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  1. Greyman
    I still pick rose hips and make syrup every year, rich in vitamin C and really good for your joints, finally another reason to spend an evening out in the fresh air away from shite Enders
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    They still looked like they would struggle to cut butter,judging by the way they all run there fingers over the end of the chisels, quicker,better,easier and safer to just get the oil stone out, just means old fatso would have to leave the car and walk to the shed
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    Started working dogs in the early ,s I had two terriers to start with but found it a bit frustrating watching them get outrun by anything that got past the nets and never really liked working with people and guns so I got me a little runner, my terriers would go to ground against all quarry but also worked the hedges and undergrowth as well, and the runner learned to work to the terriers nailing most things as soon as they popped there heads out, I,m a bit old and knackered nowadays and don't dig any longer but I still have a 2&1 pack and walk for miles with them, the terriers working the
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    When pelts were worth money in the 1980,s I used to lamp regularly on Clifton downs in the middle of Bristol, bit strange hunting, while all the revellers were wobbling home only a few yards from us totally unaware of our presence, also took over £400 worth of pelts one winter off the local school fields by hanging snares along the bottom of the school fence, they were just folded up out the way during the day and lowered down every night, many times you could feel the first ones hitting the snares before you had put the rest down, they were after the pig bins that used to be outside of every
  5. Greyman
    . You could fit flats or tubes to that mate, I would say tubes would be easier as you you have the holes in the forks already, but get some nice thin Chinese style tubes like dankung ones or similar, not the Barnet ones that come with a pouch already attached, as they take so much effort to pull back its hard to hit anything with them
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    Don't any of you shut your hens away at night, I,ve had chucks for around 30 years and the only time I have lost any is when I,ve forgotten to lock em up at night, my fault not the fox,s
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    That's a nice little collection, especially love the naturals, I,m afraid I must sit on my hands and resist an offer, as I have way to many already, but good luck I,m sure you will have know problem shifting them
  8. Greyman
    i don't know about that, I woke up with a fair few pigs and the odd moose in my younger days, but I don't think I should be decapitated for it, and in my defence they all looked like miss world when I got in the bed at closing time
  9. Greyman
    think you forgot the picture mate
  10. Greyman
    because they don't moan at you and take your wages like a woman, at a guess
  11. Greyman
    its quite a few years ago now, but that's what they used to cost me to make, trouble is my brain is still living 30years behind my body, if you add about thirty years of inflation to that,the pebble comes out an even better deal
  12. Greyman
    I know you were asking about making a wooden bow, but I have seen some half tidy bows and crossbows made from old ski,s they can be bought quite cheap and all you need is the wooden bit for the middle section, another little tip for any budding archers on a budget is to get yourself a catty and learn to shoot it accurately, the aiming is very much the same, but it's a lot cheaper loosing a pebble or a ball bearing than an arrow at 50p a go and when you have worked out your anchor points, aiming points and strongest and weakest eye, you should be able to pass them over to your bow shooting chee
  13. Greyman
    it was flying quite high when I saw it and was hard to make out to much colour but there was a lot of cream colour, on the underside of the body as my first thought was I was looking at an osprey, it was only when I saw a story in my local paper with a picture that I realised what I,d seen, the size is the main giveaway as it has a nine foot wingspan
  14. Greyman
    that's really nice did you paint the picture yourself ?
  15. Greyman
    I saw it twice fly over my house a few weeks back, seems to be moving south as I'm in avonmouth , thought it was a model when I first saw it as its massive and flys for miles without beating is wings glad to here it's still ok
  16. Greyman
    . The lead cubes are being made in silicone ice cube trays,they are 10mm cubes and you get 160 cubes in one sheet, the moulds are less than £2 on eBay it's a very fast and easy way of turning out ammo and know the silicone does not melt even though your brain tells you it will
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    have used various nuts over the years and have been quite happy with them, as I,m a tatter they are usually all over the bed of my truck, so a free and easy source of ammo, I now make my own 12mm lead balls, but would,nt hesitate to use nuts again I even know a few that fill the centre hole with lead to give them more weight and therefore more whack, anything that is a uniform shape seems to fly pretty true from a catty, I know a lot of people are now using lead cubes and swear by them just like lead beans none of them look like they should fly true but they seem to work fine and some even pre
  18. Greyman
    When you have your kids vaccinated, it's a once in a lifetime deal, that's because it's free and there is know financial gain to the doctor, if on the other hand the doctor was paid extra for each jab I,m sure the kids would be in for a booster every year, once you have an immunity to something your immune, it's all about the money
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    What Did I See

    Greyman replied to Greyman's topic in Falconry

    apparently it's most frequently seen near the second Severn crossing, you won't miss it, it's massive keep an eye out, it flys way up high but still looks huge, the body is pale and the wings are dark,
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    Feel a little sorry for the dotterels, as a fine and dandy visitor he's looking a little like an ugly sister next to that blue throat, well done you, I've just added to a thread in the falconry section some of you rare bird buffs might be interested in its a uk first
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    What Did I See

    Greyman replied to Greyman's topic in Falconry

    I know it's not about falconry but it's raptor related, firstly since seeing the goshawk there was a news story on our local news a few weeks back, the body of a goshawk was found and after an autopsy it was found to have been shot, I can't confirm if it was the same one but it was witching ten miles of my sighting, really gutting even if it was,nt the same one, but onto a more rare and bizarre story, three nights ago I was sat in my back garden having a smoke and as usual I was watching the sky above, when i spy an absolutely huge bird of prey along way up, it flew for miles without beating i
  22. Greyman
    Running water, closed season, still water owners discretion, simples
  23. Greyman
    Repeat captures of so called mug fish can even happen in lightly stocked lakes, rivers and canals, I caught the same carp from the same swim with a year or so between them on the K&A canal which is 90 miles long, have also had canal carp miles apart with many locks between captures, some fish just love bait while others live on a more natural diet and seldom if ever get caught by anglers, the fastest recapture I ever saw, was many years ago when I was at cuttle mill, had a 28lb mirror, photos done fish returned, quick rinse of my hands and as I stood up my mates rod tip hooped round and af
  24. Greyman
    what are you after mate do you just want the bands and ties or are you after the bands attached to a pouch? Let me know and I will get you sorted
  25. Greyman
    wow that is lovely, nice one
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