Benthejockey

When I had time to reload I had a lot of success with Sierra soft points 100gr they were very effective without being massively destructive....unless you shot a fox with them then it looked like you'd hit them with an axe. Don't use hornady 58g Vmax unless you're exclusively going to head shoot and even then they're not one of my favourite bullets. Sako 70gr are very effective and what I currently shoot out of my 243.

I managed by some pure miracle to stick my very sharp and incredibly dirty pen knife into my forearm on Friday. I felt like it went right to the bone. It was a deep but once I assessed it wasn't running like a tap I got Mrs BTJ to get me some medi wipes and wound dressing - if it had been pouring blood I'd have had to sort it myself because she's a massive panicker! It definitely needed flushing out and I thought it might need a stitch or 2. Managed to persuade the Dr's to get the practice nurse to have a look at it, as I'd be passing on my way to A&E, and she gave a really good clean and stuck some steri strips on it to hold it together. I'm curious as to what everyone has got in their cupboard for gluing bits back on and looking after them once they're glued back on! I've got quite a good first aid kit that I keep in my shooting bag.

That is the picture. I had to screenshot the picture on my phone to make it small enough to upload onto here. It's definitely not a spaniel, the head end of whatever it is is on the left hand side of the picture.

Badger crossed my mind but it would be a fairly big ****** and it was 1048 so late for a healthy one to be about. Wallaby might be a stretch although a lad locally has rheas and they escape occasionally so I will ask incase he's got himself a new pet. I'm going to go and have a look if there's any fallow bucks about and see if whatever it is has been again and I've got more photos.

I thought fox but where it is in the photo would appear to be level with the top of the feeder which is the standard blue barrel on tripod leg sort if height.

I've looked at the other 2 photos in the sequence and unfo they go out of shot. The thing in the foreground isn't a dog, pretty sure it's a deer that's had an injury. Still haven't got a clue about the other thing in the background.

It's stumped me a bit! I hope it's not a dog!

I checked a camera today after a 3 day soak next to a recently filled feeder in the hope it's drawn some fallow bucks. A fallow doe and her fawn have found it which is good news it should draw some others soon. But I also got the attached photo. It looks like either a fox or a roe that's had some sort of injury over it's back that's healed. But I have no idea what the thing in the back ground is. We haven't got a resident population of boar and I think a pig would have knocked over the feeder anyway.

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Im self employed and my SEISS payments wouldn't have covered the nursery bill for the lockdowns never mind anything else.

You're not a rotund gentleman with cropped grey hair and a bad attitude are you?

My friend a few years back had a fall at a team chase - cross country on a horse in a team of 4 going as fast as you can over big solid fences - he turned what I like to call a real s*****r. Hes a hard bloke but he was crying on the stretcher. I had to stay with him for 3 hours in an ambulance, whilst the jolly paramedic refused to give him anything more than paracetamol because he wouldn't stop swearing, because he wasn't in a life threatening condition. Turned out he'd broken his pelvis, dislocated his hip, stuck the top of his hip through his pelvis and pretty much ripped his shoulder off, it was only held together with 1 tendon. Not only did he suffer all that when he got to hospital and they gave him enough drugs to kill a cow he then asked his girlfriend to marry him!!!

Just an update boys and girls they've all sold and most of them are leaving at the weekend, I'm keeping 2 for an extra week whilst the new owners are on holiday. It will be a blessed relief to get then gone to their new homes. 11 is plenty of mouths to feed!!!! Not 1 person quibbled and they're all off to pet homes.

I bought 3 I can't wait for them to arrive.

@bruno22rfit's beautiful and I would love to restore it but I think its well beyond my means to get it fixed and that is a bit upsetting but apart from 10 mins of my time it hasn't cost me anything and I don't even own it and there's no guarantee he'd even let me have it. @enfieldsparesI had no intention of shooting it without getting it looked over and after having it looked over today I don't want to shoot it. In the words of the chap today "it'll go bang I guarantee that it's just whether it's the whole gun that goes and takes your face with it". If it had been even as much as £500 to get it to a shootable condition I'd have been happy to take the risk of it becoming a pipe bomb in the proof house. Don't get me wrong id be p'd off if they blew it up but at least id still have my good looks and fingers!

🤷‍♂️ i don't know enough about it to say whether it's right or wrong. It feels like it locks up tight but I'm not a gun Smith. It's a shame but I won't lose any sleep over it really it hasn't cost me anything other than 10 minutes of my time.

Is that a bullace?! Now I know.

I took it to West Midlands guns and he had a look at it for me. I hadn't seen it myself but there's a very thin gap where it doesn't lock up properly and when it's closed you can see daylight through it of you hold it up to the light. I'm a bit disappointed really. It would have been a lovely bit of history to play with.

Unfortunately it's only fit for using to hammer nails in. It's out of proof and beyond economical repair.

Here's some pictures. You can just about make out the Damascus swirl in the close up. I'm well aware it could turn into a money pit and I wouldn't allow that to happen, I don't even own it yet and if it's only going to he fit to prop doors open then I'll not bother asking about keeping it.

I've got to go to town tomorrow so I might throw it in the truck and see if Midlands gun services will look at it.

I'd call it a wild plum. It might have a proper name but that's what I call them. Small stoned fruit bigger than a damson but smaller than a true plum. They come in yellow/orange, red and purple. They're ready pretty soon and have a very small window of ripeness. Small shiny green leaves, spikes on the thin branches similar to blackthorn. We had loads at our house when we moved in. Theyre quite tasty really.

I'll take some photos tomorrow. I dont object to the pits as long as they're in proof. I'm guessing it's nitro proof but I'll have to take it apart and have a look at the proof marks. I'd love it to be shootable. I wouldn't use it all the time but if @bruno22rfis right and it's nearly 130 years old then I'd love to just break it out for special occasions.

I'm looking after some shotguns for a farmer whilst he sorts his license out. There's 4 guns a Lincoln ou which is dirty and a bit old but pretty much brand new, a knackered 12g hammer gun that wants scrapping, a baikal single shot 12g that's as you can imagine and a 16g sbs hammer gun with Damascus barrels. It's the 16 I've fallen in love with a little bit. He'll almost certainly give it to me if I ask him for it BUT it's in a bit of a rough state. It's dirty, there's light rust on the exterior of the barrels, there's pitting in the barrels and I'm not a gun cleaning fanatic but the Chambers are dirtier than a tramps pants. On the positive side its a thing of great beauty under all the grime. Its tight as a tiger. And it's made by Ebrall and co or Ebrall and son of Shrewsbury which means it was made locally made and adds to the fascination. I would love to acquire said beauty but only if I can make it shootable. Has anyone got any ideas about what I'd need to get done and what sort of costs I'd be looking at .

The beauty of agriculture is one farm can be running a brand spanking new £200k combine with 40ft header filling huge trailers behind massive fendts and the old boy down the road can be running a beaten up 30yr old combine with a 15ft header doing exactly the same job.