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Thanks Dan - jacket and trousers are both SOLD and handed over. Nice to meet you Dan and thank you for the tips on trying to catch my first barbel. Hopoefully it won't be 5 blank years!

Incredible build quality. Not mine, selling for a friend who is no longer with us and I have a load of his stuff to sell for his widow. Sadly it is too big for me. I would tthink 6' 2" and 16 stone plus sort of size, otherwise I would have it for myself, it is fantastically made. The features are shown in the pictures. Heavy patches on the wear areas, double cuffs etc. £125 the set. More pics to come.... note the padded seat that drops down out of the jacket, removable quilted liner with fleece collar. If you sit carp fishing in the cold this would be ideal for that as well as high seat sitting. Cheers, Simon. More pictures. This is as new as I am not sure if he ever wore it. I can't see any signs.

Could it have decided to duck the incoming bad weather? Is there bird flu break out in that area? What other possibilities that I can't think of off the top of my head?

Many readers on here will have seen Tigs, and his mother Fly, in publications over the years, and in reports on here (The Countryman's Weekly many times, Airgun Shooter, Sporting Shooter, Rifle Shooter and Fieldsports magazine for just a few off the top of my head). Well, we lost our boy this evening. A car swerved, I tried to pull him out of the way but the car hit him and just caught me. The driver did not stop. I was beside our car at the time. I took him straight to the vet, they sedated him immediately and the x rays showed he had a broken neck and back half way down, plus ribs and internal injuries. The family got to the vet before I did and kept them open - we were with him to the end. But we are in bits. Anna helped Fly to whelp him and he has never known a different house to this one. He was an incredible hunting companion, he could turn his hand to any situation, stalking on the hill, squirrel shooting in the woods whether still hunting from tree to tree, sitting calling, patiently waiting beside me shooting over the feeder. Roosting pigeons, duck flighting and retrieving from the water, he even did several long river retrieves on the Trent for me, three in succession once, they were committed swims in fast water too. He could hunt himself when allowed and knew what the game was depending on what I wore or which gun I carried. He liked it when we went fishing too. A truly remarkable dog that has left a massive hole and an empty feeling in my stomach. What a privilidge it was to share the woods, rivers, fields and moors with him. His Mum, Fly, was good, but he eclipsed her. Unfortunately, despite several attempts, God broke the mould with him. He was the end of that line. I shall never see his like again, he was magnificent. Run wild, run free our beautiful boy. You're with your mum now, give her our love when you see her. Together again, Tigs and Fly. Forever in our hearts. We will never forget you. Run wild, run free.

That would still be legal. The law is for the use of MORE THAN 2 dogs. So a brace of dogs is still going to be allowed, your lurcher and ferret man is fine, as is the man with a lurcher and terrier, or the man with a spaniel and a lab..

Unfortunately you are correct - and to think that this was one of the most important nucleus red squirrel populations in the country. It was from around here that the squirrels to form the Brownsea Island reserve were provided, likewise the Isle of Wight and augmentation of the Cardinham Woods. 25 sq miles of Cannock Chase has been lost to red squirrels since the last sighting in 1988 - what a crime, nature vandalism even, by not protecting such an important, central population.

The squirrels are still not using the feeder, they will when these temperatures drop and the forest food has dwindled. At the moment they are fixated on the oaks and some are on the sweet chestnuts, so instead of sitting watching the feeder I am still hunting further away from it. The squirrels that live in and around the feeder I shall leave alone for now, I need them to set the scent trails to the feeder for the new intake that will move in to the vacuum I create once they start using it. I have a couple more to put up, but I am waiting to find suitable spots, not so much for the feeder, that can be almst anywhere, it is where I can create a suitable, easy to get to, shooting position that dictates my feeder positions. I don't want to have to go past the feeder to get to my hide. The sunny afternoons has seen the squirrels very active and therefor easy to spot. If you are quiet and patient you can find an active squirrel and get it. I find my ears are as useful as my eyes. When there is little wind you can hear their claws on the bark, the sound of them dropping tree fruit, acorns, chestnuts, even pine nut kernels, or the sound of branches thrashing. When a grey squirrel moves along a fruit carrying branch they invariably bend it and the sound is quite distinctive, that will give a direction, your eyes will pick up any movement to hone in on. I just stand tucked in tight to a tree, in the shadow, pay attention to the direction the light is coming from and try to stay out of the bright patches at ground level and watch where you are putting your feet, place your feet between sticks, don't crack them and avoid brushing low hanging branches - you spot the little squirrels by the movement and sound of them moving branches, don't let them find you through the same means! Then it is just a case of waiting for a shot to present. Between 15.30 and 17.30 I shot 10 in my wood, nearly all on the acorns. A couple were on the ground, but following up the acorns they had dropped. I managed to collect 7 of them, I didn't have the dog with me but even so I think the brambles where they fell were so thick I gave up trying to get through and I doubt Tigs would have either. I could have stayed until dimpsy, but I had a new rabbit permission to go and show my face at. A large house with a fancy garden. I got there for 18.30 and sat in the summer house overlooking the hedge the rabbits had been emerging from and shot 3. It was too dark to shoot by 19.30 but I could still see to watch and there were no more showing at all so I left quietly and will go back again, they also have squirrels. All in all, a decent afternoon.

Sorry for delay. Brinkworth is the one, if he is too busy with Forestry Commission (like Ceylon, Rhodesia, Burma - it will always be the Forestry Commission for me!) orders there is another very similar maker in Wallsall/Burntwood. Keith's Highseats, he makes all sorts of stuff. Link to his feeder page: https://keithshighseats.co.uk/products/deergame-pan-feeders/

With the natural food taking their attention I am getting good results from sitting in the hide before dawn and watching for activity in the area around. I have sited a new feeder and left the hopper lid tied open and scattered some cracked maize around the ground and on some stumps and fallen trees to get plenty of scent out there - I don't touch the bait with my hands and use a small scoop to avoid leaving scent, or at least to the minimum. They seem to know when bad weather is coming because they were out everywhere. I managed three in a couple of hours and saw plenty more out of range and further up in the wood. Hopefully they will travel to the feeder later on in the winter.

Napier Deluxe cleaning kit 12 bore. Unused. Box of cleaning patches extras. £40 posted

Winchester / Browning Invector chokes by Classic Doubles. 4 chokes with key: 0 notch 1 notch 2 notches and 3 notches. That is Xtra Full, Full, Modified (3/4) and Imp Mod (1/2) with a key. These will fit either Winchester or Borwning barrels for Invector chokes (not Invector plus - they are longer). These are £25 - £30 each used so all and the key for £100 posted. Redding star crimp tool 12g For those of you who reload your own cartridges. £10 posted. Pair of Napier aluminium snap caps (there are a pair, I just photographed the one because they are the same) £5.

A couple of fleecy / woolly lined gun slips. See pictures for detail. Sizes are on the pictures too. First one is a leather type, full length. I think it is synthetic leather but I could be wrong. £30 Next one is a Leg o Mutton, canvass and fleece / woolly lining that extends to a full length slip for an assembled gun. External zipped pocket for accessories. £35 External pocket and full length.

I had to vacate the release pen and take my feeder and chair out. The old wooden feeder was looking a bit worse for wear so I took the opportunity to buy two of the robust metal ones from Brinkworth Pest Control, I weighed it up and to be honest the materials and time consumed to make one made these a very good buy, they are reinforced for 50ft-lb air, so will withstand nrmal airguns no problem. I got mine set up in a new area and made a hide at the same time, if you are going to cause disturbance, cause it all at once! I am going to have to get back over in the morning having left it a fortnight to settle in and be found. The build quality, industrial paint finish and design have been proven over time. I expect decades from these, so the price will average out to negligible over time.

Despite the volume of naturl food about, hazels and pine kernels in my woods... the feeder is still getting visited enough to make it worth sitting for a few hours.

It is learning when to use it that is the trick. Whenever you are out and about, even just taking the dogs for a walk, listen to how squirrels talk. You don't want to be giving out an alarm call, what you actually want is a conversational call - it is worth listening to how other squirrels react to a call from one. When they answer each other, that is the call to mimick I tend to use the 3 bark followed by a long braaaap one. Bap, bap, bap - braaaap. leave it 10 or 15 seconds and listen for a reply, then repeat.

If the chcolate nutella is untouched you do not have mice!

You haven't mentioned that they are the higher quality, Dialyt with the T* coated optics. I have the 8x32Bs, these Zeiss optics are simply superb. GLWS.

I have set up a feeder in the new wood, cleared a firing arc from a hide point and made a bit of a hide from hazel sticks woven, hurdle like. It has been installed a few days now so I popped up to check it, and if necessary top it up, today. Nothing has found it yet, the maize I put out on the shelf hasn't been touched so I left it alone and went for a wander to look for other feeder opportunities at the other end of the wood. I hadn't realised how big it is! I walked at a steady amble, keeping my eyes on the trees for any movement and my ears open for chatter. It took me 40 minutes and I still didn't reach the far end of the wood. There is plenty to go at, and judging by the 4 I shot in the afternoon between 14.00 and 14.45 there is a good head of the greys to go at. I am still finding out about the layout, where I can get through the jungle like undergrowth and where the squirrels favour. From the feed sites I found they are fairly well spread throughout. I shall report back once the feeder is starting to work.

I use a call to good effect. Carry the call with you and use it when you hear other squirrels calling in the woods. Use their cue as to when to utilise it. If you press the bellows all the way in, then just release it so it springs back out you get another long call. You can also shake it to mimic chattering. Have a look at this video: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Using+the+Primos+squirrel+call#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:99110b67,vid:QY-p4I4ex70

Brilliant. Thank you!

I noticed on the farm that a large patch of the winter barley (Maris Otter for thatching straw and malting) had gone down and there were some pigeons on the wires... I got the nets and decoys out and set up the hide with 4 nets for thickness and roof with the final net being desert camo to give the yellowy finish so it didn't stand out like a dark lump in the field. I managed to shoot 13 in about 3 hours for 27 cartridges. There were lots more birds coming in but I am not a great shotgun shot and have to pick easy ones, and I also have to temper how many times I fire for the sake of my shoulder, even with the gas recoil system soaking up most of it. The birds I did shoot were proper 'explosions of feathers' that somesaulted with a trail of feathers.. The 3 I managed to pick were the ones that landed on the flattened crop, those that came down in the standing crop I couldn't find a single one, despite the trace of feathers on the ears of barley and me marking the shot and going out to fetch each one immediately. I felt aweful, what a waste and I hope it doesn't clog the combine in a few weeks time. That is the last time I shoot on a flattened crop unless it is a really huge area so the birds don't get lost in the standing straws. I am not going trampling through our valuable crop to pick them if I can't find them easily. I shall wait until it is stubble and make do with my 5 or 6 that I normally shoot in a entire day. It was good shooting by my standard, but not a good result.

No, I am just not able to turn the bottle hard enough. Ray had no trouble getting another turn on it. I have the same problem opening 2 litre milk tubs and jamjars.

It is the correct O-ring on the bottle, both size and shore. the one that came with it in 1996! Probably not, but it does help when ambushing corvids. Thanks, but accidents happen. As a PS - someone has suggested getting a filter wrench to do the bottle up with. Makes sense, because doing the oil filter on the outboard is also a problem.

How many pages the pellet would penetrate at the end of the garden. Anything less than about page 120 needed tuning or different pellets... 😁

For those that don't know, The Old Nail is my workhorse .22 Rapid that has had the barrel painted with Hammerite smooth, to prevent it going rusty (it is perfect underneath) and as I don't intend to sell it, I don't care what the prissy Rapid folks think, a bit of Hammerite thinnners and it comes off fairly easily leaving a perfectly rust free barrel underneath. The soft banadage wrap to take the glare off will hold moisture, even if it doesn't get wet, it will hold atmospheric moisture so the paint is to protect from that. Anyone who wraps the rifle should realise this. Anyway I had a problem with her not holding air, Brooksy had a look and couldn't find anything wrong, Big Al had a look and found nothng wrong.... a friend came round and found the problem straight away. I cannot turn the bottle on tight enough to seal it fully. I used to be able to, but not since my accident and subsequent injuries, which is the reason for selling my shotguns. We filled her up and Ray turned the bottle on properly for me. We had a couple of shots in the garden and all seemed fine. The following day I went over to the farm and set up to sight her in at 35 yards. Funny, the target doesn't seem as crisp as I remember... I fired a group as best I could off my home made sticks. It was around the target but not good. I picked another circle and zoomed in from 6x to 12x, the target was still fuzzy but the group was a little bit better because there was less guesswork involved! I started to investigate why the target was out of focus... who the hell turned my eyebell all the way in? I turned it out while looking through the scope and suddenly I could see the veins in the grass leaves at 30 yards! I zoomed back out to 6x and picked a new circle on the little card, bingo, dead centre! I repeated another pellet and chose another new circle, that was also dead centre but I was out of air because we only put a bit in, my cylinder needs taking to be filled and I only had the dregs left. Work in progress but at least I know she is back on song. I just need someone to turn the bottle on tight for me each time now, it is just the last turn to snug the o ring up. I will get Nick next door to do it for me. getting injured later in life is a ******! My home made bipod. It woorks perfectly well, weighs next to nothng, doesn't upset the balance for offhand shooting because I carry it seperately and only get it out if I need to use it. It is two hazel sticks cut to length, for me - cut them longer if you want a sitting bipod. The spring is a rubber band made from a section of bicycle inner tube just turned around and rolled down over the ends tightly.