Greyman
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they are some seriously nice catty,s you have made there mate, a little bit showie for general use but beautiful if your into collecting,well done, out of curiosity do you have to go through photo bucket or such like to add pics or can you do it directly from an iPad ??
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I can remember geting £23 for wet skins,£25 for dry,drying was not worth the hassle for £3quid so all were sold wet.I know of 2 brothers that used to take from october to end of january of work to go at the foxs and were taking anything up to 15-20 a night lamping with the rifle.They customised an old hiace van cutting a square out of the roof and fitting a shooting rack where the square was cut,1 would drive along while the 2nd would do the lamping and shooting.They would start out at maybe 7pm and return at 5-6 am next morn traveling all over the country. we used to put snares around the bot
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i have,nt looked into this law but when I first heard about it a while back, l thought it was only for dogs under the age of 2 and older dogs were exempt? I don't mind having my dogs chipped as dog thefts are pretty rife, but some councils are now forcing people to provide there dogs dna if they wish to walk them in public parks, they then collect any turds, do a Dna test and send out fines to the offending owner, now that is a step to far, at least people have to commit a crime before having dna taken,
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the good old days, everything had a value jays wings,hares masks squirrel tails, along with the normal pelts, going back to the 80s we used to get upto £25 for a fox pelt and if they were tagged by the local uni a further £5 for the tag or £25 for a transmitter making a total of £50 for one fox with a collar, I would guess there is still a market somewhere but not in our country and the price of sending them abroad, if you were allowed would probably cost more than the fur was worth, maybe a small market with taxidermists ? Google is your friend in these cases
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its a forum after all mate we all entitled to our own thourghts and ways,,,no problem,,an i will get some photos sorted over the weekend of some of the catapults i make, there not ply wood that stuff aint my thing im more of a traditional feller.. sweet look forward to seeing them, I,ve just made my first sling-bow still needs a bit of fettleing but early signs are pretty impressive, my first shot went straight through my garage door and just missed my car, need a more beefy backstop
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is that not a ring Ozzle as opposed to a blackbird, the blackbirds near me are doing really well after a wet winter, and I even have a pair starting to put a nest together in the hedge, song thrush,s are thin on the ground and mistle thrush even more scarce, I spend quite a bit of time in Gloucester, only about 25 miles from home and I see song thrush,s every time I go up there, so I guess it's quite a regional thing
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he mo yes mate, they travel so fast and true, they more than make up for the concussion effect of bigger heavier ammo I have just got myself a set of lead moulds to make them from lead in 10mil hopefully that will still travel fast and straight enough with a little more thump, the way you cut Theraband makes a real big difference to what kind of ammo you can use with itI've been using 10mm lead with theraband green does the job well from what I've seen even leaves exit wounds at close range, just picked up a 12mm lead mould so will have a go with them next. is Theraband green, flat like gold
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do you make the lead beans yourself or do you buy them in? I,m in the process of making a bean mould myself, among my many occupations, I have an old tipper and collect scrap, but as the prices are so bad at the mo I thought it would be better turning all my lead into fishing weights and catty ammo, do you think there is a market for the lead beans you use? As I can make bean moulds in pretty much any size were as the ball moulds I have to buy in
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cheers for that dude it's the point I was trying to get at, I have know problem hitting stuff with the 9.5 steels but it often seems to pass through what you hit giving it a chance to run off before keeling over, OK in the day as you can usually find it with the dog, but I hate loosing game knowing I've hit it cleanly, for most of my life I've shot rocks and small pebbles from the local beach, and may even return to them, but as every one on tinternet seems to be using steel balls I thought I would give it a go, but like I,ve said I love the accuracy of them but could do with a bit more stoppi
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thanks for that lutra we seem to share very simular views on the people meant to be protecting what we love, I really have know interest in walking up a Tarmac path to watch nature from an appointed spot, the bird I saw is skirting on the edge of a few hundred acres of old English type woodland, dotted with a few acres of conifer, there is also a golf course and many acres of marshland nearby, on the downside there are also two or three small pheasant shoots on the edge of these woods though not directly we're I saw the bird, I will keep you posted if I get any more sightings, I,m on the trail
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if I,m honest mate I would say your just attempting to get a bit of a raise from me, sadly I,m a bit long in the tooth to start acting Billy big spuds from behind my keyboard, the small fast ammo penetrates cleanly through a lot of the things I shoot a bit like 177 in an air rifle, and the bigger stuff tends to knock things over but with less penetration and a much bigger arc when fired a bit like 22, it's really that simple I,m just looking for something in between, I really don't need to get my arse out for you to prove anything, I am an old guy and I've had a catty in my pocket for over 40
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dry a few out and give it a whirl sounds like a good source of forks
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when you say hawthorn is that the same as the blackthorn bush,s, little white flowers and nasty spikes,they use them to make hedges that they don't want people getting through, if so yes they do make good forks I have a few drying in the garage just mind the spikes when cutting them
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cheers mate every day is a school day, if your slugs are heavy I find the flat bands are better straight cut I use 30mm straight cut for stones pebbles and bigger ammo, and taper them for small ammo, it seems to travel much faster, my current set up is 25mm to 15mm singles and with the 9.5 steel they really fly, not really a fan of double and treble bands seems a bit gimmicky to me and just more to tangle,if I want to fire bigger ammo straight cut 30mm acts very simular to tubes
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I don't know if it's a regional thing but round here most catty prongs come from hazel nut trees, same as walking stick shafts, I never heard of ash forks until recently, and now they seem to be everywhere, has ash got any qualities that make it better or worse than hazel? Am just curious that's all, I have a box full of hazel forks at different stages of drying at the moment as I collect them in January and February which is when the wood has less moisture and toxins in it, do you cut the ash at any time of year or does that have a season to, sorry for the million questions but lastly are tho
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we have lots of peregrines around me but as far as I know I have never seen a goshawk before, funnily when the first pair of peregrines started breeding in the Avon gorge they built an observation point on the opposite side of the gorge for the twitchers, there used to be around 50 or more people up there watching them now you can walk into the middle of Bristol and there are a pair on the old courage,s building on full show everyday of the week, avonmouth docks near me have around five breeding pairs, it's a good era for raptorswhere abouts is the old courage brewery? I've had a look online b
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we have lots of peregrines around me but as far as I know I have never seen a goshawk before, funnily when the first pair of peregrines started breeding in the Avon gorge they built an observation point on the opposite side of the gorge for the twitchers, there used to be around 50 or more people up there watching them now you can walk into the middle of Bristol and there are a pair on the old courage,s building on full show everyday of the week, avonmouth docks near me have around five breeding pairs, it's a good era for raptors where abouts is the old courage brewery? I've had a look online
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we have lots of peregrines around me but as far as I know I have never seen a goshawk before, funnily when the first pair of peregrines started breeding in the Avon gorge they built an observation point on the opposite side of the gorge for the twitchers, there used to be around 50 or more people up there watching them now you can walk into the middle of Bristol and there are a pair on the old courage,s building on full show everyday of the week, avonmouth docks near me have around five breeding pairs, it's a good era for raptors where abouts is the old courage brewery? I've had a look online
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I still hunt with a baa Mercury from the 1970s if that helps the more nostalgic among you, only downside it probably cost me more money to make it shoot nicely, than to just go out and buy a more modern gun, but the pleasure I get from shooting it more than makes up for the cost of building it,
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you could always trap them and move them elsewhere, but usually if the land is attractive to them they will be replaced by others as soon as you move the resident ones, as they tend to be quite territorial
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yes mate, they travel so fast and true, they more than make up for the concussion effect of bigger heavier ammo I have just got myself a set of lead moulds to make them from lead in 10mil hopefully that will still travel fast and straight enough with a little more thump, the way you cut Theraband makes a real big difference to what kind of ammo you can use with it
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we have lots of peregrines around me but as far as I know I have never seen a goshawk before, funnily when the first pair of peregrines started breeding in the Avon gorge they built an observation point on the opposite side of the gorge for the twitchers, there used to be around 50 or more people up there watching them now you can walk into the middle of Bristol and there are a pair on the old courage,s building on full show everyday of the week, avonmouth docks near me have around five breeding pairs, it's a good era for raptors
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cheers for that Dave, have just spent a pleasant hour watching these magnificent birds, I would say yes that's what I saw, I wish I had seen the underside of the bird as it seems more uniform than the back, also I think the light makes a big difference, the first vid I watched the bird looked the wrong colour, but when I saw one flying in full sunshine, it was a lot more red looking like the one I saw, which was also in bright sunshine, I am now pretty sure I saw a goshawk near to my home in Bristol, which is very exciting to me, thanks to everyone for answeringMaybe it migrated over from For
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cheers for that Dave, have just spent a pleasant hour watching these magnificent birds, I would say yes that's what I saw, I wish I had seen the underside of the bird as it seems more uniform than the back, also I think the light makes a big difference, the first vid I watched the bird looked the wrong colour, but when I saw one flying in full sunshine, it was a lot more red looking like the one I saw, which was also in bright sunshine, I am now pretty sure I saw a goshawk near to my home in Bristol, which is very exciting to me, thanks to everyone for answeringMaybe it migrated over from For
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I use nattys 99percent of the time, the simple reason being if I have to chuck it in the hedge I have not lost much, if you are after something a bit special take a look on the slingshot forum, but with postage from the states you could be looking at around a ton for something a bit special, but if it's a hobby your into and you have a few pound to spare,it's small potatoes compared with a good set of golf clubs or a nice shotgun, just don't tell the misses she,ll never understand
