Krico woodcock

The amount of lead shot litter back them days and even today in rural Ireland would be next to no risk, well compared to England the amount of shots fired, it would only be a pin in the ocean.. so chances of a partridge picking up lead pellet as grit would be near zero, compared to them picking up chemical fertilizers we call" bag stuff " eg 18_6-12 small pellet sized fertilizer they definitely would and definitely did pick and got poisoned one way or another from it. Along with all the major intense agricultural practices habitat destruction etc ..destroyed grey partridge populations.

Correct konor.. and also the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REGIONAL GAME COUNCILS (NARGC)has done and still does huge work on grey partridge projects.. and it was them that advised to take grey partridge of quarry list year's ago. Intensive farming and everything that goes along with it,from the 50's with the use of DDT sprays was the start of the demise of grey partridge. DEFINITELY NOT LEAD PELLETS.

Nice bit of shooting there.

Beautiful, strong, intelligent looking pup. Best of luck 👍

Bought a sack of 16 bore of mixed shells years ago, from a dealer, a recent widow at time handed them in to him, probably about 300 or more in it. €50.. then there was another dealer closing down, got 20 boxes of hull three crowns paper case for €5 a box. But to buy them at the moment off the shelf if you can get them they would be expensive.. the gun doesn't get used often.

That old greener 16 can fairly hammer pigeons (and anything else for that matter) Choked full and full both barrels. Beautiful sweet handling gun

I was looking at the sealed bid. The first couple of sxs in boxlock ejector section are nice webley and scotts, and that's what comes up that there are bids on them, same some sidelock have same. But 90% of the guns I looked at dont.I put a cheeky bid on a sxs. Well see tomorrow if it comes up trumps 🙂

Kavanagh on the right, trulock and Harris on left .both made in Dublin . greener 16 bore hammer on top. My work horse. Winchester 23 supergrade.

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Mmm. I definitely am not accustomed to how the sealed bid process works. But to me you can see if someone has put in a bid. Or maybe I'm looking at the thing completely wrong. I only registered with holts a week ago.. all very new to me.

I'm following and tracking some guns in colts auction, tomorrow. There seems to be hardly any bids on the guns. Is this normal, do people bid last minute or is no interest in the guns?

Beautiful gun.

There's dozens of them down at the lake now. Seen the first 2 flying round the house yesterday.

Well done.. A hide in middle of a bare field would never, ever work over here. No way pigeons would fall into that trap. Even if they had never been shot at.

Lovely snap marsh man,I think if shooting, wildfowling, is in your blood , dog's will be too. I couldn't imagine life without dogs in it. All mine are hard working dogs in the shooting season, but are my friends and companions all year round. Get another pup mash man, you owe it to yourself .. Below is bramble, snap was taken near end of December just gone. he is 12 in June. He is my eldest dog at the moment. He still gets out for a good run, as he is as keen as he was at 3 years old. All be it he is stone deaf.And he still does what he's bred to do, be it ducks or woodcock.. I'd like to see him do another bit come this season, because like all good working dogs, they live to work. Even in their dreams their working.