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on two occasions I've been decoying and had random walkers come right in front of the hide. Although I had been shooting there was a quiet spell. I hadn't noticed these people and suddenly they saw the flock of decoys and stopped. I think that they were sure that these pigeons should have flown away. One clapped hands and the walkers seemed entranced that the pigeon had taken no notice of them. It was at this point that one of the walkers decided to climb over the wire fence to investigate the hypnotised decoys. This was a situation of the decoys decoying the people. I couldn't let this happen and matey strain the fence or risk him leaving body parts on the fence. I made my presence known to these walkers and they were surprised that I was there and they were there and the decoys were there. I redirected them back to the footpath and the route to go and carried on shooting. Still at least I could be sure that I had done a good job of the hide, but there again it showed how blind people are/can be.
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35 minutes ago, samboy said:
High gang.
Do you lose much optical quality when looking through bino's through a window as opposed to looking through them in the open ?.
Thanks all.
Lots of variables involved. Light levels, angle through the glass, residues on the glass, quality of the binos, distances and what you expect to see. What are you looking at.?
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Again it depends on the situation. I generally can't get on with anything overhead but I can remember one Instance where I was pigeon shooting over rape. A bright sunny day with blue sky and a small amount of snow. The only way to shoot was from a dry ditch with a steep cut bank next to a track. There was no wind and the birds were approaching high and coming down Almost vertically. I was totally visible in the hide and without cover the birds sheared away so I rigged a couple of hidesticks into the hedge straight out and drooped a net over. It did help with the birds seeing me but I couldn't shoot through the Net. eventually what i did was to move up and over the bank/hedge and I made a hide with a net roof but no front. Relying on the natural hedge. Weird shooting the falling birds. Similar to duck coming onto a pond.
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That's a lot of extreme fox drives. Were they left over from goose shooting before the lead ban.?
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2 boxes.? So how many primers in total.?
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I joke not. There's a couple that mooch around and all you can see is their illuminated faces. Considering that there was a sink hole in a main road and the fowl drain is about 15 ... 20 ft deep there would be no return. Also what's the point of putting up signs no one takes a blind bit of notice. If kwis deems that it's his human right to roam through your wood do you really 5hink that he'll take any notice..?
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8 foot up in,a tree.? No one is going to see it up there considering everyone walks along looking at the ground 2ft in front of them or looking at their mobile... ALL of the time... Put it flat on the ground at least it will be seen by some and they wont have to chuck it on the ground. I've seen people walking along the footpath in the dark looking at their phone. It could be possible that they would fall down an open manhole.
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The Internet preditor sounds don't seem to resemble anything natural. I have an electric caller and the only thing that it ever called in was an owl which nearly took my mates hat off. I had this once when I was hand calling Charlie. I never saw it, I never heard it. My owl brushed my hat and scared the residue out of me. I can call a charlie with hand or various squeaker but the Internet sounds just sound like some old boy. Making a load of random noises. I used to try sounds out on the dogs and there were only a couple that they were interested in. I found that squeakys cut out of various toys worked well. I found that calling was a combination of light levels, wind direction, background and luck. Also it is how much and how long the call lasts generally is important. If it is to much Charlie can get spooked and go. educated to the danger.
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My sister had goldfish in a garden pond and she found a large grass snake wastak8ng the fish. She used a (sort of cone) net and caught the blighter. She took it down a couple of large fields away (1/4) mile away to a small river and let it loose on the bank. Two days later a snake was back in her pond. She thought that it looked like the one that she had taken away, so she captured the blighter again and this time she painted an X on its head with nail varnish. The miscreant was taken off to the river again. Two days later the identified beast was back...? this time the painted snake was taken several miles away. I don't think that it found its way back this time.
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Thank you very much. The book arrived this morning. Although I have shot for many years years, different ideas can be useful.
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Yes I have heard the term (bagging hook ) used. The advent of two stroke machinery sort of consigned slashers, (bagging) hooks (swaps) ,scythes bilhooks and aĺ sorts of hand tools to rust away or auctions of stuff when grandads passed away. These old tools can still be bought but they aren't generally a patch on the old ones made by a local black smith or in Sheffield. Because they take time and hard work to use, people might have a go for ten minutes before they give up. If you watch videos of using a full size scythe it is an art to sharpen and effectively use one.
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30 minutes ago, wisdom said:
An Allen sythe was a great bit of kit just had to keep the knives sharp and oiled.Would clear just about anything other than trees.
One of my brother in laws had an orchard and an older orchard that had various plums and gages some of which had died off and were old stumps out there. Occasionally the Allen would encounter something SOLID and the DOGS just wouldn’t release and the Allen would morph into a bulldozer. The operator had no choice other than to short the ignition and wrestle the scythe back a bit to disengage the dogs and drag the beast off of the obstacle hidden in the grass and reset. A bygone era.
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On 02/04/2024 at 19:01, TIGHTCHOKE said:
So then, what is a swap?
A swap is a sort of hand tool cross between a sickle and a scythe. Years ago before the advent of the 2T strimmer the majority of people who had a house or land owned one. People didn't generally have a petrol mower. They had push mowers but when the grass got too long you had to get it under control somehow. One of the son in laws said that it was good that I had one but he would much rather use the electric mower. Try that on grass that is up to your knees. For larger areas such paddocks or orchards an Allen scythe was the tool. ...go on.. what's an Allen Scythe. A bygone era. I've taken a few pictures of the SWAP, sharpening stone and swap stick... which is used to hold the grass back, sort of a comb. I'll see about posting the pictures later.
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That is very generous of you. I would love to read it and pass it on to a youngster. I'll pm details.
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We Were only commenting the other day at the family Easter get together about how years ago no one had a lot of anything and how the wife's father used to cut the lawns by hand with a swap. The son in laws all said what is a swap.?
I blame myself for allowing my daughters to marry them.
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1 hour ago, Stephen-H said:
First cut soon for mine is it worth using the grass bag?
I have in the past just left the cut stuff on top as it gets cut again within a week normally when it's in full growing swing.
Can usually fill the waste bin with one full cut of the grass
The grass Shute will just get clogged because the grass is so wet and long. It's better to tie open the back flap and rake it up. Then into the bin. I've never seen a year like it.
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The power strimmer has another job to do. We went for a walk with one of the daughters today and ended up at hers. The grass on the lawn was so long and wet that it is beyond mower control. It needs something akin to an Allen scythe. I volunteered to bring the 2T strimmer up and get it under control for them. There is a potential problem in that Mabel her cocker had a very very urgent semi liquid midnight unloading session out there in the middle of a torrential rainstorm So it sort of melted into the grass. I. Have asked her to find the item and mark it with a stick so that strimmer and item don't encounter and I encounter the item. It could be like something hitting the fan. Perhaps the item has been washed into the soil.
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Where are you (roughly). What batteries does this take.?
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What is this powder suitable for.?
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I have cut the lawns 3 times now. The back lawn which gets the sun, if there is any was getting so long and it was not drying out....SO... I got the power strimmer with a long line and reduced the length and raked the grass with a spring tine rake. This went into the garden bin. I managed to use the rotary on a high cut on the front lawn. The rain has given over the last week and yesterday it was HOT so everything has gone mad in the garden. Roll on global warming!
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Lovely dogs ... But (roughly ) where are you in the country. a county would do.
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Someone has been arrested and charged with the above. BBC News - Broughton: Man arrested after dead animals dumped in front of shop
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It's all a bit academic now because the gun sale has been retracted but it aroused my interest because I have a 325, so, I went and got it out and low & behold my gun which is a 325 G5 has Utah stamped on the barrel. I took about 20 pictures of the barrel to try to capture the image but it is difficult to get the focus & light correct to be able to see . I don't know if the stamping will show but it reads Browning Arms Company Morgan Utah & Montreal.PQ
Edit.. if you use 2 fingers you can spread,stretch the picture to zoom up 5he inscription.
Binocular Question ?.
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Well if you've got the binoculars go and look through the window with and without and see what the difference is.