Jarvis
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4 hours ago, shovel leaner said:
We will start roost shooting on Saturday 9th . Not many rats this year ? Not on my mates shoot either, we put some poison down last year and I think it did a “proper” job on them .
The rats we need to sort out are by streams/ ditches and ponds. All nice and in the open though so stand back and let the terriers have some fun!
Our cover crops were shocking this year as well, I think we went nearly 2 months without any rain.
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Sounds like a good day was had still.
We had a good beaters day with a bag of 68 which could have been more but quite a few older chaps only shoot on beaters day so a lot got past them, but the main thing is they enjoyed it! We finished the season on 45% which I was happy with. Had a walk up day with a couple of mates on the 1st and shot 33 pheasant a rat and 5 squirrels, was a real good laugh. I think I prefer walked up days to big formal shoot days.
Now we’re onto roost shooting and getting stuck into a bit of ratting!
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6 hours ago, sussex said:
Shot these three this morning from the bedroom window !
They have been mooching around the chicken pen last couple of days , thought I’d better get pro active ..the string goes to a bait , the other end is tied to a wooden spoon that clatters against the frame , it wakes my wife up , she wakes me , charlie gets it !
A farmer I know does the same thing but with a bell on the end of the string into his bedroom. He shot 60 in two years just doing that!
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6 hours ago, wilbur foxhound said:
How many of them were dogs and how many were vixens
Four vixens and two dogs so far. So that’s a good few less cubs to be worrying about!
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16 hours ago, sussex said:
Three of us sitting in highseats waiting for deer , still early I had a pair in front of my seat and shot one , one of the other lads shot two walking to the seat and one just after getting up in it and the other lad never shot any ( he had deer in the next field ) but see 7 .The Shoot has had a year off so haven’t been on the job , we have not really bothered because we are more concerned in culling the deer ..There are loads about .
I’ve lost count the amount of times I go up to the shoot I keeper to look for a deer and plans soon change because I end up seeing a fox and the freezer ends up staying empty for another day!
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20 minutes ago, Longshanx said:
Good going Jarvis
they are definitely well fed down there
, should make yourself a few quid by taking the tails, this time next year you’ll be a millionaire
If it was like the old days and you got money for the skins the amount of foxes here I could quit the day job!
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10 hours ago, The one said:
Nice going mate they all look like there big well fed foxes too
They bloody are all big!
Had these two last night up there. The top one is a vixen and it was much bigger built than the dog.
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27 minutes ago, Born Hunter said:
With that amount of foxes about I'd be organising a morning of fox drives. Couple walking guns with dogs and two or three standing. It can be a lot of fun on foxy land.
But that's because lamping is a fecking chore in my mind. LOL
I love it out at night on the foxes, and doing it in the day is a no go as the land is completely surrounded by a forest which is open to the public so the last thing I want to be doing is having people blasting away in the day and get townie do gooders walking their dogs sticking their oar in thinking they know the law!
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1 hour ago, Longshanx said:
4 foxes in just over an hour
some going Jarvis.
Why can’t it be like that up our neck of the woods
That was only 3 fields as well, the one I was parked in and the two I could see into with the thermal! Lots more to cover yet!!
I lI’ve seeing foxes about, its a great sight, (as long as they aren’t at the shoot I do where I want them all taken care of) but where I live the numbers that are here is crazy! They need getting on top of.
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Had my first night out at last after waiting about 5 months to get the ground cleared where I live to control the fox numbers for my mate who rents the land to graze his sheep and he lost a lot of lambs last year.
To say it’s crawling with foxes is an understatement! I pulled up and straight away there was a fox wandering up behind me. Boom after 2 minutes first fox down! Put rabbit distress on the caller and had two running in. the first was eighty yards, the second was 200, both dropped on the spot. Turned the caller off. Gave it 10 minutes and I saw another two in the distance. Turned the caller on again and had the forth one trotting in to the caller, bang down it went. It was a bloody cold night and my rifle started to freeze up so after 1 hr 20 minutes I had shot four and saw another seven!!!
Ive got lots of work to do!
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Had a nice job in a large garden on Saturday. Three separate warrens, one on a steep back, the others in a sparse hedge so nice and easy to put the long nets round and let the ferrets and dog do all the running around! Started at 7:30 we were finished and tidied away by 12:00 and accounted for 11 heathy rabbits. Only one 2ft dig and all the rest bolted lovely. A very enjoyable morning and even nicer when your getting paid!
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10 hours ago, David.evans said:
Hi lads
I've got the tikkat3x in 223 and thinking about the same in 243 for deer
i know that there's a few different makes out there but is this the right choice .?
regarding weight accuracy and of course cost any suggestions on this
atb
It’s all down to preference and what you like mate, everyone is different. My mate has a tikka he loves it and it’s very accurate but I don’t like the feel of them. My .243 is a browning X bolt under £1000 band new with a S&B 8x56 on the top, very accurate and I love it. I shoot muntjac and roe, If I was shooting bigger deer species on a regular basis I would go for a bigger calibre. As BH says the .243 is a great all rounder and I use it for day time foxing and for blasting magpies and crowd but if shooting bigger deer I think I would get a .308
Have fun gun shopping!!
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On 01/01/2019 at 10:38, jwed said:
Thanks Jarvis. I thought his recall was good but when he had the pigeon was oblivious to the whistle. I plan to spend the spring and summer really focusing on obedience training and summer into winter get into game training.
Best thing to do is don’t rush and just because you think they have masters something don’t stop doing it. Keep constantly going over the basics... my cocker is 3 now and she is still definitely learning.
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18 hours ago, jwed said:
Thanks Jarvis, I actually have hens here and the pen is right beside him so he's well used to them. Maybe I'll let the hens out of the pen and do some work with him on the lead with them, or better still bring him into the pen on the lead.
I’ve got mine in an orchard so it’s nice and easy. Also once you’ve mastered heel, sit, stay, recall etc a good way I found with my cocker to get her steady and used to birds was dogging in. It’s easy for me because I keeper a shoot but if you know a keeper see if you can help him out to get him steady to see birds regular but keeping him steady and close to you. The worst thing for a young dog is to try work and train them and not have birds or scent to flush / see and they will end up getting fustrated.
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I introduced all the pups I’ve had to chickens from a real young age. The more often they see them the quicker they get used to them and know to ignore flapping things with feathers till you train them otherwise to retrieve and it flush feathered game. Get them at first to walk round them on a lead then to heel, then sit stay and get them to run back through them to you. it’s always worked for me! You can always tell what dogs on shoot days never see birds unless out on a shoot as they are the ones who go deaf to a stop whistle because seeing so many birds is far too exciting.
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That’s the problem a lot of people don’t want the work of plucking etc themselves, they’d rather go into Aldi and buy a chicken for £2.50 all done. With big bird days getting more and more popular it just swamps the dwindling market!
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Just wondering the situation around the country with shot game and if game dealers are taking it or are you having to pay them to take the birds. The biggest game dealer near us in Northamptonshire retired the other year and nobody has filled the void. Talks on shoot days now sound like most now have to pay the dealers to take them. We are only a small shoot, shooting 100-120 birds every other week through the season so we are managing to share our birds between guns and beater and the rest get made into sausages and eaten/ sold at the next shoot. What are other shoots doing if the dealers aren’t taking them?
Jarvis
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I have used the 40s in the past and use the 42s now. I havent noticed any real differences between them, it didn’t even change my zero which was a bonus, I’m out on the rabbits now since the start of the shoot season as nobody local to us will take our pheasant, so I have a little system going with my mate who’s a butcher. I get him rabbits for his shop and he makes our pheasants into sausages which we can sell on to beaters/ guns and also eat at 11’s. Everyone’s a winner, well except for the pheasants and the rabbits! But I couldn’t bare it if the birds were going to waste.
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2 hours ago, Underdog said:
If you think that's bad Jarvis I once drove miles and pulled the rifle out only to realise I had left the bolt at home!
You did ok.
I had two jimneys over ten years. I love them.
U.
Oh what a bugger!
they are great little trucks! Got this one off eBay with No MOT for £350
it stays at the shoot for feeding and for me to use shooting. Made some adjustments to a pallet and ratchet strapped it to the roof to shoot from! It the perfect tool for the job! And the best thing is the heater works!
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Went up the shoot Wednesday night, saw 2 Charlie’s but couldn’t get on either of them. Frustrated I thought I’ll try again on Friday (having to take the Missus out for dinner on Thursday to keep in her good books!!) got to the shoot nice and early yesterday at about 6:00, as I was early I thought before I go to where I saw the two at 9:30 I’ll try another spot. Loaded the rifle up and realised I only had 4 bullets with me! Oh bugger, Got parked up and started scanning with the XQ50F, twenty minutes passed and I had two foxes coming in behind me. I got into the bonnet of the jimny and dropped them both next to each other. 10 minutes later I saw one around 500 yards away, I tried squeaking it but wasn’t remotely interested but about 300 yards behind that Fox was another which was interested in the call. Got it in to 213 yards and boom down it went.
Now only with one bullet left I thought I’ll just have a drive up the the spot I was going to park in just to see if any were about. Before I got to where I wanted to be I saw a fourth in a rape field, it was only about eighty yards away and totally oblivious to me with the wind coming straight at me. I snuck out the truck got onto the back of the jimny resting on the roof and boom number four hit the deck. If it was any further away only having one bullet I wouldn’t have taken the shot but it was a perfect broadside chest shot.
Oh bugger it’s only 8:00 and I have no bullets left! Plus I didn’t even get to where I wanted to be, so ended up being an early night but a very much worth while one trip out!
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6 hours ago, David.evans said:
Me and my mate went out last night
spotted 3 thro the thermal but they
would not come in to anything
not really surprising really full moon
this one did and payed the price
my mates over the moon
atb lads
Good work mate.
I got these two the other week lurking around my chickens.
Both dogs, the top one is a good size dog, the bottom one was an absolute monster!!!
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I would say that’s poor training by the owner not the dogs fault! No reason why any gun dog breed can’t do both to a decent level or at least like you say (on a small syndicate) My cocker does both and many of my mates dogs do, however I get you point I do see more bad ones than good ones but it’s not the dogs fault. Choose a breed, integrate it slow, no rush. Start with beating for a season or so with dummy training as well and once the dogs steady introduce picking up game later. Don’t try do it all at once. People expect too much too quick and that’s the problem.
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3 hours ago, Stavross said:
So I’ve got a couple of hen pheasants on the shoot that are starting to get cock feathering, we have had this in a few birds in the past, I was wondering what makes this change happen so I’ve had a little read up on it but have not found a lot of information on the subject, as far as I can work out it’s a product of intensive breading and the hen birds that were checked after this were found to have abnormalities in there reproductive organs, I would be interested to know if any of you have come across this or know a bit more about it
Funny you should post this. We had one shot on our shoot yesterday and a few of the guns were discussing it.
The first one I ever saw was last season on our shoot so I looked into it. It’s called gynandromorph and it’s where the bird possesses male and female genes. It doesn’t actually mean they have reproductive issues they normally only have the reproductive organs of entirely male or female but just the appearance of both.
i may be wrong but that’s what I read up anyway.
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14 hours ago, Stavross said:
Cheers U, I was shooting with the tikka.243, I didn’t realise how deep the rape was until I went looking for it and it was above my wellies, I hate not being able to find what I’ve shot, it’s not that I want my prize but more I wouldn’t want to leave an animal injured to suffer in the field if the shot wasn’t a good one
At 110 yards with a .243 mate I doubt it would have still be alive Haha! But I know what you mean I like to find them too.
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Finding a home for shot game
in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
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To respond to your illiterate comment, we do have a use for them. At no stage in my post have I said birds are going to waste on my shoot, I was merely asking the situation around the country and if people are having to diversify...