The Unintended Keeper ( Diary of a keeping blagger )

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Not worth setting up to decoy so went for a little wander.

 

[Stavross 18,992]

Well, me birds are coming along, they are eating a crazy amount of feed, ( between 100 and 120kg every 48 hours) still not wandering too far, they are starting to feather up well, as they haven’t all buggered off I take it they know where they live now so if they want to go a bit further during the day I’m not too concerned 

[Stavross 18,992]

Had a walk around the sheep farm last night mainly to shoot a few rabbits, got a few rabbits and started to head back towards the farm along the bottom of the fields, when I looked through the thermal I spotted a fox about 500 yards from me, I didn’t have a caller with me so it was old school lip squeaking, the fox was still moving away from me so though it was sh*t or bust and gave it the loudest lip squeak I could, it turned and started to run towards me, I stopped it at around 70 yards, lamp on and a .17HMR through the bib dropped it on the spot without even a twitch, one of this years, a dog in perfect condition but it didn’t half stink

[Stavross 18,992]

Quick bird update, they moving further through the drives by the day, they will be done with the pellets by the end of the week, we are a little under 5 weeks before the first day so looking at them I think they should be tailed up and ready by then, as always there will still be some smaller birds on the first day so some selective shooting will be required 

[sparky the hunter 76]

Your guns are capable of selective shooting! They must be a different breed to mine.

 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Sharp come round mate ,started my season

 

[Stavross 18,992]

5 hours ago, sparky the hunter said:

Your guns are capable of selective shooting! They must be a different breed to mine.

 

They will if they know what’s good for them, I don’t want the carryon I had last year with a few pillow casing them early in the season 

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

1 hour ago, Stavross said:

 few pillow casing them early in the season 

Or obliterating a woodcock

[Stavross 18,992]

1 hour ago, FOXHUNTER said:

Or obliterating a woodcock

Hahaha, that’s the one

[Stavross 18,992]

Quick update on my shoot, we were meant to have our first day on the 28th of October but due to weather we decided to cancel the day, so this coming Saturday will be our first day, better for me as I didn’t think the birds were quite ready where as now they are, I was up there for first light this morning and they are spread out right throughout the shoot, so fingers crossed for a good first day on Saturday

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Hope the weather is decent for you and the birds fly well

[Stavross 18,992]

Seen as I haven’t put anything on here for a couple of years and I’m sat waiting for Mrs Stav to get ready it thought I’d put something on 

it was my first day of this season yesterday and it was a cracker, being the first day we only want to stir them up a bit so we did mostly boundary drives, I was aiming for a 40/50 bird day and that’s what they got 46 pheasants, a jay and a squirrel, everyone went away happy and my mates little lad ( Hugo ) shot himself a couple of cracking birds on the first drive with the little 28 bore, elevenses was mental, game sausage roll, potato and leek soup, cheese board, lemon cake and enough Prosecco and bramble gin to bath in

i had a nightmare of a season last year but I’m a lot more upbeat about how this one has started so I’m looking forward to the next one in a fortnight