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    and here's the cat with its prize:
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    I'm just back from a great 2 weeks in Namibia - fantastic safari and some really interesting sightings, like this wildcat hunting doves by a waterhole in Etosha. It was being mobbed by frightened guinea fowl but after a few misses, finally got its tea (see next entry!)! There will be more to come over the next few days.
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    So there I was, crouched in cover waiting for the grouse. It was early in the morning, just light and bloody cold. The date 13th July, the quarry - grouse. Oh oh - you can see the SGC going down the pan if I'm caught. But don't be distressed, it was all perfectly legal. I'm just back from a great 2 week safari in Namibia but topped it off with a morning sandgrouse shooting on a farm about 150km from the capital. Great morning's shooting despite the loan of an incredibly old Belgian side-by-side which nearly took my shoulder off and left me with bruised fingers. Sandgrouse are abo
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    I download pics from my lumix using a USB Card reader (made by ABC Products) which I got from ebay for well under a tenner. Fit the memory card from the camera into the card reader, plug the usb cable into the laptop or pc and it downloads straight away. I use a cheapo editing prog called TASC which came free with my old Fuji camera. This site has the card readers for 3.99 plus p&p - http://www.digital-cameras.com/xpp-abc_mul...ard_reader.html
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    My choice is 32g size 6 with half choke, though 5s do the job, too.
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    Yiou don't necessarily need injections everywhere - parts of South Africa, Botswana and Namibia are fine as they are pretty dry and don't have tropical diseases. As long as you have tetnaus cover and I guess typhoid, then you're OK. I'm sure with some of the jabs they can give you them as something to swallow now.
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    SSG - the size below SG. They are available, I have some. But you need to be very close to be sure. I'd also check with BASC/Defra about the conditions under which you can shoot a deer as a pest using a shotgun. You can with muntjac but only if you are the landowner or his specified representative, as I understand it. I'm sure others on the site will be better briefed and can give you more precise guidance. But do check before you shoot.
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    :stupid: I've got a Beretta S56E which cost me £650 (but you can get them cheaper than that outside London) and got a v good Beretta Al391 semi-auto two weeks ago for £500. Look around and you can find bargain Berettas.
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    I'm off to Namibia next week, so hope to come back with some good wildlife and desert scenery photos. In the meantime, I've been looking over some of my shots from my last safari and just love this caracal shot and the lion at dawn.
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    Rondo, shouldn't affect it. When my wife applied for hers, she'd been suffering from stress after a major family illness and that was only a year before applying. She got her SGC with no problems. Good luck.
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    For me it was waiting in the bushes for the rabbits to come out on the edge of a rape field. I saw a kestrel hovering about 50 yards away. It suddenly dropped like a stone and through the binos I could see it had caught a vole or small rat. It then took off and flew across in front of me dangling its lunch from its talons. A few days later I came across a very new muntjac fawn bedded down in some very long grass and nettles on the edge of an orchard. It let me get to within 5 yards, at which point I backed off and left it in peace.
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    Outstanding
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    Top ics - love the shag shot, as it were, and the fantastic landing puffin.
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    V good pic and interesting topic. On my permission between Radlett and St Albans, there are an increasing number of black rabbits - both this year's young and some much older ones. Not sure if they could be descendants of escapees or melanistic aberrations like the near black fallow you sometimes see.
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    Matt, thanks v much indeed. Very much appreciated. K
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    I've just bought a s/h Beretta AL391 semi-auto. It's the first time I've had a semi-auto and a shotgun with multiple chokes. I stupidly didn't ask the gun dealer which choke is which - the ones with it have codes and are not marked with size of choke. How can I tell with is quarter, which half etc - they are marked IC IM M SK F . Be v grateful if someone could tell me which is which. Would quarter or half choke be best for rabbits and pigeons? and which would be best for larger shot for geese, fix etc? Than ks
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    Great, thanks for that. Although there are Roe in the area, I've never seen one on my permissions and the farmers have only mentioned me getting rid of rabbits and munties if I get my FAC. So a decent .223 with, as you say, lighter ammo for rabbits sounds amuch better bet than having to buy 2 rifles and lug both around.
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    I'm about to get some rifle shooting lessons and then apply for my FAC (I've already got an SGC). I want to get a rifle to shoot rabbits and muntjac on two of the farms where I have permission. The farms have already been checked by the firearms oficer in the area, who gave them the OK for using rifles to shoot pests species. My local gunseller advised me to get a .17 for the rabbits and a .223 for the muntjac. But I'd rather have one gun for both - is this feasible or will whatever I get for muntjac so damage rabbits that there won't be anything left? Any advice about the right g
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    Thanks, but it wouldn't come back to the hole while i was there.
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    Poppies
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    If I could do a Lloyd Grossman voice I'd be asking who lives through this whole. I spotted after hearing some really loud raucous bird call from this tree. Loated the whole as the source of the noise and then saw the parent returning with a beak full of insects. The poppy shots on next post) are from one of my permissions. A beautiful view as a I came over a rise that gives you a view over the whole farm. And I shot 5 rabbits with four cartridges!
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    Great pics - fantastic detail on the close up. What camera did you use?
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    Hi

    Gimli replied to cumbye's topic in New Member Introductions

    Welcome to the site and hope you find it as useful as I have. Check out the Wildlife photo section, there are always some stunning pictures there. Good hunting!
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    A odd morning's shooting today. I thought it was going to be quite sunny and warm but clouded over as I drove up to my permission and was dull, muggy and total windless when I got there. I parked the Suzuki and scanned the fields for pigeons or rabbits. There wasn't much around but I saw half a dozen woodies on the edge of a field of rape, feeding on some late growing stuff and clover. So I set up the hide within shooting distance and put out twleve flocked decoys on the ground and three sillosocks on bouncers. The feeding birds had disappeared but I was reasonably hopeful and wa
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    I've got a folding Gerber Gator with a separate Gut Hook - light but great for skinning rabbits etc in the field. Also have a very good Smith and Wesson Bullseye skinning knife. Both resharpen well and can be used delicately so as not to damage the meat.
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