Gimli
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My average is 1 pigeon to 3 or 4 cartridges, but for rabbits is 2 rabbits to 3 cartridges. Had a great afternoon y'day. Walking through an orchard on the edge of my permission, I startled a couple of rabbits. One disappeared into the warren under a mass of brambles, the other stayed on lookout just on the edge of the brambles. I thought it was watching me, but I got to within 30 yards and got it stone dead with the first shot. That shot then flushed a couple of woodies from the trees nearby. They circled over to spot the danger and I got one with the second barrel as it flew high
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yes, you can shoot Canada Geese all year round under the general licence as long as they are pests, but that's in England not Scotland or Northern Ireland. Not sure of the situation in Wales.
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Yes, I think you and the others are right. I really need to apply for a FAC that will allow me a .22 centrefire at the least. I might invest in some AAA cartridges in case the situastion arises where I can safely and cleanly use the shotgun, but using a rifle would be better. I have no desire to leave deer or any other quarry dying slowly from wounds or living with a load of pellets in them. Yes, I shoot near Hemel Hempstead and up around Radlett - I see munties now and again but more often I come across tracks on the edges of woodland on the farms and see bark damage on trees that I
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Thanks for all the advice and thanks particularly to Sporting Shooter for the very useful link. I've also been reading up past copies of the BASC magazine and they had a piece a couple of issues ago trying to clarify the "farmers' defence" clause regarding deer as pests.. I've not seen any other species of deer on either of my permissions but will get specific written permission from the farmers stating that they wish the deer to be shot as pests and stating the reasons they consider them pests. It seems that the law is open to interpretations but if you have written permission for shoot
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Thanks for that. V clear. I've been shooting on these farms over about 6 months and have been told by the landowners that trees they've planted along edges of fields both to create windbreaks and in one case on the edge of an established orchard are being damaged by muntjac eating the bark and killing young trees. I've not attempted to shoot the deer but wanted to be clear in my mind about what I can do legally if asked to do so by the farmers.
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I saw on the latest Deer Initiative statement about legislation regarding deer shooting on farmland, cultivated land etc, that if you have the permission of the farmer/landowner you may shoot muntjac with a shotgun using AAA ammunition if they are causing damage. There are munties on both my permissions and the farmers have told me they consider them pests and am happy for me to shoot them if I get the opportunity. Is that how all of you understand the legisation?
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Do you need a FAC to buy AAA cartridges for a 12 bore shotgun?
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Hawk Eye - what about a Suzuki Jimny. I've had one for six months. I use it to drive to work and it's pretty economical as it's only a 1.3 engine. But every weekend I use it on my permissions for shooting. Have never got stuck and can get full load of hide netting and poles, decoy bag, two shotguns, plenty of cartridges in the back and have room for a passenger too!
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How did you get the shots - which are brilliant - in burst mode?
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Rabbit with tomato, olive, basil and pasta: Roast rabbit with salt, pepper and olive oil - cover in foil to keep moist. About 1.5 hours at 180C, once cooked sdtrip meat from bones. Fry a sliced onion and three clioves of garlic in olive oil for five mins, add the rabbit meat and a tin of chopped tomatoes and olives. Cook for 20 minutes. Add shredded fresh basil and serve with penne pasta. OR Roast with crushed juniper berries, dry cider (o.5 l), chopped shallots, oilive oil, salt and pepper - wrap in tinfoil with oil and cider, juniper berries, shallots and seasoning. Cook a
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Welcome erk - it's difficult around London (I'm North-West London on Herts border). A good local ordnance survey map and a day driving around to work out where the most likely farms are and then it's down to knocking on doors or finding numbers through typing in farm/farmer on 192.com and the area you want to shoot. get the list and phone round. Took me a couple of months to find my first permission and then another couple to get the next - mine are arable farms where I can decoy for pigeons but also do some rough shooting for rabbits and even pheasant and partridges in season. Good
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Pretty sure not intestine - it was completely flat, creamy white and segmented.
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thanks - won't chuck them away next time!
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Thanks Bull - as I cut open the rabbit to hook all the guts out, the flat white worm was in the cavity on the outside of the intestines - , but there was a pellet that had ripped part of the intestine, so possibly the worm had emerged from the tear.
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Shot a couple of rabbits this afternoon. As I was gutting one of them, I found a four inch tapeworm. Flat, white and segmented. I chucked out the whole rabbit. Was this an overreaction? Really didn't fancy eating it. But would cooking have killed the tapeworm and any eggs, or could something survive the oven and infect someone? Be v grateful for advice. G
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having seen some of the great shots on cold misty mornings, here's one I took on safari in Botswana on a hill at a place alled Lentswe. It was freezing cold and the whole valley was misted over.
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Used to be very rare and 30 years ago when I lived in Talybont near Aberystwyth, I drove 50 miles to see one. Now I drive regularly along M40 and can see dozens - Stokenchurch (Jct 5 or 6) is the place to see them. Saw fie toay between M40 and Reading on the Marlow road.
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Tumnling Dice - Rolling Stones Take it Easy - Eagles Back in the Night - Dr Feelgood White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
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Downbound Train and Racing in the Streets by Springsteen And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda by the Pogues The Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
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Fantastic shots - particularly flying dog. What camera were you using and what shutter speed to get such clear, sharp shots of fast movement. V jealous.
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Went out to decoy pigeons over rape this afternoon and ended up with three nice fat rabbits but no pigeons. It seemed ideal conditions when I went out - bit cloudy, reasonable wind, had been frosty in the morning. So I set up on the edge of a rape field - three flappers and ten decoys in a loose horseshoe pattern. Then put up the hide. Saw about 20 pigeons drop to the thickest area of rape about 200 yards away. Big problem with this field is that while there are often pigeons on it, the rabbits in the neighbouring orchard (an abandoned orchard part of a creepy abandoned psychiatric hospi
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A bit frustrasting in m y bit of Hertfordshire. Went out Sunday for four hours. Big flock (150+) on the eifld of rape I usually shoot over. they flew off as I arrived. Set up hide, bouncers and decoys. About 100 pigeons returned but landed about 200 yards away. They were slowly but steadily working their way down the field towards me, whena buzzard spooked them and they flew off and didn't return. Waited two hours and nothing cam near. Moved to another farm close by. Hundreds of pigeons feeding on rape at far corner of field by main road (where I can't shoot). Eventually a fired a sh
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Cometa Fenix 400 or CZ 634 - both well underc £200 and both about 11.9 ft/lbs. Both pretty accurate too. Just not very fancy in the sense of not having bells and whistles. Good, workmanlike guns and not Chinese!
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has anyone got or tried out a CZ 634 air rifle? I picked up one y'day in p exchange for a CO2 pistol I was getting rid of. Seems very strong and accurate rifle for the price - £145. Anyone else got one?
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Very wierd - because they know I shoot and eat what I shoot everyone I work with is now comparing me with Boyt! But I have eaten scorpion toffee, crocodile, wildebeest, kudu, springbok, impala, giraffe, zebra and hippo. the hippo was particularly good - you should try the crackling though!