summer holidays were great used to slip the air rifle in the rod bag and tie it to the bike and go fishing nearly every day to some local pools a couple of miles from home ,when we got bored we used to shoot at each others floats porcupine quils used to stand up to the shot best ,some of the perch we caught seemed huge from the one pool ,suposse i was lucky growing up in them days it must have been obvious what we were up to but no one seemed to mind much,one pool we used to fish was in the middle of a wood that was the highlight that was full of big perch and some jack pike ,shooting the