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Are pigeon eating it
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2 hours ago, Krico woodcock said:
Yes , tessie my Springer bitch pup (9 months old) hunting the cover, flushing the woodcock. With me trying to get photos of them, alot easier said than done. Especially when I have no experience with a camera. Yesterday was first day trying it. I got several other photos but cherry picked a few to put on here..flushed about 15/20 woodcock in about 3 hours yesterday, but I went where I thought there may be plenty of birds. Numbers were very good again this year, had a very good season. I spend all my spare time in the shooting season from mid November till end of January after woodcock..
Hmm photography harder than shooting, or just another version. Interesting, looking forward to more
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Great stuff, are you flushing for the camera? and what were the numbers like this year
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2 hours ago, old man said:
Stand by to have a new set of horizons?
Just ordered the book. looks very interesting, always pays to expand horizons..😉
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25 minutes ago, Ricko said:
I went last year, amazing, did loads even saw the lights
Ironically I've booked some flights into Agadir then out of Marrakech for Easter time
Good shout, I'll have a look at some flights
Bit far, I've only got a week
Stupid me, failed to read your post
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New zealand/australia
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27 minutes ago, old man said:
I would, not an easy read but fascinating following the evolutionary trail. I have it on kindle which is useful for most quick explanations of content.
An eye opener.
Will purchase
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I think the people make themselves heard [unlike us that bend over and take it] was just reading about farmers demonstrating outside Paris, they had blocked the road with a straw stack, then settled in with toilets a free bar and food, they are not going until their demands are met
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On 16/02/2024 at 15:28, old man said:
One to test the intellect?
"Bitch" by Lucy Cook?
May well open a few eyes?🤔 🤔
Interesting. Looked it up, would you recommend it.l🤓
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16 minutes ago, millrace said:
I think the more they throw the higher likelihood he will win i also firmly believe he would actually go to prison and still be president!...lol the establishment are petrified of him, remember its america first!, you make a dollar i make 2 but we all make money!!
I'm wondering how he will pay to be elected if his money is accounted for
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47 minutes ago, Zoli 12 guage said:
i quite like Trump because he loves and tries to do the best for his country.
i do find it quite strange and disconcerting though that whatever he's supposed to have done wrong, they've waited till the election run in to push the court cases.
strange also that the majority seem to be in NY.
on the other hand though sleepy Joe gets a free pass for having documents in his garage,that he had no business having as he was only the VP because he's a very old senile man.
unsurprisingly,all the trouble that Trump is supposedly in has been initiated by the Democrats.
GO FIGURE!
as the Yanks say🤔
Sleepy Joe ? from some out takes I've seen it's more senile Joe
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Reading the article.. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-verdict-engoron-trial-b2497805.html is it the end for the orange man ?
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8 hours ago, Scully said:
Apart from an illegitimate flirtation as a lad I wasn’t much interested in shotguns while pistols and revolvers were available. Prior to that rifles were always my passion.
Once handguns had gone however, I bought myself a very loose Winchester Lightweight 12 bore shotgun, which I used for clays. It was choked 1/4 and 1/2 and despite being a tad short in the stock I loved it.
I was (mis) informed that Beretta was the gun to own, so bought with some of my handgun compensation a 686S ( Special ) from Wilkinson’s in Barnard Castle.
It was ok, but the more I became involved with sporting clays the more I was convinced I needed a multi-choke, so bought from Fawcetts of Lancaster a Zoli ( dealership sale!) Golden Falcon rather than the new Browning 425. It wasnt a bad gun, but I soon realised my mistake, and quickly bartered this for a multi choked Browning 325 G3, and my scores increased dramatically, to the extent I won a Turkey at the local Christmas shoot!
However, although Browning ruled the day I always found myself distracted by ANY Winchester gun.
I bought ( again from Fawcetts ) a S1 Winchester Model 12 takedown, in its own leather and canvas motor case, for £350.00, which I offered, to the old boy who was giving up shooting. The gun was dated 1961 and the smell when the case was opened was just simply sublime!
He was also surrendering ( having missed the deadline ) a Webley Self-loading pistol in .455, along with a Colt New Service, again in .455. I would happily have sacrificed a leg ( or both of my OH’ s 😀) for either of them! I can’t explain how angry I was at the time!
Anyhow, the Model 12 I bought was described as a ‘Heavy Goose Gun’ , choked full, and was like waving around a drain pipe, but I killed some memorable species with it nonetheless.
I was forced to sell both in years to come for reasons I’ve mentioned elsewhere, and subsequently borrowed a gun whenever the need arose.
I hankered for another Winchester 101 however, akin to an itch I couldn’t scratch, and when funds allowed bought myself a 101 Diamond Grade, sight unseen, from Avalon Guns. It was described as a sleeper, and indeed when it arrived and I opened its immaculate Winchester logo’d case, it was. Unfortunately the highly albeit perfect varnished woodwork was orange! A proper ‘babies yellow’ orange, and while every edge was as new sharp and crisp I just couldn’t live with that colour! It was traded ( I kept the case! ) via Lakeland Guns ( before Ian bought the BIG shop! ) for another DG with stunning but secondhand wood. I shot and killed eleven consecutive bolting bunnies ( real ones ) including two left and rights, with that gun.
I used a 1300 XTR for the same purpose and genuinely claim it is the slickest pump I have ever owned.I have bought and sold many guns since then ( I listed them not too long ago and it’s over 50! ) and despite owning a Perazzi ( an old one admittedly….for which I PX’d a S1 20 bore Model 12 at Malmo Guns ! 😭😂) a Daytona ( stunning, and basically another Perazzi ) plus various obscure but desirable makes and models, Winchester has always been a constant.
I pursued a Grand European for years, and after spending a small fortune on restoring glorious woodwork, recently sold it at a loss.
I bought a Winchester 8500 trap ( as indeed they all are ) many moons ago which I still own, and having got it back from the person I rashly sold it to, have no inclination whatsoever to sell it again; it is devastating in a hide on corvids!
We used to drop in whatever guns we hoped to trade, at Lakeland Guns, before telling Ian we’d be back after breakfast ( across the road!) and on one memorable morning I bought two mint Winchesters…. a 101 Field Model and a 1500 XTR, both of which I still have. I didn’t have anything to trade, but was anxious someone else bought them before I did! 😄 I shot the most memorable bird I have ever shot with that Field Model.
I recently bought a Classic Doubles 101 Trap ( the company which tried to carry on where Olin and Kodenshi left ) and have just bought a much adored Model 12. It’s S2 but I don’t care. It’s mine and it’s where I belong.
I don’t care that these guns aren’t HP steel proofed….they're more than capable despite not having that little fluer delys stamp of approval. I don’t care that they may have tight chokes and non chrome lined barrels.
I’m a gun nut. Guns are my passion, and it would seem Winchesters in particular are very much so.
I appear to have gone full circle and I couldn’t be happier.Well that was an enjoyable read and insight into some guns I have absolutely no knowledge of. I will now have an hour or two with Google looking them up
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Do you have a wound/ulcer type of thing, that the welly rubs, or are you making catapults and have more money than sense Or you sprung a leak in your inflatable and needed a patch
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4 hours ago, old'un said:
as a “Toff” should I be thinking about selling my guns before Labour get in?
If your guns are anything like mine, [fixed choke and not steel proof] they wont be worth selling
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21 minutes ago, Scully said:
Well well well. Who’d have thought?
I’d like to think this would mean the gloves would come off, but modern day Russia as a Kremlin critic is an increasingly dangerous place to live, so probably not. Crying shame.Another added to a long list.....When will the people revolt ?
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2 hours ago, Charliedog said:
Think you are better off buying mid range (tefal type £30) and change more regularly, they all deteriorate, you cant beat a new one.
Agree, My go to shop for cooking stuff is Ikea and i still have pans in use after a decade of commercial cooking
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12 minutes ago, snarepeg said:
No thanks.
lead only, powder, wads erc but thanks.
I hear you, finding components for non toxic is a swine (other than bismuth) clay n game have options for lead
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2 minutes ago, jasper682 said:
Some of their work on blaser f3.
As others have said. I find it a bit garish
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3 minutes ago, enfieldspares said:
Here in the UK the 16 gauge ones that you see most often are the 2 9/16th inch chambered ones. Which have the fixed ejector on the back of the barrel. In theory they are the ones to have here and use standard 2 1/2" 16 gaune loads. But, of course, the 2 3/4" chambered guns which have a rearward moving ejector on the back of the barrel will handle BOTH 65mm and 70mm cases.
Thanks for the info, will keep an eye out for the 23/4 this summer
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Bismuth?
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21 hours ago, enfieldspares said:
I don't know in truth. I have a standard stocked A-5 of about the same time and a standard stocked 16 gauge A-5 of about the same time. I am very happy to say that the 16 gauge is a proper, as made 2 3/4" model both barrel and receiver. The three are basically steel shot back up guns. I'll post pictures of them perhaps tomorrow. And, yes, on the gun in the picture it is a correct vent rib barrel.
I like the 16g, and keep looking
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