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I would not go out without a dog or someone with a dog its a must for wildfowling but there again I wont even go pigeon shooting without a dog IMO they are a must for all shooting apart from clays

Not in a hide but whilst driving my boss around the shoot one sunny day inspecting the cover crops we came around the bend to discover a courting couple in a sunny glade now that was a bird in full splendor

Just use non lead they kill pheasant to

Whats wrong with pushing pheasants back from the boundries with my dogs

Any thing will go green in the heat we have had, we had our first duck and partridge day on Wednesday and sent all birds back to the chiller after every drive , just wish it had been my job it was hot out there on the stubbles.

All theses new fangled gadgets are beyond me , just cut sticks out of the hedge to prop up the heads a long bendy one pushed up through the body of the first shot pigeon and a short one to spread the wings make a bouncer or whatever you new kids call it and away you go sorted

All you can do is decide how many how many duck you want shot divide it by the number of guns and give each gun that number as a limit and hope they abide by it

Teal every time mallard are to blo***y heavy to carry off of the estuary I shoot

Just taken delivery of a pair of Jack Pyke boots they look just what I wanted till I tried them on ordered size 12 they stated size 12 did they fit did they bu*****! why do they state size 12 euro 46 when size 12 is euro 47. Any body no where I can get a proper 12 euro 47 boot from

Gamebore wetland £5.20a box 25

I will third that

Great post and it brought back many memories ,my eldest daughter started with me at that age great times, toasted sarnies on fires in the wood dens built from brush wood happy days . And guess what she is still out with me at 28years old now drives the truck, shoots better than me picks up with her lab and cooks better than I ever did

Shallow end and spread it out

Offer to sweep up the farm yard where they are unloading the corn into the siloes anything is better than nothing ,wheat ,barley,beans,rape duck will eat all of these mine even eat out of date dried dog food .

I have a 612vs scynthetic stock have had it 10yrs and would not change it, the only time it has jamed it had half the marsh in it and a load of wheat from my truck so was not surprised .£500 does sound a bit steep hagle and get a good gun

Please correct me if I am wrong but I thought it was ilegal to use a rifle without it being yours on your FAC.( apart from an Estate rifle) I have just written a letter for some one for the issue of a FAC and was very careful to state that the experience gained by the person was from obsveration and question not from useing my rifles

Wont be long before AK47s are carried by poaches in this country

Fibre wad with steel shot now where have I heard that before I wonder if any body from Gamebore reads these posts Kent this must be a kentish thing as we are both of the same opinion

I use Gambore 70mm steel through my 30year old 686 never thought about it not being proofed for steel ,have used hundreds

Gamebore have rung me back and evidently due to the thickness of the fibre cup they would only be able to get 20grm of 4 shot in it so it looks like the steel shot in a fibre cup is a dead duck

It was not the cost it was the paper work for both the shoot and the beaters and as luck would have it all most all of them shoot

As I said we did discuss this with most of our beaters and most of them felt for the£20 we used to pay they did not want the hasel of having to fill in tax return forms unless they were self employed so 2 extra days shooting seemed a good idea. We shoot 12 days and as it is all out of cover crops its easy going

Just the same as we do

We have decided not to pay our beaters & pickers up after discussions with them ,they will get a bacon roll at the start ,soup ,sausage and a pasty + a drink at lunch a brace of birds at the end of the day and another drink Oh ! and 3 days shooting beat one stand one of 100 birds. Do you think this is ok?