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I often have a shotgun in a slip bungeed to my mountain bike frame for visiting local shooting land in North Wales. I also use a motorbike with the slip over my shoulder, it adds to the look having a camo jacket on over the leathers

I went for the higher spec Jack Pyke countryman game bag. Stronger materials, better design (IMHO)... been well pleased with it. http://www.springfields.co.uk/jack-pyke/bags/?id=4635

I had a kestral land in the middle of my pattern, walk up to a decoy and swipe it over with his talons. It did the same to another one before flying off. Also saw a bat grab my mates trout spinner in mid cast on a small river pool at dusk; flew a bit before dropping it.

I've have 2 HW77ks over the years... a fantastic rifle. Hope you have plenty of fun. I ended up using one of the Bisley pellets in .22... it was a shortish semi dome and a touch lighter so gave a great trajectory.

I put a neoprene sling on my .410 moderated pump. They have a little stretch/bounce to them so are very comfy when on rough ground. Wouldn't like to see a sling on my decent OU though but on a workhorse they are great.

Telephone cables on the other hand are much easier to damage.

I've used Blackpool Air Rifles in the past. I've found that the only difference between AA Fields 4.52 and Logun Penetrators in my rifle is the slight extra drop due to the heavier weight. Group size was identical and the Loguns really seem to do the trick for live quarry. I keep the Fields for practice though as they are cheaper.

I bought a 7lt bottle as it will keep me going for some time and the rifle is mostly used for hunting (no need to take bottle in car). A 300 bar bottle can also be filled to 232 bar if the dive shop can't do the higher pressures.

I shot a rabbit with the pump using std 2.5" carts. Another rabbit sitting 10 feet away didn't even move until the first rabbit kicked in the vegetation.

Oh... I only have a single bead so no figure 8 view to line up.

Well seeing as if there is a small population they have never caused any harm to the human population I'd tend to leave it alone. Good luck to it.

I like to see a little rib with my guns; my Beretta SP3 is between the sporting and trap rib view on that vid and seems to aim bang in the middle of the pattern. I'd suspect that if you see (or not as the case may be) a totally flat rib then you have no precise sense of where the barrels are pointing (although if your mount is perfect this may not matter too much).

I use a Mossberg pump and love it, especially in wet or freezing weather when I don't want to expose an expensive air rifle to lots of nasty conditions. I find the 2.5" cart to sound a little quiter than even the 3" subs to be honest... at least close up. I shot one rabbit at 22 yds and another sitting 10 feet away didn't move until the first one kicked a few times in the bracken.

If you have any sort of stone wall or outbuilding around the place just protect them, wedge them in a niche or chiselled slot and cement or plaster them over. No chance of being found and a few taps with a hammer will easily uncover them. Overkill I know.. but damn safe

Well... on the other hand... I use a decent gun grease and find that mine are ok with cleaning every 5 outings. No fouling whatsoever inside the threads although the grease can discolour due to the heat from a session on the clays. My first Beretta 303 semi many years ago hardly ever had it's tubes cleaned and they were still perfect when I sold it.

Full fitting hose, gauge and bleed for A clamp and DIN is £52.95 in the case of Uttings. Also look at BAR site. Watch out for p&p costs. All fittings seem to be approx the same price. http://www.uttings.com/?categories/Shootin...flesPrecharged/

I always keep my adjustable at 6x. Just seems to be the best all round mag fo airgun ranges and alternating from standing to prone shots.

Shake a half empty box of matches from side to side to mimic their call. Doesn't half bring 'em in.

There are plenty of GPS tracking collars for dogs available now, tells you direction and distance. Easy release options for working in cover to prevent snags. Look at http://www.retrievatracking.com/dog_tracking_collars.aspx or http://www.britishdog.net/gbu0-catshow/GPS...g_Collars.html#

As said above.. .each person is different. I tend to rush the swing a bit and find that 30" barrels smooth out any tendency to snatch at the target. And I can still snap shot with it at close range with no problem. Here's a thought... do people with a skinnier athletic body shape prefer longer barrels than folk with a heavier structure and does this relate to the speed of swinging the upper body?

However, I helped an RSPCA inspector catch a seagull with a hole in it's wing that had landed in an old couples garden. Black backed gull. There was a village tip nearby and he just said that it was probably pest shooting, he agreed they were pests and said he'd kill it out of sight of the people who reported it. Some of the old guard know the score and aren't against shooting.

I saw one the other day close to Wrexham in North Wales. Hope it doesn't make it's way up to higher ground.

Necrophilia among ducks ruffles research feathers. The strange case of the homosexual necrophiliac duck pushed out the boundaries of knowledge in a rather improbable way when it was recorded by Dutch researcher Kees Moeliker. It may have ruffled a few feathers, but it earned him the coveted Ig Nobel prize for biology awarded for improbable research, and next week he will be recounting his findings to UK audiences on the Ig Nobel tour. Ducks behave pretty badly, it seems. It is not so much that up to one in 10 of mallard couples are homosexual - no one would raise an eyebrow in the liberal Netherlands - but they regularly indulge in "attempted rape flights" when they pursue other ducks with a view to forcible mating. "Rape is a normal reproductive strategy in mallards," explains Mr Moeliker. As he recounts in his seminal paper, The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard anas platyrhynchos, he was in his office in the Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, when he was alerted by a bang to the fact a bird had crashed into the glass facade of the building. "I went downstairs immediately to see if the window was damaged, and saw a drake mallard (anas platyrhynchos) lying motionless on its belly in the sand, two metres outside the facade. The unfortunate duck apparently had hit the building in full flight at a height of about three metres from the ground. Next to the obviously dead duck, another male mallard (in full adult plumage without any visible traces of moult) was present. He forcibly picked into the back, the base of the bill and mostly into the back of the head of the dead mallard for about two minutes, then mounted the corpse and started to copulate, with great force, almost continuously picking the side of the head. "Rather startled, I watched this scene from close quarters behind the window until 19.10 hours during which time (75 minutes) I made some photographs and the mallard almost continuously copulated his dead congener. He dismounted only twice, stayed near the dead duck and picked the neck and the side of the head before mounting again. The first break (at 18.29 hours) lasted three minutes and the second break (at 18.45 hours) lasted less than a minute. At 19.12 hours, I disturbed this cruel scene. The necrophilic mallard only reluctantly left his 'mate': when I had approached him to about five metres, he did not fly away but simply walked off a few metres, weakly uttering a series of two-note 'raeb-raeb' calls (the 'conversation-call' of Lorentz 1953). I secured the dead duck and left the museum at 19.25 hours. The mallard was still present at the site, calling 'raeb-raeb' and apparently looking for his victim (who, by then, was in the freezer)." Mr Moeliker suggests the pair were engaged in a rape flight attempt. "When one died the other one just went for it and didn't get any negative feedback - well, didn't get any feedback," he said. His findings have provoked a lot of interest - especially in Britain for some reason - but no other recorded cases of duck necrophilia. However, Mr Moeliker was informed of an American case involving a squirrel and a dead partner, although in this case it is not known whether the necrophilia observed was homosexual or not as the victim had been run over by a truck shortly before the incident. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/m...cation.research

In one of Angela Carter's short stories a woman demanded her favourite omelettes made with rabbit foetuses.

For winter the Jack Pike camo jacket is quiet, waterproof and around £60. For summer just wear a long sleeve camo shirt.