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I shot on Sat out at Bere Regis and we spent well over an hour driving 5 farms to find them.... same as you Doc - small batches of 4 or 5 in most fields, but no big numbers... finally found about 50 feeding - pushed then off as we set up and.... they never came back! The big roosting wood was heaving though! Just seems that none of the Dorset field have much left on them to draw big flocks so they have split up.. The crows havent though - so it ended up being a day on the black stuff.

This is what I did a few months back. I had a budget of £1k - and got soooo confused, looking around at what to buy. In the end I bought a Rizzini off here for £250. It turned out to be an OK gun. I stripped and oiled the stock, added a stock extention to get it fitting right and it works great. I like the fact that Ive only outlaid £250, it got me started, I dont panic when out in the rain or if it gets knocked and as the chap above says - if you point it right and pull the trigger it goes bang and kills. I will get a better gun in time, but right now I'm in no rush and will wait until I find one I really like... Just mt 2p worth! Good luck!

Thanks Norrie Your PM this morning made my day - really nice to be able to help out a fellow shooter and transform a very plain piece of wood into something very handsome. I dont do this as a business or anything, but I do tinker about with wood so if anyone else wants a tired looking stock doing drop me a PM... I think Norrie will agree it wasnt expensive, just covered my time and a few bits of materials needed. Adam

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Yes, Ive got another Seeland jacket in the same size that fits perfect... hence ordering this one!

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I can 90% identify about 40 fungi - good and bad, but of these I'll only pick and eat a few main types: Cep / boleutus, parasols, chantarels, puffballs, and hedgehogs. Of these ceps and hedgehogs are pretty much un-mistakable once you know what to look for. It's great fun and certianly livens up a forest walk! I'd second doing the 'fungi forage' courses - relaxed and informal, but very helpful if you like to fill your stomach with mushrooms!

Ive been picking fungi to eat for about 6 years. I started going with a biology teacher friend until I got confident to go alone. Even now I stick to about 6 types I can ID 100%. There is mountains of folklore, myths, rhymes and un-truths about fungi... such as the bad ones are toadstools, dont eat red ones, the staining etc, etc... The vast majority of fungi are neither posionous or edible... like eating feathers. A small amount are toxic and / or deadly, and an even smaller amount are edible - but these edible ones are sublime! To those doubters out there posting about buying from a supermarket - why shoot fresh game when you can buy pre-packed sausages! Les - personally I'd give it a miss. I dont think it's a yellow stainer as Ive seen them and they stain alot when broken, but still I wouldnt risk it. BTW - the ceps last night were superb!

Thanks. I really do appreciate the last two trips Les has taken me out on, but like you it hasnt felt like a 'lesson' - we've just gone out on a shoot and chatted - Ive absorbed like a sponge Les' experiance, but also had a great day, made a new friend and had a good natter - not to mention shot a few things! Les wouldnt take a penny from me for fuel and ammo - the best I could offer him was half a dozen fresh chicken eggs! I probably couldnt justify keeping the PCP Air rifle, but for sure an air rifle will always have a place in the cupboard - my garden is heaving with rabbits!

Welcome on getting Rogers mushrooms - it's an ace book. But it is too big to take into the field. For a good fmushroom field guide try this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mushrooms-River-Co...1/dp/0747589321

Was a superb morning - thanks again Les. WHAT A TOOL the 17HMR is ... well impressed. Ive only used air rifles until now and couldnt get used to looking up to 150 yds out for bunnies, I'm used to searching 40 yds out... and then needing a head shot, it's an amazing little round and has re-kindled the interest in getting my FAC and flogging my S410 to pay for a CZ. The mushrooms were a real unexpected bonus - the are a type of Cepp. This one in fact: http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/gallery/Dis...ooserresult.asp And Ive just fried them down and lobbed them in a floured bap with a pigeon breast! MMMM!!!! Catch you again soon Les.

Well on the way back South this afternoon I saw 2 seperate sets of pigeon magnets in motorway side fields, and another set of low lofted deeks just south of Leeds on the M1 - amazing! Ive never ever seen any decoys in fields whilst driving around the South West - once I got past Oxford the numbers of pigeons in the fields dropped right off, and it's devoid in Dorset! Lucky beggers!

Found myself driving up the M1 on business today from Dorset, staying in Wetherby tonight.... boy oh boy do you chaps up here have some pigeons! I was out on Sat back in Dorset and they are so spread out across the fields finding more than a dozen feeding together is a nightmare! Driving up the M1 around the Leeds area every other field was heaving with them! Is this normal, or just the time of year for you 'Northern' chaps?!

Excellent - Well done. We had our Open Comp out of Poole on Sun - was horrible F5/6 NW all day. Still, managed 8 rays, best a 13lb Undulate Ray best of 8 rays which got me 12th place out of 78 anglers. I had the guys from Boat Fishinf Monthly onboard so watch out for me and the boat in the Nov issue!

I was out with Les this week in the Isuzu and was well impressed - a proper shooting truck with creature comforts that you find in the Jap 4x4's. If I'd get more use out of it, I'd be tempted too! PS; We didnt just use it off-road, we went gun shopping with a 50 mile round trip and it also drove superb on the road - smooth and car-like.

Oh!!! Forgot to add the best bit.... ... finished on a proper high! My first ever Left and Right!

It must have been the cap! I'll take the compliment! I aint old..... but I'm not that young anymore!!

Well first off - THANK YOU LES!! Les is a lovely chap, and I'm soooo appreciative of a day out. He is about an hour for me so not too bad. Ive got a couple of rabbit perms, but Ive been struggling for Piddies, and as a result havent been out more than a handful of times with my new shottie. I learnt more from Les today that i have done in 4 trips out alone. Plus I left with a sample permisson letter, shooting cards and a stack of DVD's! My little bag of home grown veg didnt seem enough to say thanks! Anyway - the shooting - I didnt get that many shots off... Les was onto some of the more distant birds before I was confident to, so I only got 10 carts away - but for 5 piddies, that is by far my best kill ratio so far. Some of Les's shots give me something to aspire to... truely 'gymnastic'! Thanks again mate - look forward to doing it again sometime. Adam

Interested in the mod. 20g? I assume this is a double barrell o/u? Which make and model? How loud is it compared to a mod / un mod .410?

One of my permissons is a golf course - which I shoot with a rifle 90% of the time, which is fine. Quiet and effective for the bunnies. But, it's between a good few crops fields and a great roosting wood - so plenty of oppertunities for shooting woodies on flightlines or roost shooting, plus the odd bolting bunny from the long grass. Ive used the 12g there a few times, but it's so damn loud - and alot of the shooting is just before dark when the course is nearly empty but a few people still around. So - what shotgun would you guys recommend? I was thinking a .410, but moderated or un-moderated - or maybe one of the other smaler gauges?? What's the pros and cons of each? Thanks in advance.

32lb cod in 2004 21lb turbot in 2008 15lb bass in 2007 55lb tope in 2010 Thats about the best I can add. All either caught out of Poole or Channel Islands on my own boat.

I hoping to have a day on a cut pea field on Thurs. Not shot over peas before. Is it as other ceral stubbles or do you wise chaps have any tips you can share? Will also hopefully be my first full day's decoying - only had a few hours here and there so far! Adam

I get quite a few here and in the field alongside the house (which Ive got permisson on) when I first started shooting I was trigger happy and used to shoot anything that came in the trees (same for the rabbits!) now Ive got a few permissions I like to leave the pigeons and rabbits and I enjoy watching them and their behaviours.

Thanks chaps. Ive used coch-y-bonddu in the past, also found them good. Any suggestions for yarns, tales and shooting stories? I think websites like this provide more factual info than a book!