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    Today I received my new bipod to fit to the S410 and a new camera to try out. So I would be ready for a short session this evening. As the wind had died down at 8:30pm I decided to hit the top corner of the field where a few rabbits were out on my arrival. Set up the rifle on the new bipod and put a marker out at 30 yards. Needed to persuade the sheep to move to the bottom of the field for safety reasons and then settled down to await some action. A few rabbits soon came out right at the top of the field in the corner where I was last week so they were well out of range. It was we
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    Nice shooting. Isn't it amazing when the sky fills with angry corvids that appear from nowhere at the sight of a fallen comrade. Years ago before the GL I took a jackdaw out that was trying to block my chimney with nesting materials after I spent several days clearing the blocked chimney where the jackdaws had nested six foot down. On shooting that jackdaw it was like a scene from Hitchcocks the birds as at least twenty angry corvids (jackdaws, crows and magpies) swirled noisily around the house. I've now cemented a wire grill over the chimney.
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    Love that picture, dog looks well proud.
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    Sounds great. Have thought about trying an owl decoy (they recommend ones with glass eyes?). Round here we have loads of buzzards but you can't get a buzzard decoy so would a hawk one be of any use?
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    Nice. Bit different to those dreams where you've done something real awful and wait up in sweat and it takes a while for you to realise it was a dream and the relief is amazing (or is that just me?). Years ago I used to live for my winter pike fishing and I kept having this re-occurring dream of a place locally where I was catching 20 pounders. It was so realistic I used to try to work out where this part of the river was when I was a wake. Chris
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    Been a bit limited lately where to shoot due to the current stages of the crops round here and also have been putting a bit of time in clearing swims for the start of the river season for our local fishing club. So the last two evenings I've been up the road onto our own field to sort out the rabbits there which have multiplied enormously over the last few years. Ten years ago you would only see the occasional rabbit up there, now you have a good chance of seeing well over twenty out feeding at any one time. So the first evening I went up late with the red cree torch (still waiting for
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    Timmy you shoot a prosport. I knew it the twig has been unmasked!!
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    Have you been out looking for crayfish yet Chris? Just going to start very soon after the crays, got a load of dropnets for the boys to use so will make a day of it. If we get a load I'll give you a shout, or I can set my traps for you and then pop down for some. Not much shooting at the moment due to most fields still waiting to be cut or crops too tall. May try and get a shot in somewhere tomorrow evening. Looking forward to some decent pigeon shooting this summer.
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    Nice to be out and in the company of a great gun. This time of the year landowners see all the young rabbits out feeding and playing and want to see them gone. Like that on a couple of permissions of my own. Even on our own land up the road where my parents live my mum who is a strict vegetarian and animal lover wants all the rabbits gone at whatever cost as they reap havoc in the field and veggy patches. Thankfully I've got ferrets to feed so I don't feel so bad about knocking off the youngsters. Even have a couple frozen whole in the wife's freezer carefully hidden under the froz
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    Cheers for the advice everyone. Just one question, when all the parts have arrived and I'm having a play what or how do I remove the IR filter from the camera (I'll try without first but be nice to try and compare). Regards Chris
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    Been advised to replace the CMOS camera for a CCD one like the Sony Effio E. I already have one of these but it has a small lens so have ordered a couple of lenses to try on it (12mm and 16mm) to see which gives the better sized image.
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    The torch is a cree IR and only shows faint red led light the bright purple light is when viewed by a digital camera (or phone) that is sensitive to IR. With some external advice I'm changing the board on the camera and getting a more powerful IR illuminator. Hopefully by the end of next week when parts have arrived I should have the system working. I'll keep you informed on progress.
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    Great write-up, and come the ferreting season put a locator on the dog.
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    Sorry about that I'll get back to my usual Shakespearean self next time lol Been a bit busy at work (12 hour days plus weekends) Cheers Risingfriend I'll start looking into this. Cheers guys I'll have a gander. I've just put a post up in our Technical section initially: http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/342299-help-with-first-diy-nv-attempt/ Regards Chris
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    Hi, I'm just putting together a cheap basic DIY NV set-up for my 12ft/lb S410. Its almost there but needs a bit of advice from those in the know. At the moment this is the bare rifle on my homemade stand: And with my current night session red cree lamp that has the convex lens fitted and blackened reflector: After trawling the net these are the bits I acquired for the NV: And fitted to the rifle: This is a daytime view on the screen at 25yds: And the IR being picked up on the camera: So it looks like I'm nearly there apart from tidy
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    Not a good night for lamping round here, too still and a fair amount of light with all the cloud cover at 10pm. But I needed to show my recent permission that I was still keen and as this newly drilled crop was now a foot high the rabbits needed to be put in check. So drove out at a little after 10pm and was shooting by ten past. An hours stroll through three fields and I had three rabbits in the bag. One will be for us and the other two will go to the ferrets in the morning. Not anything special to report but still a nice short trip out. And one final point I'm just in th
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    I love my 2003 S410 .177 classic which is my main rifle at the moment. Prior to this I used (and still have) a Feinwerkbau Sport in .22 which was a nice springer to use. But possibly my all time favourite was the 1980's BSA Meteor .177 that was bought for my 12th birthday and introduced me to the world of airguns and hunting. Stupidly I later sold this to a mate for £15 and got a BSA Airsporter in .22 which I never got on with and now just sits in a cabinet with a couple of Webley Mark Threes gathering dust.
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    Great read, really enjoyed that, keep them coming.
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    Nice read and sounds like an ideal trip out.
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    Hopefully they will be back soon. We were hit hard early last autumn but thankfully now they are back in fairly strong numbers, I think that the reason for that round here is that we have many small fields and brooks that split up the various communities of rabbits and they use the hedgerows to seek out new territories when their own populations increase. Maybe one saving grace in your particular instant is that rabbits will be spending more time above ground staying in thick cover and so less likely to pass on the disease via the fleas through close contact down the burrows. Also leav
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    As mentioned it happens to all of us and what you described was probably just nerves. We ferret throughout the colder months and a quick dispatch of rabbits by chinning or stretching their necks will often leave them kicking around on the ground even though they are obviously dead (a touch of the eyeball always confirms it). Last night one of mine had to be dispatched by stretching even though I expected that it was near enough dead with the shot just going a bit low (duff pellet, wind picked up, poor estimation of distance, rabbit moved at last second - who knows?). Compared to ot
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    Well finished a 10 hour day at work and cycled home to rush some tea down before setting off to do the weekly food shop in the hope that I may get a couple of hours of last light in for a second go at those pigeons. Didn't go quite according to plan as me oldest lad wanted to come and push the trolley so it took a bit longer than my usual mad trolley dash. Got home and unpacked as the light was almost gone and and rain had started. Watched a bit of telly and at 10pm decided to go out with the torch like last Friday. This time the wind was in my face and still drizzling as I entered the
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    Great shooting, always great to start them young and see where real food comes from. Chris
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    As already mentioned its just great being out and nice to be away from all the trappings of modern life like junk mail, rubbish TV and cold callers to name but a few. Colleagues at work look oddly at me when I tell that I'll quite happily go and sit in a little copse with my Kelly kettle and just watch and listen to the wildlife. Hoping to get out from Friday evening depending on how changeable the weather will be, got a fishing match on Sunday.
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    Hi Mark, I followed the recipe from Mathew Manning's excellent book. Basically I took the breasts of of about four pigeons and diced this up thinly with a very sharp filleting knife (was going to use the mincer but it would of made it too fine). Then to this diced meat I added the meat from four sausages and gave it a good mix with some herbs (rosemary and sage, or any of your own choice) does get a bit sticky so have a sink of water handy to wash your hands. Then I rolled out some shop bought puff pastry to about 3mm thick and into rectangles of 30cm by 20cm. Lay a good sausage of the
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