Back up at the shoot

[David.evans 5,323]

No SL 

I’ve been out 3 times and saw 6 Cubs on two different perms but no safe shot was presented, and I’m still waiting for the wheat to come off , and with all this rain I don’t know when that will happen 

I wouldn’t mind if I could get on the stubble and get a few pigeons/ crows 

ive a load of fallow to take care of , trouble is they come out of the wood into the wheat fields and I can’t get the truck to them until the crops off , and I’m not doing a 100 yard retrieve dragged at my age , they will keep till it’s off 

atb 

[shovel leaner 7,648]

2 hours ago, David.evans said:

No SL 

I’ve been out 3 times and saw 6 Cubs on two different perms but no safe shot was presented, and I’m still waiting for the wheat to come off , and with all this rain I don’t know when that will happen 

I wouldn’t mind if I could get on the stubble and get a few pigeons/ crows 

ive a load of fallow to take care of , trouble is they come out of the wood into the wheat fields and I can’t get the truck to them until the crops off , and I’m not doing a 100 yard retrieve dragged at my age , they will keep till it’s off 

atb 

I think this week-10 days is forecast fine . I’m sure the combines will be with you soon . 
I know what you mean about retrieving fallow . I’ve even got a winch and two planks to get them into the mule , because there is no way I’m giving myself a hernia getting them on .

[Stavross 13,713]

4 hours ago, shovel leaner said:

That track is screaming for a wire

That’s something I’ve never done up here, just because I can’t check them every day, I’ve stopped using the cage traps for the same reason and I’m sick of finding pigs in them, them buggers can wreck a trap, me and my mate Mosh used to hammer the sheep farm with snares and got a lot of foxes, we only stopped because of what I would call an accident with the farm next door and his wife’s favourite ginger cat

[ianm 2,594]

1 hour ago, Stavross said:

That’s something I’ve never done up here, just because I can’t check them every day, I’ve stopped using the cage traps for the same reason and I’m sick of finding pigs in them, them buggers can wreck a trap, me and my mate Mosh used to hammer the sheep farm with snares and got a lot of foxes, we only stopped because of what I would call an accident with the farm next door and his wife’s favourite ginger cat

I would much rather kill foxes by shooting them than snares. Strangling predators is bad form old chap.

Although i have used them in certain situations i must admit.

I had a fox job in town a couple of years ago. The fox had attacked and tried to kill a yorkie terrier in daylight on the peoples back lawn. The first vets bill was fifteen hundred and i don't know how much the subsequent ones where.  All the houses down this particular road are huge with a back garden that is only about 25yds long but it then drops off into a very steep wood. All the properties own a section of this wood which is about 150yds long for each property. The wood then meets up with a field at the bottom that belongs the council and is very over grown. Anyhow although bait was going every night and i had it on a trail cam there was nowhere for a shot really and it came at random times. I set three snares in the wood and caught it after the third day. It was a vixen but the trail cam picked up various Roe passing through this wood including a real nice Buck. 

[Stavross 13,713]

5 minutes ago, ianm said:

would much rather kill foxes by shooting them than snares. Strangling predators is bad form old chap.

I maybe should of stated my snaring days were a good while  ago and the ones on the sheep farm we didn’t snare we ran the dogs on them on the lamp simpler times, rabbits, hares, foxes, deer, none of them shot, but a change in the law put a stop to most of it, it’s sad that a lot of youngsters will not see or learn some of these skills that protected stock and fed people, when I talk about this kind of stuff with people it’s like it was in the Victorian times, but it wasn’t that long ago that it was the norm

[shovel leaner 7,648]

I just want rid of foxes on the shoot . I employ just about every “ legal “ method , terriers, snares , fox drives , and shooting. To me the beauty of snaring is , a snare is working while I’m in bed . Also I make my own snares , and get a kick out of using a bit of field craft . 

[ianm 2,594]

4 hours ago, Stavross said:

I maybe should of stated my snaring days were a good while  ago and the ones on the sheep farm we didn’t snare we ran the dogs on them on the lamp simpler times, rabbits, hares, foxes, deer, none of them shot, but a change in the law put a stop to most of it, it’s sad that a lot of youngsters will not see or learn some of these skills that protected stock and fed people, when I talk about this kind of stuff with people it’s like it was in the Victorian times, but it wasn’t that long ago that it was the norm

I miss lamping with a dog. I will NEVER forget what Blair and new labour did.

[Stavross 13,713]

I used to love it, I’d be out 3 or 4 times a week, my mate Mosh was one of the first people in the country to be convicted under the hunting act, no jail, but he got a big fine ( can’t remember how much) they confiscated his car, he had a load of restrictions on where he could be and had to tell them what car he was driving, all for something that should never of been past into law 

[shovel leaner 7,648]

11 minutes ago, Stavross said:

I used to love it, I’d be out 3 or 4 times a week, my mate Mosh was one of the first people in the country to be convicted under the hunting act, no jail, but he got a big fine ( can’t remember how much) they confiscated his car, he had a load of restrictions on where he could be and had to tell them what car he was driving, all for something that should never of been past into law 

I remember me and my mate  being confronted by plod at a field gateway as we were leaving,  ( lamp and rabbits , secreted in the hedge  ) , “ you boys been lamping “ ? “ No “ , “ Lurcher’s , Hunter wellies , Barbour jackets, you boys have been lamping, we were watching the lamps shine across the fields “ , “f@ck me !!!! What are you ? Some sort of detectives ‍  “ , said my mate ……..It was a long night .

[Stavross 13,713]

Up until a couple of years ago we still used to go and run a few rabbits once the winter drilling’s went in, but with mosh having a heart attack and me being more involved with the shoot and all the other shooting related activities, sadly those days are over now

i think I’ve put this picture on before, I have very few from back then, because we had no cameras on phones, come to think of it we didn’t have phones, Mosh looks really young here, he’s about 53 now

[Wyatt Baker 4]

where was the black shoots location?

[shovel leaner 7,648]

8 hours ago, Stavross said:

Up until a couple of years ago we still used to go and run a few rabbits once the winter drilling’s went in, but with mosh having a heart attack and me being more involved with the shoot and all the other shooting related activities, sadly those days are over now

i think I’ve put this picture on before, I have very few from back then, because we had no cameras on phones, come to think of it we didn’t have phones, Mosh looks really young here, he’s about 53 now

A clulite clubman I see !!! You guys were lucky  . I was going to spin a yarn about motorcycle batteries and car headlamps , but we all know where that’s going Ben would chip in with a story about miners lamps or ships lanterns.

[Dervburner 2,548]

3 minutes ago, shovel leaner said:

A clulite clubman I see !!! You guys were lucky  . I was going to spin a yarn about motorcycle batteries and car headlamps , but we all know where that’s going Ben would chip in with a story about miners lamps or ships lanterns.

Yerr, all my jeans had little holes in them where the battery acid leaked

[shovel leaner 7,648]

2 minutes ago, Dervburner said:

Yerr, all my jeans had little holes in them where the battery acid leaked

Them were the days  like medals of honour 

Edited August 23, 2021 by shovel leaner

[Stavross 13,713]

22 minutes ago, shovel leaner said:

A clulite clubman I see !!! You guys were lucky  . I was going to spin a yarn about motorcycle batteries and car headlamps , but we all know where that’s going Ben would chip in with a story about miners lamps or ships lanterns.

That’s how we started out, spot light off the front of an XR2, I’ve recently just sold my lightforce variable power lamp with over the shoulder man bag battery bag