andysparks

And to add to my problems, my boy found a day or two old pheasant chick that had been abandoned and bought it home. We've been raising her for the past few weeks and will likely have to release her in the next few weeks. There's no way I can go out this coming season and shoot any hen birds with a clean conscience!

For such a low tech hobby, I seem to no have end of problems lol

People are slagging the dankung tubes off now too though, stating their not the same as they used to be and inconsistent. The trouble i find with buying from China is that you never really know what your getting and by the time it gets to your door step, I can't be bothered to complain.

It's mad how dolifferent people like different bands, that's why I always try something myself before making an opinion. There's so much inconsistency in batches too

Lovely job, some decent kills there. What tubes do you use for the 10mm?

Looped tubes seem to be doing the job on the pigeons for me lately, 2040 and 9.5 lead.

That's ideal then, might have to look into a clipped frame. I agree with you on the dankung tubes mate, the gzk tubes are abot 10- 20 fps faster but have a shocking life-span....I'm lucky to get a couple of hundred shots out of them.

Do the tubes wear much faster where they go under the clips? I love shooting looped tubes OTT but always struggle to keep them secured on the fork.

Dropped you a message thanks

Lovely collection there! Where do you get the sps frames from, I'd love to get one but can't seem to find them for sale?

Good shooting and a very nice looking catapult, is it one you made?

I was down to my last two jills this year so decided to have a litter from both. The result was the usual five kits from one but a surprising 10 from the other (but only a few jills across both). As a result I've got a number of polecat hobs available in Norfolk. Good working lines, medium sized and currently 14 weeks old. Well handled and eating both flesh and dried.

The Barnett tubes are good but really only suited for heavy ammo such as half inch lead. There's always the option of attaching flat bands to the bare forks which gives you far more choice in the respect of draw weight and ammo. I'll hopefully attach a link to a video showing how it's done...

I've got another frame I made up for sale. It was a spare to the frame I use everyday but I haven't used it and it seems a waste just sitting on the shelf. It's a 10mm ally HGH core from Wayne at catty shack with natural linen micarta scales, fitted with brass pins. I'm asking £30 posted.

These were the only two frames I used for along time, shooting 14mm lead with square elastic. I haven't shot with them for over a year now and use flats with 10mm lead.