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Yes it is

Mmmmmm Thats what i use Maybe need to practice more

Yours is so clear - mine is great in the open but i struggle to spot them on the log piles etc I wonder what im not doing right

Good man hahahah All the best too you too Sir

Lol ! Thought i had deleted it before it may offend !

If we all ate vegan - simply where would we get the fertiliser from ? More chemicals - more costs - more destruction ? We dont just need trees for the sake of trees - we need hedges / ponds / ditches and banks - meadows and scrub - Thats the answer to the biodiversity crisis.

Thank you

Read on - "or dont like the decoys i present" I have no skin in the game but honestly these things seem to work better than the dead birds - i took dead birds to us after my first success and the draw was nothing like these

Put bait (food) in the ladder traps - not been using decoy birds this summer as its been too hot Yes i maybe thought that and i have also put a baseball cap on this year to shade my face I thought it may be daft young ones because it seems to have been a good breeding season for everything up here but no some are older birds I have had them come from far ends of the field spot the deeks and in - no looking or messing - just in ! Most odd but i hope it continues !

Guys I really love just about all of nature but really cant get on with crows and the damage they do - so i always make a real effort to get on top of them - usually with limited success because they always seem to outsmart me ! We trap - roost shoot - flight line shoot and bait them but still the numbers never seem to reduce. Usually when i decoy them they spot me a mile off or dont like the decoy offerings and rarely present a shot - THEN i bought some flocked decoys from someone on here and WOW - they are switched onto them big style ! I know some might say its right area right time - but over the course of maybe 10 days out they are being pulled in on each occasion and even try and land. To shoot one while pigeoning was always a topic of conversation but im shooting 10s and 15s on each outing. So - i recommend the flocked decoys ! And i have put this in the wrong section ! DOH !

Just put solar panels on every new build from now on - house factory shop whatever

Like so much of the green revolution - utter rubbish

I honestly dont know why people - especially mods get so hung up over this If someone posts in the wrong section - well they wont get the replies they want or expect - whats the problem ?

Superb thread

To be honest Harry we stopped on welfare grounds really when the weather got so hot It was bad for the call birds and the bait was going off so fast too In the summer we also have a fair number of people about I also find once harvest has been its perhaps easier to decoy or flightline shoot

RIP

Keep us all us to speed please - i have closed mine for the season but can soon reset if you start catching

I think more important than any hide is to cover your skin or shine - wear a baseball cap or something similar and peer through any hide Game on

Not sure - not really keen to be honest Just more ammunition for the antis really Fair enough i have never and will never shoot one but if every animal legged it like that i dont think i would do it

It does not seem to be hard for them to get in the smaller spaces as they just close their wings us Harry

You defo dont really want them getting out once they have been in - they become educated

No probs - thats good No just peg it down

Looks good that - we made ours - or someone made it lol - in sections and we cable tie it together so it can be moved Be careful its out of sight as we had a few traps smashed this year

A lad that worked for me in the motor trade did it - im normally pretty easy going but when he did it i went mad and had a right go at him The very next day i was in a brand new demonstrator - it had no fuel in it - yep you got it - i did the exact same thing - i think i got to about 75 quid and then realised my error ! Much fun and laughter at work that day as i got the truck out to collect me and the car and drain it all out !