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    to my surprise the glue held!! Good job too as the weather was foul and the mud was sticking to the soles like stuff to a blanket, plenty of birds about though so an easy day.
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    Hi has anyone used this product and is it any good? I've got a very tatty barrel on my semi auto and thought I'd tart it up a bit with some of this in a realtree pattern, Is it easy to apply / remove and once applied, does it stay on, what's it like in the wet and is it an invitation for rust? cheers Bruce
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    I've got dickies wax chaps and they are lasting pretty well, they're on their second season of blackthorn and bramble and are still water and thorn proof, mind you I'm going to get treggings next as could do without a wet butt every now and then, I always buy a cheap wax from a bootfair as jackets are easily ripped, a fiver on my last wax jacket and it's still going strong, a decent pair of wellies is a good investment but again some of the lesser known brands are well worth a punt, I'm wearing wyre valley neoprene boots and I find them very comfortable and to this point durable as well, I adm
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    Saw them eating squirrel on "come dine with me" channel 4, think it may have even been popcorn squirrel, then saw them out in the garden yacking it up nice, next day they all had bad guts, can't say it appeals to me but each to their own.
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    glad about that, not many people would want to handle a couple of 2 year old jobs!!
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    First day beating partridge tomorrow and it's going to be wet, super glued the splits in my wellies, got to be another season in em surely, the chances of it holding probably zero, busting out the wax chaps, flat cap and beaten up Barbour and I'm ready to go!! Now where did I put that flag?
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    put an aluminium fly screen over the mesh, secure it with batons screwed on, what ever it is will have problems pushing through. We have so many foxes in the garden I had to disconnect a security light at the end by the shed, as foxes were setting it off all night and it was bloody annoying shining in the bedroom window!!
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    I shoot one eye open/ shut, depending on your perspective, I do this as I have a dominance to one eye, there is a test to see if your dominant to one eye(http://www.basc.org.uk/en/how-to/shooting/eye-dominance-test.cfm) this may well explain why your hitting jack!! I still can hit left and right with just one eye, though in my case it's more of a rarity than the norm
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    perforated is better if your putting it at an incline, if you use the non perforated smooth bore at an incline it's more like a flume at a water park, they slide down and cant get enough purchase to climb back up, funny to watch but not much good if your using it as stairways between floors.
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    handling, handling and more handling, when I first started handling my kits it was like putting your hand into a bucket of razor blades, by week 9 when they found new homes no biters, I found best way to start off is stroking them as their concentrating on feeding, then work up to picking them up after they've fed, pick them up behind the front legs and that gives them less of a chance to bite, let them sniff your other hand, offer it as a fist with your fingers tucked in (less to get hold off) after a while they'll get used to you and bob's your uncle all of a sudden they are a pleasure to ha
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    perhaps last year your permission was drilled early or harvested late giving the birds an early or late option, perhaps fields on adjoining farms were also drawing them in your direction but have now been left fallow? Maybe all the farms in your area harvested at the same time diluting the concentration of birds, you'll probably never know, maybe someone new has been bagging them all on adjoining permissions, could just be the old adage "shit happens"
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    If your targeting a particular species then decoy for that species, I use full bodied flock decoys for pigeon and crows. Some days using the real birds shot to replace the decoys in the pattern pull more birds in other days if the decoys are pulling them in fully committed then why change anything. I have mixed different decoys in the past but find that it is not beneficial, other than an odd magpie on a post or lofted when decoying corvids
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    Micheal Jackson?
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    yep best deals are on the internet, mate of mine bought festival tickets for him and his friends on the internet via paypal, seller pocketed the money, closed his fake account and walked off with 700 quids worth of dosh from my mate alone, hard to trace especially if they piggyback unprotected wifi connections. Good luck though it could be that one real deal we're all searching for!!
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    HW77 good accurate rifle but weighs a ton!!
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    Clear pigeon 32g 6's, Remington 1100 skeet, don't personally use anything more than skeet when decoying, still get clean kills and confident of knocking them down to 40 yards. Will be ditching the semi auto for the next couple of pigeon sessions though to get used to shooting an O/U again now the pheasant season is looming, seen a few partridge on one of my permissions but now their on the dinner menu they seem to have vanished, typical!!
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    if it looks like a dodgy deal then chances are it is a dodgy deal, although paypal and your credit card may well refund you it's always worth remembering the old adage "buyer beware" You don't get refunded for being a fool and as they say "a fool and his money are easily parted" Save your money, wait a while till you can afford the real deal and if it's a classy watch then you'll have something that will only increase in value or you can leave your kids in later life. We've all licked our lips at fantastic deals that seem to good to be true and 9 times out of ten you end up getting burnt
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    showed my spaniel my young polecat Jill the other day, had the poley in my hand for the pair of them to sniff each other, looked away for a second and when I looked back the spaniel had the ferrets head in it's mouth!! Ferret was a bit on the damp side but not bothered, didn't even hiss or bite, spaniel chastised and a bit sheepish but fortunately has a very soft mouth. My Staffy is another kettle of fish all together, doesn't try to mouth them is happy to have them crawling all over him but occasionally licks his lips in a worrying manor, I'm hoping this is just excitement as he'll be coming
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    Our third hand pet springer always used to disappear as soon as he was let off the lead so decided to get a shock collar to try and reign him in, only had to use it a couple of times and he was a new dog. I used the bleep facility in conjunction the recall command and it worked a dream, and used the heel command with the vibrate facility and low and behold we had walking to heel. Took him pigeon shooting 3 weeks ago without his collar and it was a nightmare, he was all over the show, took him last week with his collar and he was fantastic, retrieving to hand, even multiple retrieves, but and h
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    Can't even put a camo' cap on my head without the spaniel going bonkers thinking we're off shooting, have to lock him out the back when getting changed into my shooting gear if it's a day he can't come. Only his first season with the pigeon and he's already on red alert as soon as he hears the click of the safety button. Both dogs are in the know as soon as the draw opens and the poo bags come out, but as they don't get along together it's a case of sneaking one out before the other one notices, not the easiest of tasks.
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    If you have a shop owned by one of our Indian friends you may well find they do a courier service, we have a couple in our area (Faversham and Herne bay) and the service is second to none, cheapest around and extremely helpful, parcels always reach their destination and delivered within the time limit.
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    can you guess what they are yet?
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    buy my self some decent tregings so I don't get a wet arse sitting in the beaters wagon, might even buy myself the odd day but then again probably not, after all there's always beaters day at the end of the season and even with a shed load of dosh I'd still be a tight fisted so and so.
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    Not the most experienced shooter and I agree with the use of a decent cartridge, I use a 32g 6 as this cycles my semi auto nicely and stops everything I have the opportunity to shoot at, but is a 3/4 choke at 25/30 yards a little on the tight side? I stand to be corrected (and often am!) everyone has their own preference and confidence with what your shooting with is 90% of the battle, I have a fixed skeet barrel and find it perfect for decoying although I have to admit I do think twice about those high or long range birds, but again this is partly confidence as I have folded these at a decent
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    After reading your post I recon the type of shooting your talking about you'd be best suited for a semi auto, breaking barrels in a tight hide when pigeon shooting can be a pain in the proverbial, my son bought himself a semi after seeing how much easier it was when we were sharing a hide, providing you get yourself a breech flag or plastic safety plug most clay grounds will be happy to accommodate you, though it's definitely a no no if you ever get to go on a formal shoot!!
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