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Awkward enough looking spot Jigsaw. It looks a lot like the ground up here in some places. Well done on the smellies and the fox
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Glensman sent me a PM the other day wondering if we could arrange a second nights foxing out here in Connemara. I checked the Met Eireann website for the week ahead, dry and calm nights except for Friday night when the wind was supposed to get up a bit. The moon was pretty full all the time but all we could do was hope for cloud cover. Friday came, the morning was fairly windy and wet on and off, but it didn't continue that way and we became becalmed as it got dark. What we did get in our favour was the cloud cover we'd been looking for making the early part of the night pretty dark before
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I won't comment on HMR as I don't have enough experience using one shooting rabbits. I did the above in day time. Night time would depend on having the right conditions, a very good scope and a good lamp as well as safe ground that you know. -
Shot a rabbit the last day with the .22lr at 125 yards, shot his mate at 130 yards also but he kicked himself down the burrow. I think 200 yards is possible with a .22lr. I've kicked up sand at their feet and either side around 195.
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If you can't I'm sure there are cheap fax machines out there.
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No goats, no glory
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What's the saying, "After the revolution things will be different, not better, just different." Hope you guys get the ban gone, but beware of believing a politicians promise.
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Feckin hell, 40-60 of them, Christ, they'd do some damage alright. More sense is right I think that's why I bought a big jacket for this year, lots of comfortable sitting and waiting, flask as well
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Could you ambush them instead of stalking? I don't know a lot about feral goats, none here abouts, do they have regular trails like sheep would? Sure would save the walking, and your back Frank used to clean up quite a few.
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How do you rewire a lightforce lamp.
JohnGalway replied to bunnyslayer's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
Is it hand held, scope mounted? What's wrong with it? -
Some people will argue it's ok to do it. From all I've read the 5.56 gives off higher pressure than the .223. I would only use the cartridge that the gun is designed to fire, that being .223.
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threaten to wash em they will run faster Only learned the thing about the priest this morning, funny enough, throwing a bar of soap was also suggested! Like yer picture he was a "GREAT MAN" He sure was, and like most of the kind, gone far far too young.
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Threaten them with a curse from a priest, you won't even need the brick They'll be gone...
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They work because the crow must start to stoop down entering the funnel, but once he's inside he can't figure how to get back out. Even though the hole size is the same, there's no funnel structure on the inside of the trap to make him stoop down again and guide him out. The only thing which would worry me in that case of trap is the ease of entry for cats
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Not strictly true John, at least not all over the UK. We Celts don't forget our brethren, even if they do talk with a funny accent, drink black beer & believe in leprechauns... Maybe not strictly true Malt, but generally true. If Blair was Irish, if Ireland was the Euro skeptic and not the UK and so forth Thankfully, from my point of view, dissatisfaction with our Gubberment didn't cock it up. Opposition leaders on the radio today were saying the biggest hurdle they had to cross was convincing their supporters to vote along with that shower.
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.22LR or .17HMR For Very Close Range Fox
JohnGalway replied to Mutimer's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
HMR will ricochet I've heard them They just don't do it nearly as often as the .22lr. -
What's this ning craic? If positions were reversed, Ireland would not come into Joe Public in the UK's consideration. All politics is local There's a very low turnout last I heard.
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Mostly just by greedy people out to make a fast buck on the misery of others
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It's a bit of craic Wilf I agree with you that everyone should have had the right to vote on it. But that's not happened and other countries are butting in where they shouldn't. I'll mirror that position, how well would it go down for several Irish sponsored "groups" to appear in the UK say a year before an election agitation for a Labour vote? Why Labour, well because historically the Conservatives haven't exactly been the friendliest UK party towards Ireland. Anyway, it would not go down at all well I'm thinking. As for the previous newspaper post. There's an awful lot wrong wit
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Jeez, I dunno, £1 a rabbit, I think I could get to enjoy that, cha-ching Well done
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And the newspaper is?
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I wouldn't entirely disagree except for the fact we lost the run of ourselves and priced the country out of the world market. Education led to foreign direct investment and the likes of Intel setting up in Ireland, great. Then as more and more companies came here more people moved from the country side to the cities, the start of the building boom. As time went on people earned a little more, goods and services prices started to creep up. Then we had Bertie, the man who couldn't say no to anyone. Bertie and his cronies set in motion a thing that brought us to financial ruin on the back of a pr
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If we had the punt now, we'd have already been forced to devalue our currency because of the global economic problems. We've been afforded an awful lot of protection from currency speculators because of the Euros. Lessons of the early nineties have been forgotten in some quarters.
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Not so much apathy Swamps, but if I spent all day going round pointing out the irony & hypocrisy on here I'd never get anything done.... Look on the bright side Malt, you'd never be out of work