Walker570
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I was sat in one of my cabins waiting for a tree rat and noticed that leaves where falling like it was October. The poplars are usually the first to lose leaves but not before the end of September here in Leicestershire. I have already run around the grass areas with the mower once, to shred them making it easier for the grass to grow through. Tree tops thinning enough to flight pigeons.
Obviously due to the unusually dry spell and it will be interesting to see if December and January turn out like '76 '77 when tractors couldn't get onto the fields without sinking up to the axles after torrential rainfall for weeks.
Looking at the forecast predicted for September looks like some pleasant days on the partridges as the dry weather continues but temps drop.
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They are not easy to get back in the bag the second, third , fourth or fifth times either ..... a mind of their own. I have the Bushwear Tpee and we wrestle often.
BUT a great bit of kit.
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Was about to say shoot the mouse .....joking apart you have to find some way of getting lubrication in there obviously. A spray with penetrating oil to start with see if that gets in and save all the disassembly.
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Hah!! Not for real men then
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See a letter in the Telegraph of all places from some scrounger in Brazil complaining not enough is being done for Venezuelans who are streaming across the border into Brazil as if that is our problem.
I cannot comment on that Trot Corbyn on Dr's orders. It does my blood presure no good at all. My fatherinlaw a face worker down the mines and staunch Labour supporter would be turning in his grave.
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I have two pairs I purchased from Aldi two years ago for about the same price. Washed numerous times but still look like new. Will nip in and see if our branch has the green ones.
Thanks for the heads up.
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Have a look at John Brocklehurst's site. Not cheap but some of the best shirts I have ever purchased. Good arm length, plenty of room, nice material and feel comfortable when on. Will last and last.
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Nice shoe but I'm the same, sometimes a 10 but often an 11. There akin to the old Trickers.
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Totally agree with you BUT as good as breeks even plus 4s are, they could not be called the sort of attire you could wear everyday which was my point. Walk into the pub on a Friday night in breeks and you might get your leg pulled. Of course for any breeks you have to add the cost of a couple of pairs of long socks which are not cheap these days.
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No help on the app, but personally I think keeping records in a nice Game Book is far better. Future generations will still pick it up and gaze in wonderment at what you and we got up to today. Example, I had a friend who was Head Keeper for a big estate and one day he was driving through the park and saw the Lady of the Manor burning stuff on a fire. He pulled up to offer his help only to see that she was tossing old books and files into the flames. He picked up one book only to find it was a leather bound account of shooting days a hundred years before. He asked if he could have it and it became his possession. He lent me the game book as he knew I worked in the Solihull area and there were references to days shooting in Elmdon Park ...like 280 rabbits, 120 partridge etc etc., It was amazing because it related to shooting over the area now covered by the Birmingham International Airport.
I sincerely hope it is a long time before you depart this world Big Al but if the records are electronic I feel they might just get destroyed.
I have four such personal records of my 'sporting life' one old diary refers to the year 1956 Sunday January 1st " I went a walk round our farm and Uncle Bills farm with Bob (a mate)
and Rosa (our corgi dog) . We took the gun but didn't shoot anything. I was fifteen years old and carrying my Grandfathers 12 gauge BSA (which I still have ) walked down the lanes and through the village and no person blinked an eye.
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The moths not a real problem, just an extra bit of protein
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6 minutes ago, fister said:
No specific tease, just the more expensive FAC aurguns have smoother operation, quieter internals, better magazines and stock etc etc but I nust agree that some are getting insanely expensive although that trend seens to stay below 12ft lbs and appeal to a certain market. To make a sweeping generalisation, an FAC airgun is a tool for a job and not an easily bought item and a tool for a job needs to do more than just impress your mates with a new colour option and it needs to be tough
The jump from £450 to a £1000 is an extra £600, please explain where this money is spent on manufacturing because it ain't rocket science. With CNC machining these days the quality should be pretty consistent. I have a T/C Encore and my friend has a Blaser but strangely the deer seem to fall over just the same.
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51 minutes ago, spandit said:
I hope they do sucker. They're on the boundary between me and a neighbour I don't like. You can barely see them anyway due to the hawthorn and willow they're growing amongst.
Have already eaten plums and damson from my trees
No Golden Gage this year, very few Vics and the Czar are going bad on the tree due to moth. The 'Little Green Plum' Bulace are doing OK so two or three litres of vodka next time I am in Aldi.
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Now that is funny
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8 hours ago, spandit said:
Planted a few blackthorn about 5 years ago because there aren't any on my land. No sloes yet...
Blackthorn are not as bad but almost as long to produce as walnuts which take upwards of 20yrs. Eventually you will wish you never planted them, sucker like the divil.
I noticed today the plum and damson trees in my orchard are already showing signs of ripening so sloes might just also be early this year. A month in the freezer does them the world of good.
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Beat me to it. Just according to how much more he needs. A few layers of insulation tape on the lower mount as often solved the problem for me. Or search around and make up a set of rings with the front one slightly lower than the back. I purchased a set once...no names no pack drill...but a well known manufacturer and they were just that ...drove me mad till I put the calipers on them.
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Those Krals shipped to the USA are same as FAC....are they available in that form here. Look tidy and reviews appear pretty good (mainly American reviews).
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Frosty solution. Get an old chest freezer and fill it with bags of 'pig tatters'. 70yrs ago my grandfather used to boil about 5cwt at a time in a large copper my granny used to do the washing in. Mixed with rolled barley or oats even, pulled ducks from far and wide.
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4 hours ago, MisterGain said:
Thanks for the advice Walker 570. I was thinking moleskin breeks to avoid the matching tweed vest and breeks look which felt a bit sartorial overkill for me! I'll have a look at waterproof options...
If you are not planning a whole season of driven or semi driven days then splashing out on a pair of tweed breeks is overkill. There are some smart waterproof trousers...not over trousers which will do the job and you can wear them for all occasions. Whatever, have fun.
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NOT moleskins breeks or trousers. If they get wet you will have hypothermia. Either a pair of waterproof shooting trousers or wool.
With regard to the shotgun, that one will do fine. Yesteryear saw very few O/Us but now it is the opposite, unusual to see a SBS.
Early season...September into October on nice days at partridge I wear an American style upland shooting vest over my shirt, it doesn't look like a skeet vest and is much more pleasant than the warm coat I wear later on and more practical than just shirt sleeves, so , yes, a shooting vest/gillet is useful, even later in the year if the weather is favorable.
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All 'nut' trees here in west Leicestershire seem to be laden with fruit including oak and sweet chestnut. Great pity we don't have banana trees because, old'un is absolutely right ducks love 'em. Got about a half cwt of very ripe almost rotten bananas some years ago and mixed then in some rolled barley. The ducks went quakers for it. Thought OK, I have a factory close by ripening them, they are bound to have rejects. Made a visit and the manager was very helpful, yes we do have rejects come down to the store. He opened the doors and there was probably 20 tons of the darn things. Great, can I take four or five of those boxes full. No, he said, if you want them you have to take the lot by tomorrow afternoon. Needless to say it did not come off.
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I have not done penetration tests on air pellets but have done a fair few on centre fire rifle bullets and shotgun pellets in a known medium (wet newsprint) and that is where the crunch comes. As said above animals and birds are made up of all sorts of 'materials' and penetration is governed by where the projectile hits. How many barn pigeons have you shot front end on?
I am up to over 300 total on one farm and many of these where front end shots. I would make a guess that 8 out of ten drop like a stone without a flap. Then you have a couple which drop and start walking about. Same gun, same pellet, relatively the same distance but the pellet came across a slightly different 'medium' on the way in which either deflected it or stopped it in it's tracks. When that pellet, bullet leaves the end of the barrel it is it's own free agent and no amount of careful testing can dictate precisely what it will do on hitting flesh and bone.
Hit an elche(moose) in Sweden at 45yrds with a 350gr RN out of my 458 Win Mag, angled shot in just infron of shoulder. The bullet just scored the lungs and hit the rib on the far side and bounced back across the liver which did most damage and buried itself into the huge stomach contents never to be retrieved. I think most shooters would have expected that bullet to have blown straight through. You can never say never, just use the very best projectile for the job.
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Just worked it out. They look very comfy. GSPs, one of my favorite breeds.
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A muntie shot this last week by a friend turned out to be a surprise when I measured it. It looked a bit thin in the beam but was wide and long. Careful measurements put it at 61.9 and had it not broken one and a half mill off its right antler tip it would have been well in. Some good munties showing up around the National Forest these days.