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spiderpig invited me over last sunday to have a look at the pups and to have a nice cup of yorkshire tea , all i can say is the photo's does not do the pup any justice... he is going to be some dog when he finishes growing .. all spiderpigs dogs are in top condition and are a credit to him ......
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i know how you must have felt , i went through it a couple of years ago with my dad, after he had a heart attack and 2 strokes , he then learnt how to walk and talk again.... things went down hill for him for a bit and the docs thought he had cancer..... it messed my head up for a couple of months but after some tests all was ok and no cancer .... anyway thats great news about your dad :victory:
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Hi del , have had a real good start to the season , had my bag limit a few times now , also had a good few geese greys, pinks can't waite till, wed, thurs this week.... when the moon is right ,so i can hopefully gut under some " Anser brachyrhynchus" ....
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yes byron , i am on the east coast , i'm on the wash , shot the humber once or twice , i also only live 5 min from our local marshes .... great amounts of pinks here too 1or 2 have fell to my gun over the last week or so ... had another great flight last night too on the ducks with a nice suprise thrown in ........
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i got mine today too , just had a quick look through and all i can say its another top class book from jonathon darcy 194 pages of the life of a terrier man who has done it all , it has some great photo's of his own dogs that have been worked hard over the years ... if you are a terrier man who loves working terriers then this will be a great read for you .....not to be missed!!! well done darcy you have out done yourself yet again
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very strange , how close where you to the pond could have been spooked by something, have a look around the pond to see if there are any bags that are flapping about ....
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sorry if i did not make it clear , i know what i want to say but it comes out wrong yes i wanted to know before their era , also what type of dogs they would have worked ie russels , borders, pats etc etc ...... thanks for the replies so far
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well i was sat talking to my friend at dinner and terriers came up , we got tallking about the likes of gouldy , harcomb,nuttal, a good few of them actually , but then my friend asked the question what about the terrier men before the likes of gouldy , etc , etc ...and i could not answer him.... so my question is can anyone tell me who the terriermen were before the guys that have made a name for themselves through working terriers over lets say the last 30 to 40 years ..what type of terrier they would keep wether it be russels etc, etc , i know they would have to be a good baying d
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i would say it was the moon but not 100% sure because i have not seen them flighting in to the pond, i can't see it being over feeding because mallard are greedy and will just eat ,eat, eat ...have they been taking less feed ? , has there been any tractors around flight time thats been working in the fields around the pond, could be fireworks , i have lakes on a leisure park where we shoot geese, ducks on ,come the start of october when the fireworks start going off , it moves them off and is no good to shoot again till mid december when things have quietened down ... but like i sai
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i order loads of wildfowling stuff from them each year, i have never had a problem with them....... you can now pay all the tax and dutys on it all before it leave's the us so you dont get charged in the uk ..... you can also change the currency from the us dollar to sterling which is also a good thing ... before it was a nightmare using the converter.......its also some times quicker ordering stuff from them than it is in the uk for deliverys
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great write up harry , i'm afraid it happens to us all at some point in our wildfowling life time getting cut off , it just seems it happens to me more than others its only through greed tho it happens to me you were in no danger there , you could have walked off still on a 8.5 there but you did the right thing ..... at least your getting out and doing it my friend and not just sat at the bottom of the bank like most do ..give me a call and we will sort a flight out for one weekend , i will not drowned you and i will be gentle with you , i will do my best to get you under some ducks o
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we had a great crack SOUNDER that morning , there is a great amount of wildfowl about at the mo, had a couple of more good flights this week but have not had time to do a write up about them ... also i have been asked to do a couple of articlels for a magazine that comes out weekly lol , so with all the shooting hunting and working and doing family things , i aint got the time to do much of anything else lol thanks for all the replys , i will do more when i get the time, i'm trying to do one about my first wildfowling dog jes its long one and is taking time to do it .... ha
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you have a good few shops in and around lincolnshire ..... derek lee toft hill tumby TEL.01526354505 if your spending money with him he will be sound with you if not can be a bit funny with you then you have forrest lodge guns WRAGBY great , great people to deal with... a family run business open 7 days a week .. forrest lodge guns TEL 01673858554 steve thompson if he aint got it , he will get it for you ...... market deeping another great bloke to deal with who knows his stuff TEL 07930548172
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yes JASPER same gun mate , we were on for a beauty of a night jasper with just over the hundread mark already in the bag and still 4 more fields to do , but evrey time i pull the triger now i cringe ....its really off putting to say the least ...
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it was winchester ammunition , i also have had splits down the side of the remington cases , that was one of my main reasons going onto using winchester , but i'm now thinking of going back to remington...... i also forgot to say it has bent the guard a little where the clip fits into the rifle , i would hate to think how bad it could have been if it had been a metal clip ....
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well me and a friend planned a night out on the rabbits thursday night with the .17HMRS , well we were in the middle of having one of our best nights ever , when something BAD happened , we just pulled into another grass field to shoot more rabbits , we pulled over to reload the clips up , now i opened up a new box of bullets and put 10 out the box into the clip of which holds 10 ...i then put the clip into the rifle as i have done a thousand times before nothing was done different ... we started off again lamping and one rabbit was picked out for me to shoot , so as i have done ma
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the old boy is looking well si , he was some dog in his day mate , ..... i had many a happy nights lamping with him and mooching days,i had one of the best nights lamping with him , if not thee best ..... it will take some beating that would thats for sure
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now WILF there is a word i have not heard for a long time CODSWALLOP ,i heard my old nan say that a few times in her life .. also i would have to agree with you on country file waste of money spent on a tv license they are so far up there own arses they can see there tonsils....
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sean in the late 70s and early 80s they were used alot on our marshes there is a place on our local marsh that is called box creek , 2 of our well known local wildfowlers dug out 2 big holes and double lined them with ply board annd put lids on them so the silt washed up by the tide would not fill them back up... this was just as i was starting in out but the way the tides run now they are well gone and been covered with mud . never got a chance to use them wish i did tho ..
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well after taking 2 very good friends of mine out for a flight down the marsh last night and coming off about half an hour earlier than normal because there was nothing about , then only to see around 500 to 700 hundred pinks go over where we're sat 10 minutes earlier and about 35 yards up was gut wrenching to say the least ..... well i sat at home last night thinking about going back to the same spot from last night , i got the tide book out and worked the tide out and it was only a 5.5 tide and at 2 am .Now its around trip of 50 miles for me to go back to the same spot , so i thought i
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well i have received mine today , and what can i say but "WOW" all the picture's are top class , i can't imagine what hard work has gone into this book.. you can tell it has been done with passion .. fantastic photography with some fantastic photo;s of both dogs and hare's i know a very good friend of mine will love the book because there is a nice photo of his bitch that was sadly lost in the field doing what she did best ..... well done mr darcey another top class book , i cant wait for your next one ...
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the jounrney down to ..... ... I have to admit I tried to write the post with a bit of humour as I knew you the "duck meister" would read it, thanks for the offers you have been very kind to me and I am enjoying being in the club but I will stick to the old man for now until I have got my "webbed feet". I will tell you where I was, half way to the bailey bridge I think thats what you call it. One of the reasons for my post was to explain from a beginner to wildfowling the excitement of that morning and the lead up to it and even though I have been shooting for over 30 years
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its going real well down here sean thanks ,plenty of fowl about about most of my other friend's have been getting amongst them to , there well spread around the wash to .....
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your gun will be proofed for steel if its been stamped , dont shoot no more than 1/2 choke through your gun if your using steel ,there is loads of average loads about in steel , but the one with great reviews is the RIO STEEL , i have been using these myself and i have to say they are a good steel cartridge.... when steel first came about alot of the boffins recommend that you should drop 2 shot sizes from what you were using in lead , so if you were using 6 shot drop to 4 shot and you will not go far wrong ....
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well its a great read but i nearly washed the screen on the pc with tea when i read some of it .. i'm pleased you made it down and had a good flight but 50 yards out is not far enough , you need a proper fowler to show you the way lol ... send me a text or call me you got my number and we can sort a trip out onto a proper marsh , i will promise to go gentle with you honest , plenty of pinks about at the mo ... and ducks there is about 700 to a thousand on a field 500 yards up the road from my house and there is more coming down from up north every day now , also with this moon on
