Longstrider

Not tried the copper jobs yet as I am well stocked with the 2 types of bullet I load up. Good to know they are doing the job well. What's the meat damage like with them though ? I load 110grain ballistic tips for the .270 and soon found that they are superb for Charlie but too 'dramatic' for deer that you want to eat. They must damned near explode on impact .. to the point where a CWD hit just behind the shoulder with one will be good for 'back end' meat but nothing else. The entry was clean enough, but he other side had a hole I could have fit my (size 12) boot in.

I load 130 grain Speer soft points over 55 grains of Ramshot Hunter. They leave at a little over 3000fps and I'm yet to have anything walk away from the spot I shot it on. Using a .270 without a moderator is a bit of a fools game, but with a good can on the end it becomes a very effective tool against anything the UK has to offer in the way of quarry. Zeroed at 100yds I give nearly an inch of elevation at 150yds, and 3" at 200. At 250yds it needs 6" and 300 it needs 11". As by far the majority of my deer are taken at sub-200yds it's a simple job to 'give it a bit' if it's over my zero range. Deer tend to drop on the spot and Charlie doesn't like it one little bit Think "Skin 'n' soup".

No back rest planned, but knowing his ingenuity I don't think it wouldn't take a lot of persuading to get on the job.

I've ben using the Jack Pyke extra tall bucket for years. Being 6'5" with a bad back it's only just high enough for me to use for any length of time but it's an excellent bit of kit for the money. Hide nets, bit's-n-bobs and a butty or two go in no problem. A good mate who is even taller than me is currently looking to make a aluminium extension to put them on so they'll be 5 or 6 inches taller with very little additional weight.

Love it !

So what's the Welsh for "Miserable twit with no sense of humour and nothing better to do than complain about it when others have a harmless giggle." then ?

If we are talking shotgun cartridges, then it would be a few slabs of 50gr BB in 3" for the semi auto to work through. Not much going to put up an argument after one or two of those I'm sure. If it's ammo in general (in order to survive), then definitely go along with the 'lots of bricks of .22 LR'. Might not be a zombie stopper but I now I'd feed well, and a 25rnd mag full from the 10/22 would be sufficient to make even the most vicious zombie decide that there were easier folks to deal with

Years ago when I was a bailiff for the local angling club there were a family of weasels that lived in a hole beside the concrete edge of a weir on the river. It was wonderful to sit there fishing and watching the young weasels dancing and play-fighting. The adults were no fools though, and soon cottoned on to the fact that anglers often had food. They wouldn't come very close no matter how still you were, but they would happily accept tit-bits thrown close enough to them. Ham from a sandwich or a bit of cold sausage was pounced on like food was going out of fashion ! Out rabbiting once, I scanned a field of mown grass one afternoon and saw a rabbit some 200yds away bobbing towards me in a really peculiar way. Looking through the scope I could see it was on it's side ... A minute or so later I could see the stoat that was propelling it. The bunny must have weighed 5 or 6 times as much as the stoat, but that little creature dragged it the whole length of the field and into a timber stack off to my left without giving me a second look as it passed not 20 feet in front of me. Tenacious little perishers they are, and wonderful to see.

This sort of carp happens everyday somewhere or other in this fine country of ours. If not always, very nearly so, caused by someone of sub-standard intellect being given an iota of 'power' by similarly feeble minded zealots. I'd love to see the guys dedication inscription replaced, by 'persons unknown' in a decent font and done neatly with a permanent marker. That way when the petty minded moron from the local council starts to whinge about it he can honestly state that it is graffiti

I'd use JB Weld. Put a little on each surface and push well together. TIP ... Have some acetone (nail polish remover) to hand and wipe excess resin off with that on a cotton bud or tissue as soon as you can. White spirit etc won't touch the stuff, but acetone will leave the surfaces clean and ready to take the top-finish.

I usually bottle up some home-made sloe gin for them. Extra special as it's their sloes I make it with

S+B catridges and Baikals were collectively known as "****-n-Booms" around my way when I was a lad. You could guarantee a **** and a BOOM in every box ! The censor got me .. 'an expulsion of nether-end gasses' should get by

Rio Royals are, as you've found, very hard hitting and are superb for higher birds. My local dealer was selling a load off cheap a couple of years ago and I used them on rooks for a while with devastating effect. Pigeons centre-pattern at anything less than 30yds were hardly worth picking up though they were so shredded.

Tracer lamps take a lot of beating IMO. Been using them for many years and never had a problem. Currently using this version for Charlie on the .204.... https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/312763714602?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&itemid=312763714602&targetid=594043300030&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=1006837&poi=&campaignid=6466412158&mkgroupid=83097927531&rlsatarget=pla-594043300030&abcId=1140486&merchantid=6995734&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8arzqK_Q5QIVCbDtCh24lAAXEAQYBSABEgL3zvD_BwE .. but still use the F400 I used to use on the rifle, but as a hand held torch for spotting and avoiding bunny holes and brambles in the dark.

Spring on mine died about a year ago. Took the whole thing off (pin, spring and button) and have been using it ever since like that.

From my own experience I'd say that FAC isn't worth doing. If 12tf/lbs isn't enough for the job in hand grab a .22 rimfire and do it properly I had FAC air, spent lots of pennies on getting it, then left it at home when I wanted more than 12 ft/lbs and took my rimmy ... Ended up selling the FAC air (at a big loss) because it just sat at home unused.

I tend to use these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Proclimate-Neoprene-Shooting-Gloves-Camouflage/dp/B01LWZ3Q1W ... combined with a cup of hot bovril from my flask and as much good healthy energy-rich food (aka Snickers and Cadbury's Fruit and Nut) as my shooting bag can hold

£22.50 is my guess

My Hatstand broke in exactly the same place a couple of weeks back. Took it back to the dealer I bought it from last week and had a call to say it's back (from Edgars), fixed, and ready for collection today.

No good to me either. I don't 'do' face-ache or witter. My guess is that A1 are aiming stuff like this at a younger generation than perhaps your average PW-er falls into. We who can remember sending letters to friends... with stamps on them, are the wrong demographic to be targeted by offers and competitions on social media. It's a bit like putting a pattern of crow decoys out and hoping to go 'ton up' on pigeons ....

I didn't realise that the M16 was loud enough to carry that far

Urine extraction mode turned to 'Off' I too am a bit lacking in the hearing dept and often lose higher pitched noises but luckily can still hear my call on Mouse. I grew up in the company of an old fella who had his explosives licence and we would regularly go off here and there blasting whatever needed shifting. Used to think we'd had a good day when I went home with my ears whistling. Got the same from a days pigeon shooting, 2 in the hide and no ear defenders so the ears whistled well at the end of the day. Now the damned things do it all the time (tinitus) and make hard work of conversation in noisy areas etc. No-one seemed to think that hearing protection was needed 40 years ago. The most we did was to put our fingers in our ears for the really big bangs.

Umm .. Have you tried turning the volume up ?

If your model has 'Mouse' on it, try that ! I only have the cheap little ICOtech GC101, but the mouse call has proven to be by far the best call on it, or my mates bigger posher model (that doesn't have the mouse call). Twice now I've had Charlie run in from distance (over 500yds) and actually try to attack the caller by jumping up at the fence post I've put it on.

I have seen this in previous years too. Pigeon suddenly 'turning on' on stubble that's been left for a week or more. Perhaps they're hitting dropped grain that's started to chit ??