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Ahh yes, I always over complicate these things 🤣

With the dremmel?

At worst you could contact Eddie Kania, Chairman of NW GSP, he used to run English Pointers but has been into HPRs for some time now. I don’t know any contacts for English Pointers but I know the GWCT guys run them when counting the same moors we count. I have personally never seen an English pointer on a lowland shoot, there must be some about.

From cover to cover many times. I bought it second hand before I bought my first HPR.

It’s not your fieldcraft but your permissions that really key to shooting big bags. The best recconasaince, pattern and hide in the world are worthless if the pigeons aren’t feeding on any of the land you have permission to shoot over. Consistent big bags are possible, but you need a lot of land to go at and be selective over where you shoot. If you only decoy pigeons in your back garden big bags will never be possible. I shot more woodies in two hours (100+) on one field last summer than I did for the rest of the year combined in a very frustrating harvest season. Was just the right place at the right time and then always in the wrong place at the wrong time. Jinx! Just posted almost that sentiment exactly at the same time.

A great book and a brilliant gentleman. The film @London Best mentions is well worth watching on YouTube. He lived up near my wife’s uncle (the former heir to Earl of Craven title) and mixed in similar circles. Hence the title of my old thread:

I get frustrated that I only have say 7 good permissions on small arable land. They are all cut pretty much the same time and depending upon work I may miss the best days. I have to book dates to shoot with my family well in advance and the weather or pigeons may not be turn out to be amendable. If I was retired I would probably shoot less and go for more walks with the dogs on the land, looking and deciding what days would suit to shoot. I would still take my gun but wouldn’t set up unless you have 100+ birds on the deck, a string flight line and birds trying to come back in even once clapped off.

It’s good and natural to vent. I understand your frustration and upset. I also understand then business’s rationale. Everyone is making hard decisions. One of my staff spoke to me yesterday about something and openly complained to me that I’d only brought her off furlough because of ‘XXXX’ - some baloney she had invented. I told her ‘no, I put everyone on furlough at the outset. Once I was able to bring some people back I did so, I kept you on furlough as you are one of the most expensive members of staff. As soon as the rules changed I brought everyone who was still furloughed back in and then made all staff furloughed part time. When we had the work I brought everyone back full time but reserve the right to furlough again.” I am only thinking of the business case, not of the personal circumstances or the unfairness of it all. I may still have to make some redundant in the next 12 months depending on what happens with demand, I would rather we all took a pay cut or worked part time before doing that however. The funny thing is I could probably close my business and get myself a better paid (but less rewarding) job easily. I don’t because I’m trying to keep everyone in employment and all of our mortgages paid.

Feline bulimia?

I’ve shot big days and small days, I always take a photo of the bag regardless of size. It’s easy then to evidence your anecdotes. Shot to kill ratio on the other hand is much more skewed, only Jacko seems to admit to missing any!

Yes, they are not actually available to purchase but just listed on the website. I meant it was interesting that they have appeared with that translation and wondered if we had helped.

Seems odd... https://www.decathlon.co.uk/pigeon-shooting-ground-level-id_8597827.html

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With love? 🤔

I spent (well insurance) £4K to fix a broken knee on my 5 year old dog. He’s now 10 and still working so well worth it. If he wasn’t insured it would have been the bullet for him (figure of speech).

I agree completely, wait until you want to kill to make a single move. Better for shooting, as the mount is part of the swing, and also less likely to spook the birds.

To shoot well you need to have a few techniques in your armoury. Different situations will favour different types of shot. You can’t really snap shoot with maintained lead on a bird bursting over from behind your hide and through the next tree. Your eye needs to learn and it become subconscious. It’s a bit like driving a car and consciously thinking about how many °s you need to rotate the steering wheel etc. I find on busy days I shoot well, when I don’t have time to dwell on last miss. Yesterday started very fast, 6 birds with first 7 cartridges. Then it slowed down and my shooting went south. All the easy birds killed but kept “measuring lead” and being indecisive on the long birds, waiting to see if they would come in. On a fast day you wouldn’t worry about those that flight past, either kill it at range or leave it - but on slow days they mess with your head.

I’m not homophobic, I happily shoot gay pigeons and straight pigeons all the same. I don’t have a TV so cannot comment on that assuming it is scheduled broadcasting and not a feature film.

That’s the most important aspect, having a good time not kill to cartridge ratio.

I refreshed my wood pigeon decoys by mixing my children’s acrylic paint by eye. Thy ended up looking like a stock doves in a bad drag act. Still worked fine.

I know what you mean. His reticle is definitely low, whilst the swing through issue / lack of lead is to do with human error. It takes practice and @Jacko3275 is getting better.

Will be interesting to see your results.

I enjoyed that spat and learnt something from it. Well done all involved for keeping it clean. “You know when you’ve been Fandango’d” 🤣

Good result. I was out yesterday in the storm for an hour. My hide didn’t survive and the birds were rockets. Wind was 50mph+, got a few but packed up as it was getting silly. As soon as a bird flared it was well out of range. Impressed you hit so many.

My taste may be rusticated, but that is an ugly stock figure and tone. Far too garish. The socks look great but at that price I would want an attractive young blonde to knit them in situ on my feet.