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    Cool. Really appreciate the info guys. When finances improve, I might opt for a PCP for a trial, but after my FAC and SGC come in and get filled up. So at the moment...I'm sticking springer.
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    That's cool. Thank you. I'm getting my FAC soon, so in the intermediary, I'm contemplating getting a PCP, but I can't justify the price. However, I'm watching on youtube and everyone seems to be using a PCP, so I'm wondering if the springer was a 'dead trade' sort of tool.
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    Simple enough question, would it be possible?
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    I'm really getting into my fieldcraft skills, and I'm loving my little springer a lot at the moment (whom would have thought I'd ever move away from ratting haha). Well, I'm looking at loads of videos on youtube and learning as much as I can while I'm waiting for my FAC to go through. With my FAC and SCG going through, I couldn't justify buying a new PCP just for a month or 2 before I get my certs. So I'm out practicing my fieldcraft with a springer. Do you go out with a springer, and if so, how do you find it's a different experience from using a PCP or CO2?
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    That would be awesome Tim! I'm not very good at being subtle though, so if you're able to find a day where you're okay for a lumbering me to come along, I'd love to do so!
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    Personally I'm using a cheap little Gamo Varmint Stalker, at the moment, and I'm really impressed with it. What you get for the price is a lot more than I was expecting. I know Gamo had a really bad reputation, but I'm pretty impressed with them, and I've been popping the odd bunny here and there. I'm even looking at getting the .22 version as well. Yes, I really do like them that much.
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    Rats

    RemyBolt replied to villaman's topic in Airgun Hunting

    Back panel in one of the chicken houses, I shoot in...it lifts up a little, and there's loads of dead rats behind there. Last check saw a 5th rat added to the list behind that panel. I'd love to get exact numbers with ANY of my rat outings. That's why I have "90's" A shot when you're 90% certain it was a kill, but you can't retreive the body. I know there will be at least 15 of those around somewhere. The worst one was a rat I shot, it sprung into the air, then shot down a hole. I hit it clean in the head, it dropped straight down dead. I was pleased with the shot. Usually a bit of 'he
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    Just a quick call out for info on taking pigeons with an air rifle. What's worked for you? Tips, tricks, helpful hints....you name it, I want to know it.
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    That's some big numbers. Photos of those kinds of numbers would be awesome!
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    Rats

    RemyBolt replied to villaman's topic in Airgun Hunting

    Nice shooting. Nothing worse than the ones you know you got, but you can't get to! I've had some on a conveyor belt that I couldn't get to. Really frustrating. How long were you out for?
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    It's for this kind of reason that Ebay has provided myself and my wife with lovely SLR style cameras. She knows I'm going to be deer stalking soon, so we're out together stalking for photos. It's cool that she's a veggie, but is okay with me hunting, and even okay with learning to stalk along with me. Next time I'm out and about....photos!
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    Spot on mate. Tim, those pics are brilliant. I need to start taking my camera out with me. I practice deer stalking with a camera, while I'm waiting for my FAC to go through, so it makes sense to take it along anyway, regardless of what I'm hunting. Cheers guys.
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    This will probably be my typical long winded drivel kind of report. I hope you enjoy it. The alarm went off at 5am, up and to the site. Amazingly, my car needed a big scrapping as there was loads of frozen ice on the windscreen. Thankfully the good old Zippo hand warmer came to the rescue while in the field. Anyway, I get to the permission, still in a half daze, and start getting my gear out the car. Gun, jacket, small gear bag (containing pellets, oil, etc), and then I stop. Not because of any medical condition forcing a black out. Quite the opposite. I was out for pigeon and crows. I sto
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    Wow, what I request I've been asked. Apparently there are seagulls killing and eating chickens down on my friend's farm. With them introducing another 29'000 chickens...I have been call. The general license says I can only take out Lesser Black-Backed Gulls, because all the other routes to solve the issue have failed.. So here's to hoping they're the culprits. Also been asked to thin any rats I may come across, as well as rabbits, pigeons, and a couple of other vermin species that have been taking eggs off the ground. Tomorrow starts at 5am, awake at 4am. Busy busy. I hope I ha
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    I'm shooting for at least 2 days, and will be doing some practice with my wife in the garden for 2 hours...again. She's still a better shot than me. What are your plans?
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    After loads of searching online, it turns out it is not illegal to use bait to decoy. Providing you have evidence that the 'quarry' is behaving as a pest, e.g. damaging rape crops, then if you can decoy, you can bait-decoy. Same as with Corvids and using eggs, you can do the same with woodies...apparently. I'll double check this, but this could have quite a profound meaning if it's correct. I'll contact a few organisations and double check.
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    Thanks Tim I had a farmer say to just chuck down some food, and didn't really put much thought into it. Thank you for the input! Lesson well learned.
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    Get yourself to a farmers market and start talking to the farmers about your desire to help them with pest control. You'll be amazed the results that can yield.
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    Thanks J J M. I wanted to come back with double figures. I usually refuse to leave unless I get that. But the paths they were taking and the holes they were using had changed hugely from the last time, so I was pretty much just sat watching nothing for most of the evening. Ended up getting bored and heading home. The manager likes me to just say where the bodies are, and not retrieve them. I think I'll be having a word with him and just getting a bucket and litter picker grabber thing. It will be good fun to start loading a bucket with bodies. I know it's bad, but it would be good
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    Top marks for supporting the kids! With more people did that these days. This will ruffle a lot of feather (pardon the pun) but I am not a massive fan of the PCP, unless it's for a business style use (pest control). For me, the PCP is amazingly consistent, and once zeroed properly, it's only a challenge to shoot well if you involuntarily sneeze every time you pull a trigger. I prefer having a cheap little springer, and still popping pests with the best of them. There's few things as entertaining (or rare, in my experiences haha) as a guy with a gun that costs 5 or 6 times as much as the on
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    Okay, it's nearly 4am now, and I've returned home from ratting, my usual weekend starter. Well, it would seem that I have caused a hell of a lot of damage to the rat population around my friend's chicken farm. First up I was at 'house' 10. Saw a rat poke his head out of a hole, right next to a feed line. Well, needless to say, that a chunk of metal smashed through his face didn't do him much good. A clean kill...but then he fell back into the hole he was poking out of. First unretrievable body of the night. The lovely dent in the wall just behind the hole is testament to the power of m
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    Try it without decoying, then again with decoying, and let us know which you found to work best for you.
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    I totally agree with decoying. My favourite system is to be in a field with 2 large trees in the middle. I am a bit lazy and like to sit under a tree and rest my back up, then pop pigeons by decoys and the opposite tree. Having said that, I have had birds right above me before and I've been crapped on by one once...very embarassing! But I shot the bugger for it. If you want to get a good bird count, be close to a wooded area, birds will use the trees above you to sit, but you can also enjoy the cover from the air. Then just sit and wait...and wait... Either a head shot or a heart a
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    It happens mate. That's why it's good to always keep a shot ready. Humane dispatch style. I hit a rat the other day and it moved as I pulled the trigger. Bust through the back end of it. The dog was sent after it and dispatched it for me really quickly. But it really can't be helped. Just make sure you ALWAYS have a shot ready, incase you get caught out again.
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    Hi Daz. Welcome to the forum mate. You'll get used to my usual weekend response....I'm off ratting! All nighter today/tonight, at a friend's chicken farm. He's bringing his little lad along to pop some rodants. The kid is learning the difference between aiming on a PS3 and in real life. It'll be a good evening. Might try and get a rabbit or 2 for the pot, for Saturday morning, when I head back home.
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