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Yokel Matt

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    Excellent chreos... Well earned as well so medals don't matter.
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    Very thrifty of you Chid. A delicate gralloch required there as shes tight as a drum.. well she is on the outside anyway, might be a minging mush on the inside if shes been hit by a car. Fallow and sika hinds can have similar pelage in winter coat but the head shape, caudle patch and metatarsal gland on the hock give sika away.
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    Almost as important as the gun for sika in some areas... Now there be a wiley creature Not saying they can't be taken on foot but you'll have to sharpen up for them. From a safety perspective it might well be the only option to target deer on otherwise unsafe ground.
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    I bought a brick of 500 and they went snap, crackle pop mate. Accuracy was no way near Eley or Winchester and velocity must have ranged from sub 12ft lb airgun to HV! Being a perfectionist and all to ready to blame my tools for my own ineptitude, vowed never to return.
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    In the freezer!.. Christ alive mate if my wife found a rat in the freezer she'd fooking kill me!
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    Cheers for the feedback fellas. To be honest photobucket crashed and i lost the first draft so nearly didnt nother but glad i did. It was one hell of a trip, I feel for Tony who never got his chance... Poor bugger said he was so unlucky he couldn't even bag a tick!
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    Top banana mate... Amazing country round there!
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    Recognisance is time seldom wasted mate... Looks like the stock check for November is ok.
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    Ouch! Bet the wolves made the most of it though.
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    Found this bugger in a fenn I keep set by our hens. Black Rat anyone or a black brown rat?!
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    This is a kind of cumulative post for a few of the guys on the forum for a recent stalking trip up to Scotland after Red and Sika stags. Foxdropper (Tim), RabbitController (Aaron), a guest called Tony and myself went ooop North to Sutherland to try and pit our wits and modest cumulative experience against the noble monarchs of the glen. Brushing casually over the comedy of check-in ineptitude of the easyjet staff we arrived in good time at Inverness having decided against the 10 hours + slog in a truck. Even with 4WD rental at the other end there was barely £100 each in it when you take in
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    Delving into my deep knowledge of fallow... which is a shade more than sod-all, I believe there are four types in the UK - Common, Melanistic (the black ones), Menil and White. I've only ever shot one and it was a Melanistic but a tiddler in comparison to what they can achieve and what Sussex could commonly hang on a hook if it wasn't for his responsible (and sustainable) cull policy.
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    Eley for accuracy but I find Win Super-x stop rabbits better when chest shot. I wouldn't use CCI again on principal.
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    .223 will be plenty for them, they can't take a bullet in my limited experience. Unless you can get above them I can imagine some longer shots being on the cards though. 'Frank' who now spends a lot of time in the running dogs section, if he's even still here, used to have a .223 and did a lot of goat & fallow shooting in Ireland with it.
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    Surely after the second miss he'd have thought.. Hang on, my sights are off here - best do some target work before going back to live quarry... Nope. He wasn't even close. Made me angry more than anything!
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    All it's missing is a distressed leather armchair and a bottle of scotch!
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    The temptation to make it a brace is often hard to resist.. Very common with roe that regularly stop for a look back. Better to make sure of the first one than take a hurried shot at the second and have two to find. If your 100% you've planted the first one.. had 3 weetabix that morning and fancy carrying a second then eject, feed... Bang. I'm up north after the reds on Monday... Reading your posts isn't helping my patience!
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    I know the feeling when trying to push-me-pull-you a roe out the wood in the dark without coming a cropper let alone one of those buggers. Fair play.
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    .22 rimfire first of all. Start with a second hand cz452 set up and get used to it down the range. Then start the never ending and often depressingly fruitless task of tryi g to find some permission. Interchangeable barrels - I couldn't think of anything more frustrating.even she you think you got the scope adjustments right for the change around there would always be that nagging doubt.
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    A Tec and ASE are two good makes to looks at. Both have reflex and end on models, some of which are ultra light weight and strippable. Predator were quieter IMO but are old tech now and I think the weight advantage of the new generation of competitors is going to make them obsolete soon.
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    Bit stiff this morning.. The obstacles weren't so bad but running up endless hills along a quagmire track lost its appeal very quickly! The guy setting the pace for us had just done the Bristol half in 1:30 so I had the opposite problem as he was pushing the pace the whole way. Good fun though, a sense of achievement and a few quid for charity.
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    That's a good job there firthy. I've only got so far as to skin mine and now put in the the freezer as I can't find the time.... More like the wife isn't going out until next week and it'll be proper ripe by then.
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    Any one else doing this tomorrow? Seemed like a laugh over a few pints a few months ago....
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    Someone get Deker another marker pen quick, he's running out of bold font to pontificate with. Yawn
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    They say the first bite it with the eye... Ill skip the head soup and go straight for the main thanks.
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