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Here's a few pics of my girl Maya, I got her in 2009 as a rescued bird through the RSPCA. Some dick-head was keeping her in a 3 foot rabbit hutch. when she arrived she only weighed in at 1lb 10oz and was a thin as a rake. I had a mute sample checked and found a few problems with worms and coccsidosis which were all sorted out free of charge by the vet I use free of charge due to the circumstances I had taken the bird on. Anyhoo I manned her down for a week to get her weight up and calm her down and found quickly she loved to bite and was very sticky footed. After this she was put away to
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Thanks to some thieving sod breaking in to my house my pride and joy of a rifle has been stolen, and to make it worse my house insurance won't cover it even though it was in a locked cupboard and have notified the police etc and have the crime number. not a happy bunny. I have found a replacement though until hopefully my FX is returned or found. Getting a Brocock Sentinel limited edition in 177 it has only had about 200 pellets through it since bought and it is immaculate, comes with a Bushnell sight not sure which but have a Mountmaster 4-12x50 as a back up and a hard case. All for the pr
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22-250 and 243 were the rounds shot that night between the 2 guns out. Alex
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There are way too many down in the area this was taken in.
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Now mentoring a mate who started last year, gave him a couple of days out flying Tiree while I worked the ferrets for him, this was his first kill. The slopes on this land a re about 45 degrees and you can get some very long slips depending on how daring you are. This year organising a 2 day hunt with day one on the hills and day 2 on the fields after game birds. I am taking the camera and video camera may have the Fieldsports guys there hopefully. Now looking forward to September and getting going again ATB Alex
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More action shots a couple more to come
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A wee vid of Tiree trading off, none of the bad manners thankfully bearing in mind this was only his 3rd bunny and 4th kill. http://s133.photobucket.com/albums/q49/Islathegos/?action=view¤t=MOV00133.mp4 My mentor who I had over from Germany (expat military) and his first pheasant with his home bred female gos, also got a cracking Kliene Munsterlander (dog) she is one of if not the best working dog i have ever seen. On the same day Tiree took his first brace of birds a cock and a hen and tripled out with a long flight on a bunny. A well rewarded bird who had
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Over the last 3 years I have had a good friend Roy Lupton keeping the foxes under control on a couple of the farms I hunt on, and during this time we normally have 2 to 5 on any given night. One night we decided to try and go for a bumper night and had the filming team from FieldsportsTV out with us. After a load of planning and waiting on the call from a farmer who was cropping barley and off we went in a specially chopped up Disco built up by Brian the other gun for the night. This was the end result and a link to some of the film from the night. We went back the following
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Sold !!
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I have a side wheel and sunshade from a Nighteater 56mm scope both unused. £15 posted. Sadly my rifle and scope were stolen last night during a break in at my house so no longer need them. PM on here or call me on 07564 236009 Alex
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Get yourself down here for a weekend, I will let you fill yer boots with woodies Alex
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I was lucky enough that my mentor flew Goshawks so that's where I started, got to admit in some ways I wish I hadn't. My first 2 parent reared males sadly died during the season and pretty much felt like hanging up my glove. But the bug just got me and on I went and glad I did. Tiree is a pleasure to hunt and is more imprint like in his tenacity while hunting and his manor on the fist. On a few occasions he has pretty much dozed off on my fist when things have got very slow. can't wait for the new set of feathers for him to trash if he's anything like he was last season. One flight in
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Had an early morning out patrolling the farm yards and there were very few woodies about, finally settled down in a stable looking out to one of the silos and it took about 45 minutes before the first bird showed which was dually dispatched. Then there was a steady stream for about 30 minutes managing 10 in total and 2 gulls. Not the best session on normally very productive yards but enough to have made the fuel money worth it. on the way home I found out why there were so few one of the fields of rape had been cut and the field was grey with well over a thousand birds on it from what i
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Just thought I would introduce Tiree my hunting partner, he was bred last year by Andy Stratford. I collected him late on in the season and he was as good as they come. Took 3 weeks to get him flying well and bang on weight to get killing. He started his account at 1lb 9 3/4oz and ended at 1lb 12 1/2oz on his last hunting day at the end of February At the minute he is happily moulting out in seclusion at the top of the garden. Looking forward to September and getting going again. This year i am going to concentrate on more feather than fur early on and then come mid November will let him
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Another couple of mornings work Do love woodies they just keep lining themselves up. Alex
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The start of the season was a bit of a head mash with the male imprint but got much better before he got killed, the male I bought to replace was very easy to get going and did really well especially for how late I got him. he took 60 bunnies and 30 or so game birds and a few other bits n pieces. My female Harris did as she does best mullering bunnies for fun, think she took around 80ish but had to cut her season short due to moving house and having to build new pens. Looking forward to September and getting going again with the birds. Alex
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I have a Webley FX2000 in pretty much new condition but would prefer a similar PCP but in 177, I will happily throw in a Nikko Stirling Mountmaster 4-12x50 AO IR with the rifle as I am keeping the current sight on it. Will only do face to face so both parties can make sure we are both happy with the rifle. I am based down in Dover (Kent) but I am happy within reason to drive and meet up somewhere to swap the rifles. I have covered the barrel and the cylinder in a carbon weave sheet to protect but this can easily be removed if needed by using the heat from a hair dryer and it does not leave
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I have 3 local farms which all have grain silos which are all in use, so every time they open them up grain ends up spilt and the pigeons think they are going to have a field day but not on the hour or 2 I am there they don't. Now got 2 freezers full of them for my birds and ferrets to feed on and every now and again make a few pigeon pies and pasties. The carbon weave is cheap as chips and easy to fit and for me saves the problem of not wiping down the rifle when I should being a lazy bugger. Heres a link to the stuff http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-12-x-50-BLACK-Wrap-Sheet-32-cm-x-127-cm
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At the minute I am out 3 to 4 times a week in a local farmyard. up to now I have taken around 250 wood pigeon and about 30 collard doves. None of it going to waste all being eaten by me or the hawks getting well fed for their moult. Currently using an FX2000 in .22 with a Nikko Stirling Nighteater 6-24x56 LRX at the minute pretty much everything that appears in the scope falls nicely. An old pic of the rifle with a carbon weave covering to protect the rifle from my laziness to wipe it down after shooting. and recent morning out before the carbon effect addition and getting the new s
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A final pic for now, this I would love to get painted at some point ATB Alex
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Rob with a Ferrutail he flew for a few weeks for a mate same bird and the bunny dead before we got there One of my favourite pics love the light in it and for a change framed it reasonably well when I took the pic. I tried to be artistic with this pic of a female gos I imprinted for a friend she was bred by Angelo Canape
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A few more Bomber in flight Miscka my GSP bitch on a Cock Pheasant in a lovely glade Rob Nevilles Bow on a winter Bunny, you can see the pain Same bird and a bunny which didn't see him coming Still hunting through photobucket to see what's decent
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TY for the warm welcome. Alex
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A male Imprint Gos I hunted last season before he met a rabbit fence at high speed following a pheasant, sadly he died on impact bred by Roy Lupton.
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a couple of hours in a local farm yard Bomber when it got cold A friends female gos closing on a cock pheasant, she took it as it cleared the trees. same female
