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    With the awful weather over Easter so far Rik and I managed a very cold and wet couple of hours up the copse. I took the bottom end of the copse whilst Rik went to the top. Initially it seemed rather dire what with the terrible weather. A couple of squirrels passed me (one merely a few feet away!) but they did not stop for a shot. A movement on the far edge saw a rabbit creeping through which was stopped in its tracks with my first shot. Half an hour later a woodie came in and by carefully aiming through a tangle of branches it was felled with my second and final shot of the evening. With the
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    They're mocking me!
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    With the rubbish weather I decided to practise on the range at home. Look who decides to gatecrash the party. Strictly no killing in our garden as per the GL.
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    With the gear still ready from last evening I saw an opportunity with a break in the rain to get out for a few hours this afternoon. Needed to find somewhere sheltered as it was very gusty. Drove around and saw a tree with a few woodies on so went and set up 30yds up wind from this hoping they would return and land facing me. The field next door was recently sown so put out a few decoys to give them confidence to return although I would concentrate on the tree. It was a bit slow with probably no more than a dozen returning throughout the session and only a few presented a clear shot. Still gre
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    Been a while since I've posted. Last six months been focusing on my river fishing and doing a bit ferreting (though the rabbits aren't around in great numbers at the moment). So today I dusted off the trusty S410 and ranged it up in the back garden. It was still spot on with AA fields but then I tried some Sovereign Rangemasters and the groupings really tightened up so I re-loaded all my magazines with these and headed to the copse for 6pm. Haven't been up there for a while and it was a bit of a shock to see a large number of big trees had been felled. So I decided to settle down opposite
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    Cheers for the photos and post Rik, was a good day with some nice bolting rabbits. Next time we'll hit that thick bank before the season is over. Chris
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    Great autumnal images portraying a lovely time of year.
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    Good shooting, allotments are fun but like you say can be hard work. The ones I shoot in the village thankfully the rabbits can be taken as they cross from the neighbouring fields. Have attempted going through them at night with the red lamp but nearly had my eye out on a runner bean pole and almost ended up wearing a pair of marrow slippers which would not go down well with the owners.
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    Cheers, I've got that on my subscribed list now.
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    With a couple of young lads I try a range of things to keep them happy. I generally just dice meat from the rear legs and saddle (less room taken up in the freezer) and use this in game pies and curries. This time I'm going to try that pasta dish done by Gordon Ramsey when he took his lad ferreting a while ago.
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    Asked to sort out some rabbits on the local allotments in the village today. Still too much cover round here for the ferrets so with a bit of a breeze tonight I slapped on the red beam ultrafire and took a walk up the road. Four shots and four rabbits so hopefully that will please the allotment owners.
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    All work AND play, can't beat that.
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    Nice going, I'm going to have to get some of those Falcons to try in my FWB when I get the time.
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    Well I haven't posted for a while now due to lots of jobs needed doing including replacing the headgasket for a second time on the Disco and looking after my two boys during the holidays. Also been doing quite a bit of sea and coarse fishing with just a few trips out shooting with the usual rabbits and odd squirrel. However, today with a few hours to myself I managed to sneak away to try a bit of decoying on some recently harrowed stubble. May have left it a bit late but it would still be nice to be out in the September sun. Only took the bare minimum of kit so I could move quickly if need
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    You had a catty and a floor covered in gravel, what more did you need? How was the fishing?
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    Does this work?
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    Thanks to photobucket service changes I'll try reposting again. This time I'm using imgur image hosting (hope it works) Just took the basic of gear in my pockets, donned the waders and went for a couple of hours freelining for chub on a small stream below a mill. Caught four over two and half pounds with the best two at 3-01 and 3-07. Also caught loads of chublets and lost a few nice fish including one that tore off downstream smashing my hooklink. Great to be in the cooling waters with fish swimming round my feet including some nice roach feeding on the gravels. Met some very pleasant w
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    Yep, it looks like photobucket requires updating to allow 3rd party image hosting. Whether this requires a fee I don't know yet.
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    Cheers I'll go and have a look at settings on photobucket. The only issues I've had in the past are when I've put images on and then later on re-organised my photobucket files. What other image hosting websites do you lot use as I must admit photobucket is becoming a pain with all the pop-up adverts and I'm a tight sod that doesn't want to pay a yearly subscription.
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    Have the images appeared now? They do on my preview. If not I'll have to try something else.
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    Oh no photos, I'll try again with photobucket (with all its blooming adverts!!)
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    Just took the basic of gear in my pockets, donned the waders and went for a couple of hours freelining for chub on a small stream below a mill. Caught four over two and half pounds with the best two at 3-01 and 3-07. Also caught loads of chublets and lost a few nice fish including one that tore off downstream smashing my hooklink. Great to be in the cooling waters with fish swimming round my feet including some nice roach feeding on the gravels. Met some very pleasant walkers and canoeists who were all keen to discuss the fishing. You can't beat ditching all the gear and having a nice simple d
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    Spot on write-up and great pictures.
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    Great write-up and looks a fantastic place to shoot.
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