Krico woodcock

Beautiful

Did you fish the ridge pool ?

Exactly, for me and many on here, shooting, fishing is a way of life, someone quoted it on here it isn't, its just a hobby, we have shops for food etc.. Maybe for a good majority that go for a ramble now and again, and have a gundog that is a pet 99% of the time is a hobby. But when you arrange your whole winter ,hold back as many holiday/ annual leave days so you can get more shooting in during the week ,breed your own gundogs fo 30 + years, and you and your family genuinely enjoy eating game and fowl rather than shop bought meat, and beautiful fresh trout etc. When your not doing it , your thinking, planning for it, well yes it is a way of life, that has been ingrained from past generations. It really is in your blood. And I for one will fight as hard as I can to hold on to " my way of life".. because I couldn't imagine life without shooting or fishing. But especially shooting. As we all know Our world is gone WOKE, and to be considerate of everyone rights.. wel its my right to go out on a windy evening to shoot a fat pair of mallard and to eat them..

In this modern eara nearly every river has some form of pollution, some desperately devastated, our "uisce eireann " are nearly the worst culprits, along of course with agriculture.. but still alot in good enough order. And hold plenty of Trout. I like to fish wilder mountain rivers and mountain lochs.. some lovely rivers, lochs over in the west were you were, and the moy was a mecca at one time for salmon, alas was a different world back then, now the salmon have depleted to critical low numbers.

Lovely way to spend a few hours.. never done much ferreting, but done plenty with springers hunting rabbit's, top class sport, completely underrated, sadly we have no rabbit's anymore. RHD 🤬

Have ordered a quantity of mixed flies from above, mostly wets, few nymphs, hopefully good quality, very reasonably priced. Counting the days till 1st of March.. hopefully have a bit of luck, and a couple of trout sizzling in butter..

Yes Scully winchesters are addictive. I bought my first winchester 23 supergrade sxs 20 year's ago. I was on the look out for one a long time before that. They were a gun of choice here by alot of clay shooting men in the mid to late 80's. 101 supergrade trap. Mostly DTL and springing teal etc back then. So I got to have a go with a few of them when I was a young lad /teenager that was mid to late 90's. But one man had a pigeon grade sxs , and I loved it, so I vowed to buy one, one day.. I had found a couple of examples but they were wrecked, and extortionate price! Then one day I was into a small dealer, I was in with him regularly, buying cartridges, I browsed the shelves as I always did, he would have some good guns at very reasonable money, there she was, a sleeper, immaculate Winchester 23 supergrade sxs 🥰, I picked it up i says " how much " he's says €650 , I says, SOLD, put my Name on it quickly, gave him deposit, got paper work. The said dealer, wasn’t a big gun dealer, he sold cartridges, guns, fixed and sold lawnmowers, chainsaw etc, but was always busy, was a decent man, died near 7 years ago. Anyway I got my supergrade 23 and since then I have done a ALOT of shooting with it at everything, only a couple of minor issues with it over 20 years that were easily fixed . I wouldn't be without that gun, infact I got opportunity to buy another 23 supergrade last year, another virtually unused, tight as a tail on a cat, I couldn't turn up the chance, bought it too, for bargain price..

Two lovely Winchester 23's and really are v cheap , for such clean strong guns.

Trees down everywhere, as well as forestry plantations flattened . Buildings, houses, sheds badly damaged,roofs destroyed ,ripped off, gable walls even collapsed .Still alot of people without power and water, some may have to wait till next weekend till restored, our power back on at around 11 this morning..

What type of a oven do you use, i assume its a AGA.. I have air fryer, its lidl own brand, and its handy for cooking certain things.. everything thing else is cooked on rangemaster, gas ovens, gas hobs.. gas oven in my opinion is a far better way to cook over a fan assisted oven, as in leaves meat etc far more moist, fan electric wants to dry everything out.. my home house has a rayburn royal , oil cooker, again lovely to cook on. My grandparents house, which my auntie now owns, always had a rayburn solid fuel cooker, my grandmother could turn out scrumptious food out of that, my aunt can also.. but I was also fortunate to know a woman, all my life till she died, who done all her cooking over a open turf/ stick fire in small irish cottage, with all traditional Irish cooking utensils, cast iron skillets, etc hung on a crook, crane, over open fire, the food that old woman could turn out was out of this world, brown soda bread , white soda bread, wheaten bread, apple, rhubarb tarts, potato bread, boxty, and a load of other stuff, that was just the baking, then she turn out a fried breakfast like no other, as well a as any dinner,, she would do a mix a teal, woodcock, snipe, in one of those skillets, and i tell you this, you would eat bones and all.. she came from a time when women in Ireland could make a meal out of nothing, because they had very little.. when she died 17 years ago that was a end of a eara..

All the way it is packed before freezing.. anything properly vacum packed will last a long time in freezer, without any harm to the meat.. as for air fryer, pigeon breast, could dry it out, I'd rub some olive oil on them first, and season, before putting in airfryer. Air fryers work better with, meat with higher fat content, eg pork chops, sausages etc,

Its the worst Ireland has seen, in , modern times anyway. Alot of the country no power. It has done serious widespread damage.

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Its sounds and looks like you had a great bond and rapport with your dogs. And I'm sure you got the very best out of them. And they were given a great life in return.

They definitely seem to be having a great time, along with the terriers skulking about..Did you breed them yourself? I have same line of springer for 30 years.