Walker570

I was not talking about guns with dogs Dave, just guns. Yes, I am all for guns with their dogs having a go as long as they work with the official pickers up, but I'm just a grumpy old traditionalist.

How many years have we been shooting lead shot? On their evidence there should not be a duck or goose or any birds left.

Nice bit of country and nice woofers, what is not to like? Annoys me intensley when guns walk about picking up birds spoiling the enjoyment of the day for the fine band of pickers up. O always make a point of walking back and thanking pickers up and marking any birds I have down for their dogs to enjoy. Lovely photos, thanks for sharing.

They seem to like towns and cities. Have not seen a sign out here in the sticks YET but have a couple of thousand pellets and a supply of 410 #6s waiting.

I have a 300 H&H but also have a 375JDJ which ALMOST produeces the same killing power of a 375H&H. My licensing authority will only allow me to have the calibre for overseas use which is a bit stupid because dead is dead whatever you use and safety is safety whervere you use it. The 300 and the 375 are still superb calibres.

Sensible man after my own heart. Put it in the pattern.

As known I shoot the Yilditz 410s, I have two same model. Initially I used full (1 notch) with great sucess but found that 20-25yrd birds got more difficult to fit in the pattern and Richard Gray said to try the middle of the road chokes, so I now us 2 notch in the first barrel and 3 notch in the second barrel and try to kill the first bird out infront then the slightly more open choke gives me a better pattern for a secong shot loser up. It has always been a mystery why older fixed choke shotguns seemed to have the choking the wrong way around with the left hand barrel full choke but I suppose there was more walked up game back then. It is great that we can now choose.

on my old choccie lab would have a good shake after crossing a river and if you checked his undercoat it would be dry, problem is many labs do not have such undercoats these dsys but those look like proper labs to me Dave but the grounds steep by you, I'm surprised they can lie on it🤣

3 this morning on a flip top alongside the farmyard. I did not expect much as the flip top was empty but three turned up. 3403

Superb, brilliant, keep up the good work up their guys.

A very interesting question. I look forward to the PW Massif coming up with the answer. When is your money not your money basically.

Yep, keep whacking and stacking, irrelevant how

Same. Do not deal with them.

My old choccie lab, one with a proper lab coat, used to love to lie on his belly in a puddle if the ice was broken for him. Would a glass of water freeze over in that room. If not then the dog will be fine.

Yes, I shoot a few on pheasant feeders BUT how do you get a shot if they decide to feed on the other side ? Flip top style feeders on a tree make the tree rat sit still long enough to give a clean headshot.

100% and most of them have never done a proper job either...Uni...runner/aide...... shoehorned into a seat. The BIG problem is 85% maybe higher of the public are so thick they do not look at the suitability of the person putting up but vote the Party, hence the bunch we have in power across the board.

According to how tall you are. I'm six foot and mine are normally set at a hieght which lets me fill them up easily. Five foot ish seems about right.

I'll just avoid shopping in Oxford as I do any similar anti places.

BUT BUT BUT !!!!!!!!! The media says we will get minus 3 maybe minus 4 tonight and this weekend ..... PANIC PANIC PANIC!!!!!! Hot aches....do any of you remember those? When your hands and fingers got so cold that as they started to warm up they would ache with a vengiance. I've just tipped a larger than normal front end loader full of logs by our back door, which are now stacked alongside both log burners. Hope this crisp weather stays till the end of January, no better weather for shooting.

The opposite to my experience.

I use fibre wads in my 410 and now load Bismuth. I have just transfered bismuth for lead weight for weight and can't tell the difference and on the last three days of driven birds it seems to do the same job. As said Claygame are usually very helpful.

I had just joined and was serving my two years probation in the police service at the time. I broke all records for falling off a Lambretta scooter, although I got so used to it I used to just step off and let it go. We had frozen snow on the roadsides in Walmley, near Sutton Coldfield until mid April. I also remember 1947 when the snow in the farmyard was deep enough to be above my head and the milk was stored in churns buried in the snow for a week till the milk wagon managed to get across from Birmingham. Milk then was collected daily in 12 gallon churns and a big herd of cows was around 30 head. We never failed to get sufficient snow back then to toboggan for weeks down our fields. Amazingly we all survived. 100 mill here today and the media go into panic mode.

Went down to feed the bird tables this morning and check the live traps. Every litle bit of food had been cleared. Approached the second table and had a tree rat run off infront of me and then when approaching the table far side of the wood another shot across the ride. So we have two uninvited visitors to deak with over the weekend if the traps don't get them beforehand.

I'm not sure but I think you may be able to get a Degree in it.

I have some but never use them as found they don't drop consistently so all of my shot like the powder is weighed. Particularly bad with #7s. I will have a look and see what mine are, if I can find them.