ClemFandango
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9 hours ago, Blackpowder said:
Are your pots steel or wood, if it is the latter they need to soak so as they sink and rest on the sea bed. If there is any tide running your pot to marker rope length needs to be three times the depth of water. Crabs like fresh bait lobsters are less fussy. You can salt down mackerel in plastic barrels where they make their own brine, or dry salt in boxes turning them over a few times and adding more salt as the bait dries out. Best bait ever had were cormorants which had drowned in creels they seemed a fatal attraction to lobsters.
Blackpowder
This.
Salt herrings are good too.
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4 minutes ago, Fisheruk said:
Could they be Ivy?
yep.
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8 hours ago, Walker570 said:
They appear pretty clever birds and like magpies/jackdaws may have the intelligence to climb out or even not to get caught initially.
Good point.
I thought with them being so gregarious they might be trappable but I bet you are right.
I've never even seen one.
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Is it possible to ladder trap parakeets?
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1 hour ago, Dave at kelton said:
Killing power of modern 10 or 12 with big steel shot is beyond doubt but if, as you put it, you want nostalgia you can’t beat using an eight as our predecessors did.
Yeah of course. I can definitely see the appeal.
I guess it depends on the OP's motives.
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There's not much to gain from an eight bore over a modern 10 bore in terms of effectiveness with Non-lead ammunition.
Unless you are also looking for the nostalgia you might find it is easier to go down that route?
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17 minutes ago, WalkedUp said:
Watched 1917 on my phone on Friday night. I’m not a gun nut but after loading his Lee Enfield with a single stripper clip at the start of the film (the entire film is a single shot) he never needs to reload despite numerous engagements. Also, very sportingly he carries his rifle unloaded during battle, as every time he has a German in his sights he racks the bolt to take the first shot.
There are one or two films where someone is being threatened with a pump action. For dramatic effect they rack the action, So I assume it's now loaded and wasn't before. I can stomach that. But then as the tension builds they rack it again... No cartridge is ejected.
Also. On any film where they pull out a fancy sniper rifle to pull of a mile and a half shot, why is the scope always something out of a christmas cracker?
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7 hours ago, Good shot? said:
I could only suggest it is to prove you have been requested by landowner to provide essential pest control during Covid lockdown.
Therefore justifying your travel to the area.
That's what I thought.
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Surely the gamekeeper who asked you should organise this for you?
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1 minute ago, AVB said:
Pimlico plumbers are going to write it into contracts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55654229
it will be interesting to see how that pans out for people who can’t have the vaccine for medical reasons.
If they do not want to comply with the policy, it will be decided on a case-by-case basis whether they are kept on, he said.
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Odd.
I ordered a car part from German on Tuesday. It arrived this morning. No bother.
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On 11/01/2021 at 14:34, Walker570 said:
Barnes TTSX nothing better. TSX are also good and do the job if you do.
Yep.
130 or 150gr in .308 very effective.
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6 hours ago, AVB said:
I bet a number on here must be knocking one out at the thought of it and hoping that the army get brought in to shoot people on sight.
Yeeeeesssssssss
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Possibly post this on Stalking Directory.
Roe, CWD and Muntjac are all in Suffolk/Norfolk so you could likely shoot all three and Red and Fallow if you looked for somewhere in that area and were willing to travel East.
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21 hours ago, AVB said:
I pay close to £30k per year for each of my children to be taught (in addition to the tax I pay) so I expect a lot from the school and it’s teachers. Yes covid is unfortunate but it’s been around for nearly a year now and schools need to have been planning for it. This lockdown was coming (and my children’s school started working remotely in December) and yet they still say that this lockdown came as a surprise! We are currently arguing over how much the fees should be reduced to reflect the reduction in service. They are doing an OK job but still less than what I am paying for.
What? You pay your school £30k and they weren't prepared for a global pandemic?
What a bunch of useless *******.
My kids school had a risk assessment for just this occasion worked up decades ago.
You should see the one they have for alien invasion.
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7 hours ago, southeastpete said:
I really don’t get the people bashing teachers and calling the nhs heroes.
Nhs staff signed up to fight illness and disease and mend injuries. A big disease (virus) comes along and all of a sudden it’s oh so tough.
People joined the military in peace time, along comes a war, and no one gave a monkeys.
Teachers signed up to teach the 4x table and red green and blue, not be stuck in a class with 30 kids coughing covid at them.
Totally agree.
What exactly do people expect from their schools?
The effort that ours has put in is unbelievable. The head teacher must be working around the clock along with her staff. I would say they are going above and beyond.
Even so there are parents complaining as if she was the one that ate the bat that started all this!
One good thing about Covid is you find out who the total ********* are and once it's all over you can avoid them or at least treat them with the disdain they deserve.
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I did a bit of googling and it turns out you can pasteurise eggs without cooking them. Which I would have thought would be impossible so every day is a a schoolday. Thanks Fat Chap.
Easy enough to do at home apparently and it doesn't affect the egg for cooking later so if you were really worried you could do that.
https://sugargeekshow.com/recipe/how-to-pasteurize-eggs/
I don't think there's any need though other than your piece of mind.
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I suppose the proof is in the eating.
Did she get the two bob bits?
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How on earth would you pasteurise an egg and not cook it?
I probably would have washed the **** off them before bringing them in the kitchen, other than that I have eaten hundreds and hundreds of soft poached/boiled/fried duck eggs from my own ducks and from friends. Always been fine.
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10 hours ago, WalkedUp said:
Outside our office we saw a lad running past (uphill 🙈) with a small TV from a local shop. The security guard was a young fit lad and absolutely bombed after him. The thief stopped, actually handed the TV back to the guard and then walked away. I suppose he could have dropped it but seemed mad he was just allowed to go on with his day.
I guess the security guard would have had to detain him, wait for the police to turn up and... Do nothing.
Cut out the middle man. At least he got the TV back.
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maple, Sycamore' Cherry, Beech, Alder all food safe. Not sure about others.
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20 minutes ago, walshie said:
What's the point of ID checking someone wearing a mask?
To check their age.
Same as when they aren't wearing their mask.
It's just harder because you can't see their chin.
When they censor faces in the newspapers etc they cover the eyes, not the mouth so I'm not sure that ID ing someone with a mask is that much of a problem.
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I thought it was **** as well. My brother was crazing me to watch it. Unfortunately it didn't live up to any of the hype.
Hacksaw Ridge was **** as well.
I had to turn that off after the bully boy used the top half of a corpse as a shield. Utter bullocks.
Inland pinkfoot shooting.
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Don't often watch videos of people shooting but I enjoyed those. Thanks for posting.