CumbrianWildfowler

Has anyone got any load data or pointers for Tungsten Matrix for a 28 bore? TIA

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Agree guys, But as you will well know getting any dog is a big life move and I can’t magic up a trained Labrador out of thin air. Hopefully in 2025. Maybe more luck than being good but I have genuinely only lost 1 duck this season out of a quite a number. Between the plastic kayak and a bit of luck we have got by and we didn’t lose any this day either.

Well if you're really interested the work BASC have done or have already done with management plan templates etc have saved my probably hundreds of hours devising and authoring it all myself. Then setting up meetings with Natural England on my behalf and chairing the meetings themselves. Contacts. networks and other knowledge. I have a busy job and all that would have taken me a load of time scratching my head to write the reports that were essentially written in draft for me. All for a very reasonable annual fee. Hence why I rate them and all the work they do on our behalf. Barf all you want mate. Im the one that's laughing.

Worth every penny and more I can tell you. Would be cheap at 10 x the price. I've seen that first hand this season. Really can't say enough about the team. Thanks BASC.

TSS is to lead what lead is to Steel, in that its density is 18g/cc where lead is 11. So the bare physics give it more killing power at longer ranges. So most people go up pellet sizes because of this and this fills out the pattern. No. 7 seems the common size for geese, but 8s , 9s and even 10s have killed greylag geese stone dead for me. The advantage is the pattern density you get because lots of small pellets can be used. Downsides, it’s eye wateringly expensive and patterns very tightly under 30 yards. If most of your shots are under 30 yards I’m not sure you’d need it because anything will work at those ranges including steel and even rock salt! Just my thoughts and in this case it makes a small gauge a viable option for wildfowling.

I got a Keela Belay Mk 5 (the 4's are very similar) after advice on here from other wildfowlers. I've never had a jacket as warm or as waterproof. The military use them. I got mine from a squaddie. I've had most of the main brands of jacket for game shooting etc. Don't bother with anything else. It will be the best 200 quid you spend. Literally not a drop gets through. I have a Mark 4 Keela parachute for the warmer weather. Highly recommended.

Thank you, I think knowing you only have 2 shots sharpens the mind, as you may have alluded to before with the 3 shot blitz! Side by sides just seem to swing naturally, for me at least.

ha, thanks!

I didn't mean leave decoys in the water, I meant I leave them in a bag under a bush on private land where no other fowler should be, and if I found someone employing 'fair chase' I'd chase them into the creek and they would be the landfill, you'd find that unpopular but its what you would get! Sorry something may have been lost in translation? We are in the UK and talking about plain theft or Marshman was at least. Where I am the local wildfowlers all seem a decent bunch (its a small world), anyway the question was cleaning mud scum off the decoys. Rabbit hole?!

Im just wary of chemicals with the paint? just bathroom soap? fairy liquid?

A low act indeed. I do have a couple of stashing points so I don't have to carry them all off every time, and the very real threat that I'd drown any thief in the creek if they dared. But they are attracting quite a tide scum of mud so I have brought them all back for a spruce up. The last time it was hard work hence the question.