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Hi ya , welcome to the playhouse !

Stick with your local dealer , support them , I know it’s maybe a little cheaper online but it’s even more important when these restrictions are lifted to support local business’s , I love calling in having a natter and a wander round , miss it !

I’m on Suffolk / Cambs border and not seeing any in any sort of numbers , havnt had guns out of cabinet since lockdown really hasn’t been any need, even drilling on farm is direct drilling so hardly any spillage , might be lucky and their reappearance coincides with lock down being lifted - Wouldn’t that be nice. Stay safe everyone

From what I’ve read , and people I’ve spoken too and on the “ guns on pegs “ website I’d say 70% of shoots are going ahead , some are cutting the number of birds shot on a day but having the same number of days one or two are starting a bit later but planning on having more smaller days later in year and jan / feb , hope this helps

Thanks for replies , hands are tied at moment , cheers all , keep safe

Hi all , hope everyone is safe and well , couple of questions thinking of putting in for fac tkt when this crisis is over at min not sure on .22 lr or 17hmr so will probably put down for both , any thoughts on that ? Secondly what numbers would you advise to put down for ammo for both , for buying and holding ? Many thanks

Well done bud ,

Personally I’d go with the vortex , but that choice would be made strictly on cost , as I’d be out once or maybe twice a week ! If I was doing it professionally then maybe spend the extra if I was going to get the use out of it , you’re doing the right thing go when you can and put the two side by side , only you can make the choice !

Thanks , stay safe mm , guess we will be out soon enough with luck , all the best

Evening marsh man , hope all is well with you , keeping safe , had a walk up the farm with the dogs today , drilling’s went in a number of fields late last week , spoke to owner and he hasn’t seen much in the way of pigeons on them , few getting on the rape but that’s pretty tall now so fairly safe , so luckily still no need to get out with a gun , getting itchy but hey keep doing the right thing !, they use a direct drill system and hardly anything is spilt or wasted so normally till they start popping their little sprouts above ground they are pretty safe ! ,in fact this farm hasn’t seen a plough in last eleven years ! Id say if a farmer is ringing people to come out and shoot on recent drillings they maybe want to have a look at what they might be doing wrong ? Stay safe folks

Couldn’t agree more ! Kids today and for a while havnt had apprenticeships to be mechanics they are just fitters ! , plug in the diagnostics and fit what it tells them to fit ! , this is why I love my defender still repairable

Just saw that , picked it up in “ topics “ didn’t have heading , I read that like he was asking advice , doesn’t read like he wanted stuff but I guess that’s what he means ? My mistake took it wrong way !

To be honest you can build up what you need gradually , buy half @ dozen shell decoys , fairly cheap on eBay or similar , you can tuck yourself in a hedgerow or under a tree and they will decoy in , build the pattern up with shot birds , you can add a net and poles next , some full body decoys next , you can get a floater or two again go online these can be fairly cheap and I guess to finish you can get a magnet - I probably use this the least of all the bits I have ! Put a wanted add in on the forum see if anyone has any surplus , probably a lot will have as it’s a case of you can always buy more , or better , or newer but as I said you don’t really need a lot to get started ! Have fun

I would have thought credit card would have been best ?

Great idea will helping mad 1 and his lad , please just shout out if money is getting low , and well done again for all your doing

Hello , come in , sit down and join in !!! And welcome

As above , missis uses a handheld mixer ,think we got it from Argos years ago , not a top brand name either but to be fair might only get used couple times a week !

Why would you put a post up asking for help and not follow it up ?? Even if you got sorted wouldn’t you put up a “ thanks guys all sorted now , thanks for replies “ ? Or is it just me ?

I’ve had the same size bags if I’ve been out early , set up a hide against a hedge , rotary out , couple floaters and twenty decoys out in front or I’ve walked out threw half a dozen shells out and stood under a tree shooting as they diverted in ! Think it’s all on the day and how the woodies are feeling , but to be honest it’s great to make a proper day of it get set up and idle time away sat in a hide especially if they play ball and come in ones or twos

Anytime ,

Hi , no problem, measured across the seal / frame side windows 106x43cm and rear window 77x49cm , good luck (rear window is outside measurement as I’ve a grill on inside )

Nice ! I’ve always been envious of people who can paint and draw

I guess it’s not quite as urgent as we thought !

I’ve a 110 , was going to go this route of mole for storage but when I priced it up it got expensive , cheapest way to do it was with military surplus ammo , water bottle pouches but didn’t want camo , and as I say black pouches were expensive ! In the end I was at the lro show at Peterborough and bought two large howling moon seat storage units , have a look on their website think they were about £35 each but that was a while ago , mounted one on each rear side window I’m lucky at moment still working but can have a measure up when get done if it helps

My mistake didn’t realise there was a link , got it now