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    Simulated Game shooting (half day) Sat 30th May, being held in Kelston, Bath Simulated game shooting is conducted in the same manner as a pheasant shoot except clays replace the birds. Good quality targets simulating partridge and pheasant and more targets than than you can possibly shoot at. Topography of the ground provides quality targets. 9.30am-1pm groups or single guns Included in price -2 drives -2000 + clays over the guns throughout the Morning -bacon butty breakfast and in field refreshments Fibre wads only £65 per gun 8 places left Li
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    Nice accurate write up there martin! Thanks again for the night out, it was very kind of you to take me out and show me how its done properly. It was great fun and i was very pleased that the first charlie decided to stop to your howl/bark thing lol. He definitely wasnt going anywhere quick, shot through the left side and exited out the neck. It was a shame about the second one, im not sure what happened but it sounded like a good solid connection to me and looked like the shot was good through the scope (fantastic scope by the way). Hopefully he expired out of sight, i hate wounding!
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    Cheers guys, The long nets are definitely a game changer. So much easier! I think I lost one rabbit out of the Nets that day so 4z do the trick nicely and not that much debris when picking up. Back out on Sunday to do the 'big hedge' so ill let you know how it goes. Longers7 you have pm ATB
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    Yeah they are pretty similar martin, wish i had a chance to take this buck before he popped his coggs. Looking forward to the summer even more now! Do you think they would be any good sussex? Would the lack of symmetry count againt them? Cheers
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    Cheers ross, it was pretty tricky taking photos at times as well as dealing with rabbits/ferrets and nets, was good fun though. leethedog, the quickset longnets i bought off nelson come ready to go, basket + poles. He's a decent size hob but not as big as he looks in that photo. Its nice to bring him out with the jills now and then when its shallow warrens as he does get hold of them pretty quickly, doesnt half make them shift though. atb
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    Found this when out rough shooting. Weirdly formed antlers with quite a few points and pretty substantial thickness. ATB
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    My new longnets arrived from nelson last week so i thought id give them a go on saturday. I went to one of my permissions which was in need of thinning out as the rabbits are tucking into the wheat and causing a fair bit of damage. I decided to just use the longnets as i wanted to get used to running them out and picking them up quickly and by the end i was pretty happy with the result. The wind was strong and gusty for most of the day so i had my hands full but it was a good day in the end with 10 nice healthy rabbits, one of which was dug to as my hob got hold of it. All th
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    Too Windy?

    matt101 replied to matt101's topic in Longnetting

    I fell asleep just after posting this and only just woke up lol maybe it wasnt meant to be. My windows are rattling about still but im going to head out ferreting with the longnets and see what its like in the daylight, if its not too bad ill pop out later Thanks
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    Too Windy?

    matt101 posted a topic in Longnetting

    Hello, I'm thinking about going out longnetting tonight. Got a decent place in mind and the wind direction is right for it but it's Blowing a gale around me at the moment. I know it's best to go on a windy night but can it be too windy to go longnetting? Thanks
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    Does anyone know if it's possible to convert my handheld lightforce lance to a scope mounted version as I want to be able to stick it on my rifle for when I'm out foxing. If possible where is best to get the bits from? Thanks Matt.
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    cheers guys. any recommended 3 inch lift kits? been looking at bloodredoffroad but they only do a 2inch. ferretkent12g i bought 255 70 r15 grabber AT's. There were two already on the back wheels so i just complete the set. Iv had them in the past and they seem to do the trick pretty well so far especially as i do quite a bit of on road driving on them. I towed a pretty heavily laden trailer up a wet muddy hill (not super steep) with just the back two AT tyres last week so the've been pretty good so far, now i have the full set it should be much better. Back out tomorrow so i guess ill see
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    I bought a daihatsu fourtrak last week and now that I've got some decent tyres on it ( general grabber at's) I'm after some advice on things that I can do to improve its performance off road. Any suggestions would be great. The obvious one seems to be to lift it. Is a lift kit worth it? If so how high? Thanks
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    Cheers mate. He quoted 1800 for the op. Think it's weight dependant.
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    Well this has all developed a lot since I checked in last lol. I may have been a bit unrealistic with how well her recovery will go but that's why I put this post up in the first place, so I can get opinions from people who have been in the same situation. I am aware that she's never going to be 100% again and that the op might be less successful than I hope, but as she's so young and I made the decision to get her and bring her on in the first place, I feel like I should at least give her a chance to gain some sort of working ability. Not to mention she's got to be in pain with the torn
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    yeah 6 weeks on the lead is going to be a pain but worth it if shes gets back to somewhere near normal.
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    previously advertised with photos here: http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/330523-benelli-premium-plus-12-gauge-semi-aut/?p=3762887
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    For sale: Benelli Premium Plus 12 gauge semi-auto with 5 chokes + key and hard case. 28 inch barrel. 3 inch chamber. Steel shot proofed. Inertia driven action. This shotgun is in great condition, the barrel is pretty much perfect, the action only has one very tiny scratch on it, and the stock has a few minor scuffs. Overall its in great shape. iv only put about 500 carts through it and ive always striped and cleaned it after evey use. Nice leight weight semi-auto for wildfowling or pigeon shooting. Only selling as i need an over/under for game shooting. Im after £390
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    Cheers mate, he seems very confident in the results so fingers crossed ill have her out with me soon enough. Apparently the beauty of this surgery is that the ligament itself becomes completely useless as they change the angle of the knee by cutting the tibia and inserting a metal plate or something like that, which means the cruciate is not used and doesnt really need to be there, let alone get healed to a good level. Would be good though to hear some real life experiences from people with working dogs which have had the same surgery. Chatting to the vet has given me some hope though
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    Hello, unfortunately my young bitch is booked in for cruciate ligament surgery in a few weeks time due to a partial cruciate ligament tear. The surgeon is planning on performing a TPLO (tibial plateau leveling osteotomy) which basically renders the cruciate ligament redundant and stabilises the knee joint. He said that this is a very sucessful method and he would expect around 85% of normal function to return which sound good to me. Just wondering if anyone else has had this surgery (or other cruciate surgery) carried out on their working lurcher and what the results were once the dog
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    Sorry guys it's gone now
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    Pics. Think it's a model EJ27 . Just don't have the time to get it fixed and need cabinet space. ATB
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    SHOTGUN NOW GONE!!!!! Free to whoever wants it. There is a crack in the forend which is nearly all the way up the middle and will need repair/replacing. Other than that the gun works fine and is in decent shape. Bores are clean, barrels still have most the blueing and the stock is in decent shape. Nice little project for someone with the time and skills. SGC holders only. PM if interested.
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