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I'm hoping to panic buy some venison tomorrow early doors. I was going to go out this morning but the baby didn't sleep last night and the ear ache would have been worse than CV ever could be if I'd gone out shooting this morning! I will still be out shooting even if we get locked down, my one permission is next to my house and I go out of my way to avoid seeing anyone when I'm out shooting!

Yep. They use blood from sacrificial Welsh virgins which is probably why they're so pricey 🤔😂

A couple of brake lens covers cost me about £20 on ebay 😪 they're just bloody plastic

I'm trying to have a change. I ran Mr own business for 10yrs up until I broke my leg nearly 3yrs ago. I was ready for a change so recovered and went riding out for someone else. 2yrs of good times I was 2nd in command and making really good money because I was self employed they had to pay me what I wanted rather than stick with the BHA framework for employed staff which would have increased my hours and halved my wages. The last 12 months or so we've gone through 18 staff because they were cheap but useless. My work has dropped off from being over staffed and my good will has become nonexistent. Now I go through the motions and do exactly what I'm paid for and nothing more. I've started doing some farm work and milking practicality next door instead of an hour away and they're really greatful of the help. If they've got enough money in the budget to give me a nice living I'll pack in the riding out and work on the farm. I'll be working more hours but have more free time than ever including weekends.

Personally I find it hard to believe that 1 there were only two "shotgun" pellets in the bird and 2 that if they shotgun pellets they were of a significant enough size that a vet would try to remove them. Number 5 or 6 shot is pretty small, a peregrine is pretty small, I'm not a vet but I've cut up enough animals to know digging out a shotgun pellet is going to do a lot of damage and be difficult to find. An airgun pellet would be bigger and potentially shallower because of the lower velocity and in my mind more of a likely candidate for removal. The papers are normally very quick to release the Xrays if it's shotgun poisoning yet no photos? Whoever has done it is a right ******** nonetheless.

Looking to buy a chiller after trying to wrestle 6 lambs into our domestic fridges this weekend - thankfully the sheep were in pieces and we've got 3 fridges. Also it will be easier to hang deer in rather than having to quarter them to put them in my death fridge. I've found one on ebay that looks just the job but he's said it may need regassing which I'm taking as it WILL need regassing. How much do we think it'll cost to regas the chiller before I buy a big insulated box!

It's quite cut and dry. You're either male or female. Occasionally genetic disorders like kleinfelters make a bit of a hash of things and you may actually be female even though you may look male or visa versa. Anything else is a mental disorder.

Advertise everywhere and anywhere, sponsor fences at your local point to point, your local paper. It's not hugely expensive and it gets your name in people's minds. A Facebook page. I still get random calls from people who have seen my adverts somewhere in the past.

When we used to sell a few chickens through leek auction for pocket money they wouldn't let you stick single cock birds through because nobody would buy them. Not even the foreign gentlemen for curries. Last time I went to a poultry sale the curry men were after all the warrens and the very dodgy looking foreign blokes were after the shamos. You couldn't have bought any of them unless you had a lot of money to spend!

Star Kitchen in Baston Hill is a serious Chinese. Chilli and garlic ribs are incredible. Jaipur Indian in Church Stretton is a brilliant Indian. The Coleham fryer in Coleham is the best chippy around and very good value for money. And as for a kebab Shawbury or Church Stretton. Shawbury do the best value for money. I still have never managed to finished a Shawbury special.

You have to change your mind set. You see elephant, lion, hippo, unicorn as these rare mythical creatures. The people who live with them see them as vermin to be killed and exterminated with extreme prejudice. If they have a financial value they will be protected will flourish. Photo tourism does not save animals but shooting tourism does. Elephants and lions aren't rare in the countries where they are legally hunted but in the countries where they're not allowed to hunt them they've gone.

I've got ewes and lambs that have got a straw stable to go in at night out of the rain but when I got to them last night in the drizzle they were all down the field grazing. They should take advantage of it because they're back up onto the bank field at the weekend and the other bunch are coming down to lamb!

I've got a buzzard in my freezer that died of heavy metal poisoning...it got hit by a van in front of me on the A53. Incredible to watch.

He knows he's hated and could be a potential target for abuse and violence, he's got tons of money, had any of the things he's claiming happened to him actually happened he'd have cameras and security guards. As it is I find it very hard to believe he hasn't just done it himself for the attention.

I'd be willing to bet he's done it himself to anger the rabid mongrels that hang on his ever tweet.

Aparrently somebody has strung up a dead badger from his gate. Funny how after all his alleged death threats and dead things hung on his gate he's still not got CCTV. Also interesting the timing with the review into game bird release and renewed attack on general licenses.

There used to be a bloke milking buffalo at the end of our road when we were at llandrinio. He made the news in the 2000 floods for taking the calves in to the house and upstairs to get out of the water.

We used to live right on the Severn. Next door to haimwood shooting ground. Just above the confluence of the vyrnwy and the Severn at Melverley. I once went to a meeting with Lembit Oprick about flood prevention after the EA had said they would no longer upkeep the argaes and essentially if they got a hole in them then good. Lembit had some incredible ideas like buying the quarry at criggion and pumping the flood water into it. He really was a buffoon. The drainage committee was the most corrupt bunch of local morons going who would dig your ditches if they liked you but after I had a stand up row with the chairman one day they gave up even mowing the verge down to ours. Too many houses on flood plains means they have to erect flood defenses which just pushes the flooding elsewhere, where they haven't got the defenses. If you know haimwood there's a tumble down old house across the fields from the shooting ground, that's the driest house in haimwood and even when the argae over tops it doesn't get wet, the old boys knew what they were doing!

Floods everywhere today early doors. Shrewsbury was still there though. Seen some videos of Pentre and Melverley and it looked probably the worst I'd seen it. I haven't heard but I'd imagine it was over topping the argae in llandrinio. Did anyone get to haimwood to go shooting this morning?

Wet in Shropshire tonight. Sat up watching ewes that are fit to burst. I've got 20ewes and lambs ready to go out but they'll have to stay in until Monday lunch if it doesn't stop raining. Running out of space and hurdles to build pens! There's 7 left of this bunch to go and then another 10 black ones that are feral and will probably manage all by themselves but they're so wild I'd never get the lambs ringed and tagged if I left them too it outside. It got a bit blowy about 830 but not bad. Just wet!

I caught the same cat 5 times! A bucket of cold water over him as he came out the last time stopped him.

Catching foxes in cages isn't quite as straight forward as it seems! I've caught numerous cats, badgers, a small dog, hedgehogs and a pole cat in the pursuit of trapping a fox!

2 left boy and girls.

3 left ladies and gents. @WestonSalop any interest to you?

These will be quite happy in the freezer, they don't do so well at grass after they've been to Wrexham. They'll take up a shelf in a normal freezer.