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  2. Rottweilers

    in Dogs and Dog Training

    Posted

    I have a rottie and he likes to lie about. My lab has endless energy and the rottie might join in for 5 mins but he prefers the slow road :)

     

    They like to lean on you... People cross the road pre-judging the nature of this breed but hes a big softie however also very intelligent so are a pleasure to train but you ave to make sure youre the boss or it may well try for the position and thats never a good thing.

     

    Would I have another... without a doubt.

     

    Got mine as a rescue and he is cheeky at times but awesome.. he even retrieved a rabbit and brought it back to me lol

  5. Shotgun Lesson

    in General Shooting Matters

    Posted

    Started my shotgun shooting on clays 18 months ago and got ok at them with my best result being a 75/100 on a cpsa registered shoot and getting 2nd place and £40 prize money. Also managed a few trophies from a local shoot mainly 2nd places with an odd 1st here of there.

     

    Then I spent a few months shooting pigeons... Couldn't hit them at first, nothing like clays then I got ok on them.. Went back to clay shooting a couple of weeks ago and my form had dropped and up until today I had no idea what had gone wrong. I was struggling with what used to be easy targets for me.

     

    I booked a lesson at a local(ish) clay ground with John Hall (Lancashire) and straight away he had me hitting clays that I was nowhere near the past couple of weeks. He corrected my stance, hand position on fore-end, target acquisition and gun placement amongst other things.

     

    £70 and 108 clays thrown out and now I know where I was going wrong... Couldn't seem to correct it myself by just going shooting... best money I've spent in a while. Hopefully I can make it back in prize money in the coming months.. Onwards & Upwards!

  7. Which ear plugs?

    in Guns & Equipment

    Posted

    I bought some Hermes digital moulded earplugs from Mercury Hearing at a shooting show. http://www.mercuryhearing.com/products/shooting-ear-plugs/

     

    I like them.. the only b@ll@che was the 6 weeks wait for them to arrive. They were up for £375 a set but a bit of bartering got it down to 350 and a set of motorsport plugs for my motorbike which should have been 95 a set so all in all it was a decent deal.

     

    My 2 mates got them too and as I pestered them the most I got delivery first. They are always at shows so getting in touch on the phone isn't the easiest probably because they are always at shows and family business means they are all there I bet but I found facebook messenger got a fast reply.

     

    Ears never stop growing until you're dead (or they have been cut off haha) so if after a few years they become slack all you need to do is get them to make more moulds and you can reuse the electronics they you already have!

     

    I like em anyway but I didn't like the wait.

  9. Bushwear - Cracking deal.

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    After I posted that I had another look around and found the matching pants for £135 on their website which went for even less with the discount code for a first purchase from the site.

    A bit of a gamble on some weird european sizing for short legged people found a 100 euro size being a perfect fit. A great guess on fit.

     

    Everything arrived this morning in the post in perfect condition.

     

    Great service on products they certainly cannot have made any profit on at all... 10/10 Bushwear!!! Well recomended!

  10. Bushwear - Cracking deal.

    in Off Topic

    Posted

    I went out to my local outdoors shop on Saturday for a new jacket since I got my last one ripped up climbing a fence (I wont be doing that again) and spotted a Harkila Pro Hunter jacket which I have seen so many rave reviews about but at £389 it was beyond me so I settled for a £69.99 Seeland one which had been reduced from £129

     

    Got home and have a shifty look about on the net and found that bushwear had some on ebay and one of them didnt have a size against it (some were £419 and others were £232.20). It was one of the lower priced ones that didnt have a size in the title so I took a cheeky chance and clicked buy it now on it and then sent a message saying that I wanted a size 50 (which on their website was showing as £419) and woke up this morning to a despatch email saying they had made the changes as per my request and that my jacket had been despatched...

     

    One happy bunny (something you dont see too much of on here because they have mainly been shot :lol: ).

     

     

  11. Wanted: A good days Pigeon shooting in Lancashire/Yorkshire

    in Shooting/Ferreting/Beating Wanted

    Posted

    Best advice I can give is to get some shooting close by where you live if at all possible.

    I've tried this "2 hours drive" thing for pigeon and what I have learned is that you need to be looking at the fields on a regular basis to know where the pigeon are or its simply hit and miss. Theres nothing more frustrating than going on a 2 hour drive and almost blanking because you live too far away to do regular recon then face a 2 hour drive back.

  15. V10 Toureg

    in Motoring Section

    Posted

    Weve got a 2006 3.0 Touareg and I considered the V10 because it pulled a plane on 5th gear... however, I decided Id never really want to tow a passenger jet so opted for the smaller engine... :)

     

    In reality though, I saw the workshop time for changing the turbo should it go and decided I didn't need to have an expense like that.

     

    The touareg is comfy and has all the bells but I leave it for the missus purely because I must be wrong in the head and prefer the raw'ness of my defender which I tend to do about 20k a year with :)

  16. Good for the pigeons perhaps.

    in General Shooting Matters

    Posted

    A good friend of mine also has issues with shoulder/back problems caused by recoil. He has had a recoil reducing hydraulic piston/butt plate system put on his DT10 which has enabled him to carry on using it.

     

    Something like this: http://www.graco-corp.com/

     

    Not the cheapest solution but if you are having major issues you could try it or even chuck one on a semi auto and have something that recoils like a 410 :)

  18. I need a new ring

    in Guns & Equipment

    Posted · Edited by ghosthunter

    When (if) you take it to bits, be aware not to lose the spring that pings out of them if you open them wrong...

     

    The guy I got mine off tried to service his and lost the spring. Luckily he had 2 more.

     

    You can get the o rings from evil bay on item number 162009766249

     

    Guide for doing it is here:

  25. Ai pigeon magnets

    in Pigeon Decoying Equipment

    Posted

    I spoke to .......mark (i think)..... yesterday and he recommended the middle weight version of the 3... not the pro heavy version but the other one... telescopic... not the lightweight either.. Said its the one he uses and has had it for ages without a problem.

    So I ordered it! Comes Monday or Tuesday..

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