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  1. Just returned from walking the dog along the canal, during which I was shoulder charged by a cyclist on a mountain bike with very wide handle bars. I’m sure that in the 50s/60s we were ousted by the Police for riding the tow path. Being told it was for horses and boat people. I am aware that the Canal and River Trust now allow them to ride at no cost. My question is was it illegal and did they change the statute book ?? Over to the clever people who can search for these things RANT OVER
  2. Due to a none conclusive MRI scan, I had the full three , front ,back and throat. Not on the same day thank God nothing unusual found. Following my collapse in December I had a CT and a PET Scan which found my bone and blood cancer but confirmed that my prostrate is OK. It would appear that the best way to find out is to go in and look using the latest equipment.
  3. Well done for an interesting days shooting, the corvids will find if it’s not to hard.
  4. The in hide banter usually goes “ don’t miss this one” and you do or you “ pillowcase it”
  5. Well done Daz, you went with your hunch and it paid off, just take more cartridges next time!!
  6. Well done JDog cracking reports of your outings, keep going.
  7. I’m not sure what he is shooting. I was using a Beretta 682 Gold E 30” 1/4 and 1/2.
  8. I had a call from Bunny_Basher in the week to share a hide on a shared permission . We arranged to meet on Friday morning . We met up at just after 11.00 and set out to view the field of rape stubble which B_B had seen a good number of birds on in the week. As we drove round the field the birds were flighting across it but not many actually down in fact the stubble was greening up well. We watched it for a good twenty minutes and the flighting was continuous. So we chose a spot on the edge of a dell in the centre of the field. I had eleven real birds as decoys and set up the magnet and the rest on cradles above the rape stalks with three flying frame coming to both sides of the pattern. We set the pattern close to the hide. It must have been 13.00 when we actually started shooting and the birds came well within shot. I was shooting Express 28gram 5s and B_B was shooting 24gram 6s RC Steel. Some of the shots he dropped had “ Space Suits” on, very impressive . We both had decoy shots that you know your not on the bird well and you still fire two shots at it, WHY!!! It was a pleasant relaxed enjoyable day with lots of banter and good shooting. We finished at 17.00 and picked up 141 birds and I managed to take a picture before the hide was dismantled.
  9. Finally the Greek Government Minister has admitted that the fires are man made, BBC a news this morning.Will they compensate all the holidaymakers???
  10. Good point, will all the lamp posts have charge points??.
  11. On my last trip down to Greece , the car told me to take a break!!!!
  12. Just thinking outside the box to the day that we all go electric, with a few questions as follows:- Will we have a standard battery pod we can exchange at a refuelling station? Will we be able to recycle the old battery ? A recent recycling centre was opened in the Black Country and they had a fire due to batteries being lifted in woven sacks and the contact touched. If we all charge at home at night will the heat generated in the mains stop the roads freezing? Will electric cars be subjected to some form of jamming to prevent over speeding?
  13. JDog you should never say “ I wish I’d “
  14. Yes , the crops I shot in the past were standing with the ears sprouting due to the constant rain and the combine not able to work the land to to the incline. Thanks for your replies.
  15. Just a question, in the past I’ve been lucky to shoot fields of barley and wheat which have not been combined and the seed regrows. My question is if the harvest is delayed by the rain will it re germinate??
  16. The acorn crop by us is very poor so I’m hoping they will be on the rape!!
  17. I try not to use a magnet or flappers if I can, just natural birds. OK you loose 12 birds per session but they usually decoy well from the start. If not then you use mechanicals to draw them in. When you read other shooters reports the first two shot go on the magnet, that would imply that every decoy pattern in the country has a magnet. For example five come to your pattern two shot, three spooked it must have an effect. Here in the Midlands they see a lot of shooters/patterns so they must learn. We currently have a good number of juvenile birds about and they will decoy just as a safety in numbers thing. Well done the hitman for going out and reporting, you were beaten by the efficiency of the farmer.
  18. It’s a well known fact that developers buy wooded land as it is cheep then have a wild fire and clear the land and apply for building. I have been involved with fires in the past and the coastal winds are the problem and water access, fire planes drop sea water on the fires but with the wind it soon reignites. At the rear of our property is a church on a small hill some years ago I was on the balcony with the helicopters dropping water on three fires on three sides of the hill. How can three fires start on there own?????
  19. I had a call on Tuesday , hundreds on the barley, agreed to attend on Wednesday after therapy in the morning. Arrived ay 13.00 and scanned the farm no birds, as the farmer came out and informed me that they were on the far edge of the farm so loaded my trolley and pressed the button. This farm will not let me drive the land as he has obstacles to prevent visitors borrowing his equipment. So eventually I reach the field and see where the birds have been in the downed patches but nothing visible. I put a couple of shots up in each direction about 6 birds lifted out of the trees and that’s all. I watched for an hour nothing so trekked back and left the farm I did check the barley and it was stone hard so they must have found some wheat. I decided to have a drive around checking other farms, as I drove up to the last one on the way home the farmer met me and said they were on his wheat so I went and had a look. It was true they were on the wheat but it had no holes in it . It had approx 150 birds just flying over and dropping in the tram track or lying wings outstretched on the top and this was happening all over three fields. It was well past 16.00 so I decided to shoot it on Friday due to other commitments. I arrived and it had a smaller amount of birds still evident all over the wheat, the one thing we had was a wind and the birds were flighting along a bank of trees. Now this farmer has OCD and will not let you walk in the crop or even damage fences or hedges . I know of other shooters who have been banned for this. So the plan was to replicate the feeding birds on the wheat and put decoys on cradled all in the tram lines. Then to shoot birds above me or to the side to drop them off the crop on the grass. Luckily the badgers have been using this corner of the field as a latrine and I could position my flyers off the tram lines without damage caused by me. It was a long day and you had to hold off shooting just to get them to drop in the right place I did loose approx ten birds. One positive was that I have a good number of Fiocchi 32Gram 5s which tend to stick in my Beretta and DBs Browning so I took my Mossberg Pump out with me and all went well other than forgot to pump occasionally. They work in DBs and Bunny_Bashers Auto. I finished the day at 18.00 and picked up 61 birds.
  20. Interesting subject, with respect to laid barley. I have talked to a few farmers and they are using shorter plants and less fertiliser and also growth restrictions to prevent this. I have one farmer who direct drills in a very close pattern as his theory is that if the plants are close they support themselves. Will the spraying effect the taste of the seed for the pigeons or affect them??
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