Greyman
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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
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I have a buffalo horn fork, that fires Barnett yellow tubes ttf style, I can't claim credit for the fork as it was a gift, it is drilled through the forks and came with power cord loops attached to square elastic, but I could not get on with it so I just cut the cord and removed the square elastic, bought a set of yellow tubes for £5 which come already pouched and with the two little plastic caps that go over the Barnett metal forks, I pushed the ends of the cord into the black plastic cap and filled it with super glue, when it was dry I just push the tubes on as you would with a Barnett, and
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cheers mate, that's still some fine shooting with a catty, nice one
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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 answering
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wow FairPlay mate I'd be happy if I come back with nine squirrels after a wander with my air rifle let alone a catty, the only thing I'm not quite getting, is that ttf or ott are just styles of attaching the bands and not styles of fork, so did you go from a natural fork to a modern man made fork or have you just changed the way you attach your bands, I have naturals that fire both ttf or ott I can't quite decide which I prefer it's just different aiming styles and I seem to be able to go from one to the other without much problem ?.
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I also prefer naturals, main reason it does not hurt quite so much if you have to lob it or you lose it, as a life time catty shooter, I have always made my own,mostly from hazel forks, I have box,s of them drying in my garage at all times, I really like the look of some of these more modern forks but has anyone that's gone from shooting naturals,to these new super duper looking forks, found that it actually improved there accuracy and the amount you take home at the end of the day, equally has anyone gone from a natty to a new modern type fork and found they couldn't hit anything ? Genuine qu
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I also prefer naturals, main reason it does not hurt quite so much if you have to lob it or you lose it, as a life time catty shooter, I have always made my own,mostly from hazel forks, I have box,s of them drying in my garage at all times, I really like the look of some of these more modern forks but has anyone that's gone from shooting naturals,to these new super duper looking forks, found that it actually improved there accuracy and the amount you take home at the end of the day, equally has anyone gone from a natty to a new modern type fork and found they couldn't hit anything ? Genuine qu
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I think as you travel through life's colourful journey your opinion on that will change dramatically, I,m of an age now that I can't be arsed to try and put misinformed people right, or show youngsters the errors they are making, I now just sit quietly in the corner and laugh inwardly to myself at the amount of shite the latest group of new experts talk about, so I guess what I,m saying is that at certain stages of life we probably all qualify for the title of total messer, some grow on and learn and others spend there whole life flitting from one hobby to the next,still carrying the title wit
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in my younger days when hunting was considered normal and less frownd upon than it is today,I used to be out most days and everything was fair game and most of it had a price on its head, anything I was left with or had been bruised by hard mouthed dogs,so could,nt be sold to the local game dealer, went to the zoo, as most predictors need fur bone and feathers in there diet, they used to pay me 25p for a rabbit or squirrel, in the 1980s so I would think if you have a large surplus on a regular basis you could probably still strike up a deal if you have a zoo,wildlife park or raptor centre near
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that was what I thought I saw but I wanted to hear someone else say it, as it would be a real rarity around here, thanks for your reply
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Hello all I have an interest in birds but am by know means an expert, which is why I thought I would pitch my first query to you guys, I have been doing some work in a cottage on the outskirts of Bristol in the middle of a large wood, I have been finding a few wood pigeon kills on the ground behind the cottage, then the other day a large bird of prey came over the hedge and flew through the trees a few feet above the ground in a simular manner to a sparrow hawk, but this bird looked closer in size to a buzzard, was mostly reddish brown across its back with a blue/grey tail, I have had my trail
