Walker570
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Walked up you need to beware thw wriggly sticks🤣
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32 minutes ago, oowee said:
Mixed bag today. Driven guineas. Pigeon then ducks and geese. Up early for geese at sunrise.
Every day power is off (load shedding) 1800 till 2200 and 0100 till 0300. Apparently corruption in generation is to blame. Place is falling apart.
That's what puts me off but pleased you are having a great time. Obviously the evenings beverage is having an effect by the angle of your phots
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On 10/05/2023 at 23:03, ditchman said:
what about this then...............im trying my best fer christs sake...
Yep, looked at one of those but not good reviews. I think I am going to try and build the golf cart into a garden truck. It is purely for weeding and carrying the necessary tools.
That will cost me just a few hours work and I have a plastic 25ltr drum I can cut for the container.
1 hour ago, loriusgarrulus said:I have a petrol, caterpillar tracked power barrow wrapped up under a tarpaulin never been used. It was delivered just before Andrew went into hospital. It was bought to use in the wood. My Nephew finished putting it together and powered it up to check it for me. It is a bit of a beast though and a bit much for tootling round a normal garden with. I might put it on here in other sales shortly as I am never going to use it. 🤷♀️
Yes, seen and used one of those. Great for recovering deer etc but as said just a bit over the mark for what I need.
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12 minutes ago, johnphilip said:
For now try extending the handles on the barrow , will make the load feel lighter .
Good idea. I can lift the barrow no ptoblem but pushing it takes it's toll on the old legs and hip.
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Correct and that is why for 410s in particular I suggest checking various chokes AND shells on a pattern plate .... some old wall paper on a piece of ply works fine. I also put a thck piece of cardboard under the paper to see what penetration I get.
A normal days driven will produce birds from 25 to 45yrds, a walked up day shots will more likelybe 20-25yrds on average so checking your guns pattern at 30-35yrds will give you confidence the gun is capable and it is then up to you.
Just bear in mind that a 30 inch pattern at 35yrds will only give you about an 18 inch pattern at 20yrds maybe a bit less..
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Great photos etc. I have only seen one and that was disturbed from a pheasant cover. Fantastic bird
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Thanks all....I'm not looking for a heavy duty job as it will likely only have to move a bag of compost at most 25k/50lbs. I have an elctric driven golf trolley in the garage which is no longer used and thinking to convert that. I have a special orange friend, my Kubota 7001 tractor with front end loader to do the heavy stuff but it can't get in and out of flower beds etc when weeding or planting. Will keep looking and listening though.
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Back in the 70s we did some checks pon various loads in our issue pumpers at short range... round about eh 7trds mentioned as does not matter and we found that even a load of #7s at that range had a very similar effect on pig carcases as did rifled slug, in fact once the hit was made the shot destroyed far more tissue. This was with normal game cartridges with plaswads. The one benfit was rgar once out at longer ranges the shot becam,e less lethal but the rifle slug kep on going. Take it from me I would not have liked to be one of those pigs.
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7 hours ago, London Best said:
Seven yards is valid for what?
If you mean to be effective on game I think you need a reality check.
24 grams of 7 1/2 shot would blow any game bird to pieces at that range even with a low velocity charge.Yes but judging the birds I have cleaned this year from my days out on driven birds that must be the distance some idiots are shooting them at..
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Just finding pushing a wheelbarrow around our large garden etc a pain looked at the very limited offers on the web. Anyone on here have any knowledge views etc??
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Yes, because they are 'pretty' of course folks think they are harmless. I saw that video and amazing just how many there are. We will have a similar problem here with the green hook bills, in fact they where a problem 20yrs or more ago in the fruit orchards of Kent.
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Nice job Gordon.
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Amazing, I shot a squirrel yesterday. To be fair my access for tree rat eradication has been curtailed due to this ####!!##!!### hip problem, restricting me to just two and now one flip top.
07.15 on the dot it came down and sat nicely on the flip top lid, then fell off rather abruptly. I sat for another hour but no further movement,
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......purchased a new toilet seat last week, one of those adorned with the fantastic 'cartoons' by the late Bryn Parry. I went to assemble and fit it but could not find two essential pieces.
The box etc was about to be incinerated and the two missing pieces where 'hidden' in slots in the polystyrene packing. I missed them and felt that others may do the same so thought I would mention it.
Every time I go into our smallest room now a fenale voice in the distance shouts 'cock over' as the seat has the Veteran Pheasant on the lid and seat. Brilliant.
Brynn will be sorely missed by all in the countryside as his drawings have brought so much fun. I was unaware he also was the instigator of Help fot Heroes.
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Yes, excellent round but it doesn't shoot that much flatter than anything else in that class at normal stalking ranges in normal stalking conditions.
Some folk feel recoil more than others and if that is a problem then the 6.5x55 or the 257Roberts is a better bet and will kill things equally as well if you do your job properly.
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5 hours ago, Ultrastu said:
Walker do you find a significant difference between chokes in .410 cal .
I was having a play the other day swapping out chokes and thought that there was very little between even cylinder 5 ""' and full ' possibly half "' was the tightest with the carts I was using .
As said I have only put the full choke on the pattern plate> had a friend come and take a shot or two on the pattern plate and his 410 shot a far wider pattern than mine. I believe the #3 choke I am now using maybe gives about 3 inches wider coverage thats all IN MY SHOTGUN and I say this because particuolarly in 410s you need to pattern yourt own gun as they all seem to differ. Find a cartridge and shot size your gun likes and stick with it and that is where reloading helps.
Commercially the cartridge I favour is the Fiocchi 7s and I buy a slab now and then to supply cases as I only fire a reloaded case once as I have seen too many cases break up when loaded too many times.
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Have a safe trip and enjoy.
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I still have a ton left over, which Lynn gave me. Let me know what you need and I will try and find some.
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As most of you know I have shot 410 exclusively for the last 6-7yrs at mainly game birds but occasionally at pigeon. I have shot a fair range of factory but in the last 5 seasons have shot my own reloads. 18.7g of #7s a full 19g just will not allow a nice crimp closure but the birds don't seem to mind. Initially because of my long association with 410s I have shot full and full but talking with Richard Gray, Premier Game Days another 410 user he was using about 1/2 choke and I had seen him drop some impressive birds. This last season I put the #3 tubes in my Yilditz which would be just above 1/2 and must say the result was mmore than adequate as the last shot on the last drive of my last day this season gone proved, killing a cock pheasant stone dead at what everyone said must have been 40yrds. I'm not one for getting out the gauges and measuring , just judge on results. Not bragging by any means but not much flies by my 410 within 40yrds without a result.
A bad day, I blame myself not my tools.
I have done a number of pattern tests and the Yilditz chokes give good adequate patterns across the range so don't see the need for buying some fancy stuff.
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On 04/05/2023 at 13:25, old'un said:
How do you know that? Is it general knowledge, in the news?
It was in the news almost imediatley. Bred viszlas so good about him.
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Yep he was a shooting gun dog breeder and his nieghbours said he had 'issues'. Is this another case the police should have nipped in the bud? If his neighbours kinew he had issues then his surety on his license certainly should.
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Have you sampled that stout from just down the road Simon? I'm about to order another case.
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On 24/04/2023 at 19:26, Dave at kelton said:
Hit and run will police not look at the video?
YOU ARE JOKING ARENT YOU ????????????????
Take me back 35yrs and yes I certainly would but today they are just too busy sending five...yes FIVE ...to take half a dozen ******** from a pub.
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Pity it didn't include a British drink I know of a small Norfolk brewery....Ditchie will know where I mean...which produce a very nice glass of stout which makes a very nice lunchtime drink.
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Yes, 35% on a do it yourself shoot is not bad, but a drop to 10% suddenly leads me to think there is so outside influence ..... two legged vermin ? next door providing better food etc? Perhaps purchasing thw wrong strain of bird because we had a similar problem when we purchased some blue backed birds but the following year went back to the good old English black necks (official names escape me) It was as bad as releasing grey partridge if not worse. A drop of that percentage needs examining closely.