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    Why are you sure they are not Partridge? Greys? If you "keep" seeing them it is likely to be a large number of small groups of ground roosting birds rathers than small numbers of nocturnal feeding waders. Do they fly up in a flock or in ones and twos. Unlikely to be snipe or woodcock if they are all flying up together, or indeed sitting together. They could well be migrating thrushes that roost on open areas, I saw about 50 roosting on wet grass yesterday. The fieldfares can be rather large. If you are sure they are waders then it may be golden plovers or lapwings. They too would
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    We have just made two DIY versions of these ground hides, testing them out at Christmas. Used some old sun longers (upturned), neoprene sleeping mats and torn camo fabric, and elasticated straps to stuff with stubble! You cant deny they work stateside to get in close to the geese and ducks!
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    Lanber Field (or sporting deluxe with auto safe conversion as it comes in 30" barrels) Lanber make other models, look at their website, that you might be able to get if you speak to GMK. 5 year warranty Berretta SP (If you wait until it is advertised you may get a 10 year warranty) Browning 525 Nordic Hunter , I love the look of this Gun and I covet it a great deal. Good engraving Not sure on warranty I saw a new one this week for £1070!!!! bargain Also dont forget the McNabs, these are very good guns as well
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    Country Life I can think otherwise to you (see above post) and be a part of this forum thankyou very much! This does not make me a Bill Oddie. Allthough I am a bit hairy, slightly podgy and I know how tell a wagtail from a warbler! T
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    Well done on the badger. I too have a little sacrosanct repulsion about hunting predators for the sake of it. But....badgers are very similar to foxes in their habits and will raid wild bird nests, including gamebirds. Badgers can be shot or hunted in many countries throughout Europe, and much like fox hunters in the UK, large "bags" of badgers can be shot on a hunting trip. Take a look at a European hunting magazine next time you go through Schipol! If it helps control rabies, if it helps maintain balance and the skins look good and the flesh can be eaten, this gentleman is no tramp!
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    All above is correct. You cant have a gun capable of more than two cartridges in the magzine for wildfowling. So for a SA that means a 3 shot max. What I dont know is. If you owned two tubes for your gun, and you knew how to switch them, then you could own a 5 shot on a FAC and switch it to a 3 shot crimped tube for fowling???????? I suspect that it is not possible. On my gun the tube is crimped before it leaves the factory and it appears to be moulded in.
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    One! My first pheasant, a walked up cock bird flying away to the left into the sun, me, a 15year old with a 20g sbs Kestrel ne. One shot and the bird dropped out of the air down into a burn and my friend's father's spaniel retrieved it to his hand. I had shot many rabbits and pigeon before that day, but it was that event that pushed the relationship between me and shooting into the area of addiction! T
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    The US of A. BUt if not there then the prologics are fine, as are the snowbee granites for mud shooting. T
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    Hi Everyone I have the opportunity to purchase a second version and some spare parts for my Lanber ibargun. The second gun has exactly the barrel length I was after, 29.5", but it is a non-ejector. If I get it, it is at a bargain price (1 gun + 1 other gun minus the barrels for under £100), so I am pushing ahead. However, I wondered has anyone ever converted a non-ejector to an ejector? Is it simple? Difficult? Costly? Any thoughts apprecaited Best wishes Tom
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    Hi there There are some older Baikals (the original batch not the new remington owned ones). Mine had a black action with a capercaillie on one side and a pheasant on the other. 12g O/U double trigger auto safety ejector. Best gun I ever had, foolishly traded it in for an upgrade instead of getting the ejectors repaired when they were a bit worn. I suspect you could ge one for £100-£200 depending on condition. It was a heavy gun but not too heavy. It had a deep profile like a browning or like the new lanbers and it suited me very well. See if you can go to a clay ground and try
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    Now Sold
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    This is great http://www.honest-food.net/blog1/2008/10/2...-but-the-quack/
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    PM me an offer and I'll pick it up tomorrow
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    Hi again There is a lot of folklore on here about shot sizes. Preferences etc etc. There is nothing wrong with that, except that everyone else is clearly a top rate marksman and we mortals are not. My mate is top marksman and I swear he shoots very little more than 6's or 7's at most quarry, including decoyed geese, and he "kills" them every time. The truth is that as alimac says, it is really difficult to penetrate through the back end of a pheasant to hit vitals. Sure if you hit the head, neck and upper spine your are going to either kill or fully paralyse the bird regardless of what sh
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    Just posted an advert for quality driven day in Ilkley, Yorkshire in the For Sale section. Not cheap but either are the running costs! Very good shoot.
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    These Pegs have now been sold, thankyou to everyone who got in touch Due to a cancellation there is a great opportunity for a fantastic 100 bird driven shoot, predominantly Pheasant but a few partridge and woodcock may be seen. So far we have 5 guns secured so the day is going ahead, but there are at least 2 and if requested 3 spaces still available. It is on the highfield shoot (www.highfieldshoot.co.uk). On the edge of Ilkley moor set amoungst steep sided woodland and open parks, these are quality birds in the heart of Yorkshire. Due to the wish to fill these pegs if possi
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    Lucky, that all depends, steel does not fragment and therefore you dont consume any metals when you eat game shot with steel. I say this with the hope that it does not start a debate, just a point. And since the switch to lead-free a number of regions have seen increasing survival of wildfowl through winter. Deker, I am sure it says in the legislation for the taking of wildfowl for England and Wales and Scotland states that it must be done with a smooth bore weapon using lead-free shot. I could not find anything on the updated DEFRA website. The supreme STeel by lyalvale is a Hi
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    I just got a similar response to the others. As the video is still on their website I replied with.... This is not good enough I am afraid. Your point is that because a SINGLE MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC on an internet forum made some distasteful remarks about how children should be treated, which given the strength of the comments were probably generated by some most unfortunate behaviour by the said children, that you have the right to portray the shooting community in the UK as the type of people who might use their priviledges to go out in the street and shoot at children. And the
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    Big John, that is a lead shot cart so we shall assume you are talking about non-wetland goose shooting in Scotland? The 3.5" shell is not of any benefit for lead carts in 12g or lower calibres. It is when lighter loads like steel are used in 12 and 10g that it can be very useful. The benefit of the 3.5" shell is that they provide a wider variety of steel shot loads and shot sizes than with the 3". Only Gamebore make the 3.5" shell in the UK and they load in UK BB's and smaller. By using the 3.5" they produce you get a higher pellet counts which is very important on flighting geese (
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    While Barnardos do good work, this advert is not related to that work whatsoever. They took a few comments on a newpaper forum about how "some kids" who were probably causing someone immense anxiety and uncomfort, should be treated...and they turned it into a propaganda on how easily accessed hunting weapons can be picked up and used to KILL children running in a street!!!!!!! It is NOT on and I urge anyone to make sure that Barnardos at least temporarily feel it in their purse, which includes not supporting the many Clay Pigeon shoots that are organised for them each and every year. It wo
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    Deker Demand from Edgar bros. a report directly from Roher Hancox at the BPH about his opinions on what the errors were. You get what you pay for. However, a problem with short coked guns like the escort can actually be down to the user and the design combined. If there is a lot of air space between the threads of the choke and the threads for the choke on the barrel, any load fired through a loose choke can send air in behind the choke. This allows the choke to deform and continuous firing then results in a very dangerous situation. It is not an uncommon problem and is more lik
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    With a 410, you are in more of a hit or miss situation......so I would ask that you can kill as effectively as a 12g at some stated range but do you really do it as often in the field? Again, thanks for the natter, once again this forum has led to me doing b*****-all work this afternoon. Nothing new there then! Best go and collect the sprog from child minder, will try and get back on sometime over weekend.
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    With a 410, you are in more of a hit or miss situation......so I would ask that if You can kill as effectively as a 12g at some stated range but do you really do it as often in the field as someone with a 12g? Again, thanks for the natter, once again this forum has led to me doing b*****-all work this afternoon. Nothing new there then! Best go and collect the sprogs from child minder, will try and get back on sometime over weekend.
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    Spiderpig, it is good to have this natter as there are too many myths out there on the difference between whether a shotgun calibre can or could be lethal. As I said, if you can consistantly (9/10) place several pellets from a 28g load of 6's from a 20g on the head, neck and upper breast of pheasant beyond 35-40yds or if you never shoot at longer range quarry then you go for it. Only 30% of hunters tested, recently in both the UK, US and Denmark could consistently hit 8/10 crossing clays at 30yds. I'm not that confident in my shooting either so I will err on the side of caution out of
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    where is the science on this? i dont belive it at all. And I suppose you don't belive in Santa either. Tut tut It is on shot size, velocity, energy, shot count, choke, barrell length, load The data are in mixed places from your own software you can download from various US universities/private locations (as the UK is too tight to support any research of this type but there is a good group at Cranfield), you could speak to various Ballistics specialists at proof houses. Some of the data has come from the UK via BASC and some of those results are published in their annual reviews, b
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