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2 hours ago, London Best said:
Sorry pal, but in the 4x4 world £3k is virtually a scrapper.
You get what you pay for.I remember some individual saying the same sort of thing when i was after a decent 26 foot yacht a few years back. I bought a hunter Horizon for 3k from kip marina had it shipped over to Dysart in Fife and i flogged it for 6.5k to a lad in Tayport 6 months later .Im quite sure something will turn up that ticks the boxes .
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as per title . Nothing rough. Maybe a rav4 or vitara. anyways let me know if you have a good 4x4 car you are flogging price range max 3k
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I have a few loads but a few more with "modern components" is whats needed. I still hanker round nobel 82 and blue dot as thats what i grew up using --and using very well. But if folks have some 42g or even 36g loads using alternative powders and wads i can put through my Greener Empire id be pleased. I prefer RTO btw.I done a few loads a couple of seasons back and they replicated loads id used back in the 80's but then started with the 20 bore and TSS so never got round to using them on the shore.RTO rounds feel so much better through a traditional double.
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As per title .I have a few loads but a few more with "modern components" is whats needed. I still hanker round nobel 82 and blue dot as thats what i grew up using --and using very well. But if folks have some 42g or even 36g loads using alternative powders and wads i can put through my Greener Empire id be pleased. I prefer RTO btw.I done a few loads a couple of seasons back and they replicated loads id used back in the 80's but then started with the 20 bore and TSS so never got round to using them on the shore.
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sold?
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The million dollar question .why you selling???
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8 hours ago, dogger said:
Didnt know he had a site? only ever phoned him👍
Last time we spoke he said he wasnt flogging guns anymore so im guessing the site has been largely disused.
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On 27/01/2024 at 13:02, islandgun said:
Thats great, he is looking over a gun [or two] for me in a few weeks
Aye he knows his stuff. Hes one of these blokes you just know if it can be fixed it will be the moment you hand it over.Had a 10 bore AYA a few years back and was told by another gunsmith that the stock could never be fitted back on the action again as the wood had been washed and swollen etc etc etc. Long story short--after months with this other fella wasting my time charlie had it back on the gun in a matter of days.Nuff said
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22 minutes ago, Bigbob said:
Doggers looking for somebody to look at a air rifle Prefer Fife i had the number for a John on the road to Dundee anybody know if he's still going ?, or another one ?.
Try Charlie Geddes over at Newport. Hes done sterling work on my guns over the decades
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Im with Agria. Have a wee fox red bitch now to train on with my old black lab who is with Agria. Now ive not checked yet as ive been given 4 free weeks with agria for the pup after registering her with kennel club in my name , as per usual, but before i push for concessions with Agria on my existing policy --anyone get special deals with their provider for having more than one hound to insure??
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11 hours ago, ditchman said:
have you ever tried feeding him Chappie...........?.....its good stuff for out of sorts dogs.....thats why most vets stock it
worth bearing in mind some dogs can be maize sensertive
Aye we are going to be doing a change of food completely . the mrs has had him that chubb with his kibble for donkeys.
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He is ok thanks m8. it lasted a week.Got to have been the meat.His guts still gurgles now and again like he has issues so we got him on these pills with the "good bacteria".They seem to help a lot.
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Might have been Ray then.Trying to recall images from more than 40 years ago. Old **** -itus!
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2 hours ago, edenman said:
No it was with my first ever gun. A Lanber with 2 3/4” chambers and 36grams of lead shot 3s.
Your uncle used a Lanber o/u at one point
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be good for the venison
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49 minutes ago, 8 shot said:
I see today that the BASC has launched it "Competent Deer Stalker" list ££££££££££££ compulsory testing for all who want to own a Firearms in the next year two. There will be no recreational shooter in less than five years. They are single-handedly burying all shooting.
Im not surprised at anything that is legislated for anymore with regards to fieldsports.
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I decided a new years eve foray was worth a shot given the weather had ,albeit temporarily ,reverted to cold and calm. Making my way along the long field bordering the forestry edge mid afternoon bathed in lovely winters sunlight ,ice puddles still crackling under foot i managed to spook a couple of roe grazing in the felled timber belt but of course not being daft they vanished quickly ,their white backsides darting left and right into the deeper forest and that was that. Pity ,i thought, as it may prove to be the case that my sitty spot a hundred yards further up the wood edge may now be a waste of time yet again after the last few trips here gave me nothing but sore legs and strained eyes ,in fact nothing but gales and rain. Sat on a little chubby and surprisingly comfortable log ,tripod on its lowest setting, i waited until the sun went round some more. Wood Pigeons began gliding in around the firs in good numbers their concerted wings clapping in panic every once in a while suggesting that i was not alone, there was most likely a roe or two still in the area. i waited a few minutes listening to the occasional pigeon dropping in before concluding i had , perhaps, been too optimistic and decided to glass ,one last time ,across the felled timbers towards the forestry belt .A doe! Grazing happily , unaware of my presence, a good 150 yards off and right by the edging line of standing timber. i try to avoid a shot like this in case the beast manages to run into the wood in the low light .It would mean a search after dark .With no dog and it being new years eve i felt reluctant to take the shot as it would mean no new years snifters for me and a trip back out on the 1st to search the area. She grazed some more ,changing position going this way and that, but always meandering to the left and offering occasional broadside shots so i decided to go for it if this continued to happen. ,i took the chance of raising each tripod leg one by one until i could stand up enabling me to see over the clear felled brush and there she was still feeding !. My lens continually fogging up i had to wipe it more than once. She moved to the left one more time along a furrow with a good solid backstop and then stopped ,frozen, for a few seconds , broadside on, offering a perfect shot .Now or not at all. i took the shot .The smoke from the round made visibility dire for a few seconds due to the creeping mist and icy dampness in the air. I could see nothing and i heard nothing .Smoke had curled out of the moderator ,like an exhaling pipe smoker and had visually obscured everything just after the shot had been taken. After a good 5 minute search of the wood edge, perhaps 10 feet in where i assumed she had made a run ,i concluded she was in deeper and i would indeed have to return the following day. nightmare! I walked out of the standing firs and wandered over to the forked tree i knew she had passed seconds before i had taken the shot and there she was. She had dropped on the spot like a sack of wheat. My assumption of her running a few meters was way off the mark. Goes to show, trust your gun and above all else--trust yourself! I dragged the carcass off the felled scrub and sat back for a few moments whilst the pigeons clattered about in protest. Not a bad result. You gotta love a nice Steyr .243 with a habicht 6x42. No need for anything bigger for me personally.
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Its been horrible here this last few weeks . nothing but the preverbial wind and ****. They are ,i suspect, deep in the forestry where i cannot go so until these stormy conditions abate im scuppered.
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was on it for a good long while along with others now on facebook. good solid discussions regarding fowling and its future
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As per title waddya got????
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Anyone else noticing that the deer seem to be bedded down in the depths of woodland for what seems an eternity now with little movement anyplace that relentless wind is blowing.I see a decent window boxing day i may exploit if im allowed out
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Many years back now, 1996 i think ,myself and a good friend were fowling under a winters moon on a shoreline in Fife. Bitter cold and deep snow.We peeked over the sea wall for the duck coming in on the tide -this was about 1am .I turned to my right and over on the golfing green i viewed what we assumed initially to be a greyhound( i thought poachers after hares as they have done this before). due to its long droopy tail and being tall to the shoulder until it turned about a bit to afford us another view . It was a large sandy colored cat. Not really fussed about the ladies here that scoff about such things. We saw what we saw. we retreated back over the fields to the car quite blunty a bit nervous. Should have pulled the trigger?? I think not. Besides a dose of #4 would have just ****** it off most likely at 40 yards After much debate we decided rather than waste the night we would go back over for the tide dropping .So off we went back over to the sea wall. It was in at 1 high at 3 and out 5am so this was probably 3 hours later More or less same spot but it was still there. It took a leap across the high scrub onto the golf green in complete silence and was gone into the moonlight .Now that not it all. We shot another farm back then in the area not 2 miles away .The newspapers were full of the farmers encounter with a big cat same time as we saw ours---but the one he saw from his jeep on the farm was Black! not sandy coloured. So figure that one out. We checked his fields after we had read the newspaper article and came across plenty tracks at the time in the snow but being younger and foolish we did not take any casts. Point is this was 2 sightings not 2 miles apart on the same night but not the same cats. I Dont speak of it much, no point . muppets abound and i have better things to do that debate what we saw with idiots.I did advise a guy that collates data some years later though.I dont have answers just a story of what we saw.