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  1. shortshot
    You gotta laugh at some of the advice from the organic, lactose intolerant townies. Bread and milk has been the staple diet of many ferrets for hundreds of years.....now we hear people suggesting they must watch their sugar and salt levels. b*****ks they're ferrets not a vegan hippy couples only child.
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    .22wmr is a great choice if you want to shoot to twice 22lr effective range with twice the knockdown. The ammo is too expensive for "plinking" @ 20pence a shot but for killing things out too 100 metres which is where % of game is harvested it can't be beat.
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    Garden gun is a shotgun not a rifle. sgc required to possess one.
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    I use the same cleaning rod from a .22 to a 308. Just alter the amount of oiled kitchen roll wrapped around a .22 phospher bronze. You want to choose one bullet/load and use it for everything.
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    Jackson rifles will supply a replacement at 60% new cost ie £125. I've just replaced a 5 year old one but a 2 year old one, I'd be more hesitant over. 6 months from when I saw rust blister to when I finally traded it back. First time last week I thought it sounded a bit louder and you could blow through hole (about 3 inches back from front end) Spoke to Jacksons and their service was brilliant, had a new one direct within 48 hours.
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    A .30 calibre mod. works equally well on a 243. So just tidy the end with an 8mm? drill. A 90% effective moderator is a better option than buying a replacement.imo.
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    Thanks for producing that; I saw Brian Mitchell briefly at gamefair but missed seeing the long service awards. We 're indebted to guys of their ilk.
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    2008 harvest price....£125/ton. If it keeps raining and is a difficult harvest and the drier is running all the time it may go up a £ or 2. If the sun shines through August/early Sept. it'll come down a £ or 2. Bagging it up will add £10/20 so diy.
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    I would think that this very site acts as the primary marketplace for "dubiously acquired" dogs. Take a look at for sale section and tell me that all this... it's a lad I know , who has them but he has no computer so I'll pass you his number lark..doesn't stink of stolen dog! Hunting Life has much to commend it but some of the adverts/advertisers! OK as long as it's not your dog thats gone mentality.
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    Only believe half of what you read on internet........ English pointers.
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    The rear driveshaft has a sliding splines in a cup joint which are prone to losing their splines! Result no rear wheel drive which due to weight distribution means v.v. little off road traction (unless you reverse everywhere.) The job is easy enough fix with a haynes manual and about £180 worth of parts. You cant weld this one as it needs to slide with suspension/swinging arm motion.
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    It's £185 for 12 months L200 but it's the fuel not the tax you need to worry about 28 mpg on road half that off, who cares what the road tax is? A quad bike in the back of a proton jumbuck makes more sense each passing day.
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    Thanks for input, wondering whether an electric feeder might be a good solution cos without hand feeding the adlib feeding from a hopper is much of problem in that they get fat and lazy? Although the hopper or weekly heap of tailings gets them less humanised.
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    All tips, advice appreciated. 2 small shoots I'm involved with have a pond apiece and keep wanting to utilise the water for a duck drive. Rarely do the duck fly well. Anyone who has experience of sucess with showing reared duck care to comment on their secrets/essentials?
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    Take the barrelled action into your local engineering works and ask them who they'd recommend..... chances are he'll say " I'll sort that one evening for £20." Despite what the gun trade would like you too believe it's not rocket science, more GCSE metal work! Plus most engineering workshops have cnc lathes and highly skilled operators who do 50 hours a week, every week on a lathe. As for proofing after a muzzle thread, that is farcical, what pressure is there at the muzzle?.... your going to put a tin plate can on there and you don't envisage that buckling under the strain.
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    I just ground a couple of mm off that top baffle to seat the end cap fully. I don't take it apart nowadays as I 'm a bit frightened too!! cos they are a fiddle. Just soak it in diesel and give it a blast with an airline once in a blue moon.
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    Let's hope it was a chinese copy he'd bought the week before on e-bay.
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    Strikes me the fellows with the truck are doing a v.effective control job and as such must be appreciated by most locals. So you need too get on your bike and look a bit further afield for your sport. There's got to be ground they can't cover from a truck not too far away. If your patch is shot out you gotta look for some more. But I guess you know that anyway.
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    That is awesome... now tell us what the reload recipe your using is.... please. What is the magnification on that scope?
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    Two fathers and two sons went shooting rabbits. Each killed a rabbit...but the total bag was 3 rabbits?? As for the "brothers and sisters I have none".I googled the answer and still don't understand it!!!
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    Meatwise, unless the industry subsidises an "oven ready" pheasant to sell at 50 pence it will never be utilised in these numbers. So given they don't we have a time bomb here that will shortly lead to major curbs on our sport. Money and sport don't make good bedfellows. Commercialisation of game shooting is guaranteed to destroy the sport and with it the keepering profession. Anyone who wants to kill more than 10 pheasants a day should go clay shooting instead! Pick the best 10 birds you see all day and leave the rest . If each gun only had one box of carts. for the day he'd learn to be a
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    vets

    shortshot replied to gunner1966's topic in General Talk

    I picked up a bottle of magnesium sulphate for a sick sheep from vet got charged £29.... went to mvfarmers and got a bottle for£2.... I did enjoy querying the bill in a well populated waiting room with the "practice manager!" I gave him the opportunity to check the bill carefully for any problem before I enlightened the audience.
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    DEFRA

    shortshot replied to a topic in General Talk

    What values can we expect from a society who believes "Albert Square, and Coronation Street" and adopts their values and morals as typically British. While the same majority believe country equates to Emmerdale and "Green, Greengrass!" As for "buy British" that went out when Mrs. Thatcher axed the uneconomic industrial might and made being a selfish individual "the type to aspire too." Also convinced us to embrace global markets. No Lord B. you cant have your cake and eat it.....The consumer wants cheap food same as cheap clothes, cheap motoring, cheap holidays etc etc....no way can UK pro
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    DEFRA

    shortshot replied to a topic in General Talk

    Show me a farm or forest commodity that cannot be produced more effectively and imported more cheaply than UK produced? There is no such thing so in the eyes of the economist why go on subsidising such an inefficient industry? They did it too coal, too steel making, too shipbuilding, too clothing trade, too motor industry etc etc. I can see a certain logic,,,, when sfp has run its course UK producers will have too stand on their own and try to compete globally which we all know they cannot.
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