Nildes

Myxie all over my permission this last month (Surrey)

There is a similar type of wild fruit grows in the Westcountry called a Bullace. Very similar to a Sloe and both make darn good gin.

You know the builders bags that they deliver ballast in? Cut them up with the scissors, wrap them round a hazel stick and fix with a couple of staples. Put an elastic band round them abnd tell the beaters to unfurl when theyre on the Partridge drive

Go straight to the Police. Get them involved, show them the evidence, broken windows etc. Set up, some video monitoring and other passive stuff but don't do anything aggressive. Whether justified or not, you could end up in court and, if you do, your FAC or SGC is very much at risk. You never said what your mate did to earn so much hate? Did you ask? Is he the only victim in this story or is there a lass in trouble somewhere or something like that? This doesn't sound like casual vandalism to me. Someone has got a grievance. If that's true, think carefully before getting involved beyond being supportive because starting a war may just make things worse for him and his mum and whoever it is know where they live. You catch someone and beat the **** out of them and it'll bounce back on him. Think about it. Go to the law.

Andy's a good guy with a couple of good dogs, a lot of contacts and belongs to a good syndicate. He was kind enough to invite me down once. Anyone throwing away an oportunity to work with him doesn't deserve another. If you make a commitment you should stick to it not hang someone out to dry because something better turns up.

I'm sure we've all seen the odd example of poor shooting and poor judgement. Its one of the risks we take when we allow shooting to take place under a relatively light training regime. Its a given that most of us learn on the job. The thing is, most of us learn from our own mistakes and those of others and with shotguns this is a fairly continuous process. I've been shooting for years and am still nowhere near a 1:1 ratio.........which means I'm still making mistakes. I think the big mistake the lads made was mixing drinking and shooting rather than their system of calling birds.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10...g-accident.html

:blink: Some commonsense at last, you must have been born in Essex. No, but I've shot clays at Braintree a few times More to the point, I've shot Partridges on Peter Jones (Vinnie's dad) shoot at South Mimms a few times too and what that man doesn't know about Partridge Shooting you could write on a postage stamp. I just hope I'm as active and on the ball when I get to his age.

I thought nadal was a worthy winner and the other guy (cant spell his name) a bloddy good loser

Thats not what you started off saying though. You wigged Quist for being a townie and then moved to goal posts to partridges when it turned out that he knew his keepering as good or better than you On our shoot it aint so much what you shoot on the first day of the season, its how many are left on the last. Often the beaters days produce some exceptional birds but the first days are just slaughter of the innocents and you could knock em from the sky with a stick. Keeping a few partridges calling in the pen till shoot day tends to ensure that the coveys break in a number of flushes during the drive since not all birds are as fit. Not being so fit tends to stop them flying so far so that they stay on the shoot after they've flown over the guns and call down the early release birds to join them. There, thats my tanners worth :blink:

It seems to be back up again. The whole of Ning was doing the same message last night. Wherever Ning is? Sounds like Narnia

A bit like Facebook where you can customise your own home page, put up photos and generally expand a bit on who you are and what your interests are. You can also message and chat with other members without having to clog up the bulletin board threads with banter.

Play safe, take it to a gunsmith

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You'd be wiser going to a gunsmith.