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We seem to believe what we want to believe without often knowing the true facts , I watched all Jack Charltons ( Jacks Game ) at the time and I was more interested in the program that was being televised than I was of Jack Charlton , he came across alright at the time and we didn't know all the ins and outs , you could say the same with the likes of people like Kenzie Thorpe , very rarely would you hear a bad word about ( The Wild Goose Man ) but when you hear from other fowlers at the time they never had a good word to say about the man , I remember taking a fishing party out to sea who were from the Lincolnshire area and they done a fair bit of fowling as well as sea fishing , the subject got around to wildfowling and when you mentioned Kenzie Thorpe it was like waving a Red flag in front of a Bull , how they sounded they would have sooner shot him at dawn rather than a goose . MM
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I saw him at one of the C L A Game Fairs many years ago on the Eley stand , the ole boy was well over weight and very abrupt , not the most friendly person you will come across , we were only interested in getting a free diary from Eley , mind you they were already seven months old time you got them so with them being free you couldn't really complain
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Beating wanted East Midlands
marsh man replied to AlfieH's topic in Shooting/Ferreting/Beating Wanted
Ring up your local shoots ( if you know of any ) and if you can go weekdays then you have an advantage , your local estates will no doubt run a shoot so give the estate office a call and tell them what you would like to do this coming shooting season , they will get in touch with the head keeper or give you his telephone number , it shouldn't be to difficult but you will have to do some leg work and make a start at the nearest ones and then work your way out further afield . GOOD LUCK MM -
Three Pigeon Shooting Collectors Books REDUCED
marsh man replied to marsh man's topic in Other Sales
REDUCED £15.00 Collected , £19.00 POSTED -
Times have certainly moved on , we had several game dealers and butchers who were crying out for all sort of game and none of them would have asked where they came from , I well remember a tenant farmer where I worked shot some Hares that were eating his Spring barley and asked me if I wanted them , as I was going to take some Pigeons up the game dealers i said yes I will gladly take them off your hands , I took my Pigeons up to Frost Game in Brockdish and I didn't know at the time you were not allowed to sell Hares from the 1st of March , he bought the Pigeons and when I got the half a dozen Hares out of my motor he said he was not allowed to buy them , as I went up to his a lot he said , to help me out he would take them and pay me later in the Summer when it was legal to sell them , he kept to his word and paid me when the time was right , I also know at one time he was paying £5.00 for large Hares and that would have been at least 40 years ago , sadly like many of the Norfolk game dealers they have all packed up and are no longer trading , as far as I know we have only got one dealer that serve the whole of the county , times have certainly changed . MM
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Just looked it up from Harveys the game dealers , you cannot sell Hares from the March 1st to July 31st .
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Hares normally make good money at the game dealers but I don't think you can sell them after a certain date in March , might be changed now but that was how it once was .
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Three pigeon shooting books , all in very good condition and from a smoke free home . Pigeon Shooting by Archie Coats , This is a first addition and published in 1963 Shooting Woodpigeon by A E B Johnson , This is a second revised addition and was published in 1980 The Pigeon Shooter by John Batley , This is also a first edition and was published in 1996 REDUCED to £15.00 Collected , or £19.00.00 Posted ( these will be boxed up for safe delivery )
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I must add that me and Simon ( ditchman ) are both widowed and get a 25% discount on the council tax , before my discount it would have been £1710.69 , which would be very close to your's if you were not getting any discount , although you are virtually right with the value of the two houses in comparison . MM
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Slightly better here , just outside of Yarmouth in a nice quite area , in band b it is £1283.02 , I don't know where they got the 02p from
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Is it where the Bubble and Squeak got it saying from I G ? , never heard any of my veg making a noise in the steamer , but then again , my ole hearing isn't that sharp . MM
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I know exactly what you mean , I went roost shooting the four Saturday afternoons in February , I say went because that is about all I done ( went ) , after a good walk round to have a yarn with anyone else who was nearby I would give it a hour or so and if things were quite then my warm house was more appealing than the cold wood I was in , a sure sign that old age have arrived
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Well done Ben , moving that lot a fair distance would had took some doing and it was a good job the ground have now dried out a bit for you to drive down the tramlines , we have had a cold Easterly wind for most of last week and although fairly cold it have dried out a lot of the wet fields , thankfully the sprayer can now get on with some work and some drilling should be done next week , again weather permitting .
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An excellent bag BB , not for the faint hearted if you had to lug that lot off a wet ole field and did the quad bike come into play , some of the rape around these parts are now coming into flower and at long last the tractors are now getting back on the fields . MM
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Warning, if it can happen, it WILL happen!
marsh man replied to kitchrat's topic in Pigeon Decoying Equipment
Yea no problem , the A + E told me just keep taking the pills and add plenty of fibre to your meals -
Warning, if it can happen, it WILL happen!
marsh man replied to kitchrat's topic in Pigeon Decoying Equipment
These things happen from time to time Chris , slight dip in concentration I got a funny smell in my other motor when I put the metal dogs bowel in the back of the motor and it just so happened to land on top the battery terminals , needless to say a lot of smell and a scorch mark on the bowel but no harm done . MM -
37 is a good bag at anytime of the year and to get that amount flighting on a cold blustery day in early March is a excellent bag and well deserved , your buddy sound a bit like me nowadays , going home early because it was so cold , can't say I blame him P S Nice set of photos T C .
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Nice report and a fine set of photos T C , that ground look really heavy , a bit like the Lincolnshire soil , although you were playing at home today and not away , I hope your standard is a bit better than one in four
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Good God , Really sorry to hear about the damage you done to your back while lifting the heavy furniture and your bad news from the doctor , with being more or less the same age as you ,my days of lifting anything heavier than a bag of dogs food is way past me as I took early retirement through wear and tear on my back . Hopefully you will get well enough before to long to be able to mix with some of your fellow clay shooting friends and possibly have a few shots , Thanks for your replies and all the best for the future . MM
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They are reputed to nest and lay eggs all the year round but with a cold Winter it would be unlikely they can bring off any young with very little food for the young to be worth eating , nowadays we see Daffs out just after Christmas , more rare birds coming to our shores than ever and we have just had the mildest and wettest Februarys on record so although unusual to see young Pigeons at this time of the year it could be something we will see a lot more often than we had seen in the past . MM
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THANKS for the update , the grounds brought back a lot of happy memories , we lived close by and was well within biking distance , we were nowhere good enough to enter and if we were we couldn't afford it anyhow , Richardsons of Halesworth who provided the cartridges and clays would often bring us a slab of there ( Style ) cartridges in there dads White sports car at a discount price and we didn't know it at the time we were watching some of the best clay shots in the UK . Happy days. I also didn't know at the time that my last 29 years of my working life would be working for the estate that had the gun club and one of my last jobs before I retired was to take down the old club house and the high tower which was a scaffold tower , we didn't fancy climbing to the top as all the poles were rusty so we got a local scaffolding company to take it down and all the poles went to the scrapyard , our old boss donated the site to the Broads Authority and is now a nice walk around the woods used by dog walkers and the times when the UK top shots used the place is now sadly in the history books . MM
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No foreplay T C , straight into the kill , if only the op was closer