mick.c Posted December 24, 2019 Report Share Posted December 24, 2019 Just goes to show what results a well stocked larger feeder gives Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted December 25, 2019 Report Share Posted December 25, 2019 (edited) !00% well done and agree , you have to feed 'em BUT also be there to flatten 'em as well. Well done. Can you add on your score please I just managed one this morning. They were racing about thinking more of sex than food. The sun was shining and amazingly it was not raining.... 1928 PLUS whatever Mick has to add on..... Edited December 25, 2019 by Walker570 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick.c Posted December 25, 2019 Report Share Posted December 25, 2019 Walker570.....i did add my score yesterday i put it up to 1927 then you had 1 today equals 1928.....i hope Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted December 25, 2019 Report Share Posted December 25, 2019 gotcha it was on the previous page, I was looking up and down the photos....like that flip top feeder, neat. 1928 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick.c Posted December 25, 2019 Report Share Posted December 25, 2019 Cheers mate....👍 Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisheruk Posted December 26, 2019 Report Share Posted December 26, 2019 (edited) Well at the moment I’m up to 54 this year, maybe I’ll get another one or two before the end of the year. Moving house this year has limited the time I have had to get out. Hopefully next year I’ll be at em more often. The abundance of natural food this autumn limited the numbers using feeders. During August and September the feeders in Wales were hardly used. On the Nature Reserve we have very restrictive conditions and hours to shoot. Understandably with public footpaths all around and through the area.. In a few weeks time as the dawn gets earlier we’ll have a chance to get at one area we can’t shoot at present because dog walkers and joggers are out at first light and we need to be able to shoot next to a footpath. When we can get out before 5.30 we have a chance to shoot that area as most dog walkers don’t show before 6.30 👍 There are at least 4 Squirrels feeding in that area at present Edited December 26, 2019 by Fisheruk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted December 26, 2019 Report Share Posted December 26, 2019 (edited) Two more this morning coming to the feed. 1930 Puts me on 314 for the year .... will have to up my new years resolution to 6 a week next year. Have my eye on one or two new virgin locations........DOWN DITCHIE DOWN not those sort of virgins Edited December 26, 2019 by Walker570 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisheruk Posted December 26, 2019 Report Share Posted December 26, 2019 3 hours ago, Walker570 said: Two more this morning coming to the feed. 1930 Puts me on 314 for the year .... will have to up my new years resolution to 6 a week next year. Have my eye on one or two new virgin locations........DOWN DITCHIE DOWN not those sort of virgins Nev, I think you’ll get to one a day next year - 365 😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted December 26, 2019 Report Share Posted December 26, 2019 Trouble is I keep shooting the breeding stock .........just can't stop myself Do you think I need councelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robertt Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 3 on feeder. ( over last 2 weeks ) Finding these late sqiggles difficult as I think there travelling a long way to feed then gorging up and returning home. Whereas the local stock, now deceased, were eating a little often. 1933 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sciurus Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 I totted up my figures for the year - 182. Unfortunately, Eighteen short of my 200 target. June was the best at 51, but once the natural food came out, I could only manage a total of 3 in the whole of August and September. My feeders still haven’t been touched since August, there is still so much Beech about, so still using the thermal and .410. I hope to escape the family tomorrow morning and add a few more to the tally. Keep sacking and stacking. Cheers Sciurus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 Errr fours into 18 ????? errrr 4.5 ....four days still left Sciurus, still time to do it. 5 hours ago, Robertt said: 3 on feeder. ( over last 2 weeks ) Finding these late sqiggles difficult as I think there travelling a long way to feed then gorging up and returning home. Whereas the local stock, now deceased, were eating a little often. 1933 I don't think your far wrong. I have a friend who cuts hedges for farmers and he told me this week he had disturbed quite a few up hedgerows obviously travelling form wood to wood, home to feed. Once I had cleared the locals with some days of four or five in an hour or so, now I can sit for two/three hours for one or two and they come in at the gallop very hungry totally ignoring their dead mates lying by the feeder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powler Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 A good morning for me but not the greys 15 taken, three times I had a pair of young adults playing two ran so close I could of clubbed them. One wanted to play hide n seek around a tree so threw my shooting bag the other side of the tree to get him to come round. 1948 Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 I’ve made an account just to help you boys out with reaching the MM mark. 6 last week in my garden. 1 when goose shooting (42gm of BBs @ 5 yards). I will check through my notes and photographs to see what else I can definitely confirm for the year. Memory fails me a little. Add 7 for now as they are in the last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sciurus Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 3 hours ago, Walker570 said: Errr fours into 18 ????? errrr 4.5 ....four days still left Sciurus, still time to do it. Don’t make me feel guilty! Mrs Squirrel is very easy going but if I left her to entertain our 5 guests for the next 4 mornings, She would happily add my nuts to the Christmas decorations! 🐿=😡 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 Nah!! Only kidding, your score is well earned. I am a free man and can be out every day all day if necessary. Alarm goes at 5am and she who must be obey ...sometimes... will ask which set I am covering that morning. I think we all do a great job, just a pity more do not join in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbower Posted December 27, 2019 Report Share Posted December 27, 2019 2 today , while roost shooting with the single barrel 12G Baikal. 1950 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 6 over the past few months 1956 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 (edited) 11 hours ago, WalkedUp said: I’ve made an account just to help you boys out with reaching the MM mark. 6 last week in my garden. 1 when goose shooting (42gm of BBs @ 5 yards). I will check through my notes and photographs to see what else I can definitely confirm for the year. Memory fails me a little. Add 7 for now as they are in the last week. 1963 if you include these BTW Edited December 28, 2019 by WalkedUp Added pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sciurus Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 Welcome Walked Up, Each grey shot helps- lovely dog by the way! What part of the country are you? Four more shot this morning, they were all having a run about in the branches. Total 1967 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 18 hours ago, Sciurus said: Don’t make me feel guilty! Mrs Squirrel is very easy going but if I left her to entertain our 5 guests for the next 4 mornings, She would happily add my nuts to the Christmas decorations! 🐿=😡 You do breakfast tomorrow then have a late morning stroll ( with rifle), your guests can have a wander to the lake, then out for a late lunch, your too close not to hit your target 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 5 hours ago, Sciurus said: Welcome Walked Up, Each grey shot helps- lovely dog by the way! What part of the country are you? Four more shot this morning, they were all having a run about in the branches. Total 1967 Cheshire/Wales border. I shot another one today. Need to check my shoot notes and photographs for the year’s total as my contribution to the cause must be 20+; however I am not going to simply guess. I don’t specifically target greys anymore (18 years ago I used to shoot dozens, baited from a hide with PCP) but now with FAC and SGC if I happen upon a grey on my wonders, I will kill it. Five greys in a day is probably my best this year when out walked up shooting or in a pigeon hide. So, 1968 with today’s one (below). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 Excellent, welcome aboard. I intend getting out Monday or Tuesday and hopefully can add a double figure score as I have not shot the ground this season. Out first light tomorow as I know I have at least one visitor on a regular set. 32 needed in 3 days......come on we can do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sciurus Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 5 hours ago, Mice! said: You do breakfast tomorrow then have a late morning stroll ( with rifle), your guests can have a wander to the lake, then out for a late lunch, your too close not to hit your target 👍 Kev, if only life was so simple! Unfortunately I have bred a family of runners. Tomorrow they are having a lie in till 6.30, then leaving an overactive toddler with us to entertain and will speed back down m6 your way to run a 10k race at Ribble Valley. This will be a very quiet day for them. The rest of the holiday they will do exactly the same but run 10 miles before breakfast before we all go for an 8 mile walk. It is quite frustrating, I am so close to my personal target and there are still greys to be had but at least the greys will be waiting for me on Jan2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuartyboy Posted December 28, 2019 Report Share Posted December 28, 2019 Christened my S410 today. Fantastic bit of kit that accounted for 7 1975 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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