Alan Clark
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It looks a little pissed off, do the Pine Martens have the same protection in Ireland as they do in the UK? Most of the Pine Martens that I have seen in Scotland have been brown, but a few were a much darker colour. The best one I have seen was one my sister filmed, it came in through the window where we were staying to try and steal food before thinking better of the idea and walking along the sill outside the window. The problem came when it tried to turn round at the end of the window. The same happened to our cat a few years ago, it went out of an upstairs window, got to the end of the sil
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Talk about brainless pigeons. Well done.
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Thanks for that advice, I will have to try it. While out I had noticed that consistancy became better after 10 or 15 shots.
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Could we say the rabbit bit the dust then? Yep, the pigeon was from the old barn by the blue house, two sat side by side on a beam so I took the right hand one, it fell over and dropped off the back of the beam with a floppy neck. Took it out again yesterday looking for woodies and crows and didn't get anything. There were a couple of magpies that must have had very close calls and a couple of woodies which again had close encounters. I checked the zero and had to slightly adjust it, sat in a holly bush for an hour waiting for a corvid to come and peck at the remains of the bunny but n
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Well I decided that I couldn't just sit at home this evening so went over to the farm, got there and found a BBQ in progress so had a couple of sausages (with pieces of chilli in them) before heading out. Missing a couple of easy shots so ended up using a fence post to check the zero, it had wandered a bit. Then after a while letting the tiny ones hop around I saw three careless woodies on the ground about 20 yards from me so I stood there waiting for one to move into a good spot to take it. Before that happened one of the horses came up behind me and started trying to eat my bag (i'd
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Good shooting, I am sure there are a few bunnies going around with pierced ears, those ones where we were sure there would be a good solid hit and the little critter ducks down just in time. Last year I pulled a flat head out of a rabbit's backside, I'm sure I've still got the pellet somewhere, probably on the back window sill. It had been in the bunny for a while as the wound was completely healed and there was no apprant bruising or danage to the bones. I reckon it was a low ftlb rifle which was responsible as the hit should really have destroyed one side of the hip.
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That's good, soon you'll be going up the road to decide what to buy first. I'd go for the .243, like you said the air rifles are still good for the bunnies.
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Well, with Steve as her brother I wouldn't expect anything less.
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Do you think the American will forgive us if we did that?
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Yeah, I thknk we are, something about you're going over Bedford way and someone need to mind Oscar.
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Take him a copy of the OS map and a crayon. I really must bring it down and have a go at your bunnies, though I think I'll wait until someone is driving down rather than carry it in the camo bag on the train. Maybe a hard case is called for. It's taking RWS Super H Point at the moment.
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I think it is a standard stock, I'd seen one in the local gun shop before I bought mine and it also had that stock.
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Yes, had a few of those as well. If I'd known the woodys were up in the trees they would have been added to the score sheet. It's a Logun Eagle, I bought it earlier in the year, before then I'd been using Matt Hooks' pair of rifles.
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I went for a short walk round at my uncle's and came back with a single Mr Bunny, taken at fairly close range while standing. There were loads of the tiny ones about but there isn't much meat on them at the moment. A few dozen woodies but they kept their distance. The bloody lapwings were forever giving my position away even when I was well away from the area of the farm they are nesting on one would turn up.
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Four blondes walk into a building. You'd have thought one of them would've seen it.
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I used IE until I couldn't get onto the control panel for my website with it, too many features that IE idn't like. So I swapped to Firefox. I tend to use google but I get annoyed with the way it automatically gives preference to sites that they own or have a share in when there might be a 'better' match which is shown lower down the return.
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Because it wouldn't be very edible after you'd shot it with a hand cannon. Oh, and yes we have thousands of them (cattle grids that is).
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I used BSA Interceptors (only because the local shop had run out of RWS Super H-Point) last year and wasn't that impressed with them, too may had large amounts burr on them from manufacturing. I would spend half my time with a sharp knife skimming it off. That said a good pellet still had the same effect on Mr & Mrs Bunny.
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Very good.
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I do that to get the ratty birds, usually on my way back up from the fields after lamping for rabbits. During the day they tend to fly as soon as I walk into the buildings but at night they just sit there looking at me. Something to do with fish in a barrel. I'd agree you could do with an air rifle for knocking off buildings, and HPs do go splat it you miss and get a grider or brickwork.
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Not really the sort of subject I would have chosen for my first post, but I might as well get on with it. Firstly i do not have an FAC or SGC, instead I use a sub 12'lb air gun for getting the bunnies & farm budgies but at some point in the future may well apply for one or both certificates (if they still exist by then). It is clearly a tragic and senseless thing which has happened and maybe in time the politicians will push through some sort of changes, hopefully they are measured and appropriate as the Home Sec and PM have suggested. Certainly banning a particular type of firearm
