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  1. LuckOrJudgement
    I had a look at the feinwerkbau.de website. The current Sport Model is a very striking looking gun. It's listed as coming in 7.5 and 18 joules format which puts it just above UK legal limit. Has anyone here had a go of one?
  2. LuckOrJudgement
    Superb. Is that with the JSB's?
  3. LuckOrJudgement
    There's Pete's Air Gun Farm, a couple of FT clubs and a rimfire range. But it's either a bit of a hike or fitting in with their opening times etc. I have a couple of permissions with plenty of space, and on a still day these are good for punching paper at 40 yards plus. I just need to set more time aside.
  4. LuckOrJudgement
    Thanks Mark. I get plenty of practice at 20 yards which is the limit of my garden range. My nearest 40 yard range is at my brother's house and his Mrs isn't always friendly about me being there, so when I do, the results are always a bit disheartening with groups of 30mm AT BEST with a 97kt and RWS Superfield. The quest for accuracy is a bit of a demon sometimes. The more you have, the more you want. But like you say, it's really only practice that will get you there. Thanks, Silas.
  5. LuckOrJudgement
    It sets a new standard in Springer shooting. Can I ask, Mark - is that bench rested or off sticks?
  6. LuckOrJudgement
    Wish I could shoot like that.... ?
  7. LuckOrJudgement
    Right trap secured in the right terrain = humane despatch. Just chucking them into mole hills or poking them into galleries isn't going to cut it.
  8. LuckOrJudgement
    It's only a minor issue for me, and anyway we traditional trappers don't need high tech. Might end up out of a job. My first experience of man versus mole was 40 years ago, as a small kid. Me and Dad watched in wonder as our neighbour hosed up the exhaust pipe of his Capri to a mole hill in his front garden and revved the living daylights out of it. Can't remember what happened to the mole but I hope he escaped!
  9. LuckOrJudgement
    My go-to trap now is the putangue. Just need someone to invent a detector that can tell you if it's been sprung without you having to disturb the set.
  10. LuckOrJudgement
    FreeAds and Airguns? That's a face to face deal all day long, in my opinion. If it's something rare as rocking horse sh@t, then that's worth the trip. If not, pass this one up and wait for something local.
  11. LuckOrJudgement
    Now there's a plan. I think most guys of a certain age have more trampoline springs than they know what to do with. My youngest is going on 12 now and yet I'm still not allowed to demolish our trampoline. Bloody eyesore.
  12. LuckOrJudgement
    Quite a piece of engineering, that.
  13. LuckOrJudgement
    I use a bronze bristle. Nothing too aggressive. Just to smooth the patina
  14. LuckOrJudgement
    I just give mine a light tickle with wire brush. It can be annoying when the triggers 'fuse'_in place due to corrosion, but avoiding that seems to be mostly about taking great care as to how you set them to begin with.
  15. LuckOrJudgement
    My record from a domestic garden 1 acre ish is 14 in 10 days. The property is down in a small valley close to a river. Water courses have always turned up trumps for me,. I do a pub on a river and one boundary is a picket fence that runs perpendicular down to the riverbank. Along the entire length of the fence there is a mole run. I can set in this and trap 5 moles in a week - a whole procession of them - all coming up from the river. But these are exceptional grounds. Most of my work is ones and twos, along with the occasional tricksy fecker with the sixth sense. My attitude is:
  16. LuckOrJudgement
    Good catch!
  17. LuckOrJudgement
    Way I see it, you take a gun onto a business property with a view to sniping vermin for free, everything has got to be crossed and dotted, same as if you were charging them. For your protection as well as theirs, their customers, visitors, contractors, neighbours....
  18. LuckOrJudgement
    If they offer you money, take it.
  19. LuckOrJudgement
    Aye, its a damn sight more enjoyable than painting houses. Now no one would do that for free! You said that they have offices with lawns and gardens. Presumably the rabbits are cropping the grass to bare earth and gobbling up the tulip bulbs. The service you are providing has a value - and that's all I'm saying.
  20. LuckOrJudgement
    If you do succeed in shooting large numbers of rabbits, what then? Do you want to become known as the guy who clears land of rabbits for free? It's all well and good potting a couple of bunnies for sport - nothing wrong with that at all, but if you go to the next level, you'll want more than just recognition. Just my twopennies worth, and good luck to you mate.
  21. LuckOrJudgement
    Got the bugger this afternoon. He fell victim to a Trapline which I'd virtually buried in the bottom of the run. To make anything on this job I now need his wife, his mistresses and all his children to oblige me by turning up to pay their respects.
  22. LuckOrJudgement
    I'm glad someone's catching. I'm on a job at the moment where every type of trap I try is getting bull-dozed, back-filled or tunnelled under. I'd be better off sitting there with a good book and a shotgun!
  23. LuckOrJudgement
    Philip Larkin wrote a poem called Myxamatosis. Bigmac's post reminded me of it: Myxomatosis by Philip Larkin Caught in the centre of a soundless field While hot inexplicable hours go by What trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed? You seem to ask. I make a sharp reply, Then clean my stick. I’m glad I can’t explain Just in what jaws you were to supperate: You may have thought things would come right again If you could only keep quite still and wait.
  24. LuckOrJudgement
    I love my 97 but I do find I've got to be very chilled to get the best out of it. Any distracting thoughts or uptight vibes and I'm wide of the mark. I guess that's less true of a PCP or a highly tuned springer.
  25. LuckOrJudgement
    Its when you have to go out carrying an injury: sprains, ligaments, joints, knees, ankles. Hobbling down some garden, trying to be polite as the customer asks if moles can climb trees as well, and you're in a cold sweat because every step is frigging agony... Then the best job on earth can be hell on earth. (And I count mole catching as being up there with the best... On a good day!)
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