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    thanks chaps - will, when you go on your own do you have one of the lamps that ataches to your gun? When doing the recon last night (I did take my shottie just in case) I found that by the time I'd focussed the lamp on a grou of rabbits, I didn't have time to aim the shotgun before they were gone. Do you ever park up, get out of the car and then use the car headlights to light them up, switching the headlights on after a long gap after parking?
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    When they're out in the open like that and dozy because it was the Kalahari winter and bloody cold, then they are so sluggish that as long as you don't get within a couple of metres you are OK. I tried to upload some of the lion, cheetah and wild dog shots but they were all too big to be uploaded. If any of you going to Botswana or Namibia contact Silvia and Mike Hall at Endeavour Safaris in Cape Town. Great couple who run it as a family business and love what they do. That's why i'm using them again to go to Namibia this year.
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    Help!!

    Gimli replied to kipper33's topic in Airgun Hunting

    Hi Kipper - it's difficult around London (i'm in North-West London) as there aren't many large farms around. I got my permissions by searching on the 192 phone directory site under farmers/farms within a set radius of where you are and once you have farm addresses check them against sat photos on Google Maps to see if they look big enough and away from too many houses and roads. I then phone-bashed for a whole day. Most said no or that they already had shooters, but as soon as one recommends you to phone another farmer, do it and start the call by mentioning ther name of the farmer who to
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    Be very grateful for any advice about lamping for rabbits with a shotgun. I did a recon of the area I'll shoot over tonight and there were scores of rabbits around. So I'll be back next week with my missus to operate the lamp while I shoot. But should I get there at dusk and settle down to wait for the dark, then put the lamp on, or arrive after dark, use the lamp to work out where the rabbits are feeding and then switch off for a while and wait for them to settle again? I've not shot at night before, so not sure of the best strategy. All advice gratefully received.
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    Fantastic - four days camping in the central Kalahari Game reserve and 6 days in the Okavango. It was great getting so close to the Caracal and then seeing a pangolin for the first time. The lion on my profile page was also from the Kalahari - it had loads of porcupine quills in its face from a recent hunt. Was going to southern tanzxania a few months ago but wife broke her shoulder and so we had to cancel, but off to Namibia in July - from the southern namib right up to Etosha. All through a very good but small South African outfit called Endeavour Safaris.
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    Very patchy in south-west Herts. One farm I shoot over seems to have no rabbits that don't have the disease - every one I've shot has been riddled with it. But the other farm, ten miles away, has loads of rabbits and no disease it seems. I'm off there next week if there's a dry but windy night with the shotgun and lamp (and wife to hold the lamp). I occasionally see them during the day (got a nice fat one ten days ago) but I think just after dusk will be good if the fields haven't flooded again.
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    Here are some pictures from my last safari - 18 months ago in Kalahari Desert and Okavango. off to Namibia in five months:
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    And join the BASC. When I got my SGC a year ago, the FAO phoned the two clay grounds at which I told them I was shooting to check on behavior, gun safety etc - so that might help too. On the depression, my wife had suffered from minor depression and been treated for it six months before, but she applied for and got a shotgun certificate too.
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    That's about right for a day rate - I've shot for that a couple of times in Suffolk. I've recently paid a farmer £200 for a year's permission to shoot anything legal on two large farms with pigeons, rabbuits, pheasants and partridges. It seemed a lot but practically all the farms around me either have settled groups of shooters or paying syndicates.
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    I'd agree that the CO2 pistol is too weak to be sure of killing a pigeon. You're very likely to injure but no incapacitate leavving the poor bugger to die slowly from wounds after flying off. I even think twice about using my Cometa air rifle for any pigeons over 25 yards. For the cost of a Walther you could get a reasonable air rifle or save up and get something that will give you good kills at 40 yards - it will be worth it and will increase your enjoyment while cutting down the chance of having runners.
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    I like flappers/ bouncers on the in-coming edge of the pattern - at least two if not three. I've never like magnets as they attract pigeons to within about 50 metres or so and then they always seem to veer off. maybe as the previous writer said, have them further away from the pattern and hope they bring birds over which will then avoid the magnet but land in your pattern.
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    I occasionally have to do risk assessment for foreign trips and filming shoots. Make yourself up a template (I think Microsoft Office or Word have things you can use) and think up categories. Copuld be something like Potential dangers: passers-by pets vehicles protected birds/animals And under each ehading dscribe the possible danger and how you will avoid it - like, as a previous reply said, only shooting out to sea and only if the sea is clear of boats and non-terget species for xx metres. Maybe have a box for who you would inform on the day. good luck.
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    Hi everyone - have just joined the site. Had that sinking feeling as I filled in the survey - I now come in the category right at the bottom (50+). Can't they have an old and very crumbly section so I don't feel so old! I shoot with a shotgun and air rifle mainly for pigeons, rabbits and pheasants on a couple of farms in south Herts where I have permission. But have been wildfowling in Scotland and shoot the odd pestiferous squirrel and magpie in the garden (a very long one well away from the road) and on the farms. About to try out lamping with a shotgun for the first time instead o
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