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I caution my guns and beaters every week when its like this A few years ago the lake we have had frozen over - One of our guns sent his dog to retrieve a pheasant much to many protesting. As the dog got to the bird the ice broke and the dog fell in and could not get out - The gun jumped in and started to smash the ice and try to get to the dog - just before he reached the dog it jumped out of the ice and came to land - A couple of us by now had some barrels / feeders and threw these to the chap and he got out. Thank God - all he suffered was cut arms from the ice and mild hypothermia - but it could have been disaster -This happened perhaps 20 years ago and we talk about it so much it seems like yesterday.

Thats the mega thing about themal and night vision - you really do see the unseen ! Take care lads and have a good day

Yes im out quite a bit and love seeing the stuff i am looking after Ditchy I wish i could be out with Simon sometimes - but we all have our own little piece of England and make the most of it !

Bloody brilliant ! Keeps you out of mischief ! Regards

Thats a shame - you could keep the locations secret - i suppose its time too Simon Anyway you are doing a great job and inspiring others to get out and do the same - Not killing for killings sake but targeted effective control We have been doing the same on ours and coupled with habitat management and supplementary feeding the results have been nothing short of astounding

Good on you In the spring you could show the curlew and plover nesting - pairing up perhaps

Good numbers in the woods - nothing at all - not a bird on the crops yet Still so many acorns ! and 120 shoot feeders and 35 perdex type farmland bird feeders - why leave the woods ! ha

1 Sunday vixen 1 tonight dog Both with the mighty 270 and the thermion The dog tonight is the biggest fox i have ever shot Total 7

2 in trap today 1 with rifle Total 32

Still hundreds in the oak woods round us - a few in the game crops eating the birds seeds - but nothing on any of my farm perms

Get posting on his facebook and instagram sites and tell him its the criminals that are the issue

Done - well flagged up If you are a member please could you also post on SD ? Regards

Lol ! Also if i order a chinese or a curry - whatever it is - at all - i mix it all together YUM !

Spaghetti hoops - fishfingers - chips and gravy Mega

Oh my ! You must live on planet Zogg Watch it again bud

Thats nice Walker We have thousands and thousands this year - the holly / hawthorn and rowan are really doing their jobs

Been up and fed the little birds on our tracks today and while i was waiting for a meeting i sat watching them feed - literally hundreds and hundreds of finches/yellow hammers/ sparrows / tits / finches - really really really chuffed !

It was ok - but really missed the main points - If they came to our little shoot we would blow that rewilding project out of the water for biodiversity Also bit of an own goal not eating pheasant on the shoot day ! I thought anyway

Add them on the as you go pal Total now 29 with Shadowchasers

Great - be interesting to watch

Nice write up I love shooting them !

Great video - you really are fast with the shot !

Yes this is so true - thermal really does help you see the unseen

I agree - our little shoot 300 acres has create cover and we see a few dozen a season in the midlands - we put down a couple of thousand birds I used to shoot in Lincolnshire on a big estate and one wood they had called the Block was absolutely teaming with pheasants ... and woodcock. I have also seen the same on some of the big shoots in Scotland

RIP