-Mongrel-

Proper touch! ....I want a green house

Right, Natural England emailed and Conor O'Gorman copied in as requested on the BASC website, just needs another 1298 to do the same now! ;-) I should add that I have stated that I DO NOT support BASC's position regarding Greylags/Mallards and the GL proposal.

I think that may be about to change somewhat. Who exactly should we email and what information must the email contain to be considered valid please David? I was undecided on this one until recently, but all of the information I can find suggests that there is actually no valid reason to put Greylags or Mallard on GL and as such I cannot help but feel that there is something else driving this too.

Ah, see, we don't get to work in too many palaces houses that justify a 37kw boiler. My 4 bed house only has a 28.

Really? What are you fitting? We fit Vaillants and can get a 30kw combi for a shade over a £1000 plus VAT. I don't think the Worcesters are any more expensive, and something like a Gloworm is significantly cheaper.

British gas? Actually BG or not, they are bending you over. It does depend on spec and location, but a couple of thousand (2500 inc VAT) would cover most eventualities unless you are doing serious relocation and lots of pipe work needs running.,

Really struggling with the last 6lbs now!!! Lose a couple, BH weekend...put them back on! Lose a couple, a social weekend away, put them back on, repeat again for another BH weekend! Net result is I'm still where I was last time I posted! Time to knuckle back down!

April 1st has passed surely?

Whichever way you cut it, it's excessive. I'm not aware of any other sport which has tuition that is as expensive on an hourly basis. If they're busy then that's potentially a pretty constant £75/hr. I know how to charge as a gas engineer, but I'll guarantee my overheads are higher and, although I charge £45/hr jobbing, I never earn 8 hours straight at that. You lose half the day traveling and if it's a full days work the rate drops dramatically anyway to about half that.

Currently a Browning 525 for clays and pigeons, a Hatsan Escort Camo, for fowling and sometimes pigeons, and two 12 bore SxS hammer guns. One is in bits while I decide what to do with it, I have been dithering about it for almost a year now! It's a really pretty gun...but will probably cost nearly as much to restore as it's worth! The other's restored as far as I want to (resoldered rib, reblacked and generally buffed up but have left the wood at the mo as it gives it an old patina), and I use it occasionally when having a wander around the hedgerows and woods. It's a great walking gun, nice and light!

Theres a few around the farm now, been watching them this afternoon.

Good advice too to be fair, especially when you consider I only really use it for practice to try and keep my eye in for other more unpredictable targets.

I have been classified by the ground as I wasn't at the time a CPSA member (very recently joined) but the ground is a CPSA reg'd ground, I suspect that if I turned up at another ground and they asked, they'd quite hapily pt me down as a C as well BUT, to be honest I haven't actually asked at the ground what their process is for establishing a class. Do you generally ha=ve to carry 'proof' of your grading with you whe you visist a new ground? Not a choice. The saturday shoot is a competition which you automatically enter when you shoot a round. I could shoot 'cash' I suppose but that seems equally pointless for a man of my mediocre skills.

Yep, Parakeet and on the GL. Becoming a real problem in areas of the South East now.

Wish I shot like that with anything!

I'm still waiting for someone to answer Davids question, 'I ask that given since the canada's came onto the GL and all the fears that their population would crash due to over shooting outside of the wildfowling season, which has not happened, why do you think it could or will happen with greylags? I asked the question a few pages ago as to what happened to the canada goose population when it went on the GL, as far as I can ascertain it's actually still increasing and consistently has. Lee may well have lost his geese for whatever reason, but that's hardly the national picture is it? I've lost all my pigeons at the moment, but don't believe they've been shot into oblivion nationwide! So, why would the greylag be at any more risk than the canada?

My eldest lad is in the Grenadiers and apparently something of a top shot, (he was told that he was doing his snipers course recently, should have been done now but for a double hernia!), anyway, I digress. He's borrowed an old Theoben springer of mine that I've recently had refurb'd and not put a pellet through since, to deal with a vermin problem. Untested scope, and straightened barrel so he was told he'd be checking it shot straight. Got a text earlier saying that yes, it appears to shoot straight. Five shots resulting in one pulled flyer, a single hole with pellet...and 3 pellets one on top of the other!!! Apparently it took a couple to work out how best to hold it, and it was only about 18-20 metres! Cocky little ****! He then went on to zero the scope! Good thing he's only average with a shotgun!!!

On my last performance and on the last CPSA gradings, in theory I shot to 'AA' standard. That said, I regularly shoot to CPSA 'B' standard but seem to be stuck in 'C' at club level.

It is registered, but the Saturday shoot is open to all comers, your scores are submitted to the CPSA but if you were to turn up and say you were a C class, you'd be shooting as a C.

Last time I shot clays at my local ground, I shot really well for me and put a good card in. General consensus is that it should have been good enough to give me a very good class position. When the scores were tallied, I'd come in third, normally be quite happy with that and 3 behind the winner ... whose score equaled the B class winner and would have put him third in A class! How the heck can he be shooting in C class? Now, I shoot C class on the clays even though my averages suggest I should be shooting B class. For whatever reasons the ground has not seen fit to move me up as yet, but the point is I shot exceptionally well (85% average) but failed to beat the winner of the class above, etc etc, which is the way it should be surely? It's not the first time this has happened, and to be honest, while it doesn't REALLY bother me in the great scheme of things, I do find it a bit irksome at times. Should there not be a system in place that stops the journeyman shooter from just turning up and picking what class he wants to shoot in that day? It's almost enough to make me want to join the CPSA for gradings even though I don't seriously shoot competitively as such.

Just out of interest. Since the canada geese went on the GL, how have their population numbers fared?

Speak up mate, we can't hear you!

I was going to add comment, but to be honest, you already have as much information as you need in this thread. Accuracy is everything, practice, practice, practice until you are consistently on target in a variety of conditions, then get out in the field and learn your field craft. Try and be responsible enough to not take on the long shots while you are learning how to get closer!

'K' reg, but solid underneath, scabby on top but starts every time and still goes pretty much everywhere!

What do you do when you transplant? Plant the whole cube or tease the seedling out of it?