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cragman

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  1. More like I’m flying solo…sometimes take a mate who never stops fidgeting and talking
  2. Went up to a farm yesterday to clear some undergrowth for todays ratting session and was asked to come back last night as a fox had been trying to get into the pen. Waited an hour for this dog to make his way towards me. He stopped at 75 yards to test the wind…Hornet and Wraith with a Vmax round
  3. Not bad here this weekend, no moon last night so perfect. I’m out again in a minute then ratting tomorrow afternoon.
  4. Popped onto a farm I haven’t been on for a while, expecting to find a litter running around. Didn’t find a litter but stopped this big vixen at 60 yards and nearly had another that came in nicely until it winded me. Lucky fox, I was just about to pull the trigger. I’ll have it next time .22 Hornet with a Wraith on top, a 35gr Vmax hitting the engine room
  5. I got bought tickets to see him at buxton a few years ago. It was ok but he’s a big anti so if I got bought tickets again, I’d return them
  6. Don’t know where you are in the country FH but you’re more than welcome to come out with me for a fox or two. I’m north west area
  7. Waited for this chap for nigh on an hour last night. He wouldn’t come to any call, so I waited for him to come to me. He was in no hurry, disappearing for a few minutes in cover then reappearing. I was stood near a chicken pen, watching rats scurrying all over the place with a tawny owl also watching. Dropped the fox at about 85 yards with the Hornet/wraith and a v max pill
  8. I find it boring to watch, same with the womens cricket and rugby. It just doesn’t do it for me
  9. cragman

    UU

    Be interesting when there’s a fire on UU land. There won’t be many keepers and countrymen helping them to fight it, and they’ll have all the right gear ?? All good will lost in one go ?
  10. Great player and seemed a real gentleman off the pitch RIP
  11. cragman

    UU

    I follow the Pennine, have done for 25 years or more.
  12. cragman

    UU

    He’s gone and a woke, anti has taken over and moved her team in. The antis have got at them ?? fishing will be next
  13. cragman

    Howzat!

    Aussies have form in this kind of thing. Didn’t one of them bowl under arm on the last ball in a match once bowling a pea roller?
  14. cragman

    Windrush

    Yep, works internal website is full of this shite, along with PRIDE weekend diversity bollocks
  15. Never been known for a cuckoo to return to a nest it’s laid an egg in. It could be another female, and I’ve seen a clip of a cuckoo doing similar to a robins and wood warblers nest. It could be manipulating the redstart to build another nest so she can lay her egg
  16. Take it to a book binder, they’ll restaple them in proper
  17. cragman

    Cuckoos

    Meanwhile on the moor, a cuckoo, albeit a shite photo of one ??
  18. cragman

    Cuckoos

    A very unusual host to use. The cuckoos egg would have been smaller than the mistle thrushes egg. And the steep sides on the nest…would have been a job to push anything over the side. Probably never had one recorded in such a nest
  19. cragman

    Cuckoos

    Yes, Reed Warblers can reject eggs whereas meadow pipits seem to accept them even though they’ve seen the female cuckoo laying in their nest. Evolution at work. The pipits need to up their game. Hedge sparrows will accept any coloured egg so are good hosts for the CC.
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    Cuckoos

    It can take around 8 seconds for the cuckoo to lay her egg. She won’t “buzz “ overhead, but sometimes flies over the moor looking for reactions from the pipits, the idea is to get in and out unseen, although with meadow pipits, that’s a different story as up to 4-5 will attack her as she tries to lay. She’ll watch the host from a hidden vantage point then with a long glide, will land near the nest, find it and lay, or sometimes she will just locate it and check for its suitability as to whether it’s ready for her egg. They’re just starting to lay in pipits nests now ??
  21. The scope helped, reticle calibrated for subs, brilliant bit of kit. Nothing was less than 60 yards ??
  22. Christened the Tikka tonight, furthest shot 132 yards ?? ?
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