Benthejockey

Whats your address Mel I'll box it up and send it over to yours so you can give it a lick 😂

Good call but they haven't touched the bale string so far this year. I've had 5 massive ones at home in a week. This is my ground down the road away from home.

Any ideas what Roland has been eating? Found in my hay shed yesterday. We're 150 metres from the nearest house. I've got no poison down, there's no bags of dressed seed closer than half a mile away probably, there's no feed about that I know about that could dye the poo bright red like that!

There was one flying low round her a couple of months back. Very interesting planes.

I'm a couple of years younger than your @Rob85but we were introduced to them by my grandad really. He'd eat any old filth - case and point he blew up a little fridge one Xmas wedging a 30lb turkey into it and then made my gran cook it despite it smelling of electrical fire and burnt plastic, and he ate it and said how nice it was! He used to be friendly with an old boy who ran an abattoir over Stafford way and he'd regularly get phoned up to see if he wanted half of some casualty or other they'd had in. I can remember being probably 6 or 7 and one Saturday morning sitting in the front room with him watching him eat a trotter with tomato sauce and he said I could have one if I wanted it! Straight into the kitchen and grabbed a tepid trotter off the rayburn and a big dollop of tomato sauce. Then on holidays to France we've tried various incarnations of tripe sausages and chittlins 🤮 not my favourite. They still taste a bit like pigs smell! Then as I got older I had a few pigs and we've made pigs head pate (brawn) and potted trotters and I love that sort of thing. I sent 3 pigs off on Monday so hopefully there's a bit of poverty fare to come over the weekend. I can't bear liver and that's 100% my mother's fault. She's a terrible cook and tried to force us to eat liver one day as kids and it was bitter and dark and irony and YUK! But now again being older and wiser and a fairly proficient chef I use hearts, liver and kidney in faggots and even the eldest who is fussy beyond belief will eat a venison meatball as long as its called a meatball not a faggot! Back on topic I used tonhate marmite too but now I like it more than Mrs BTJ and she moans I spread it too thick!

Yeah thats definitely not where we used to go. My bike tyres would have burst long before we got there! And my handle bars would have definitely fallen off.

Is there anyone on here in or close to Shrewsbury with dies etc to reload 270 win? Ammo selection is a bit hit and miss locally I've found. I can get 130gr federal powrshok from Cambers for £36/20 which isn't too upsetting but its strong enough when you're using a few and the last 8 weeks I've shot just over 3 boxes! All my reloading gear is packed away and realistically with my little one being the feral beast she is its better off shut away so she doesn't start building her own bullets for barbie to shoot. I fancy having a look at making up a light for calibre round and a heavier round for not much reason other than I'm interested in how they'd perform. 95gr ballistic tip from a 270 sounds like the big brother of a 58gr vmax out of a 243. The powrshok are possibly a bit hard on soft skinned stuff if you don't hit a bone, I mean I'm really just making excuses I've only had 1 fox argue the toss and that was because it turned out my stock bolts had slackened a little and my accuracy went when using the sticks. Obviously I'll buy the primers, powders and pews and supply the brass I'd just like some guidance and loan of the equipment.

That's not a little lake in Shropshire is it? It looks mightily similar to a lake we got banned off as kids for paying with coppers when we had no other money 😂

The vast majority of the public dont actually care about anything that doesn't affect them. They don't care about hunting or shooting or the environment or being carbon neutral or any of the other bull **** we have rammed down our throat on a daily basis. They believe what they're told by the last person that told them. The biggest threat to country sports is ourselves. Shooters hate Hunters, Hunters hate Shooters, lurcher men are hated by everyone. Shooting is worse in that there's so many factions and none cooperate. We won't ever stick together because "it won't affect me" and the anti brigade will slowly chip away and destroy our way of life and by the time it affects you who thought it wouldn't, it will be too late. I avoid getting involved in the whole hunting debate because feeling always runs too high. But look at the number of convictions for illegal hunting despite the huge scrutiny by the smelly hairy lot. More people are prosecuted for raptor perfection than illegal hunting...so does that mean actually we're all out there shooting golden eagles every Tuesday just for a laugh?

Bet its the cleaner unplugged the server to do the hoovering.

A gun shot rang out round here at midnight...but it was just me shooting a rat on my way home from lamping. 270 is definitely minimum calibre for rats 😬🙈😂 My mates wife is running the marathon today too.

I think they should bring back wolves and bears. But let them loose in an urban environment. Let them eat a few idiots then see how they feel!

Weve got pp for an L shaped block of 5 which is well beyond my big hammer and nails ability! The gate solution would save me using so many hurdles when I've got a shed full of lambs too. And using 2 gates I'll have a use for them again once we're sorted with the real thing.

I'm well aware it's not the ideal size for a stable but it'll be fine for the pony as a temporary measure. It can only be temporary as I'll need the space back for rearing cade lambs in March!

Thanks to Mrs BTJ we are now currently in the position of having 3 horses for 2 stables. "It'll be fine well get some quotes for the new stables and get them built ASAP" unfortunately she's not quite grasped the current materials shortages and the fact the run in time to getting them actually built is about 20 weeks at the minute. Oh and the cost for what she wants too! Plus you know we're nearly at turkey season not lambing season so the weather is only going to get worse. What I have got and very begrudgingly I'm thinking about is building a temporary stable inside the small barn that's on the side of the stables. I've got a concrete slab just over 11ft long and 9ft wide - probably 11ft 6 X 9ft 6. I was thinking of an 11ft gate down the long side with a 9ft gate on the front. Either half mesh gates or standard galvanised gates with ply or stock board screwed to the inside whichever worked out cheaper. The 11ft gate doesn't need to swing but obviously the front will need to. I'm just not sure how to attach a post sturdy enough to support a gate to a concrete pad without a good bit of invasive surgery! I could potentially build a small timber wall and use a smaller gate.

Isn't that a hoist rather than a winch? It might be semantics or me being daft but I always thought a winch pulled horizontally and a hoist pulled vertically and that looks like a vertical pull to me.

They look about .25 calibre. Velocity is a bit low, worse in cold weather but they male a real impact if they connect!

I've got half a dozen tennis ball sized wasps nests in my loft.

😂😂😂 it's not localised to Essex trust me!

Some gun shops it feels as if its inconvenient that you've gone into their shop to spend your money. But today I felt like if I had any stupid questions I could have asked them and not felt like a numb nuts and I felt like I could have asked about every single gun in the shop and Phil would have been able to tell me something different about them all. He even dug out a box of 460 wby mag ammo to let me have a look at.

Been for a visit to Powys guns thus morning. Definitely the friendliest gun room I've been into. Very helpful people that went out of their way to sort me out. The shop is like an Alladins cave, full of treasure. Its the first time I've been happy we have to have slots for rifles unlike shotgun certificates otherwise I might have tried to rehome more than 1 rifle. Definitely worth supporting them if you can.

Theres quite a few. 9/11 happened when I was at school and didn't hear about it until we were on the bus going home. I can remember being on the 419 bus going past the old Maltings going out of town and thinking it was strange he had the radio on and being bored of the story being repeated so got my mini disc player out and put on some Nirvana. I was very nonplussed about it. The moment I sorted it in my mind to get out of a hugely toxic relationship - I'd been hunting all day and got home at 9 and didn't sit down till 10 after I'd sorted the horses, and she turned up on my doorstep looking for a fight. I went team chasing the next day and have never ridden so recklessly in my entire life! It ended up with me getting asked to hunt a rather attractive ladies horse and she has since ended up as wife. The birth of my little girl. It was a bit boring, the mid wife didn't like me, I ate the wife's sweets and got told off and finally after about 14 hours the little goblin decided to pop out. She was then unfortunately poorly and spent a week in hospital. I'll never forget getting in my car after id gone to pick them both up to find they'd been moved up to the special care baby unit, I held it together in the hospital for the wife and then got in the car and just sat and bawled my eyes out for 5 minutes. Ended up alright in the end but it was a rough week!

Yeah all we've got is fallow and roe on the ground I shoot.

Yeah I was ruing not having a medical stapler after my lurcher ran up a tree and ripped her leg last year, a good clean and a few staples would have saved me £300!

😂 I've got plasters and alcohol wipes so I could slowly suck them and drink myself to unconciouness.