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  • Birthday 17/06/1950

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    Poole Dorset
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    Pigeon Shooting<br />Ferreting<br />Deer Stalking<br />Game Shooting <br />Beating<br />Wildfowling-Puntgunning<br />Beer drinking

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  1. Advocate works for my dogs, Frontline not very good anymore. I'm using advocate on my dogs and not had a flea or tick yet this season, fingers crossed they don't at all. Figgy
  2. I've never used Texas rigged decoys I shoot from a duck punt in about 2 to 4 feet of water with about 20 decoys all single rigged will there be much of a gain if I use a Texas rig, if so can anybody tell me how to make this Texas as I've not got a clue. Thanks Pat.
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    Samphire

    I eat a lot of Marsh samphire , we have a fair bit Rock Samphire here I would like to try a feed does anybody have a recipe for Rock Samphire? thanks Pat.
  4. My Cocker used to suffer very badly with nettles but grew out of it when he was 2 years old. Pat.
  5. When you stop looking at the ladys it's time to nail the lid down and dig the hole. Pat.
  6. If I was a bit younger I would transplant a few as they a fast growing and good in the wood burner every cloud has a silver lining Pat
  7. Try This Firm For your Black Powder, Peter J Starley Oak house Birmingham road Warwick CV35 7DX phone no 0845 2266005. have a look on Google. Pat
  8. I tried steel shot from my heavy breech loader the best results were with zink plated T shot 4ozs of hawkers grain BP and 14ozs of steel T shot in a plastick cup wad I tried it at a pattern board it shot a very tight pattern to tight but playing with the cup wad could help this I shot a few duck at about 45 yards they were hit with a lot of shot and i was expecting more birds so I think the pattern never opened as well as it should. the velocity dropped of rapidly over 45 yards.my problem was I can't get the velocity up useing Black powder. there is a lad up in Scotland who says he has cracked it so maybe it is posable. Pat.
  9. When I was young I played with the loads on my muzzel loaders I loaded some very big powder loads but all that did was to blow unburnt powder out out of the barrel which I think just blew the pattern. if you start at 3ozs of powder to 16ozs of shot then play with the load to fit the size of the gun. Rember to much shot is a lot worse than to little shot it's just trials untill you get it right remember when you shoot at a pattern board do'nt forget about penatration it's no good having a good pattern if you do'nt have the velocty to kill your birds. hope this helps to get you started.its good fun playing with puntgun loads and if you shoot your trials inland over non wet lands you can use lead shot loads because you do'nt want to pay for non tox for pattern board shots. Pat.
  10. The Muzzel loaders have top hat percusion caps into a priming chamber which has fine grain black powder in it which you need to measure out after trying different measures of the priming powder the chamber has an opening threaded end and I used a pricker to push into the main charge which is loaded into nitrate paper for ease of loading this makes sure that the flash reaches the main charge. if you try out different loads of priming you will see that it makes a difference at least i think it do'es. I seem to think the puntguns allways shoot harder in very cold weather, some people say they havent noticed this so maybe it's just me. Pat.
  11. I have 4 Puntguns 2 muzzel loaders and 2 breech loaders the breech loaders are 1 1/2'' and the muzzel loaders are 1 3/8''the long muzzel loader has a 9' 6'' barrel and is a very hard shooting gun,the other muzzel loader has a 8' 6''barrel and shoots well the load for both these guns is 14 ozs of shot and 2 3/4 ozs of hawkers grain black powder,1 of the breech loaders has a 9 ' barrel the gun uses 32 blanks which are loaded half full with fine grain black powder, the load for this gun is 3 3/4 ozs hawkers grain and 20 ozs of shot this gun was built by Blands and shoots shoots well. the other breech loader I had built in the 80s its barrel is 7' 10'' and the gun is 140 pounds and shoots the same load as the bland which go'es 95 pounds this is the weakest shooting gun of the lot it uses 38 blanks half loaded with black powder Ive shot a lot of birds with this gun but it no where near as hard shooting as the long muzzel loader which is recesed bored. I am sure that muzzel loaders shoot a lot harder than breech loader and the muzzel loaders are a lot lighter than the breech loaders the long gun is 78 pounds which is very near half that of the modern breech loader. thats my take on it for what it's worth. Pat.
  12. Looks like an american red oak. Pat
  13. Hi Mate where abouts in Dorset do you live. Pat
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    Pair of Oars

    Thanks for the info Nick the days of poping into Belsize boatyard are long gone you could get anything there I'll probable have to make a pair more work, i've just finished the poole canoe and am just about to start a new duckpunt for the shoulder gun a small one for me and the dog still you have to do some thing to pass the time,then it will be time to get the single punt and big guns ready for the new season. Cheers Pat.
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