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First Shotgun - Advice Please Folks
goldenlad replied to hutchey's topic in Rimfire, Centrefire & Shotguns
I got my shot gun licence this year and ended up buying a really nice miruku under and over really nice to use and its steel safe so if I wanted I can shoot duck etc and I got it half price of what they are selling for. Im now looking at a 410 to have something a little different to play with and also teach my son how to shoot -
Hqve you tried putting them in a sandwich bag then wrap in abit of kitchen roll or turn your freezer down a tad, I have mixed meat in my freezer from rabbit and deer to rook and pheasant and not had a prob
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Hi guys im after some help, ive just sent off for my licence and have just about everything in place except the gun of course. What im after is tips for setting out rook decoys ive seen and heard the horseshoe shape is best for woodies but what about rooks etc? I was also told to mix up the decoys as both will come in better if both look as if they are feeding, is this true? And is it a good idea to put a rabbit carcass out with a few rook decoys on/next to it to draw them in? Any help or photos of patterns would be great. Many thank in advance
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Is it a pure peregrine cos i know of a pere x saker that's been missing over a month
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Where are you in norfolk mate, i might be able to help you. Joe. hi Jo im in Swaffham between kings Lynn and dereham on the A47 if you can help how will they be killed i can't use ones shot with a shot gun cos the amount of lead as im gonna use them to train my falcons and most of the breast meat will be eaten by the falcon
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sorry guys put it in the wrong bit and the bloody phone went into perdictive text mode and put looks instead of rooks i have put the same thread in the shooting section so ADMIN can you delete this thread please lol
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Hi im after any of the above trapped or shot im in Norfolk so if anyone can help please let me know many thanks
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Hi im after any of the above trapped or shot im in Norfolk so if anyone can help please let me know
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thanks its good to know ill show the other half this too it may help with getting her on side lol
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your either very green or very dodgy i fly hawks and work ferrets this is all new to me so just trying to learn i've just read another post about the rules and laws so now i know what i can and cant do i just love watching animals work be it gun dogs or running dogs or ground dogs but my first love is and always will be falconry
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im new to all this terrier working lark so just reading some posts and was shocked at the mess some of the patterdales faces the people i know use them for rabbits and rats and none have faces torn up i take it you guys put them down after foxes or badgers etc to have muzzles like that i have a staffie x patterdale bitch and shes great on rat and rabbit she was a year old when i got her from an old lady and shes been a pet with us for 5 years till i took her out with a mate and his jack russel and she was like a duck to water
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thanks ill look into it alot more and maybe next year ill have my new dog. would you say a working dog should live outside or can you have them indoors i only ask as my garden aint big enough to put a dog run in as i already have the hawks and ferrets lol
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Thanks im still unsure of what to get alot of falconers use brittney's or pointers i would like a large springer or a vizla but some times a smaller dog is better i just don't know its a mine field lol
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im thinking of getting a pup to work as a pointing and flushing dog for my hawk so i tapped in the net for sringer pups and the adds i found made my eyes pop out i couldnt belive what i was reading most are from working lines but the mixes are just out of this world why oh why would anyone do such a thing heres a few links i found http://www.pets4homes.co.uk/pets4homes/home.nsf/dogsforsale/DD3FF66DB19C5FDB8025796500304973 http://www.pets4homes.co.uk/pets4homes/home.nsf/dogsforsale/66BADDA73E2844BA802579630046C4C1 http://www.pets4homes.co.uk/pets4homes/home.nsf/dogsforsale/33F5F941D15E
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i have just got a big chest freezer so i now need to shift the 4 draw freezer i used to use for hawk and ferret food its been cleaned out and virkoned the only thing is it has a few scratches and a little rust on the front door but other then that its A1 nic im in norfolk so make me an offer its only 3 years old
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thats a bit strong from a guy who put a post up complaining about the swearing and argueing in the quote from another thread below . you don't have to harp onto me about fittness, trust me pal I have seen many fit hawks from alot of different species. there's a marked difference in a hawk thats already on the wing taking a Pheasant than one from a standing start straight off the fist. seen a decent male Harris in the past have a cock bird virtually flushed underneath him! he missed with the first effort when he had the advantage but in a level tail chase he wasn't in the same leagure. I'll gi
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No millet not at all the flight went out across the fields 150yards i can't see why you all find it so hard to believe that a Harris can catch a pheasant in flight when everyone knows they can out fly a running hare you lot either don't fly your birds alot and so have never seen a fit hawk or your all piss taking twats either way i know what my hawk can do and i know that in the right conditions and if she's in the right frame of mind she'll take on just about anything you can believe what you want in your narrow minded small world sat behind a keyboard
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good job we have slow pheasants like some of the hill billy folk from here in the Norfolk area . even then in the past I have had to work hard to negotiate a decent slip for a Gos before I took a cock bird out of the air which was usually well in excess of 150 yards expecially this time of the year. most of the Pheasants I have taken and seen midaired have been sitting on their wings before the put in and taken, others have been mugged on the way up off the floor on the rise off the fist or young birds flushed that put in earley and taken in the air, then I suppose anyone could also reflus
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I've been out nearly everyday so far there's always somewhere i can go even if its down the woods but then my fhh i hunt from the follow on so its not so bad for her the wind don't seem to bother the really fit hawks, i took a lad out last week and could tell instantly his hawk wasn't fit it got blown all over the place when mine handled the wing like a pro even 40-50mph i even had a great tail chase on a cock pheasant witch she took in the air after a 150yard+ chase
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Yeah that's mick the guy i bought from top guy really knows his birds. Yeah mark talked about timmy alot he loved seeing his gos hunting over the lakes i used to hunt over there till he let too many people with guns over there shooting rabbits and pigeons and they left all the guts and skins in the fields made for a bad days hawking!!! I hate moving and having to try and find new permissions you have to start taking what you can most of mine is just a few fields but i do now have a couple of bigger places, id love to move up north a bit for hills and moors lol
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Mine i just pull the flying jesses tight and pass the food to her beak and she stands waiting for it as long as i don't hold it to low her feet never twitch if i pass it to her feet i need to just hide it in my hand then with my hand facing down i place it between her feet then i tap the glove and she feeds I've never been footed I've had her clamp the glove when hooded and she went through the double roo skin and well into my hand till i took the hood off again lol
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I think it was you i nearly had a Harris from 3 years ago im from Swaffham. I did get mine from a local guy in west winch he also bred pure peregrines im looking for some one to get a pere x saker or gyr x saker for corvids and gulls next year. So what part of the country you moved to i remember you saying you had to move i think mark fendick new you too i think he said you flew a gos over his lakes
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Thanks jasper she's a gem to fly and taught me so much. I didn't realise he'd been banned ooops lol. Are you the same jasper that lives/lived at blackborough end in Norfolk that breeds Harris and gos hawks etc.
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hi im new to the forum and im shocked at the way some of the people talk to each other just goes to show how the sport is being slammed into the ground, when you think its a sport of kings you'd think some of the kids on here would try harder to support the sport insted of painting it in a bad light ive never seen so much foul text on a forum and a disgusting way people talk to each other, im 29 and can swear with the best of them but when with the lads but on an open forum where young kids may be reading to learn our art of falconry is a little much i thought this was gonna be a good forum to
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I fly a fhh that hunts at 2lb 3oz-4oz and my dad fly one that hunts at 1lb 14.5oz mine is the muscle and his is the speed they fly as a cast mine will take hare and has had a young munkjack the size of a hare but also takes pheasant and partridge but awesome on bolted rabbits were as dads is great on rabbit and feather but won't touch anything bigger then a rabbit to the point she won't help in the cast if mine goes for hare etc i much prefer a med Harris too big or too small and they seem picky
