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Sorry for hijacking this thread 'shotgun' but I've a similar question I've been meaning to ask. I'm going on a combined stalk for fallow and muntjac and planning to use my .308 but have no idea on a suitable bullet as I've never shot either species. I currently have both 150gr Hornadys and 180gr Wins, would either of these be adequate?
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If you can get your hands on an old wheelie bin they're ideal. Contact your local council, they'll probably give you any old ones as they are replacing them with new bins (around my area they are anyway.) The bins are ideal, big enough for plenty bags of feed, waterproof and tough thick plastic which keeps the rats at bay.
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Keep me posted how you get on with it!
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Any books by Richard Prior, he's one of the leading experts on the Roe deer
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Yes, there some I made myself.
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I have 2 mountain bikes for sale: 1) Full suspension Specialized Stumpjumper FSR XC, Manitou SX Front suspension forks and a Fox Vanilla Float rear shock. Red coloured 19inch frame (Mens bike) Very good condition £275 but open to sensible offers 2) Gary Fisher Tassajara hard tail, Rock Shox front suspension forks, Black and red 16inch frame. £125 ono. Both bikes are in very good working order, reason for sale is that I've got too many bikes and need the garage space PM me for further details, photos etc. As said above I live in south Cumbria
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20 mins genarally, a young buck slightly less and a old buck slightly more. Scrape off the meat, Brush on hydrogen peroxide cream, wrap in clingfilm and leave for 12hrs/overnight
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Looks like a peregrine in the background to the left ?? i think you may as well put a net over there for all the work it is instead lol That was bought years ago at a game fair by my grandad, it was supposed to stop other birds of prey coming near. Its now just apart of he scenery, and abit of a running joke throughout the guns/beaters and myself
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Now i've used them abit they're brilliant, the setting up just took abit of mastering ie not making any noise and the least possible movement. The buck was shot at 124 yards and killed with a perfect heart shot. The gun felt like it was in a vice and there was no movement at all, overall very impressed with them.
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Set off to one of my permissions around half 6, drove to a high point which overlooks the full valley and had a good glass for half an hour or more.... Plenty of my last years pheasants but no sign of any roe. Arrived at my starting point shortly after, got all the gear on and had another look with the binos, still nothing. Had a walk round for a further half hour checking the usual hot spots, spotted a doe with a set of large twins in a long grass field and watched her for a short while before they slipped away into a standing wheat field. As I lifted my line of sight from the wheat I
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This is a photo outside one of my pens; its a favourite place for my poults to catch the sun in the mornings, a likely place for them to be killed by a B.O.P. All of my pens are now covered in this 'spiderweb' with CD's hanging plus bag tops - everytime you open a new bag of feed tie the pull off top to the webbing. This has stopped my poult deaths by birds of prey. Highly recommend it!
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Its just a very simple set up for when Im shooting the flashings out on the marsh; Para cord with a 1"x4" strip of lead attached. Hope this helps.
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Poults killed
woollyback replied to East coast's topic in Gamekeeping, Conservation & Shoot Management
I lost 87 poults in one pen last year, they all had their heads taken off and 3/4 buried, only their legs sticking out the ground, it was the work of 2 cubs, they'd squeezed through our fox grids. I got the full family that week, dog, vixen and 3 cubs. and at £3.25 a poult it was an expensive loss! -
Both my greylag and pinkfoot are DJ, they're brillaint
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Always bury mine, have a small folding spade in my backpack all the time.
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Im usuming you mean for tide work, I bought this 2 seasons ago, been bloody brilliant! http://www.tidepool.co.uk/product.php?prod...amp;subcatID=17 For when im flighting shallow flashings, I just use para cord with strips of lead attached (1inch x 4inch)
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I can recall reading an atricle on this, Mallard require 9inch and teal 6inch for dabbling, as long as its this around the outside it doesnt really matter how deep the middle is, an ideal pond would just be 6inches deep throughout.
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unfortunately sounds like the work of a sparrowhawk.
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What were your constabulary like when you wanted to add further rifles of the same calibre, How did you justify needing more than one rifle of the same calibre to them?
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I used to get bothered with buzzards and sparrow hawks on my shoot I keeper on. A gamekeeper friend recommended buying some baler twine (about £10 for 10,000ft), put a nail in the top of each post on your pen and randomly walk across the inside of your pen going from post to post and looping it around the nails, after abit of time you create a dense spider web effect, this helps stop raptors dropping in on your poults. As a further deterrent we hung loads of cd's around on the newly formed 'spider web'. Hope this helps, it reduced the amount of my poults been taken massively.
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Have a look here, cant go wrong for the price, especially if your only putting it on a rimmy! http://www.sportsmanguncentre.co.uk/produc...er/pagestart/0/
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I bought a runnarkop set (jacket/pants) at the 2007 Midland game fair, didnt need it really but it was an impulse buy as they were a good deal. I'm very impressed with it, fully waterproof, comfortable and very quiet; It doesnt bother me in the slightest but its not camo, just green/brown colour. If your looking for something camo, you cant go wrong with the DeerHunter Montana Jacket, mines been bloody brilliant!
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If you've got a lot of land already passed why do you need an open certificate? RicW I was thinking that also. An open license lets you decide on the suitability of the land you are going to shoot over, if you acquire some new land and have an open license you dont have to contact your constabulary. But if all of your land you currently have is passed your laughing. Just apply for your license to be opened on your renewal, that way you'll have 5years experience with centrefire/rimfires.
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Do the bettinsolis all have manual safety?
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I think the general rule is you can get one on or after your first renewal (5 years+). Thats what my constabulary told me anyway. But there are exceptions and I know a few folk on here will have open licenses from their first application. Its all down to the land you have, calibres and experience - thats why they usually wait the 5 years or so that you've hopefully built up a substantial amount of knowledge.