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    You can try and flight them at night with deeks made from cardboard. Cut some egg shaped sections 2 feet in length and paint them with the tail bars in white emulsion and you will need some black paint for canada tails too I would imagine, but we don`t have many where I live so I`m only guessing. Check out google images for pics of the tail bars. nice Idea! I'll have to check it out!
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    as ever, .17 is not a foxing calibre straight off, it is good, as are the other rimfire rounds, for the odd oppotrunistic fox, but within the calibre limitations.
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    just make 'em yourself! it's really not that hard, plus it'll cost you about 4 quid max. I made a pair of sitting sticks for bunny shooting, one stick cut in half, tied together with some left over silicone rubber door seal, bike inner tube works as well, with a small section of garden hose around the stocks to prevent the stock from betting dinged, shove something in the ends of the tubes to stop them filling up with mud, cut off at an angle so they spike in the ground better, and you're done! DSC_7596 by danebrewer12, on Flickr DSC_7599 by danebrewer12, on Flickr
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    Right ... got it no no I believe you! seeing as I've never shot at night before, how easy is it? I mean are the birds shilouetted? or is shooting waterfowl after dark/before first light prohibited? Cheers
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    huh? now I'm really confused, in one of your earlier posts you said that geese feed at night: As allready stated they are comming to feef NOT Roost and in the one you've just made you say they feed during the day!: Geese roost an NIGHT and FEED during the DAY I'm having a brain overload here
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    CHeers Chaps, how hard is goose calling? I seem to be ok with the duck call, how different is the goose call? I have already bought some steel 2s for the very purpose..... I patterned some here- http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/166552-re-cartridges-for-duckgeese/ some interesting results.... so if they are feeding during the night, why do you see geese wandering around during the day? do they not need much sleep? Cheers Dane oh and another thing, how do you actuaccy producxe the individual honks? is is similar to a duck call, saying something into the call, 'vause I c
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    well We have bought a fair bit of straw off him, so when the old man goes to pay, I'll ask him to slip in a question..... there is hope yet!
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    well more by luck than judgement I can assure you! I guessed that the words "sportsmatch" and "problem" didn't go together in a bad way so I figured you were giving them the thumds up. TBH from what I've seen written, Welsh isn't like any other language I've ever come across, not like in europe where, as I speak pretty good German, I can have a crack at getting the rough gist of languages like Dutch, and Danish I guess the closest thing toWelsh would be sth like Gaelic?
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    they're a mix of canadas, and I think greylags or pinkfeet, (i'm in the south east on the south downs), I'm not too sure abpout flock size but they come in dribs and drabs of say 4 groups of perhaps 15 or so and then several smaller groups of about 5 or so. they arrive in the evening at about 7 o'clock usually though thay have been eariler, they leave about 7 o'clock in the morning, though if the weather's nasty or it's cloudy and misty they can hang on later, today they didn't all go 'till about 9:30- 10:00 the field is wheat stubble, and they've come back for a couple of years now....
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    Hi all, as per the title really, I live on a small 7 acre property which has arable and grassland all around it. there are some geese that roost on on a nearby field, but they pass by about 200m+ away and they don't see to come any closer (they do seem to stray about 70m occasionaly), when flying to and from the field. I'm not really up for splashing out a few hundred quid on deeks I'm only going to use a couple of times, so before I waste my money on a goose call I can't sway the geese with, can you actually bend geese off theeir flightpath to investigate a call withough decoys? Cheers D
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    on the subject of penetrating oil, it dosen't have to be "gunsmith" penetrating oil, my brother has been restoring an old ford 3000, and to be the siezed parts apart, he's been using Plusgas, I have to say it is really very good, I'd have though any quality penetrating oil from an automotive shop would be fine, I can't really see it damaging the blueing....
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    on the subject of penetrating oil, it dosen't have to be "gunsmith" penetrating oil, my brother has been restoring an old ford 3000, and to be the siezed parts apart, he's been using Plusgas, I have to say it is really very good, I'd have though any quality penetrating oil from an automotive shop would be fine, I can't really see it damaging the blueing....
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    nice job, can't see the pics, but I had the same prob with the mod reflecting the light from the lamp, I use a lightforce 170 now and that, when I set the bottom of the beam to kiss the target, thaat keeps the beam off the mod and keeps the sight picture clean.
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    HMR chap.....I have had great experiences with it.
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    sorry chap, not many of us speak Welsh on THL I guess you're saying sportsmatch are ok?
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    (Sorry if I've already posted this and it's been moved, but I think my browser crashed before I could hit the "post" button) Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Well I decided it had been too long since my last shooting foray so I chucked the gear in the car and headed over to a smallholding I have helped on and shot over for a number of years, I wasn’t too hopeful as I never seem to shoot much there unless the pigeons are there in force. Today was, again a slow day, with nothing moving, not even a squirrel, the odd pigeon clattering out of the far side of the trees, impossible
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    some manufacturers make then for their own scopes, Zeiss make turrets and a selection of graduated labels that they stick on them to match up to a range of trajectories/cartridge types, Leupold also offer a custom BDC turret system for their scopes, but with both i'm pretty sure you have to send them back to the factory for it to be fitted. TBH, I don't think they have much use in a sporting environment given that most modern calibres are pretty flat shooting and I don't think many people regularly shoot beyond 200m in woodland and farmland stalking the exception might be foxing, or shooting
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    Like others have said... Sportsmatch. I havwe them on my HMR and a few dinks and donks to the scope have not knocked it out of zero.
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    huh, that's pretty interesting stuff....
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    Thank you very much for sharing the data/pics. It confirms how larger steel shot forms a tighter pattern than lead. Your 1/4 choke seemed closer to 3/4 than 1/2 in performance terms. as in, steel patterns tighter for a given shot charge and size through the same choke?, Yes I had read about it but it was interesting to see it in the flesh. I don't know what lead 3s or 2s look like through my gun at 35m so I couldn't comment. an interesting test nontheless
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    Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Well I decided it had been too long since my last shooting foray so I chucked the gear in the car and headed over to a smallholding I have helped on and shot over for a number of years, I wasn’t too hopeful as I never seem to shoot much there unless the pigeons are there in force. Today was, again a slow day, with nothing moving, not even a squirrel, the odd pigeon clattering out of the far side of the trees, impossible for a shot. I entered a stretch of woodland at the bottom of the valley, about 40m wide and 400m long, (it extends farther bu
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    FUD's

    danebrewer10 replied to ceri86's topic in Wildfowling

    I must say, I'm not really made up on FUD and silosocks unless the quarry is big lik geese it'll cut down on the physical size of the deeks you have to carry, or you have to walk a long distance or over difficult ground to reach the shooting. I did read a review of the FUDs and they don't sit well on flowing water, this was on a fast flooding section of channel on the foreshore and the current made them not sit right, I guess they'd work fine on slowe moving water or still water.
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    Where is it common practice? is that just if your eating them? My self I don't eat them and always try for body shots as the target area is bigger well unless the rabbit is tiny and not worth eating, then I allways head shoot. it just means you don't spoil the meat. I do think that if you can eat the quarry you shooti like rabbits then you should. in Alaska they have laws stating that all game shot has to make it into the food chain, otherwise you are comitting an offence.
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    same here, I have my HMR ammo in a fire safe which just sits on the floor, let's be honest, it's not like you can just pick that damn thing up and run with it, it weighs a ton!, plus you've got to wrestle it out from under the starirs and out the door. hmm I don't think so. if you're unsure just ask the FEO, I'm sure it'll be fine though.
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    yes... see here... http://www.thehuntinglife.com/forums/topic/166552-re-cartridges-for-duckgeese/
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