Brixsmaid
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Went to Lea Oakes today for a sack of food.
They still had pieces of antlers for sale at around £13-14 a piece.
Will stay with beef leg bones from the butchers at £1.50 for 3 large chunks.
I'd seen similar prices and was put off!! Need a friendly/handy stalker
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I guess we are already converted but interesting!
Read more at http://www.shootinguk.co.uk/news/national-parks-survey-highlights-public-support-shooting-79227 -
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My dear old departed Dad was a time served shipwright and left me amongst his other tools his old wooden planes etc., which he'd had to make during his apprenticeship. He started his apprenticeship building wooden trawlers and ended it on RN battle cruisers, before swallowing the anchor and having his tea on a steady table ashore as a successful general builder. Part of the practical test to qualify as a shipwright was apparently to be given a chunk of tree and only an adze and depending on the instructor to be required to produce either an oar or a mast depending on how the instructor felt. Mind you he claimed you could do just about anything with an adze, including shaving!!
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Are they any good at keeping teeth clean and plaque free.
They occasionally have them at Lea Oakes pet supplies near us for sale. I have wondered whether to get some for ours.
I believe so but can't confirm, bit worried about Paul1966's tooth damage report above, my eldest springer crunches up bones like they are marshmallows!I'm also less than impressed with the commercial market's prices!! -
I think it's a shame we are spending so much time and squabbling/debating amongst ourselves, rather then uniting/ standing together to defend our sport. How many game shooters are there?
The most helpful thing for me is some idea what I should be asking my MP in an email? I'm not the most literate person and would love a draft I could use.
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Hi Christian
What if anything is left?
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My time in Nigeria saw me on Paludrine, like to be able to blame that for some of my dubious medical problems, but more likely to be the dodgy alcohol I felt obliged to partake of
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Unlike bones they last for ages, my two still have some of a fallow antler about from 2 years ago. They like chewing it but it doesn't seem to splinter and just lasts and lasts
Many thanks for that - just need to source some now
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Does anybody use them and how do they compare with bones?
And as I don't know any stalkers, if they are any good, what is the best and most economic source??
Thanks
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I used to have the perfect camo net, wonderful in any situation, great against any background................................
There always one😜
..................................Wish I could find it again!
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My personal opinion is that the standard colour stealth nets are the best. Very light, good cover, the inside mesh is tight which means your gun doesn't get tangled in it, and they are very compact when folded down.
I have 2 of the standard green ones and use them 99% of the times i shoot. Even in harvest, if you set up in hedges you still have a green back ground. I have a separate harvest colour net in the event of setting up in the middle of the field, but it isn't used that often, not even every year, and I'm not convinced it makes that much difference.
If you do look at the Stealth net option, be careful as there are loads of rubbish interpretations of them. I've had my first one for around 8+ years and there isn't a tear on it; been caught in brambles and thorns, and its as good as new. The second one i bought 2 or 3 years ago is just as good. Paul Hart on here sells them and a gentleman to deal with..
Cos
My latest was a digital multicam net, suits lots of backgrounds, my source no longer sells them but can occasionally be found elsewhere.
This is the net on the right hand side of the below link (light green base colour) foliage scrim multicam
http://www.kitmonster.co.uk/images/foliage-scrim--multicamo-arid-cam-comparisonl.jpg
Both very helpful - thank you
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Get yourself a stealth net and use in any situation. You can always add some natural vegetation if you feel you need to, but really not necessary.
Actually I just remembered. I have an army net which is brown one side and green the other. You could try looking for one of those if you really wanted to; but they are bulky and heavy.
Ah.......but there are so many that all claim to be better than the others! Any suggestions as to which one??
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There was a story at the time that the old boy was lucky to survive the encounter. I know not if it was just a fairy tale.
Which one of the old boys??
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Cant remember, sorry, but bought some very good ones from Fortis ( formerly Country Covers ). They will have sizes on their website I would think.
Never thought of them, I've had bits and pieces of them before and always been good gear - I'll have a look
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Going over to Ankle Boots (don't like very tall lace up boots) this coming season and was seeking advise on decent Gaiters, prefer a light weight type. How is the sizing done for Gaiters?
Cheers
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i know that people are now saying boosters are not needed every year and that every three years is sufficient. not sure at the minute if i will get boosters done on ours.
Just saw this yesterday, although its dated 2004!
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Another reasonable article in the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/21/dont-let-eco-zealots-wreck-this-chance-to-save-the-hen-harrier/
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Governments response to the petition here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/125003, i'm sure it won't be the end of it though, even if it should be!
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The wording in this article concludes without evidence that these raptors have been illegally killed! Well they would wouldn't they! their raptor monitoring/investigations activities (hence their jobs) are based on their own claims of raptor persecution, which it appears are funded to the tune of millions of pounds by grants from the EU.........Talk about undeclared vested interest!
Apparently that picture is from an article back in March the story says missing and the picture of the bird doesn't have a satellite tracker the picture is from this article 22nd March http://wildlifearticles.co.uk/hen-harriers-ghost-of-moorlands-past/
Wonder if there is a statute of limitations or could they not prosecute him ??http://m.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10736397.Chris_Packham_admits_stealing_kestrel_started_his_love_of_nature/?ref=rc
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And yet another interesting article, unfortunately he is a viscount, so is going to be seen as one of them by the great unwashed
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Must admit for a shooting forum the lack of support for grouse shooting is quite shocking.
I could never afford to buy a day on the driven grouse but it is shooting in its purest and most defendable form.
They can only shoot the harvestable surplus each year no matter how many days are booked, and they cannot feed them or anything else all they can do is manage there habitat and predators which in turn helps s many other species.
U can add al the other benfits in like stopping wild fires, keeping heather young and more beetle resistant, carbon storage etc
No other form of shooting is so environmentally friendly or sustainable and helps the ecosystem so much
I've always wondered why grouse installs this hatred amoungst the anti's as it is the most morally defendable type of shooting there is, 100% sustainable with heaps of scientific studies showing the many wider landscape and environmental benefits, even worldwide benefits if u believe all this carbon storeage stuff.
I think the reason is it is so easy to label it a bunch of toff and elitieist, and stoke up the class war or jealousy, even in shooters it seems many would believe anything written on the net by any random person if it's against grouse shooting. s proved by that hoax post from a fishing forum
U even have some hear now claiming the grouse owners should fight the pr battle themselves, (so much for a untied front) so if there ever is any more restrictions put on wildfowling will we just leave it for the fowlers to sort out??
To be quite honest they'd be better off breaking from us and fighting there own battle, but as i've said they already have the high moral ground compared to every other type of shooting.
Say worst case scenerio and driven grouse shooting is banned. Next would be all driven shooting
How can u argue any positives for driven pheasant or partridge shooting, releasing thousands off non native birds released to be shot?
Even as a shooter i find it hard sometimes to morally defend it, esp on commercail levels. But that is completely hypocritical as u either release birds to shoot or u don't the number should be immaterial.
The antis don't care shoting 1 bird is too many for them but they start with the easy target the toffs anfd yuppies and work there way down to normal working men when everything else is banned
The simple fact wether a moor is shooting 10 brace a day or 1000 brace it is still 100% sustainable, no keeper will shoot the last pair of grouse, makes no sense. And the difference between a 10 brace or 1000 brace is a massive ammount of habitat/conservation work.
I doubt anyone on here will shoot a truely sustainable bird/animal (pest control or stalking being the exceptions) for sport, no matter how big or small ur days are ur relying on birds being released by someone/somewhere or birds migrating in from elsewhere
As for the HH, they've never really historically bred in England ever anyway, so having no nests is not a new thing, (load of info on Moorland assoc) it listed last 5 years nesting succes last year 6 succesful nests for 18 chicks fledged (2014, 4 for 16; 0 for 0; 1 for 4; 4 for 12 and 6 for 18 in 2010) so does vary quite a bit.
I'm sure from memory there were 17 nest attempts last year most abandoned or predated (quite a few potentially disturbed by offical observers, althou they will never admit it) but all 6 successful ones were on grouse moors. Pretty sure alister mitchel had an article on it in shooting times moaning about this over observing nests and how close they are. If a keeper set up a tent withing 30m's of a nest he would be done, but ok for them.
So it would not be a complete surprise if no succesful nests in eng this year, by all accounts a poor vole year and this poor weather also may not have helped.
Also a lot of HH don't always return from there migration either, so not just a UK problem
But the thing is HH are not thriving on unkeepered moors or nature resrve moors so there is absolutely no science or even atendotal evidence to back up there claims, if it was purely down to keepering/persecution then u should see hotspots away from keepered moors which is not the case. Geltsdale should be moving with them if thst was the case
They may have missed it but probably because it does not envoke the same class hatred as the driven stuff does.
The big problem u have is numbers and money, u can only shoot limited ammounts of birds walked up and birds will get wise to it pretty soon to and rise well out of gun shot. Even in Aug they can be jumpy some days.
So u could not harvest enough grouse on a well managed moor, so they would all just starve over winter anyway, so they would cut costs/sack keepers and reduce habitat/conservation work to reduce grouse density but then u very quickly lose all these side benefits for conservation, predators populations sneak up, more rank long heather etc.
Basically u would lose all the positives and benfits.
Depending on the moors but in the past scottish grouse keepers beats are/were 2-5 times larger in area than english beats its not the sole reason but a major 1 why they don't have the volume/density of grouse u get down south. Now more and more moor owners are investing large wads of cash for extra keepers more in line with the north england and the moors are improving massivily.
So u wouldn't have to lose an awful lot of keepers to start to lose a lot of the wider benefits
So well said, must be very satisfying that you can put together such a reasoned argument for driven Grouse shooting - well done
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Still thinks i'll be sticking with standard butchers bones, unless a source of cheap Antlers happens by!
Thanks to all for your replies