Murph
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Good work, sounds a useful dog you've got there.
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I was using a Remmington 700 in .22-250, I mostly shoot foxes with it so I use federal power shok 55 grain. The rifle shoots about 1.5"high at 150 yards and the drop on the 370 yard shot was about 2". I have shot munties at both dusk and dawn but find I get better results in the morning. I tend to go from dawn and stick it out around 3 hours, sometimes mooching about and other times sitting in high seats or convenient trees. Nearly everything I shoot is moving between one wood and another and a lot of the time I don't shoot as they rarely stand still. If they disappear into a hedge etc I
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We've been seeing several muntjac whilst out lamping over the last couple of weeks so this week I have had enough time to be out for a few mornings to try and thin them out a bit. First morning was about a week ago, I started around 6 o'clock and had been over 1 field without seeing anything, then down through a woodland ride to drop on the next field which offers a superb view, straight down to the pen wood at the bottom. I couldn't see any muntjac but spotted a fox outside the pen. She had spotted the pheasants on the top hedge and was sneaking across the middle of the field towards them.
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Do the munties bolt easily? Cheers everyone, I knew someone would put something like that! I shot one on friday morning at 370 yards then my mate that came over wanted to shoot one as well so we went out on sunday morning at 6, saw a munty buck at around 400 yards then stalked it to 70. It came another 20 towards us and he shot it at 50 yards. Not exactly miles away but it's the first time he's shot live game with a centrefire, we both wanted a clean kill and I believe the skill with shooting munties is in the stalk so we were both happy.
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Managed a half day and a couple of hours this weekend with an old mate who came over for the weekend. We were trying out some new ferrets, we managed 20 in around 4 hours yesterday afternoon and another 7 in a couple of hours before tea today on another farm. Pleased with the new ferrets as the bolts were quick then they were out and on to the next set of holes. All the rabbits were netted although we did lose 6 rabbits to missed pop holes as the grass is still plenty long enough for ferreting. ALso managed 2 muntjac this weekend so all in all had a cracking time.
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I've heard of using stainless steel as well, I use soap followed by tomato ketchup which gets rid of most of the smell. You could always wear disposable gloves at £3 a box, I only use the ketchup when I've forgotten them.
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Cheers, perfectly clear mate, I will rob that idea for mine. We normally just use a sponge wedged between the mirror and the door frame as a rest but I got to thinking after watching that programme with the south africans and the women lamping, their trucks were set up for lamping better than anything I've seen and it gave me a few new ideas to try out. I've just got a landy purely for lamping as I'm picking up a lot of rabbiting and a few bits of foxing at the moment and I'm trying to set it up as best I can for the job. The lad I do most of my lamping with is a keeper and has a truck like
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That looks spot on, I am working on something similar but I doubt the suction grab would stick to the battered doors on my landy so I was giong for 2 hooks over the window gap with a lagged bar to lean against the door and take the pressure when you lean on the rest.
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I use a rubber powered speargun but also have a pneumatic. For spares, try spearo dave at http://www.spearo.co.uk and he'll probably be able to sort you out, he's pretty sound. I prefer the tahitian spear to the trident.
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That's bloody quick but I suppose if you don't ask you don't get! I asked after having mine about 4 years, my firearms dept normally grant open tickets upon renewal but I'd changed mine to co-terminus halfway through and didn't want to have to wait for it to expire before I got an open ticket.
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He did this on smoochers years ago as well. I'm not on there any more so don't know if he ever went back but I would doubt it.
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I put what sprags said and that I was being asked to do a lot of rabbit control on areas where the land had not yet been passed or the owner of the land was unsure as to whether it had been passed or not. I said how often I was out and who I did a lot of my shooting with and got a phone call a few days later saying send the ticket in and they'd lift the restrictions, I asked for .22-250 and .22.
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That's a nice fish, I used to fish the Rheidol when I lived in Aberystwyth, it's a well underrated river, I used to be on it 4 or 5 nights a week in the season and go to work in a tackle shop during the day. I've not done it for 4 or 5 years now and miss it now I live where there's no sewin. You can't beat the feeling when they take in the dark! The top blokes all used a special type of fly on there too, before I got on it I had a bit of success with muddler minnows, the biggest I had was 6 1/2lb.
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I'd just whip over the top of it, if it was snapped i'd stitch it back then whip over it to protect it.
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I was offered £1/lb (head off, skin on) by the bloke I sell my rabbits to but don't know whether that's anywhere near the mark.
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Are you lamping from a truck? Have you tried walking to them? We pick up a few shy ones doing it that way. Or you could always snare them if they're real regulars.
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I can't honestly remember but I think it was around 3 quid and that included delivery. By the time you've bought a big sheet of latex, roller cutter etc and started doing these pre-formed pouches it works out loads cheaper to get them from ck. And you can't get the latex he uses over here. I like cutting and drying etc my own frames and making my own ammo but the hassle involved in bands doesn't appeal to me. ck is a genuine bloke to deal with, i'd highly reccomend him.
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Barnett bands are ok but not as good as the flatbands. I got them from a bloke in america, they're really cheap and if you tell him what ammo you use, he'll probably knock you uo some pre-formed pouches which helps with the accuracy, the pouch on those flatbands is perfect for the lead balls I use. He calls himself the catapult kid and has a forum somewhere. If I remember right they work out at about £3 a set delivered.
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Here you go mackem, the second photo shows what it does to the lead ball when you hit something hard:
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Cattys are well underrated, you can't put an air rifle in your pocket and mine chronographs at more than the legal limit for an air rifle anyway. Just measured a ball and they are 11mm, I cast my own from a Lee double cavity mould as they give the roundest sprue, about 2-300 at a time. They will go clean through rabbits at anything less than about 20-25 yards. If you hit a hard objest with the ball it will nearly cut it (the lead ball)in half. Moulds appear on evilbay from time to time but I got mine from midwayuk.
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.44 cal lead balls are the best i've found but then I use them for hunting. If you're plinking at cans etc I suppose it doesn't really matter what you use. I'd steer well clear of marbles though as they smash.
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Bigred, Strictly speaking you will get in trouble under the salmon and freshwater fisheries act as you will come unstuck under section 30, which basically says you must have a license in order to introduce a live fish into any inland water (even if it is on a hook). Even if the fish was removed from the same water you intend to use it in for fishing you will still get in trouble. In order to re-introduce a fish you must have a section 28 to cover the removal and if the water is "mandatory" ie has an inlet and outlet or is a river then you should have a health check done on a minimum samp
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They will run in the autumn floodwater, you shouldn't be using any bait at all.
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Drifting further off the point of what the best methods/baits are for catching Eels here but: Eels are in decline for a few reasons, one is elver fishing, another is commercial pressure on the adults but with the advent of eel farms in the 80s and 90s the price of wild Eels fell through the floor so the commercial pressure dropped on the adult population but for the same reason increased on the elvers (the elvers are caught wild and then grown to maturity rapidly). Another reason is Anguillacoli crassus, brought into the country from an introduction of Eels from the southern hemisphere-a
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I do a bit when I'm working down south, the viz in the north sea is crap. Have done a bit in Pembrokeshire and a bit round Bognor and Selsey, really good sport. Meant to be moving down south soon so should be able to do a bit more.