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  1. Ace shooting - almost as good as being out there myself!Those Gopro pictures are pretty clear & well edited.It's good when you get an opportunity like that where you don't have to lug 60lbs of gear about to get some good sport. 15 acres of natural hide.Thanks for posting.
  2. Just seen this.... I always look forward to your posts as they are usually quality! Stunning.
  3. Fantastic video....two guns in the same zone so not as dangerous as you might think, I want Rudi!Tthat dog was enjoying itself as much as you two and must have been watching all the action intently from his little 'camp' outside the hide.I love it! More of the same please.
  4. Some good action there- how on earth can you shoot so well from the bottom of a ditch? Would a hide on the edge of the field have spooked the birds? Watching that makes me itch to get out there again;A real pleasure to watch-thanks. Oh & how your dog enjoyed the day.I swear I saw him smiling a couple of times.
  5. With very little success over the winter rape in Herefordshire during Dec & Jan ,to the point where I packed up sticks after an hour or so with two or three birds in the bag, they suddenly started to decoy from the middle of Feb onwards & I've had half a dozen sessions where the bag has been in the 50's &60's.It's strange how they suddenly 'Switch on'.The birds have been about in large flocks all the time and the birds I've shot have all been in good condition;My weak theory is that the rate at which they lose body fat/condition in the winter depends on the ambient temperatures,and that it's only when their condition gets marginal that they spend more time on the ground feeding than in the trees.The need to put on body fat for breeding may also play a role?Prolonged mild winter weather would then allow them to survive for longer without intensive feeding & when they do get onto the rape it has poor nutritional value & they have to do catchup? I'lll get my coat. This clip was in early March I think -of course not expecting much my battery was not fully charged & soon ran out.I think I picked up 44?
  6. There is little medical evidence of links between lead shot& lead poisoning in children (who are at the highest risk).There have been a couple of cases in Australia & South America of children being investigated for toxicity following behavioural changes(including hyperactivity),& after blood levels of lead had been shown to be very high they have been X-rayed & lead shot being found lodged in their appendix region;The Australian case was a child from a 'hunting' family that regularly ate shot ducks/geese & the initial conclusion was that he had ingested the lead from eating the shot waterfowl. The boy later revealed that he had eaten the shot (with his brother) as a 'game'. Although there are thousands of deaths annually in children from lead poisoning (especially in the Asian subcontinent), lead shot does not feature in these cases;Lead fuel emissions, industrial lead dust (including lead paints) are inhaled in toxic quantities & lead water pipes & lead solders account for a lot of the ingested lead. This article urging a ban on lead shot has very little scientific backing on the human side,circumstantial evidence is weak & there just has not been enough scientific research to evaluate any risk.However some valid work has been done on the waterfowl/raptor link with lead shot but the conclusions drawn by some people in positions of authority have again been based on circumstantial evidence. There is little point in argueing that there are much worse sources of toxic substances in the environment, the point is to argue against the weaknesses in their article which seems to be based on speculation & mixed circumstantial evidence. Unfortunately ,as the philosopher Thoreau once said..'some circumstantial evidence can be very compelling, as when you find a trout in the milk'. If we sit on our ***** waiting to see what happens -it may just happen?
  7. We may have to wait a bit Stuy? I'm from a bit further up in Herefordshire & doing the 'road trip' yesterday I found the same thing _ small pockets of birds in the trees & woods.After the usual 70-80 miles on a Sat morning & getting twitchy as the clock ticked on towards2pm. I decided to set up in a line of oak trees,flighting them without any decoys.The rain had stopped (pretty much) by then but so had the wind; Good fun with high ,spooky birds after the first barrage. I think that kind of shooting can be as much fun as dragging all that kit over sticky ground & finding you need to move after an hour;We may be waiting until late December before they clear all the acorns ,hawberries & beech mast in Hereford? As for kneeling down to shoot -forget it!The search party would find me 2 days later still on my knees. How does PC do it week in & week out. I nearly crash my car every Sat driving around looking for flightlines .If I see three birds together I veer into the verge watching & usually ,after waiting & watching that's all there are.The only decent flightlines I see are when doing a long haul on the motorway!
  8. Editing & uploading can be a bit of a chore but I can safely say we all enjoy watching the results.Well organised set up & some experience showing in the timing of the shooting;I suspect I'm not the only jealous one watching_ still only a few more weeks & we shall all have opportunities on the stubbles. As pigeon shooters we all spend our time in the hide 'scanning' the horizons & with a head mounted camera one has to train oneself to scan quite slowly after a shot to capture the falling bird(s).This is a skill I'm still working on but perhaps to get it right you need to film or shoot? Great video -thanks.
  9. Lovely picture _& you caught him just after he'd had his ears permed.
  10. Excellent raid on the woodies Stevo. Always a pleasure. (You do realise you are probably delusional if you think you've got away with this one?In my experience Mrs. PBUTD can read small changes in my body language when I've shot a nifty 31 on the sly. You won't be safe for weeks )
  11. Two things JDog; We all know that moving house is the second most stressful event that can happen to one & it has no doubt had the temporary effect of scrambling your thought processes over the moving period.Secondly you have got to burn that hat-I have always viewed that headpiece with great suspicion,there's far too much space between skull & fabric &it's unnatural.Scrambled thoughts are obviously escaping into dead space inside that hat ,only to be lost thereby causing you to forget essential pigeon shooting data.Replace it with a tight fitting beanie & things will improve.Alternatively write a check list & store it in the spare space in your more roomy hat.( By the way 15 cartridges gleaned from one's car/under seats etc.. is quite frightening.I think most of us shooters would find a similar number when having a clear out.)
  12. Blue must have had the 'fullest' life of any spaniel around ! He was out there with you guys day in ,day out & in all the pictures you've posted over the years he has always had a happy expression on his face-'where's the next one dad'.Very young to lose a dog but he didn't seem to suffer-just went in his sleep?Cherish those memories DB -that's all you can do.
  13. Set up on block of rape on farm surrounded by drilled spring barley.Dried up late morning but did not really have time to move onto drillings.https://youtu.be/tilFnS-0VzAMay have done better on the drilled fields??
  14. When you get a day off you want to make the most of it! Set off early for a 2 hour drive south to a friend's farm ;He'd been drilling spring barley for the last 2 weeks & their ground is particularly flinty which usually results in a lot of grain flicked onto the surface.On the blower he'd said there were quite a few flitting about over the last few days,although he's getting so deaf now that he could have been talking about something quite different? Arrived 8'ish & had a cup of tea with JC who then took me around the farm on his mule.Froze to death as no windscreen & there was a biting northerly wind.There were 40-50 on most of the drilled fields & so we stopped to glass the horizons to see if we could work out any decent flightlines?As we watched a gas gun went off 3 times on a neighbouring farm & 2-300 bids got off JC's rape hidden behind 3 strips of woodland.During the next 15 mins there was a steady influx of birds back onto the rape & to the adjacent trees.JC dropped me back at my truck as he couldn't join me before lunchtime & I made an executive decision to set up on the rape rather than any of the drilled fields. Set up with breeze to my back & sun straight across my front, so I put the whirly well off to RHS & a line of birds on cradles across the front.By 10 it had clouded over & the sun no longer a problem but as you will see on the video on sister site I had to clear a killing zone out in front as they were starting to skirt the pattern well out in front by mid morning. JC returned about 1ish & said he had put off 7-800 from one drilled field!Had to pack up at 3pm to get back home to take Mrs. PBUTD to after-wedding do, so had no time to move & set up on drillings.Never know if I made the wrong decision?
  15. Unlikely to be avian tuberculosis as this has a slow onset & results in an emaciated carcase-in other words the breasts would look thin & fibrous, and yours look plump & juicy (if you don't mind me saying so).The white liver lesions are also thick & bulbous ('caseous'). This looks more like the visceral (gut/liver) form of 'canker' or trichomoniasis which more normally affects their mouth/throat.Trichomonas is unlikely to be present in the muscle/meat & would not affect you;Although I understand you have already eaten the breasts- as you have not posted for a couple of days I could be wrong!
  16. Proportions,head shape & skeleton all point to a dog?
  17. You did the best you could in the circumstances by the sound of it! Glad to see someone else taking their terrier out into the hide- my old Border used to bury everything the Lab retrieved;My current beast-from-hell tries to bite the current Lab's legs to stop her re-entering the hide.Always good company.
  18. You chivvied them up again there Stevo! Looked very exposed there- I hope the Farmers appreciate you.Good quality vid & shooting as usual.
  19. https://youtu.be/g71WEkTLPjI My feeble attempts at transferring this video from another site reflect my shooting on a windy day;It's at times like this that you need your children looking over your shoulder saying..'like this Dad' & it's magically done on screen!
  20. file:///C:/Users/Practice/Pictures/roosting%20pitt.mp4
  21. ..a good quartering wind & birds following the lea of two woodland strips.An enjoyable session although my Lab was 'off sick' that week & I had to do all my own retrieving!60-70 odd for the afternoon but had to get off early to go & watch The Saints getting beaten by Liverpool,(wish I'd stayed shooting really). https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=g71WEkTLPjI
  22. We've all been there & as others have said you have a very honest streak.Remember electricity pylons are generally only 30-35 metres high & most tall poplars would be around 25-30 metres up;Their sparseness can create an optical illusion making the birds look impossibly high.The result can mean you change your technique fractionally (poke in front & stop your swing/subconciously add on a bit of lead with the same effect).Try not to shoot these higher birds any differently but do be concious of maintaining that swing. When this happens to me (every time I shoot at higher birds),I try to keep the gun in my shoulder after the shot & keep swinging for a second or so no longer watching the bird.Sometimes it works.
  23. Steve 1406, a dog to be proud of. The camera produces a clear picture with fantastic depth of focus. All of these little cameras are great in open,constant light conditions but the test is when you scan from bright to duller light (as in a hide under some overhanging branches),when there seems to be a lag of out of focus 'pixels' as the camera adjusts?Be interesting to hear how yours operates in variable light conditions?Still won't alter the fact that she's a wonderful dog!
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