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thats a to day buddy and nice one with the fox

cheers buddy :good: thanks buddy thanks buddy yeh love my cockers they just never know when to stop and the pigeons up here are building in numbers all the time so the rape will be getting hammmered soon enough :good: thanks gaji :good:

thanks buddy cheers gaji you really really want a cocker fella even you could train one gaji thanks buddy yeh i dont get many days like that :good:

good on her a hope to just be alive at 80 let alone still shooting

what a cracking day buddy and two cracking looking dogs well done

hehe click click where is tilly dog lmao

well done mark thats a nice looking peice of kit howit the pup coming along terry

cracking bag buddy some nice eating there not so sure about the squizzers tho :good:

well done buddy nice shooting dont see what all the fuss is about be it an iar rifle pellet of a shot gun pellet the end result is the same :good:

yeh know dean really well off up to skibo to see him in a few weeks for 5 days gary it a great lad and the one who gave me the stalking peter and stavie are still there too yeh they have a lot of bodys on the grouse done a few days for gary this season so far on the grouse i think they are really toiling for beaters at the pheasants at the moment tho

thank you timothy for your kind works i will drop you a email when iget two minutes :good:

bud in the motor on the way home

well this is the first chance i have had to post this was picking up last friday and saturday so went out sunday to a fresh cut bean field arrived at 9am and put well over a thousand pigeons off the field and after 15 min they were starting to flight back to the field so having shot 165 off this field when it was sown i had a good idea if the flight lines .i set up half way up the field on the edge of a strip of wood that splits two large fields and this is where the pigeons want to flight to when entering the field . the birds were not keen to come to the decoys at first and figured it was the hide that was spooking them so after i had hid the hide a bit better it was game on the birds came well but in large flocks all day what was strange was that single birds didnt want to comit to the pattern where as the large flock 50-70 at times would just drop straight in the shooting was constant but at 2.30 pm it was like someone had turned off the tap guess they had found a field where they had peace to feed with birds lying all over the field from top to bottom it was going to take a bit time to clean up with bud one of my cockers he had worked hard on saturday picking up at a 250 pheasant day with only three of us picking up me verminator 69 and our gary and 16 dogs between us picking up so it was a lot of work for the dogs but bud put in a nother hard shift and 45 minuts later i had picked most of the birds but had a few still lying in a wood at the bottom of the field and in the fields and as bud looked nackered i stopped him picking and put him in the motor i picked (well bud did )74 in the picture and picked another 15 after a drive round the field and a rake through the wood .(i couldnt bielive how big some of the pigeons were really fat and full of fat)so 89 pigeons for the day not bad but noticed the pigeons are starting to pickat the rape now so will need to watch that as i left the field i caught a glimps of a fox walking over the rape field next door so it was a quick dash back home 10 miles drop bud off and feed him pick up the rifle and my daughter emma who wanted to lamp for me and back down to the shoot for 6 pm we had a look round a few fields including the bean field i had just shot thinking it might be having a look for dead birds we had missed but no joy there so we went for a look in a stubble next to the farmers house and there it was three fields from where i had seen it earlyer i handed emma the lamp ( she has lamped for me in the past )and i got the rifle out over the bonnet a quick squeek and it came stomping in at 100 yards it got a shout and stopped on the spot one more fox plugged thats 51 one foxes now a vixen and a big vixen too

cracking day shooting gaji nice to be oot when its no raining looks like some cracking ground too :good:

cracking shooting buddy the last to foxes look quite big :good:

thanks buddy when was it you were beating there whe dean was boss or peter? :good: thanks buddy :good: thanks buddy no it was down near heriot

good one on getting the fox firstly and as for the worms a cant say i have every botherd to look but it they are eating rabbits i would think it would pass to them that way but i am no expert

cheers tam yer your spot on and yes the lass wants to go all the time now which i dont mind its nice to spend some time together next stepis to let her pop away at some targets :good:

well done dan each to there own if thats your thing fill yer boots fella i would love to hint some big game btw

just finnished a shift at 2 am up at 6 am to go picking up gutted !! Sako,s sounds like the better option tho lol

ta gaji yeh hope to cross paths with the sika soon but with 5 keepers on there a will have to be lucky very lucky as for the lassie for her first time out she did great maybe to great she wants to go again

:lol: EH nooooo thanks that would mean atleast one of us would be house trained and that would just not do :lol: thanks mark good to be back out :good:

thanks buddy yeh i was prity lucky to get the stalking and very greatfull to him for giving it to me there is a large block of wood land on the estate next door and they have a no shooting policy so no shortage of deer i am also prity sure i seen two sika yesterday but only got a glimps of them as they ran into a wood but the keeper said he seen a big sika stag not far from where i seen these beasts only three days before so they may get a visit very soon !! atb andy

the first doe,s blind eye emma on our wee walk back to the second wood

the view from where we started the stalk the first doe was shot out on the fence line next to the wood and the second was shot on the dark heather above the wood