have i missed owt?

[gurtwurz 793]

eh up lads, long time no post but i've just got back from helping run 5 back to back 24hr survival courses for a bunch of officer training cadets up in staffs and christ i'm knackered still!! up at 4.45 daily and crashed around midnight, in between showing 30ish cadets a day how to make shelters from natural materials, start fires with flint firestrikers and natural tinder, building signal fires, showing how to filter and purify water, navigate without map and compass day and night and of course how to prepare rabbits for the pot- i'll give you one guess who ran that lesson!!we put over 175 cadets through all in all, they were generally a good bunch of kids but i'll never get used to being called sir!

 

i took the gas ram with me on the off chance, but we werent allowed to shoot owt on site which was a proper gutter cos there was squizzers everywhere, and after a couple of days they were getting proper bold, the best example of which was one of em actually ate through one of the officers' breast pockets on his combat jacket to get to a snickers bar whilst the geezer was asleep!! properly taking the p i thought

 

so after a week of this i got back on saturday evening, absolutely tuckered out, but thought i better get on with some shooting... didnt get a chance till sunday evening as the missus dragged me out of bed to the sussex game fair... like i need more camo...

 

got some target practice in with the rapid on monday morning, the r10's running at under 9 pds so that needs looking at, and the evo seems to shake the mounts off after a session so as i dont wanna spend half my life re zeroing it i guess its down to the ol' workhorse to get back on the case with...

 

went out last night with my buddy john to have a go but whilst led up waiting for bugs to appear(and missing two earlier, put that down to buck fever )we found ourselves under seige from 3 adult foxes which wouldnt stay still long enough to sort out with john's .243, well one did but as all we had as a backstop there was a herd of sheep we had to leave it be... didnt think the farmer'd be too pleased to lose em...

 

so i went out again bright and early this morning to my newest permission to find that the homeowner who borders one side of the field had decided to mow all the cover there so that was pony too, except after waiting 3/4 of an hour i managed to get one at 40 yds off the bipod, went to recover it and couldnt find it anywhere-i know i got it cos i saw it go down but i'm damned if i could find it anywhere... i was gonna go up to another shoot straight after but the missus decided she wanted to walk the dog too so that was that buggered up n all.

 

gonna have to get up the valley later this week cos the freezers nearly empty- at this rate i'll have to go to tesco's...

 

not too much to report hunting wise i'm afraid but at least i've got out a bit!!

 

all the best, wurz

[venomviper 129]

hi ya buddy

glad to see you back matey and sounds like you had fun to wurz and yeah with them foxes if you dont keep the light on them you can soon walk passed them in the dark buddy and having a 243 slug going through it it aint going to be walking alot wurz me old pal. get the old rapid out buddy she wont let you down and get shot of that R(rubbish)10

 

as she is going to start costing you a pretty penny buddy

 

shay

Edited June 22, 2010 by venomviper

[chris strilciw 1]

good write up mate unlucky on the hunting front exspecially with the squizzers, spa for the write up mate

 

chris

[gurtwurz 793]

hi ya buddy

glad to see you back matey and sounds like you had fun to wurz and yeah with them foxes if you dont keep the light on them you can soon walk passed them in the dark buddy and having a 243 slug going through it it aint going to be walking alot wurz me old pal. get the old rapid out buddy she wont let you down and get shot of that R(rubbish)10

 

as she is going to start costing you a pretty penny buddy

 

shay

 

it was still light when we were out shay mate, but youre right there mate. we was worried that the .243'd go straight thru and into 1 of the sheep mate so we left it, john went on with the the 4x4 and lamp and got 3 cubs later but i was knackered n useless so i'd gone home by then...

you might be right about the r10 mate, trouble is i've already spent a bit on it getting it converted to .20 so i'm gonna soldier on with it for now(after gettin it sorted) but its last chance saloon for that un...

should've just stuck with the rapid in the first place, it never lets me down

 

all the best buddy, wurz

[venomviper 129]

hi ya wurz

yeah be nice if it can get sorted these one just sold i think for 450 on the bsa site custom job to but people are staying away from them i have been offered 3 so far for my T10yes they look nice but thats it i get 115 consistant shots with my reg'd T10 its small and light and easy to shoot and thats what people are wanting now and with the r10's people are chopping them up to look like the T10 or ultra but less problems with the T10 and ultra lol yeah get the rapid out wurz me old pal and bash the bunny's matey you will feel alot better then lol

 

shay

[Phantom 631]

Welcome back Wurz

 

Loved the squizzer and snickers line

 

Phantom

[farmerkev09 105]

welcome back buddy

 

atb

 

farmer

[gurtwurz 793]

cheers lads, nice to be home!!

 

@ phantom: i couldnt believe it when i saw his jacket tony, but he was a raf officer and not used to roughing it-that'll learn him...

 

all the very best, wurz

[stealthy1 3,964]

Shame about not being able to whack the squirrels

[JackReid 35]

Hello mate good writeup, what sort of Cadets? I may have missed it in text?

 

Jack

[gurtwurz 793]

they were combined cadets mate, some from each service, and a few from austria to boot. it was actually a military 6th form college, basically theyre the boffins of the future.

all education and no common sense...

cheers, wurz