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Chicory. Grows on any soil. Year round cover and good nesting material. Nice small strip of maize or tritacale with it works wonders.

We use both but then we have double the amount of partridge than pheasants. We get pheasants used to the hoppers on the rearing field but hand feed them on straw before release. When they go to wood they are hand fed but there are a few hoppers in the pen. It works for us and we get good returns. Have to dog in well though.

Got one on mine. Made by Niggeloh. Got it from Garlands £ 23

Looks a beauty mate. Good luck with it.

Are you saying bullet head came away from the casing and got stuck, which i assume missed fired and when you edjected the round the bullet head was left in the barrel or did the casing get stuck in the chamber ? My guess is that the round had none or little powder in the cartridge but just enough energy for the bullet to enter the barrel. All I heard was a click. There was no bang.

I had a bad experience with a batch of remmy 17HMR ammo last week which finally left a round stuck in the barrel of the CZ. I had suspected a bad batch but this last episode shocked me. If it had gone an inch further up the spout I could have chambered a round behind it. Remington USA have issued a recall notice on their semi auto rifle and said they will refund full boxes of ammo. Its on their website if you want to look. Has anyone else had any bother ie bad grouping/slow burn etc. And does anyone know contact details of the UK distributor cos I sure as Sh!t ain't happy.

Collins Nets http://www.collinsnets.co.uk/ They have everything you need.

If you ever had a cub in a pheasant release pen you'd kill them on sight without question. It's pest control pure and simple. I never pass up the opportunity and if you reared game you wouldn't either.

I use a bushwear tripod. Cost £35 and I find it much better than the old green garden canes I used to use. It ain't the best build quality and you have to check the tightness of the screws now and again but when I've used it it's been brilliant.

Like to see them about but we keep them down to minimal numbers to keep the pikeys off with the running dogs. Partridge won't tolerate dogs running all over the shoot. That's the sole reason.

You still need to have nominated land as you did for the grant. The open ticket allows you to shoot on any land that you have permission on but the onus on safety falls on you and rightly so. In a nutshell you still need a dedicated piece of land as your main ground as it gives the required good reason for ownership.

Its a balancing act with reared duck. Overfeed and you'll need to dynamite them off the water. Underfeed and they leave. We fed them some on the edges of the water then kibbled barley away from the pond so we could drive them back. Just try different things but get them on the wing as early as possible. Thats the one time on the shoot when a wild spaniel is welcome.

Try jam on a chunk of bread or piece of chocolate superglued to the trip plate on a fenn trap

Try hornadys own brand. I use homeloads 55g v max in the 22/250 and they are great but i've also used hornady factory rounds and they shoot 3/4 inch groups through my T3. Well impressed considering its a factory round. The ones i tried were molys and £19 a box.

Use whatever works. Just ring the changes with colours, times etc. Most will trip up sooner or later.