fishes quality, it was a cracker.Hopefully it went on to sucessfully spawn the following Nov
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    getting lots of these dives now, that one was taken 3 years ago, there are more recent ones on my website. I took one last month that the board do not want on line until the fish move on, it makes that one look very poor, massive numbers and very clear images, taken with a different camera. it will go on in a couple of months. getting plenty of shooting Paul, plenty of deer about. Cant wait until the glorious 12th and then the stags. You about for the start of the grouse, welcome to join us if you fancy it, got the 12th &13th booked and you can come as my guest if you fancy it. Accomo
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    It was to record what was down there for the Dee trust. we knew there were a lot there, as a good number were jumping, but the whole dive is 35 minutes long and it was like this right through the video. Many thousand fish in the pool. They were in superb condition, the white marks just above their tail are long tailed seal lice, showing how fresh they are. Also, the paralax of the camera housing lens makes them all look thinner, typically of Dee salmon they were all good solid fish. the video was edited for a number of reasons, but one was to remove some footage of a couple of massive fis
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    A short video of a massive salmon shoal in the Aberdeenshire Dee. Taken using rebreathers so we did not disturb the fish too much. Diverdave www.wader-repair.co.uk
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    I was delivering waders I had repaired back to a casting / angling instructor, who is fishing Little Blackhall on the Dee this week. He encouraged me to have a wee cast in the Roe Pot, a famous pool i have wanted to fish for some time. The rain was pouring down but after coming out from the city i thought a cast would be very pleasant. The river was low but the colour of the Dee Dram. I took a size 12 cascade out of the box (well you would) and threw a floating line with an intermediate tip down my bank to get the line out. Then threw it out off the top jetty to just above the boil at the to
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    I too though this which is why i never commented on mount. I was to polite but now its been raised he's right . nice effort though I think you are both right, it probably is a little to square, nice learning point. Perhaps the shaddow from the flash is emphasising it a little, because as i sit here looking at it is ok, but good point well made. If and when his big brother shows himself again perhaps i will get another done, i would like one in summer coat on the other wall!
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