Walker570

I relaod for all of my calibres and have done for 40yrs so my initial outlay on the basic equipment has been absorbed. I don't waste bullets on paper but for making sure the rifle is accurate and on. I shoot two calibres you cannot buy factory for and they are my workhorses ...22BR and my 257 RRI Wildcat. Also not easy buying 375JDJ or 7-30 Waters in the UK or anywhere else these days. Once you have worked up an accurate efficient round then stick with it. Just one shot to check zero and away you go. For me shooting with my own cartridges is also made more enjoyable. It is all down to where you want to go.

DO NOT try and pass through Heathrow with one, or any other airport for that matter. However they do look the bees knees. Nice.

Well done PPP, keep it up, your liver will appreciate it for a start. I have a chap comes in occasionally and gives me a hand around the place and he suddenly decided to go dry. He now does not drink anything alcoholic. He used to down a lot. He is now sharper and fitter than he has been since his teens and into his late 50s. Personally I enjoy a drink occasionally and my evening tipple is a double scotch and water before dinner. I do not, other than on rare occasions eat anything after 6..30pm which I also think helps me maintain a reasonable 15 stone (6ft plus) and I sleep solidly. I am a chocoholic and will devour a large bar of Milk Tray in one go given the chance. I also enjoy my desserts with cream and custard and will often have two sometimes three servings. The main thing is I keep active. The old(78yr) legs are not what they where, but i still swing a chainsaw for a day and keep my small 12 acres patch tidy in between being out shooting as often as I can which is most days. There is little doubt that 'ale' puts on weight, which then puts extra strain on your heart and the alcohol corrodes your liver. Like smoking will screw your lungs and heart. Of course as in all situations, the person living to 100 smoking 30 a day all their lives will crop up in the argument, but how small a number is that compared to those pushing up daisies. This aint a rehearsal so why waste it.

78yrs old last week and was given my first air rifle for my 7th birthday. The local hardware store back in the late 40s and 50s couldn't keep up with the number of pellets I fired. Moved to a 410 for my 12th birthday then two years later grew big enough to shoot my grandfathers 12 gauge. My recreational time back then and since has revolved around shooting, including many hundreds of rounds of 9mm, 38 and 357 from handguns. I really do feel for you and appreciate you raising the subject. On the Shooters Forum at the moment there is a discussion of the use of lead bullets and how minute amounts of lead are blown into the meat when a rifle bullet passes through which may be consumed. Should all bullets be made from copper ..eg., Barnes TTSX ? BUT... is not high concentrations of copper bad for us as well ? Lead for sure is not friendly to us but I am not sure that after loading and shooting half a dozen .177 pellets I should wash my hands is necesaary. My old granny used to say, "You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die". As said above, if you are using and dealing with harmful materials in every day life then stupid not to take precautions. We now have lead free fuel, has the incidence of MS fallen since that came about because the intake of lead from exhaust fumes must have effected everyone to a larger extent than loading a few air rifle pellets. I wish you well and sincerly hope that your condition is manageable and as fister says .. keep your chin up and try to wake up each morning smiling.

I have a friend who has a box trap which he straps to a tree and the Fenn is on a shelf inside. Smears with peanut butter and a few peanuts and he has been very succesful. The entrance is underneath, squirrel climbs tree enters the bottom and climbs on shelf, job done. I do not know where he obtained them but will enquire. Maybe someone on here has knowledge. I personally use live catch cages on stands and have modified them with a peanut feeder at one end beyond the treadle. When natural food runs out these are very succesful. Just visit them twice a day carrying 410. The benefit here is the small birds also get fed. DO NOT FORGET TO LOG YOUR KILLS ON HERE WE NEED TO HIT THAT MAGICAL 2000 BY 31ST DECEMBER.

.......................... apologies fatchap... it did make me laugh though.

Been dealing with them and Deben for years and never had a bad experience.

The falling is totally harmless, it's when you stop that hurts

No slot marks, no smell and as said they were seen on the third night. Dougy the last of about 40 boar I have shot was a Silver Medal, so I am well versed in the species.

Bear in mind this happened over three nights and the first damage was partially repaired then ripped up again.

Seen doing it. Yes, if I was in Slovenia I would have said wild boar. No boar anywhere near the area for many miles and it is in a village on the edge of a town. No doubt recent rain brought lots of worms and stuff to the surface and the lawn was well looked after and closely cut.

As an avid flyfisherman you will know that flytiers are the most experimental of people. I have no doubt some such person had tied up a copy of a damsel or even a dragon fly OR even using the real thing, dapping. After over 60yrs of fly dressing I can tell you I have tied some weird and wonderful items but not all with succesful outcomes. I still have a couple of frogs somewhere I tied for pike fishing with a fly rod but with little success.

Saw a piece tucked in a corner of the Daily Telegraph this morning how scientists have finally discovered that badgers are destroying all the hedgehogs. They could not help putting a bit partly blaming farmers for using chemicals. I thought, well we were using some pretty nasty chemicals on the farm back in the late 50s and sixties ..really nasty BUT we still had loads of hedgehogs about. THEN, I visited a friend this morning and my mouth dropped open at the sight of their back lawn. See photo. This was ripped up over about three nights, about 200 square yards total wrecked and will require rotovating and re seeding. It really is about time our legislators got back on the subject and put them back on the vermin list. Not difficult to have a specific law with suitably severe penalties to cover baiting, which was the main reason the original law was drafted. This is a legislator that wants every deer which sticks it's head out shot because they nibble a few trees.

All good people were born this week in the year. Happy Birthday.

No suckers in 26yrs. If you get a definitive answer then please let me know as I have forgotten what the label said when I planted it other than the nursery said it was a damson. With a handful of dk brown sugar and a couple of litres of vodka it also makes a very nice tiple for 'elevensies' on shoot days.

Brilliant!!!! Man after my own heart.

Took a picture or two of the tree in question ..well the fruit anyway and you can see how the stone separates where it doesn't on a normal damson.

I believe mine is Prunus Domestica but not certain of that. Google damsons and damazenes and there are a few specialist nurseries who could give you the information you require. I can certainly recommend the one I have.

I have a tree which produces fruit my grandmother called damazenes. They have the shape of a damson and the colour, the tree and flowers look similar but they produce a larger fruit which when ripe you can open and extract the stone as clean as a Victoria. They are delicious, freeze well and a few in a sweet jar with a handfull of dark brown sugar and a litre of vodka works wonders. I will do my best to find the proper name. This one I planted 28yrs ago and has never failed to produce. Even though you are planning to fan train, I think you are a little tight for space.

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Thanks, but found a neat little Skoda saloon and she loves it .

100% Classic example of how to lose friends and make enemies. I would be tempted to feed up and shoot everything I see, that is after telling them their extra drive no longer exists.

Quality time is not wasted

ALL good information. In short ....NASTY!!!!!!