Tarlair

It is illegal to shoot game from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise. Hares are game.

Buckaroo I would remove this post immediately, if I were you.

Here are my two. Jet on the right is 5 years old and Carrick is 2 years next month.

I'll be there on the Friday. Have a wedding do on the Saturday. Pretty poor planning if you ask me.

My latest addition. Carrick, seventeen months and part trained.

An add on to Spaniels tip about using a corner is to put down as many dummies as you have, fairly close together. This ensures that the dog will find something as soon as it gets into the area. As everyone has said, confidence is everything and this helps to build it.

I saw something I have never seen before last Friday. Driving along a narrow country road, I saw something large in the middle of the road. When I got closer I discovered it was a buzzard on a cock pheasant. The sight of my motor bearing down on them split them up, the buzzard flying off and the pheasant running into the wood at the side of the road. I know they regularly take poults but this was a full grown cock pheasant. Glad I arrived when I did.

Good job. Well done.

Thanks guys. All I would say is go for it. I was pretty worried about the exam idea too but it is easier than you might think, as long as you read the material they send you. Once you start the papers, you realise that you do know the answers and it is multi choice. The shooting test is fairly easy if you do not let your nerves take over. The safety test is how we should all handle a firearm anyway so you just need to tell it as it is. Well worth the effort.

I know lots of members will have done it and might think it is no big deal, but my shooting buddy and I passed our DSC1 today and I am delighted. I had a brilliant week-end and thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience.

I have HMR for fox from Grampian Police.

Hope I have done the right thing. Went to a local garage today and traded in the Jeep Cherokee 2.8 Auto for a Shogun 2.5 Sport Equippe. I have been quite happy with the Jeep. Only complaint is that there is very little room in the back for the dog. Shogun certainly solves that one. Picking it up on Thursday once they get my number switched over.

With regard to The Burpster's post, item 8 - I use a Primos Power Crow caller and wear it on a lanyard round my neck. That way you just let it go and know it won't fall into anything.

Brilliant photos.

There's nothing like starting young. Nice one.