Gimli

I have a pair of Leeda waders - neoprene, size 10. They are new and have never been worn. I'm selling as I have just become a member of a deer syndicate and will not be foreshore shooting. I'm asking £40 plus £7.70 postage. Please PM if interested. For any members who are wondering, I am the Gimli who has been on the site for years, but I've closed my old hotmail a/c down and forgotten my password so had to re-register. Best G

Thanks guys - in a way it's good to know that it's not just my permissions.

Hi, am I just unlucky and the rabbit population has dramatically disappeared on my permissions, or are there far fewer rabbits around this spring? Perhaps as a result of the hard winter. The last four outings to the farms have produced nothing. This time last year and the year before I was getting four or five each outing. But I've not shot one in two months and have seen perhaps 20% of the number I was seeing last year. I know in the autumn there were several groups of totally irresponsible shooters on the permission, who were shooting at anything and everyhing and when there was no

Unfortunately I only lease the shooting rights through Roger Buss's Deerland operation. So I only have rights to shoot and cannot touch tthe woodland or even clear rides. The landowner seems to do nothing at all to tthe wood and there are loads of broken down pheasant pens and stuff. Only wish I could clear it up.

Hi Langouroux - wish I could swap harrow for Cornwall. There are a lot of munties around but the wood where I shoot is not well managed, there are few properly kept rides and the undergrowth is v thick. Means tthey are hard to shot. We've also had a problem with some idiots going in there without permission and shooting all over the place with .22s leaving muntjacs to die slowly - that seems to have been nailed now though. I do occasionally shoot fallow witth a friend up past Ashridge - some great stalkiing there witth herds of over 50 fallow on the land I've shot over.

After nearly a year without a succesful stalk on my woodland permission neat Tring, I finally got a muntjac today. It took after five and a half hours of freezing my butt in high seats and crouching in bracken, but was worth it. I had high hopes when I arrived, as I found several very fresh collections of droppings as soon as I got into the wood. Then, as I moved towards one of the high seats, there was repeated alarm barking by a muntie that I couldn't see. I followed the noise but it led into very thick brambles and bracken where I had no chance of spotting deer before it spotted me, w

Good shooting - nice pair of Muntjac. I'm off out on Thursday to the wood where I stalk them, near Tring, for the fvirst time in three months. Fingers crossed.

I've found them a couple of times and always chuck the pigeon away. I've always suspected they are healed over wounds.

I'd try the EKA - had it demonstrated to me by an experienced stal;ker and I'm about to buy one. Gerber aren't bad either.

If you're willing to pay for a stalk (and not through the nose), contact Nick at Anglia Sporting. I went through him and shot a roe buck and muntjac doe on my first stalk.

Hi LD, I'm sure you'll get a range of advice. What worked for me 18 months ago was get get it in writing from the farmers that they are happy for you to shoot deer on their land, have shooting lessons with a .243 (I had three) and then either sign up for DSC1 or get a mentor who the police will accept. I applied for my FAC and initially had a licence tthat allowed me to shoot accompanied. Within 2 months my mentor wrote to the police and said I was competent to shoot unaccompanied and I got the new FAC within days. I'm now thinking of doing DSC 1 and 2 so I can get on to the Woodland

Good stuff - that looks great. I will try a jerky approach using the biltongmaker.

Having a great day today, watching England hammer South Africa at cricket while having a beer and chewing on homemade venison biltong. I've got loads of fallow after two productive stalks in late November and early December. My son bought me a biltong maker for Christmas and I've just turned a kilo of leg meat into very good biltong - took about 12 hours marinating and then draining, then 24 hours in the biltong maker. Great machine, will take 5 kg at a time. I over-did the chilli spice mix and so it's a touch salty and too spiced, so masking too much of the flavour of the meat, but

V nice shot and good write up.

I'm with Dan and Langouroux - plastic coated garden poles. Mine are fixed together with lengths of velcro - don't make noise, are v light and dirt cheap. Richard at Stalkers UK has some very good telescopic tripods - I've shot from one very successfully, but they are heavier and more expensive.