Murph
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We're on 27 for the year (starting 1st march), there have been a lot of cubs about this year in places where you can see them easily but saying that we only did about 30 total last year, most years we are over 100. I think the best was somewhere just over 160 4 years ago but we have plenty of places to go on, all are either lamped or morning/evening stalking. We're both keepers.
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Watching pheasant poults:
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Flytie, you can get waterproof paper, we use it all the time when we're weighing fish on, doesn't deteriorate at all and you can write on it when wet as well. Or as said just use the tags from the dealer. Waterproof paper here: http://www.dynamicaqua.com/durarite.html
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I'll be there, revesby's next door to me and the mrs is on the show committee. I wonder whether the gamefair will take away from the show as it's the 1st time they've held it, the show's normally pretty good, new gamefair will be worth a look anyway, as said, hope it's better than the one at rasen, don't know how they had the nerve to call it a gamefair at all.
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hornady`58g v-max !!!!! in the tikka .243
Murph replied to sounder's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
I tried these through my .243 T3 and it spat them all over the place, I've got a picky rifle! I ended up with winchester 55gr silvertips for munties and foxes, sako 90gr gameheads for roe, never have to alter the zero on them as they are both the same at 100yds. It cost me a fortune in bullets trying to find something that would group. -
£ sounds a lot for a rest, best make one and try it out. Being a messer myself, I just use the one stick and find it does the job spot on for me, find what works for you and stay with it.
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Huttoft isn't bad, chapel point is good as well but you've just about missed out on the cod for this season, bass are just starting to come in at cleethorpes, we were out on the boat last week and had a couple of late whiting, 2 cod but they're geting scarcer now, a few flatties and a couple of smoothounds. You want to go to the tackle shop at cleethorpes, you'll get a lot more help and a better set up than ebay.
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There aren't any as far as I know mate, you have to go to boston or grimsby, or know someone with a boat.
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Feck me it took you a long time to compose that reply sheamus. Excuse me for not being able to read the numbers on the chart.
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Are you using a .243 or lighter then? I have always used .22-250 for foxing but the long shot was on a munty, drop was only around 3 inches at near 400yds. Just changed the rifle for Tikka T3 lite in .243, only taken close shots with it so far but it likes sako gameheads 90gr, would like to try the hornady 58gr but worries about the meat damage on the munties although I think it could do long range better than the old rifle with that load.
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Aha, that makes sense, I noticed the adjustment on the turrets, never gone in for it myself, never pushed it past 370yds either though, how far can you accurately reach with that setup then? Would be interested to know, I do a lot of foxing so haven't got time to dial ranges in but I suppose in daylight it has very good uses.
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Some nice fish there Louis, used to fish the Aeron at Aberystwyth for Sewin at night on wake flies, well underrated river but never had anything as good as in your photos, best was 6lb and nothing like as fresh run as those fish look.
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Spearos around sussex been having them for over a month now.
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It's a muffler and stops it ringing if you catch it on a bush Sheamus, thought a pro like yourself would have seen one before, they've been around for a while now. Nice buck but I was more wondering what the white patch is on the scope remmy?
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Every calibre has its limits, I don't shoot air rifles now, they are useful for clearing pigeons from barns but that's about it for me, rimfires for rabbits and cubs, centrefires for foxes and deer. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want to get shot with an air rifle but I don't think they're fully up to the job outside enclosed areas where better tools can be used and I'm not saying a .22 rimfire isn't perfectly capable of killing an adult fox but I choose not to do it that way as I have more appropriate tools for the jobs I want to get done. I haven't got a problem with killing things but the
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That wouldn't necessarily affect a cast net though, you'd have to be unlucky to drop your leads round a tree. Cast nets are ok for messing about with but not much good for anything serious.
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That's the place mate. I live in Lincs now so don't get there as often as I'd like to, maybe only once a year now, tops. That boat wreck sounds a good spot, next time i'm that way on i'll try and look it out.
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Interesting, were they both immature and so neither had established a territory yet or is my theory out of the window then? Here's a poor pic of the 2 I was talking about from my phone: The one behind has no antler to speak of at all. Also, had a buck with the new rifle on sat so got the account opened with it, one tine snapped which was a pity as it would have been a decent head for round here:
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Brilliant fishing at Monkstone on the right tide but lots of schoolies, Caerfai is well underrated but unfortunately you can't reach the best spots from the shore, shot loads of bass heading back towards St Davids from the campsite, the cliffs are too steep to get down and rod and line them out. The isolated rock at the other side of the bay (away from St Davids) has the biggest Bass but also the fewest, I've taken them to 6lb in the slack water just round the point but seen them just into double figures there as well.
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Try collins nets, advanced netting or bridport nets mate. Or just buy the netting from renco in grimsby and make your own.
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I would agree with that perfectly . I know what you are saying,but,I shot two Bucks that were roaming together,so,I don't think there are too many hard and fast rules...............Martin Hi Martin, I've shot 2 bucks together in a maize field as fast as I could reload so I wouldn't dispute that there are no hard and fast rules, in my case though, 1 was pretty young and the other was a really old buck with quite a good head, I assumed the older wasn't threatened by the young buck and the younger buck had no hope of establishing territory so was never moved on by the older a
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The times when I've seen 3 and that's rarely it has been a buck, doe and fawn, although not communal I wouldn't have said they were really anti-social, it seems to me that only bucks are really agressive to each other and the does are relatively tolerant of other does nearby. I think that's why they spread so quickly, the better bucks don't range as far as does and young bucks in my opinion as they seem to try and hold a good area, young bucks are forced away and the does seem to range wherever there is good habitat.
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The thing is with people like you Foxy is that your always looking for some kind of figure or character to "Hero worship" and perhaps that's why you considered me a God But in truth i`m just a normal person with probably less tolerances than most that tells it exactly the way i see it. That upsets people, mostly the pretender`s amongst us.. Harry just imagine the ecological impact that those green poxy cane`s have on the environment as well as the carbon footprint they create as well as leave. I rather use two fecking Broom stails.. Plus there a dead give away and sure sign of a messer
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Looks like a good few days, the munty in your right hand looks like a good head, it would be for up here anyway.
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I'm in Lincs too and have the same trouble, all with muntjac, you can get at them when the grass is young or sparse, have you tried putting hoppers on the edges? If you feed them into an area you can see you can get at them better.