mark g

sold to pestcontrol1 pp, thanks, mark.

lee .204 ruger die set this is the full length sizeing die, bullet seating die, powder dipper and shell holder these have only done about 20 cases and are like new, 25 quid including postage

i think there is, pigeons dont seem to like landing in a well established crop, there are farmers round here who dont seem to have any pigeon bother at all and dont use gas guns either and i am convinced it is the way they get the crop going in the first month or two

i have had aggro with birds on rape for years and the best way we have found is that we put our later birds where the rape is going and keep them in the pen as long as possible, the farm lads also do thier bit by putting a bit more nitrogen on the areas that the birds will damage, if it gets away ok before the birds get on it, it is ok, if it struggles to establish the birds really dont help, but you are always best to try and work things out beforehand,

bono wont keep any of it though he will give it all to starving africans

i built a new block of 8 8x8 sheds recently, to save on timber and minimise heat loss should a heater go down, they are linked together, with long outside runs instead of square ones, most sa type heaters only break down because of poor servicing, i have seen a lot of gamefarmers and you would be surprised how many are staying awake all night waiting for a heater to go out many of them very experienced chaps, they just dont know how to look after thier heaters properly

you do realise that by going on strike you are effectivly asking for a bigger slice of my wages and i can not afford to lose any more money in tax, what do you do for us anyway, we may decide we can do without it

shooting foxes running with a rifle takes a lot of doing i have done it on lampshy foxes but i was much younger and was shooting a lot of foxes at the time, confidence in your rifle is the key my longest running fox was 325 yards with a .222 and the longest hare was 420 with a .270, i dont shoot enough these days to have the confidence to try those kind of shots, plus my eyes aint as good as they were back then

assuming its a vermin calibre i would say the cz 527 in varmint barrel spec, i recently went from a cz 527 .222 to a savage 12fv in 204 ruger and to be quite honest the triggers on all american built rifles are **** because they have to pass the drop test and are built to be heavy even the accutrigger on my new savage is **** compared to the cz. i may still flog the savage and get a custom 204 built around a brno fox action and trigger, these had a superb set trigger, couple that with a good barrel and a tidy laminate thumbhole stock and you would have a very capable little rifle

cutting trees down is the standard forestry answer, it wont stop it spreading and wont stop the disease, its a bit like treating hiv by shooting everyone diagnosed with it, they tried it with dutch elm disease and it didnt work, pheasants will roost in a dead tree and you could still earn a bit from the land, cut them down and you have nothing earning for at least 10 years, i always say if you have a pheasant roosting in a tree, you can charge someone 20 quid to shoot it, and you can do that every year, cut the tree down sell it for what 8 quid a ton and you have no pheasant to sell and you are 12 quid down in the first year and have no earning until you replant spray etc. the next crop of trees. amenity value even possibly firewood to burn yourself is worth more than the pittance you will get by haveing a full scale felling

it does not mean that 204 is an unpopular calibre though, i always had a thing for a .220 swift even though my .222 would do anything you could expect from a rifle, 20 years ago when i had my first rifle .223 would be a rare thing, .222 or 22-250 was the norm, why .223 has become more popular than .222 or the 204 or 22-250 can only be attributed to the availability and price of american made rifles, the calibre is no better or worse than any of the others, but far more available, i wanted something that would shoot pretty fast and flat and always wanted a ruger no1 hv in .220 swift but these are like hens teeth here

we still have submarines and we do have a history of useing them the argies are now a left wing democracy, its all hot air

i could never get stingers to group through my brno, remington yellowjackets were brilliant, probably the fastest and most accurate of the hyper velocity .22s

look salop sniper, you seem to be continually berating the westmercia firearms dept for something that you cant be ***** to apply for, i put in for a couple of calibres on august 3rd the ticket came back on october the 3rd thats 8 weeks from application to done and its not 50 quid its 26, the west mercia area covers shropshire herefordshire and worcestershire, thats a pretty big rural area and its too much for one force firearms dept to manage its too much to ask of too few staff on too big an area

it was until labour handed control to the eu with the lisbon treaty, not surprising considering that they set out to rub the rights nose in diversity, and billy liars missus just happens to be a human rights lawyer, its no use blameing people for takeing advantage of the system, we as a democracy voted in a labour government, we just need to remember not to do it again and if we do it takes about 8 to ten years to pay off the debt

not wanting to put you off but if you are intending to hatch right through the laying season you will have birds of all different ages, a six week poult will quite happily eat a day old chick, so you will have to separate them, possibly better to buy some day olds for your first attempt,so that they are all the same age, and 2 heat lamps would be best because you never know when the bulbs are going to blow, bed them on chopped cardboard, they love to eat wood shaveings and it blocks them up and they die, pheasants are great at finding ways to die

i think the bird and raptor friends vastly underestimate the extent that gameshooting supports these species, our shoot provides around 75 tons per year of grain plus 36 acres of maize sunflower and millet available to birds during the hardest parts of the year, during the last 2 hard winters i have seen buzzards eating each other, i suspect that cannibalism would be more common if there were no pheasants or partridge released and dare i say, i have never seen one acre of cover crop or an acre of woodland planted by the so called conservationists of these species, if they wish to criticize they should put thier money where thier mouth is and help to create habitat and winter food

there was a chap round here a good few years ago who had a mate call round his house one day whilst he was out, he had left an upstairs window open and to be funny the mate threw something through the open window thinking someone else would get the blame the chap sussed who had done it and popped round to have a quick half with the mate before makeing his excuses and popping round to the mates house and leaving a string in the thickest conifer he could find, apparently the neighbours got fairly upset and didnt speak for a few weeks,

they reared well when i did some and they flew well but after the first 3 days we never saw them again, they are probably a bit better now, that was 18 years ago but i still wouldnt have any more find a breed that will stay and then use topography and placement of your guns to make the most of what you have, dont be afraid to experiment with driving birds and standing guns in differnt ways, its the only way to find the best way, four of our best drives we drive away from the guns but its the way that produces the most sporting birds

its just an observation my friend, i spend my working life watching what goes on in our part of the country, for what its worth i would rather not lose any birds on the railway line, and then if we did i would rather be able to go and pick them up and chuck the casualtys along the railway fence so that the buzzards could feed on them without any danger from the trains, because whilst the buzzards give us a bit of grief whilst the poults are in the pens, they actually help to keep them off the railway while they are hunting up and down for carrion thus we lose less birds if the buzzards are present and alive, british transport police would be upset if i was to trespass onto the railway so if you fancy a buzzard preservation exercise get onto network rail and ask if they can have thier tappers chuck any roadkill over the fence. if you are still intent on haveing a pop at me for reasons i dont really understand, can i suggest you keep the tree and shrub stuff to the appropriate thread, thanks, mark.

nothing illegal i shall just catch up the birds on that edge and move them elsewhere, its just an early start to catching up thats all

novices is an accurate description, we have had ongoing negotiations with the agent and the lessees , if they put some birds down themselves there would be no issue, also i suspect that they might be a bit more sporting if they had paid for them

i dont use feeders i hand feed, its not the numbers that bother me because they are not shooting any amount, its just the way they shoot the birds that i find annoying, i am a fulltime single handed keeper and do my best to show sporting birds, to see your hard work shot like vermin is bloody irritating, i can be bloody irritating as well, up till now i have given them the benefit of trusting them but they have shot bits that they said they were not going to and generally been a bit dishonest about things, well if thats the state of play i have to play the game also and step up a measure