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    I tried the mod cover, didn't work. I tried to camo wrap the barrel, wasn't great. I tried the flower pot, with just limited success. I tried moving where the lamp was on the scope, again no great shakes. Then, I found the solution......... Electrical tape! Please note, do not get tape on the lens of your scope. What I done was go out with my lamp and rifle and a roll of tape. I picked out a tree 130 yards distant. Gradually, starting from the bottom I applied tape across the end of my sunshade. This started to improve my sight picture so I kept going until I now have t
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    Don't worry, I'll be taking tonight off Might head out again Sunday night then Monday & Tuesday nights off as well. But it'll be getting well dark by then again
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    This is turning into a habit. Again another possible fox sight at the end of the night last night. Today Niall texts me wondering am I going out tonight, as does John! Well, why not. The signs are ominous towards evening, large, heavy looking clouds moving slowly across the sky, promised cold too. We all meet up at the farm John has christened "Jurassic Park", as we can only shoot half of it with gorse. It's the same farm I've been prowling around the previous two nights. Off we go to our stations, Niall & myself are down where I was stood the night before with the .223. John is po
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    Lightforce, sorry that won't help regarding the budget but they throw the best beam of any comparable lamp. Replacing the wiring, if necessary, is a piece of piss. Think I done a thread on it in the shooting section.
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    Thanks for all the comments We spent a month after one of those, ended up getting him 1.05pm in the day. How're you thinking of dealing with him? (besides quickly ). He was in good condition alright Moley. We always regard the oldies and the injured as potentially the most dangerous to livestock. If I used the girlfriends Dyson, I wouldn't be able to shoot for quite a while
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    Last nights fox that got away was bothering me today. Thought I should go over to the farm tonight and see if I couldn't catch sight of him. During the drive the wipers were never off and the conditions didn't improve much. Picked myself out a new spot rather than my usual perch on the hillock. The red roofed hen shed is to my right and I can see pretty much all of the little valley in front of me. The land drops away to my left with walls and hedges, and the farmhouse brings up the rear. It started sheeting rain, the wind strengthened from where I was supposed to be looking and drove it
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    A farmer I shoot for rang me earlier in the week, she's got a fox sniffing about her hen house and want's rid of it. I was busy up until tonight, so couldn't do a lot about it before now. John was supposed to come along but at the last minute rang me, he's on child herding duties! I suggest wrapping them up warm and bringing them along, though the suggestion wasn't received as the well thought plan intended :pac: The trees planted in front of my favourite shooting stand are growing a bit each year, much to my dismay. Give them another few years and that spot will no longer be of use...
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    If I remember correctly, Jackson Rifles were talking/doing something about an after market trigger. Might be worth your while giving them a shout?
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    My eyes! The Goggles, they do nothing! One tiny glimmer of positivity has been the Green Parties ineptitude in their attempted political stroke yesterday. They've gone and destroyed them selves as any type of national political force. But, instead of salvaging any morality out of the situation, at a critical time they've gone and destabilized this lame duck Govt. So now FF openly don't want Cowan, their back benchers are making noise about not supporting the budget, two independents have pretty much already pulled out, flat cap & the gambler. The Greens look like idiots and the op
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    Election second half of Jan 2011, get the biggest feckin knives out that you got Best news of the decade!
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    Double post
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    That's about the height of it. To try to put it in a philanthropic light isn't correct. Ireland is receiving loans, which will come with payable interest rates. Not gifts or hand outs. Ireland goes down, it puts the UK in a very tight spot, given the trading we do with each other and also banking relations. Besides, no ordinary person will benefit one whit from this, it's all being poured into the black hole that is 3-4 banks and one other twisted notion of a financial outfit. Some minister on from Turkey had a good phrase in relation to a different issue "If there's a fire in my neighbours ho
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    I returned to thinking about skins after shooting a particularly red vixen the last night. My biggest stumbling block has always been, how to dry the pelt effectively, having little access to sunshine or free space! An item I bought last year was a small fan heater. IT was to be part of a project to make a "lamb warming box" to revive hypothermic lambs in Spring. The idea is to connect the fan heater to an electronic thermometer gizmo which then regulates the temperature in the box automatically. For lambs, it'll work just fine. This leads me on to thinking about fox pelts. The one con
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    Crows... that go POP! in the day...

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    Yeah those lads are well fed on bunnies all year long. Though I did notice far fewer of them when I last visited and heard from one of the farmers at the mart today that mixy has appeared. Bad news for both species, and next Springs lamb crop!
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    Possibly Only starting to feel half well again now Long feckin time before I think that'll be a good idea again :sick:
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    N'yep, you could be onto something there Ric. Stories, in my opinion is what we need. Everyone and their Aunt Fanny has seen a pic of a dead this that or t'other. The adventure comes in painting the picture of how it's come to be? How did that magnificent animal meet it's maker? Why and what's to be done with it now? A picture they say tells a thousand words but with out direction it's but white noise. Be passionate about what you do or stop doing it.
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZgUsniGOpA A lot of people think they live in God's county, well fúck ye because I really do When I pass West of Maam Cross on the N59 from Galway City to Conamara, no matter where I've just come from, I feel at home. I see the blanket bog and quiet desolation stretch in front of me. I see the Maumturk Mountains first, the the Twelve Bens stretch away from me, usually blanketed in cloud. I know we're a people out on our own, away from the rest of the country. Forgotten and ignored until playtime for the rich in the Summer and I say this is ours and no one
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    Who. Gives. A. Fúck. They're only famous if you give them attention.
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    Is it me, or does it seem slow post wise? If it's not me, how can we improve the traffic here and get quality posts rolling in? Just seems to have s-l-o-w-e-d down a fair bit
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    Good info lads There's a particular part of Dad's farm, well actually unfenced overgrown commonage outside of it I may strim a couple of paths. There are always foxes in that field come lambing time! I really do like the idea of snaring, I think in the correct informed hands they're absolutely an invaluable tool for controlling charles.
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    Same as the above. What the OP describes is just blasting away.
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    Hell of a bandage they put on you Martin, and they even missed the lump Hope the rib heals up quick, never damaged one but a mate did and he was uncomfortable for a while.
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n92ATE3IgIs Last Thursday night, after sitting out with my Yukon Digital Ranger for a few hours for that infamous fox, I thought I'd take a ramble around a valley I have a lot of permission in. Glensman will know it, the one where the rabbit eat rocks Sneaked up one one fox but I made a foolish error, my silhouette against the bright night sky and my fox a long way lower down than I That one scarpered. Next guy I spied was obviously lamp shy, zooming off like a rocket at first sight of the lamp. Decided my next course of action should be to set
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    Panasonic Lumix is a good camera. Good shooting. I'd love me one of those Sako Finfires.
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