snowmonster

Thanks for the drink afterwards Snowy, very nice to met you as well, I'll send you a pm as well if that's okay. No probs Neil you're welcome pm replied to.

Nice to put some faces to names boys enjoyed the cuppa and bit of banter, hopefully I'll be a bit better health wise and bring a couple of guns next year. Have sent you a pm Mike will get something sorted all being well. Sorry if there's a delay in replying don't forget I'm still on the naughty step so their can be a delay now and again .

Gedney pm me postage costs and how you'd like paying, if you're donating the book I'll gladly cover the postage for young Strangford.

From my understanding he was definitely a bit of a lad and kept likewise company so your old man must have been too. He often fell out with locals apparently and at one point he painted his name on the back of a donkey jacket so the locals knew it was him out on the mud in front of them with paying guests, which used to be a sore point with them. My mate used to pay him and stop with him over the weekends either at home or in the old houseboat but when they were out on the marsh old Kenzie would think nothing of shooting a duck or a goose off the guests barrel end .

As I understand it from a mate who used to go out with Kenzie pretty regular quite a bit of artistic licence was used when the book was written, but still entertaining reading.

Gedney if you've still got a copy of Kenzie The Last Gooseman and you'd be prepared to post to young Strangford I'll pay for the postage on condition young Strangford passes it on to another youngster when he's read it. I'm sure having read it a few times myself a young un relatively new to fowling will enjoy it.

Good reading Grandalf I just hope you're not giving this young Strangford any ideas .

Swan's not so bad...cook it how you would an Osprey Can't do Osprey tastes to fishy for me .

Appleby possibly ?.

I come on Grandalf lets be knowing how you cooked that / them swans to make them edible, cos in my own very limited I must add experience they'd taste like **** even if you'd curried them.

A good smoky 2stroke engine off a strimmer or similar and a few terriers will give a few hours of fun, or a few mates with 410's or the like.

The Kenzie book you refer to I believe is called the Last Wild Gooseman, and very good reading.

You made I laaarf Graham but yes you are entitled to your opinion .

Can't argue with that statement .

Doesn't cost a fortune to have them bored out or it didn't used to long time since I heard of anything been done.

They wont influence my daugter though she is clay shooting barmy at the moment and really wants her own gun as shes fed up just being the scorer. Get her one as soon as possible, we now have a routine here every time my 4 year old grandson comes I have to open the gun cabinet and show him which one is going to become his. I think he's maybe just checking up I haven't sold it , can't wait till he's a little older and get him out and about he already has his own thumbstick and the poor old dog doesn't know weather it's coming or going when he gets his hands on the whistle .

I wish I hadn't have read that, it doesn't make me feel any happier about the thought of having eaten it .

Ah lad, some of us is old enough to have shot them legal - and a lot of other things as well I once won a large bag of daffodil bulbs by shooting five straight redshanks - but that's another story. Swan tasted good back in the war as well - road kill naturally Quite a while since I've been a lad , but point taken and I don't know how you cooked that swan to make it edible either .

Graham pattern plates do not give the whole picture or tell the full tale, maybe if the pattern plate was flying over you at 50/ 55 yards at a fair old rate of knots you might get a truer picture of what's actually happening with your mighty 12 bore homeloads, I bet you'd not have the full pattern in a 30 inch circle then.

You're having a laugh mate, you can load a 12 bore to out shoot an 8 or a 10 in your dreams pal. Must make you wonder why cleverer people than ourselves decided to develop an 8 or 10 eh .

It appears to be all smoke and mirrors, and to a layman BASC now appear to want to be distancing themselves from the report now pending, certainly doesn't bode well from where I'm looking probably time to get the Vaseline out and get ready for it again.

I wonder how many of us have eaten them with it without knowing? My thoughts exactly and having always plucked until very recently the odds increase, not a nice thought .

Does one mean down the necks of our eastern European cousins by chance .

It's a shame all the pits have shut down them NCB wellies took some beating , and along with a donkey jacket well dressed for any occasion.

Just for curiosity where was it shot, area wise that is I don't mean up the jacksie or in the mush .