aister

great pics once again :good:

great to see a keen dog in action :good:

i had never seen one let alone shot one until last year, since then i have shot 4!!

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good pics and good to see the young fella out too, cant wait till my youngins are old enough to come out, keep it up

well done on that tripple mate . always a good boost to the bag :lol:

beautiful bird mate

lee breech lock challenger kit-£136 Lee Deluxe Die Set-£37 a pack of two breech lock quick change bushings-£8.56 lyman case lub kit-£22 MTM ammo box-£5.99 axminster calipers-£24.99 Frankford Arsenal Perfect Fit Reloading Tray-£4.81 this is what i bought when i started reloading for my .223 and using h4895 powder, win brass, win primers and a-max bullets i can get a 100 yard five shot group that i can cover with a penny. i thought when i had more money i would buy a dearer set up but i cant see the need when all i shoot is rabbits.

i own the SX3 field, 28" barrel. when the barrel is off it measures 32" and the stock + magazine tube is 33 1/2".

Objective Lens: The objective lens is the lens closest to the object being viewed. It is measured in millimeters in diameter. A larger objective lens allows more light to enter the scope. In a three to nine by forty (3-9X40) scope, the 40 is the objective lens size. Power: The power of the scope is the same as magnification. A 10X (ten power) scope magnifies ten times, and makes the object appear ten times closer than with the naked eye.

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if you are able to spend 100 odd bucks spend it on pro logic gear. the jacket and bib and braces are on ebay and a quick google found both on, go outdoors for £99 :good:

yeah, £4.20 for a box of ten!

i love my prologic jacket, bib n braces and waders. hunter balmoral wellies. strauss windproof woolen jumper for cold days, well worth a look imo :good:

i like the RC's best, cant say why, just had better results, could just be a confidence thing. they are cheaper too, £4.20 for RC's and £6.00 for fiocchis. i dont know about the velocities, i cant say i see any difference and niether do the geese :lol: .

for geese try the RC's or focchi, i promise you wont go back to max games.

when i am shooting snipe or woodcock i am always looking around making mental notes about places i cant shoot towards e.g sheep, my mate or the dog. so whenever anything gets up if it goes in to one of these areas i know not to take the shot. i find its not like shooting rabbits where you have to look for the quarry, you can look around and make these notes because you cant see snipe till they are are up and you can usually hear them first if you dont see them. i hope this makes sense it makes sense to me

tide pool has a set of 6, good looking decoys for £26. the FUD's dont work that well on water if there is any wind, infact the last time i used fuds on the water in came a snowy shower and they sank. they work fine inland.

hope you get well soon mate, take care, aister.

i have owned two ten bores and the biggest problem for me here in shetland was tring to find shells loaded with BB or AAA for shooting geese. the only shells i could get were either winchester or remmington turkey loads and they were usually loaded with no4's wich i found didn't work all that well because by the time the shot had opened up to give a pattern that wasn't peppering the bird the energy had gone out of the small pellets. ordering shells from south loaded with BB or AAA cost far too much . i was using my tens purely for geese, one of them was a spanish horror (i think it was built to fit a horse or something) with 3 1/2" chambers and the other was an old damascus hammer gun with 2 5/8" chambers which i had to reload for with black powder and no 1's. i never felt that a 10 bore had much more reach than a 12 but that was probably because of the cartridge choice i had.

i have shot 5 wigeon with rings and 3 greylags with rings. the first goose just had one leg ring, the second had a leg ring and a neck collar and i shot one on saturday morning with the usual metal leg ring and also a plastic leg ring. have to get the info sent off. there were quite a few geese rung on the loch below my house so the rspb and snh could find out if the geese that breed here stay here in the winter or if they go south. i am pretty sure they stay here all year round but i may be wrong, my mate shot 2 in september and i saw one in a park with the same orange neck collar at the weekend so my guess is they stay here all year.

:lol: need more than that i ate 12 once, with all the trimmings.

once again doc, beautiful pictures :good:

teal is my favourite, just a shame they are not the size of a small ostrich :lol:

i usually wait till i have a few snipe to make it worth while, i have seen cooking snipe, plover and woodcock together. what i do is put the birds breast down in a casserol dish, mix up a double strength chicken stock, enough to cover the birds and pour over them, add some coarse ground black pepper, and pour in a good splash of herb dipping oil (i get mine from the co-op, its just olive oil with herbs in).cover and put in the oven at maybe 180degC for 1 to 1 and a 1/2 half hours. its just something i made up (as you can probably tell) but it always comes good. it keeps everything nice and juicy. i cant remember exactly how long it takes but its just till the meat starts leaving the bone. teal works well done the same way too.