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JDog

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  1. I gave up looking for pigeons on rape a month ago. There weren't any. Roost shooting was the best alternative. Without exception every pigeon shot was full of Ivy berries. A tiny weather window two weeks ago resulted in one farmer getting out drilling on the lightest (and poorest) land. Rain ever since prevented me from getting after them. Today on a jaunt I spied a line into old drillings. I had my kit with me - just in case. The walk almost finished me off but returning birds lifted my spirits and in an hour and a half I shot 30 pigeons all stuffed with oats.
  2. I presume you were flighting/roosting? Well done either way.
  3. Only yesterday did I purchase a 3/4 invector choke for the gun. I will set it up with half and three quarters.
  4. JDog

    Plant ID.

    Minus 2 overnight but these little beauties were unconcerned. Any ideas?
  5. This wet weather is enough to de motivate anyone. I am as flat as a pancake at the moment.
  6. Thanks for all of the replies and suggestions. I don't think there is any scepticism about my post but if there is just have a look at a website like M&S and the handsome, slim models on display.
  7. Long long gone are the days when every wedding I attended involved wearing tails. My tail suit is still with me but it will be at least twenty years since it fitted and it is gathering dust at a rate of knots. My tailor made suits no longer fit either. My body has changed in shape from a svelte figure in my forties to the corpulent monstrosity it now is. Those suits are cringing reminders of the past. I have a wedding to go to in June. In my entire wardrobe the only items that really fit are my jimjams, socks, oversized charity shop shirts and my shooting jackets. No possible combination of those would be suitable. Easy peasy you may say, go online and have a look. All I can see on there are pictures of very slim twenty something young men looking uncomfortable in garments they would never wear in real life. When I use filters and enter my sizes (at the top end of their scales) the same men appear. This is disheartening. Every site is the same. I do not want to embarrass my son on his wedding day but it may have to be long tweed trousers and a matching jacket.
  8. On a similar note, I saw this images of a Red Tailed Shrike with a Goldcrest it had just killed. This has to be one of the most opportune wildlife shots taken in the UK.
  9. That sounds terrific. I hope you fill your syndicate.
  10. There are Shrikes under observation in Nottinghamshire, Norfolk and Sussex at the moment.
  11. JDog

    Plant ID.

    Not just a pretty face then?
  12. JDog

    Plant ID.

    I haven't done one for a while. I saw this plant this morning.
  13. I did go out. Not many customers.
  14. Rubbish indeed. It's not rugby anymore.
  15. Great grey shrikes are winter visitors to UK. There are a few reports around the country at the moment.
  16. Hull Superfasts 29g no.6. Multi choke gun, I bought it with 1/2 and 1/4. I will replace the 1/4 with another 1/2,
  17. I bought the Classic Doubles on Thursday morning and shot a few pigeons roosting with it on that evening. So far so good. This morning I was standing in the fog at 7:30 wondering if I would get shot or two at flighted pigeons. I was off the line by 100m. My companion was on it. With no wind and not much visibility the pigeons were high, many too high to raise the gun at. However some presented fair shots for us both and between us we shot 34 pigeons and six corvids. I am happy with my purchase.
  18. https://photos.app.goo.gl/yK1xBPYhxQxzDzdm7 I put this in Off Topic but it has been inappropriately moved.
  19. Here is the Classic Doubles purchased this morning. Not a sleeper by any means but a lightly used and well cared for gun. It is partway through a thorough cleaning and oiling.
  20. Impressive man cave London Best. Has your 'understanding wife' ever been in it?
  21. I had a fair collection as a boy. It is what I did, roaming the countryside from dawn to dusk looking for nests. My golden rule was only one egg from a full clutch. It didn't take any rules, regulations or Laws for me to realise what I was doing wasn't quite right and I stopped collecting in my very early teens. This bloke has a mental illness causing the compulsion to collect eggs. I do just wonder if any of the collections he was previously prosecuted for were confiscated from him.
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