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Sold now, thank you, and thank you for the interest in it. They really are a nice piece of equipment. Unfortunately for me it's a choice of having the shooting vehicle back on the road or not shooting. If the damm thing costs me much more I'll be selling at least one gun. Oh the love of Land Rovers is more crippling than a bullet wound. 🤪

I think it was in a newsletter, (email) I just followed a link on steel.

Done👍

Yes it's 3rd generation. It's the newest version, has it's own wifi to transfer to an app on your phone. I believe the 1st is: "ShotkamPro" 2nd gen is: "Shotkam - 2016" Yes I'll post.

Nice video, it's good when they keep coming👍

A total collapse of my Rang Rover air suspension forces the sale of my this years model Shotkam. Its a choice of repair or not shooting. Plenty of videos on here by me showing the quality and what can and can't be achieved. I would prefer bank transfer or cash as PayPal is crippling. £400.00 Collection available from Sheffield or from my Son at work in Nottingham.

Such a beautiful gun, I hope it goes to a good home. Methinks, I'm going to have to give up looking at these adds, I find myself looking for the cash. Should an English hammer gun come up, I'll be selling a lung i think. ....and i find nothing wrong with Turkish guns either......all have a place.

So true. Not being able to gossip or talk maybe the reasons why people commit suicide. Having a kind ear may save a friend in need. A real friend is one who listens to your BS, tells you it's BS and sits and listens some more.

The dog belongs to my son, she's a cross springer/beagle. She's fantastic for beating and putting birds up but strangely doesn't retrieve, stands over the bird waiting for them to be picked. I think she doesn't like feathers. She had a broken leg which had to be fixed and I took her to aquapaws aqua therapy weekly for months. She only works now for short periods and the moment she shows tiredness or limps is let to sleep/rest. Basically like me she's knackered and only does short stints. I'm just recovering from blood poisoning and on the top of my other misseries🤣 a couple of hours sat in a hide followed by about 11 hours sleep is the best I can do. Fresh air i still believe can't cure all, but goes a damm long way to helping. One of my other dogs, this one likes to sit on my knee when I shoot, dogs eh😆

An old but useful saying "Time spent in recce is seldom wasted" Glad you had a good bag

Met my son on the perm after he finished work. 1330, recce, all the birds on stubble unfortunately on or too close to a bridleway that's heavily used. Walked them off a couple of times and they came straight back. Decided to try and decoy them in from further away so set up a hide where we could watch with binos and hopefully the next walkers or horses would put them up. Maybe a quarter mile, safe distance and just off the flight line. Set up by 1445. They where put up 2 or 3 times in the next hour or so. I'd set a deadline of pack up 1600, off by 1630. Eight pigeon, 1 crow all on Lyalvale 30gram pigeon. All picked. Made a change to get the SBS out again. I'd forgot how much of a useful fun gun it is.

If it's any help I've just moved over from paper maps to The Ordnance Survey app. Its about £22 for the year and regularly updated. I'm still exploring it but added 3 pictures from it of the first 'marsh area' I could think of. Differant scales all available fir the same price and at any time one press zeros in to your location. For the first seven days its free with full access. Use it buy it, or bin it. I think it's invaluable for the money.

Thank you👍 I'll look into all recommendations

My RFD has his shop less than a 1000yards away and lives even closer, we're great friends, but he can only order what he can move to maintain a turnover. He's never let me forget buying in Lyalvale 30gram pigeon in plaswad and although I bought 1000 he still has 750 to move. 1 slab in 12 months sold! Since switching to the semi, as they're 65mm they don't recycle. I'm slowly using them when I take the SBS. Thank you👍

I once hired a Jimny in Portugal, smashing little vehicle on and off road. Unfortunately every time I needed to change gear my wife had to lean to one side and we literally sat side by side. Very frugal on fuel too. No room for passengers but as a 1 person shooting wagon, 2 at a push i reckon its as good nearly as my Range Rover.

Nothing wrong with the Turks, the quality is getting better and better and the wood is second to none. That's as far as my opinion runs😄

All my RFD sells is the above. I'm looking for an alternative to lead to try, mostly for corvids. My semi does not recycle anything less than a 3" cartridge, (70mm) regardless of charge. Using 28gram Lyalvale, I often find pricked birds, occasionally clear pigeon leaves pricked Corvids but mostly drops pigeon dead. I like to explore my options, not be restricted to what a dealer can buy cheap and move on quick. Some dealers and shooters have fixed opinions on everything and are not willing to broaden their horizons or try new. A bit like me with new electronic technology 😄

I appreciate your post and agree entirely with it. This will be his first FAC although he has previous Military experience, has been shooting with me since around 10 years old. I gave up in the early 2000s due to work pressure, although to be fair, outside the Army havd never hunted on my own at night. He has the offer of a once or twice weekly mentoring session, work permitting, from the owner of the shooting rights in order to gain supervised experience and hopefully within a year an open ticket. It's not an undertaking he's taking lightly and we've spent over a year setting up permissions, gaining trust and respect from land owners, farmers and owners of shooting rights. He regularly beats, picks up, shoots, shoots vermin inside barns with air rifles and although I'm obviously biased has an excellent reputation in the local shooting community and has done for around 5 years. Little compared to some, but he has actually been asked to get a FAC to help on some of his perms as Air rifle and shotgun are insufficient. He already deer stalks under supervision in Scotland. I want to support him as any Father would, despite him being nearly 40 and running his own business. I consider myself a safe handler of firearms of all types and I'm an ex skill at arms instructor, shooting coach, (not shotguns), and am range qualified. However, I consider him safer than me. This for him is an excellent opportunity to gain experience and take a step upwards in his shooting. Thanks I'll take a look at the Pard

I must admit to having had a laugh at this thread, but now the link is up they look nice for the price. 👍

Hmm, I'm disabled, can't walk more than a couple of vehicle lengths and that's with a stick. I have a blue badge, and am entitled to it.(which incidently is not free, different authorities different fees) Also don't have a lot of movement to my left side. Still it's not my land and driving on crops is just not on. If I can't get to the right spot by driving, I shoot elsewhere and am happy to direct others that can walk to the best spots. It pays back, because when 2 of us turn up, I often get the "Oh you go there, cos you can drive to it today, ill find somewhere else" You have to respect the farmers wishes, respect that others may wish to shoot and if you can't take prime spot let someone else have the benefit of your recce. When you do that, you can hold your head high and maybe someone will show you respect. Giving or showing respect costs me nothing and I get some satisfaction from people getting back to me telling me they had a great day where I put them, despite having to lug heavy kit a mile uphill. Keep the farmer happy, keep your perm, even if it means someone else gets the bigger bag.

Keep the Defender at 2014 it's so new the paints hardly set. Look after the chassis, everything else is just a bolt on DIY job.

+ 3 On the Volvo, unless you need rather than want low ratio.

We had 3 RFDs. One was broken into, decided to sell up. 2nd was broken into, and no comment as the owner is a nice guy but had his licence revoked. 3rd refuses to stock steel (or plaswad) says he can't sell it. That leaves me a few options, Just Cartridges on line or Nevilles at Alfreton an hour away. Or just use lead fibrewad in 21gram or 28gram Lyalvale express and 32gram Clear Pigeon.

Sorry, I think he's buying telescopic sights at the same time as the rifles. .22 Rimfire, Target shooting, Rats and other small vermin. 177 HMR Unsure on this one, but Target, Rabbits, Pigeon, Corvids and possibly Fox and other vermin. .243, Deer Stalking and High seat. Other in time. Permissions already in place for all above except 243 which is high seat only. What I'm after is advice on additions "to". ie: A range finder, possibly hand held rather than mounted A night vision or thermal imager to replace a day time telescopic sight or possibly hand held. At the moment all he has is a large Police approved FAC safe, several permissions and a request for 3 differant calbre rifles. Neither of us have ever used a range finder and are only conversant with Military thermal imagers and night sites. This "site" thing is a whole new world.

And impart useless advice before departing to the mess for cocktails