tosspot Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 how times have changed, no rotaries, peckers or battery powered flappers when i started, (although wouldn't be without em now ) what can you guys remember from yesteryear how about those crappy charcoal handwamers that went out after 10 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirky640 Posted February 13, 2006 Report Share Posted February 13, 2006 (edited) i have heard tales of old as well i have heard the old school used to use grey guttering to decoy our feathered friends to a field yuo know the ones that run round the roof of youre house to cach the rain water kirky :thumbs: cut into short lengths pigeon like lengths Edited February 14, 2006 by kirky640 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 I remember when I didn't want to break a bluey LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 .....and it was a bas**** to cut that cast iron guttering to shape,never mind carrying 50 across a field.................youth of today,too bl00dy easy thats what they`ve got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 First "cammo net" was cut open hessian sacks, nailed on to 2x2 and rolled up.Rather heavy to carry, especially when wet. You could set this lightish tan coloured hide against a dark green hedge and the pigeons wouldn't even blink (so much for Realtree etc). It was also customary to have more permanent hides in the early days. As the crops changed in the fields, you repaired and then moved into the new hide. Throwing a dead pigeon out, as birds appeared to be passing the decoys by. Archie Coats did in this in the "Jacks Way" video, which was made many years after we were doing it. The Farmer gave us the cartridges to shoot the pigeons with. Some of us even got paid a small amount per 10 birds shot.....sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new to the flock Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Henryd, also remembers walking uphill to school ....bothways....with a hot coal in his mouth to light the stove when he got there. Luxury He use to have to eat a cold bowl of gravel for breakfast, while living in a card board box at the bottom of the lake as well.....Luxury the old days were NTTF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catamong Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 I remember getting 50p a bird back in the 70's - there was a thriving market as they all went for export to France in those days, but EEC regs have now killed off the trade. Eley Grand Prix 6's were about £70 per 1000, so if you had a good day over decoys, you could have enough to replace all of your shells, and get ****** on the leftovers..!! I also remember 5 shot auto's - I had a Remmy 1100, super gun..!!, you used to burn up a lot more ammo if you had 5 up the spout. Flappers - I used the "Sid Semark" flapper, as sold by WAGBI....who..??, operated by pulling a string from the hide. I also remember when Oilseed Rape was first grown - there was only one farm in the area that had it on a 30 acre field, I couldn't believe how much the birds liked it, we put out bale hides and had some super days. Cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 Henryd, also remembers walking uphill to school ....bothways....with a hot coal in his mouth to light the stove when he got there. Luxury He use to have to eat a cold bowl of gravel for breakfast, while living in a card board box at the bottom of the lake as well.....Luxury the old days were NTTF You had it easy NTTF. Wont say anymore as there are 'yoofs' on this site. But will say that my ******** of a supposed father liked to beat sons 'til they bled :< I now know that he enjoyed this. The cycle stops here!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LB :< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted February 14, 2006 Report Share Posted February 14, 2006 (edited) Eley Maximum at 16/9d a box. A Webley 700 for £98. A Cogswell and Harrison single barrel for £32/10/- A gallon of petrol 6/10½d A an hour's pay for a brickie 6/10½d A brace of pheasants paid for a box of cartridges. I.E. A brickie had to work for an hour to buy a gallon of petrol or a pheasant, but over 2 hours to buy a box of cartridges. Edited February 14, 2006 by rjimmer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackthorn Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 beer 1/3d, first wages £4-10shilling, there was a lot of 1/3d in a pound Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the pelt man Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 LB Join the club. Thats why i spent so many hours out in the countryside. It was much safer. The Pelt Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 The Grocer in the next village to where I lived, use to sell cartridges singly. He would open a box and sell you 5 shells. What about Sellior Belliot (sp?) cartridges and the other strange ones from Eastern Europe ? These were sold in flat packs of 10. Getting your gun licence at the Post Office for 7/6d.........Happy days. When you gun cabinet was the corner behind the back door. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 You boys are making me feel young - keep it up! I remember swaping some contol line planes for BSA Super Meteor, still in use today by my old man.. And I DO remember getting my pay in a tiny envolope with staples through the notes and holes punched through the bottom so you could count it all up without opening it, in case the wages dept made a mistake. As I was reminded only yesterday, I did fly to Amsterdam as a lad on a Locheed Electra, a 4 prop plane, and we went to Beiruit - on holiday! (not a shooting holiday I hasten to add) I am waiting for someone to say I don't remember anything I am THAT old Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slipster Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 I still remember being allowed out on my own, Ferreting across the fields and no sign of any perverts or sicko's Unfortunately can't be said of today I have to take my lads when they want to go Ferreting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Being milk monitor at school Getting sent to the headmaster and being afraid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
new to the flock Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 The local gun store/hardware store with the potbelly stove where everyone sat around and told hunting/fishing stories. We kids use to be mesmerized Buying a box of .22 cal bullets at same store when you were 10years old and all the patrons and the owner were genuinelly glad for you and interested in what you were going to shoot. My back yard was 500 acres, and I played safely in the whole of it.. riding, hunting, and fishing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Playing in the back lane with all the neighbourhood kids. An outdoor lavvie and no bathroom.Fridays we would go to the local(not swimming)baths to get rid of the muck a strip wash wouldn`t remove.1978 before we got an indoor toilet and a bathroom . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Having to walk half a mile from our school at lunchtimes, to get to the communal dinner hall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the pelt man Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 £38 for a 48 hour week The Pelt Man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 First air rifle when I was 9, it was a Diana Model 3 Original .177. Had to make allowances for any side wind, on shots over 10 yards. First shotgun was a slightly bent barreled single .410 when I was 10 and had a sbs 12 bore hammergun before I was 11. We lived on the Thames marshes and at that age I would take a gun and our border collie and disappear all day and my Mother had no need to be concerned. I always brought something home we could eat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxer Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 my grandad was telling me the other week about when he used to go shooting he would tie his shotgun on the frame of his pedal bike and go off through town like that, could you imagine what would happen if someone done that these days probly get armed responce on you in no time lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highdowns hunter Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Decoys were made out of cardboard cut outs and folded into shape and painted flappers were made with a dead bird and the mechanism was made from a coat hanger. a goal post shape to stick in the ground and another pices wrapped around the top of the goal cross bar, 2 ends stuck into the wings and a "V Shape underneath the goal posts to tie your line to. Once you saw a pigeon you tugged like mad on the line to make the wings flap. Worked well enough and cost nothing to buy. I served petrol at a relations garage Shell Mex 4s 10d and shell super 5s a gallon beer at the workmans club in 1973 was 1s 10d a pint and my first wage as an apprentice electrician in the coal mine was 7 pound a week Paper rounds in 1969 earned 5s a week and a sunday round brought in8s and 6d Fishing weights cost nothing as you made them from nicked roof lead and you could justabout get anything you needed from unguarded building sites or by giving the watchman a few bob Boy were the girls ugly in those days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PestController Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 I remember my first pigeon gun, a BRNO under/over with true cylinder barrels and muzzle brakes, you couldn't miss with it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baikiel boy Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 Hells bells 37/6d for 44 hours apprenticed press toolmaker ! bostin wage ? Regards bb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackthorn Posted February 15, 2006 Report Share Posted February 15, 2006 being chased all over the village by my sisters boyfriend, just to get me in the bath being chased all over the village by my sisters boyfriend, just for saying shut your legs your breath smells got a rite belt round the ear for that gobbing off glad when she fell out with him he could run to fast Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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