Big Mat
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4 hours ago, Dave at kelton said:
I am just starting to play with the CG fibre shot cups in ten this year. Have you been happy with the condition of the wad after firing with BBB? How many slits and how deep?
thanks
I think it was 4 slits, 3/4 way down. I cant say I remember looking at the wads after firing
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How thick is the card?
A 10ga card cup wad from clay game has approx 1mm wall thickness, being made from a rolled cardboard which appears to be impregnated with a oil/wax. The base of it is just the sides folded in, coming to approx 3mm thickness.
I've just measured a few to check they were all roughly the same.
I've shot a few of these with big shot, BBB mainly, and suffered no damage.
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To be quite honest, I'm more concerned about still having a job in a few months, never mind the ducks!
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8 hours ago, grrclark said:
His job isn't essential, what part of unprecedented and exceptional don't people get?
Yens of millions are going to suffer. Whether you are doing something solitary or not, it is a blanket measure because folk are clearly unable to distinguish between essential or not. The easiest way to make it unambiguous is just to say to everyone.
I think you should go and read the latest government advice. There is a thread on it in this section.
Only certain businesses are shutting, you keep on about only essential ones being open, but that is incorrect. For the like of agriculture and engineering, its business as usual.
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7 hours ago, muncher said:
Well I managed to find a home for 60 today,and I'm working in the others, but to be honest I'm not sure what I will do start cooking them for the dogs?
That would be a Great help.
I'd suggest getting them done into sausages, but our usual sausage maker can't kill pigs quick enough to keep up with the panic buying!
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Stomp aqua most probably, turns everything yellow. Very difficult to get off sprayer wheels! Available food will effect pigeons far more than the spray.
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My favourite one to eat, I've a couple I need to catch up with to get the freezer topped up again.
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10 hours ago, motty said:
There will be a few Muppets that are quite offended by that! 🤣
You'll have to take me out at harvest to polish my skills ready for the season! Get some cartridges through this new gun
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I usually manage to shoot one a season marsh man, usually a hen. To get a left and right with both being drakes was very lucky!
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Mediocre, couldn't get out when it was right, shot like a muppet. Alot of other pressures meant I didn't shoot when i wanted to. Bagged a couple of nice pintail last weekend.
Next season will soon roll around
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34 minutes ago, washerboy said:
My cousin killed himself at 21 years old, I honestly believe its a selfish act.
He didn't seek help, just rang his twin sister and hung himself in his dad's garage.
As for this famous person, she could afford help?
She could have gone abroad, gone into some kind of wellness centre.?
Still think it's wrong that the papers and TV are getting the blunt of the blame.
There is a big difference being able to afford help, and being in the right state of mind to seek help
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15 hours ago, panoma1 said:
I know it sounds harsh but.......If reports of suicide are true? How selfish!.........leaving all her family and friends to mourn her passing and how cowardly avoiding accountability for the allegations made against her!
This post highlights your incredible lack of knowledge about mental illness. Maybe you'll understand if one of your loved ones decides to take their own life, but i doubt it.
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I've just purchased a Berretta Silver Pigeon with a 3 1/2" chamber, I hope this will be the one gun that I need, allowing me to shoot the larger steel loads.
If money wasnt an issue, I'd have kept my 20 bore and shot geese with TSS.
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1 hour ago, captainhastings said:
So does high water mark include tidal rivers ?
You'd have to refer to the correct map/marine chart for the area
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39 minutes ago, captainhastings said:
Only the last couple of days have we had frosts where splashes have frozen. Same as ferreting by the time the cover has died down the rabbits are back breeding. Out of interest the does the high water mean tidal rivers. In other words can I shoot duck flighting x amount of miles along a tidal river until feb 20. Also I have a splash that when the river rises the tide pushes it up a ditch and into a field, All seems a bit vague
It's far from vague, law states that all shooting of wildfowling above the mean high water mark, ceases on 31st January.
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23 minutes ago, Dogs said:
Hi anyone know the " record " for birds taken with a punt gun ? In a single shot ? And where ?
You've more chance of getting my Labrador to paint the Mona Lisa than get that info out of punt gunners!
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They're very long, with a long stroke to pump. Not everyone likes them, I like mine, it took another goose this morning.
Worth noting to keep the chamber very clean, they can become difficult to pump if not. The chamber is quite tight
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Pick ups are handy when you want to chuck in the junk in the back, and keep the front clean, hence why i'm selling my disco and getting a pick up!
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5 hours ago, moongeese said:
A good friend of mine, just sold his lifelong collection of wildfowling books, he said he was surprized he got £300 for them, but was not near what he had paid for them. Also being at an age of unloading , I put my books together in a large box, but have not been able to bring myself round to selling them yet. My friends son, also a wildfowler, had no interest in his dads books, , and I also feel youngsters nowadays are not growing up reading books like we did, only playing on their electronic toys.
All the things we took an interest in, WAGBI memorabilia, Wildfowling Club Badges, Old Loading Tools, Old shotgun cartridges etc are out of fashion with young people, I know my son has no interest in my stuff, only what they are worth !!!.
Out of interest, have you always been into collecting the books and memorabilia or is it something you started later on?
I only ask as I'm 25, I own a handful of wildfowling books, not really any memorabilia, but I've not enough room in my house to put it that would do it justice.
As regards to books, is it perhaps there being too much info available on the internet for people to bother having books around? I know when my old man died, mum cleared out all his books(none shooting related) and no one wanted them as they just took up too much space.
I always keeps an eye out for any interesting books, particularly punt gunning and wildfowling on the wash. Theres one or two mentioned on here that I would like to add to the collection
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Excellent work Grandalf. I had a run of blanks recently but ended it with a roe doe just before Christmas in a spot where I wasn't expecting her.
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Occasionally borrow one off a mate if I've broken my gun3, good bit of kit, shoots well. Only gun I've managed a left/right on real with
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On 20/12/2019 at 18:43, mudpatten said:
As an aside, quite a few punt guns are actually quite modern. Two friends of mine have recently completed a double barelled muzzle loader and a single barreled hybrid breech/ML is nearing completion.
O.F.- I`d be interested to hear how your trial with steel progresses. Both of the above guns were built with steel in mind but we`re fortunate to have accrued a lot of tungsten based shot over the years.
Here's an interesting question for you mudpattern, which would be the better of the two, a larger bore gun, or a smaller bored double barrelled gun firing half the large bore guns charge out of each barrel?
I suppose to define better, I'm thinking in terms of pattern and ease of firing/recoil. Would the punt need fitting out differently to hold a double gun?
No great reason for the question, more of a curiosity. I use work on a lathe all day every day so I often stand there pondering what I could make!
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13 hours ago, Wildfowler said:
I use BBB and I use the same weight of steel as I would tungsten but obviously that means you get more shot volume. I can 14oz of steel or 16oz of tungsten in a cartridge. To get 16oz steel the cartridge is part way up the forcing cone. I do push it with more powder though to get the speed and therefore kinetic energy.
It obviously sounds the way to go for the future, especially with lack of ITM these days. I'm not a punt gunner at the moment, but like to learn these things as when I finally get set up, any stocks of ITM will be prohibitively expensive in the rare case they come up for sale.
8 bore auto
in Wildfowling
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Not related to the one you're referring to, but there was a Russian? Gun makers website claiming to have a made a 4 bore auto