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As a paid up member of NPPC i believe that i've already paid for my shooting. But anyway a mate of mine was out shooting the other day and encountered the farmer on whose land he was shooting. After polite conversation the farmer was dismayed to find out that my mate was being charged( the £150.00 annual fee ), for shooting on his land. He thought that all members of the NPPC were shooting free of charge and couldn't believe that we paid for the privalage. Anyway, if i was guarenteed sport all day i might pay the daily rate but as other members have already pointed out you are guarenteed to get some action if you go to a clay ground for the same money. Another chap i know has driven over 1,000 miles since December to shoot, spent god knows how much on diesel, and has not even fired a shot in anger on some days, so tell him that he should pay for a days shooting.

Cheers Cat Tim

What's a banger rope, never heard of them

any photos ready yet mate

Frenchie? Please explain as that has several meanings in my neck of the woods

Chris Green and Tom. Both can do things that my dog and myself can't do. Apart from that Jason Bourne.

Cheers for the comments. I'll give it a go.

Does anyone else have problems with Zippo lighters. I've 3 but they always let me down when i'm outside. When i go back inside they work but as soon as i'm in the outdoor's the damn things don't work. I've tried only using proper zippo fuel and flints with limited success. It is getting very frustating. Can anybody help without suggesting that i stop smoking

Moxey needs more than an alarm clock to get out of bed. He's keeping the 'Morgan Spiced' company in business. He's the only pigeon shooter that i know that is 'sponsered' by smirnoff, carling and carlsberg. But then again he can still still shoot straight so it doesn't matter if he can't get up on time

Going to the pub is always great. Come to Yorkshire mate there's thousand's

Just got back home. Fantastic to be out on the rape again(i mean oilseed rape), today. We set out, saw the pigeons, 100's of them, set the hide and decoy's and waited and waited. One shot and and that was that, no pigeons to be seen again for the next 5 hours. After getting slightly fustrated(very), we moved fields, literally lobbing about 7 seven shell decoys down. No hides were set up, we just stood or sat in front of the trees, not expecting anything. Pigeons dropped in from all over the place. The sport was amazing. I'm new to this, i can't work it out, but pigeon shooting is the dogs b*****s.

Cheers lad's everything is going great but what is a silocack ?

Get on the clays. It is the only way to learn about lead. Take all the advice you can get. Everyone means well, i've found that everyone is friendly and genuinely want newbies to improve. But until you can work it out for your self you can't go forward. One person's three inch lead is another persons three foot. It's all down to how quickly you move the gun through and in front of the target. I've been shooting for a year and have made slow but steady progress. Cost me a fortune in clay's and cartidges but nothing can beat that feeling of downing a few pigeons on your own in the hide. Just don't ask about decoying as this is just about as important as learning to shoot. Good luck mate.

We went out the weekend before last decoying over rape. We were allowed to shoot on two fields as they are part of NPPC. Pigeons just passed our fields and landed on adjacent fields with the same crop cover. Why? Couldn't understand this. There were thousands of pigeons but none would come down in our fields

Just beginers luck then i suppose. We were shooting over rape and the conditions were bright. i've just got to remember how i set them up!!!!!!! Thanks for the tips.

On Saturday i went shooting for the first time. Well in my own hide with my own decoys. My mate who has been showing me the ropes, dropped me off and went to set up his own hide and decoys further down the field. He set up a pattern of 50 plus decoys, shells and wobblers and floaters. I set up a pattern of 16 shell decoys and one floater. I had pigeons pitching and landing all morning. Pigeons that were going towards his decoys altered course and came back to mine. When he came to look at my pattern he noted that i hadn't set it up properly. My decoys wern't all facing into the wind, in fact my floater was facing down wind. The only difference being that all my decoys were flock coated. All his decoys are the normal painted variety. Was this just beginners luck or do flocked patterns really make a difference. Any ideas?