charlie b

got talking to one of lads in the allotments today he was telling me of a bird in his garden last year that was impaling young nestlings on the metal spikes around the fence and coming back for them days later i recon it could only be a shrike never seen one before how rare are they iam nor a twitcher but ive always kept my eyes open for the last 60odd years iam in co durham

my doctor charged £75 in advance then lost the form probly went into file 13 only one of the five doctors who share the practice willing to complete it took five weeks i got my complete application in 26 days before renewal 28 was the cut off for a temp certificate so now my mates got the shot guns a the rifles at rfd for £3 a week who said will see you in a years time because it ran out fhey put it to the back and treat it as a grant on a better note my mate was charged £30 an form done in two days

as afoot note the last four durham feo have been absolutely spot on

i had a spot check after theHorden shootings the feo had a police woman with him she seemed very anti gun and asked the wife if she was ever frightend of me and if so to ring 999 wifes reply was she had no idea of what guns i had and after 45 years she no interese and was not bothered what i had ive no doubt it would have gone badlyifthe reply was different

my mate has started direct drilling he part exed the old one which did a good jobof burying most of the seed last year i didnt even realise it was sown the previos crop was rape wich self seeded he drilled winter wheat when the rape was six inches high then sprayed it off with round up never shot a single bird cant see him doing any thing different from now on

yes stimo22 thats the style

i thought they might of been decent quality with leather washer handles and horn handles i had a fairbern sykes that was matt black first time i stuck it in a tree the first inch or so snapped off i then did some school boy metal work on it re ground a point tried to aneal it got it wrong and snapped the rest of the blade

can any one tell me who made the knives that were displayed in sport shop windows in the 1960s i rememer drooling over them in the top sport in chester le street but was never allowed to buy a new one dad was to strickt however i allways had an older 5 inch bowie that i kept hidden most lads of my age then carried one and thought it was normal they were never used as weapons how ever there were a few accidents playing split the kipper i was about 13 at the time

It was mentioned in my Google news about a private member's bill to ban pump action guns this is obviously put forward by some one who spent time playing with computer games and watching action films were its always the weapon of choice were as in reality a side by side can be reloaded and fired far quicker after the initial three shots

Yes that makes perfect sense to me for what I ve experiencent

before buying night vision i borrowed a pard nv007 i can see rabbitts no bother with it off the scope but once lts on my scope i can hardly see any thing its a hawke vantage 4 x12 x50 rimfire .22 lr subsonic ir i realise a parrallax adjustable is best but has any one used a similare scope with any success im loath to change as it works on my rifle should i just buy a 70 quid lamp and stay old school

after adding some danglingzip tyes to the four rungs of the centre ladder it looks like ive had very few escapes.Ive caught 331 jackdaws and 52 magpies from may to now the first 40 or so jackdaws were adults then quiet for about 6 weeks then all juvenille best 100 in one day magpies were a steady trickle i decide to over winter a pair two weeks ago since had a bonus catch of19 probably the ones flocking up for the winter iv had crows in the past but ive got the ladder set small for magpies now

i was getting quite a few escapees with a full length ladder so i blocked both ends with plywood leaving only four spaces in the middle very few escapes after that so ended up with 170 jackdaws and 32 magpies last year

Here is a picture of the moss strapped to the trees that i took. There are others on google with methods for how to do it.