a warning to others...

[tdesnos 6]

Hi Wurz,

 

Nice shooting mate!

 

Glad you didn't decide to run at the rozzers screaming "I've got bombs! I've got bombs!"

 

Else we could of had a photo of you, lying next to a police marksmen's rifle!

 

Tris

[pav 481]

nowt wrong with the old hairdressers mota iv got the deisel van suzuki and wouldnt be without it in the field,nice reading by the way

[gurtwurz 792]

Nice Story enjoyed that./

 

I thought that was a long sleeve cammo till i realised they were tatts

 

 

hi ya wurz

great shooting then matey and great write up and pictures to buddy glad your liking the dark side as much as i am buddy i'm gutted i have work at 6am in the morning or i would be out shooting myself later too and the police can be ok when they know your honest and have good reason to be there but yeah i think it is a good idea that when out shooting just to let the local bobbies know were you are and what your doing as it only takes one phone call to bugger things up not just for yourself but for them as well as they have more important things to be dealing with,

great shooting though wurz and looks like your liking the hw100kt as well.

but we dont blame you for trying to keep the hiredresser car a secret we wont laugh to much :tongue4:

 

shay

 

 

Quality, how long have you been shooting for? I'm finding hitting targets consistently at 30m quite difficult.

 

Do you tend to hit all your targets in the head?

 

Will you always aim for the head in all situations?

 

Nice shooting,

 

 

cheers lads, the tatts come with the territory mate, its my day job...

 

@ shay, the darkside rocks mate, i aint surprised you havent got a new gun since the viper(well, kind of not surprised but its still a bit of a shock since youre the closest thing to an arms dealer on thl) and i cant see me changing it for owt, unless i can find one in .20...

 

@ irhunger, its just down to practise mate, if youre not hitting consistantly at 30m then go back to 25m for live targets, and when you've got that down then start shooting paper or knockdowns further out mate, til youre getting at the very least 40mm groupings at whatever range. i went through a crap patch recently due to trying to be clever with too many guns and had to leave the rabbits alone til i was shooting at the required standard again. dont get the hump with yourself, just keep at it and you'll be fine eventually. i got back into proper shooting at the start of last year after a 20 year break due to beer, drugs birds and rock and roll etc, but spent all my teenage years on my grandads and other relatives farms shooting airguns and shooting .303's for my battalion in army cadets, so i had a head start as it were.

i always go for head shots if poss mate, as its the only way to be sure that you'll get a clean kill, if you dont respect your quarry enough to be as clinical as possible then you shouldnt be hunting. that said, we all get misses or bad shots which result in a hasty run to despatch an animal from time to time, and anyone who tells you different is a liar, but the name of the game is clean clinical shooting.

besides which, these lads'll rip you to shreds if you dont, and rightly so!!

 

all the best, wurz

[gurtwurz 792]

@ stealth, cheers for the slut mate, and yeah mate, i was chuckling all the way home after it, specially with the copter out and about for me- now i know how stallone felt...

 

@ tris,

 

@ pav, so i'm not the only one! cheers for the support there mate

 

cheers, wurz

[stealthy1 3,964]

@ stealth, cheers for the slut mate, and yeah mate, i was chuckling all the way home after it, specially with the copter out and about for me- now i know how stallone felt...

 

@ tris,

 

@ pav, so i'm not the only one! cheers for the support there mate

 

cheers, wurz

 

 

I had it last year, half two in the morning, cruising down a country lane, the dark one poking out the pasenger window at the hedge, at first I thought it was lightning, until I looked in my rear veiw mirror I think Davyt63 had a close encounter last year too

[jackinbox99 41]

Nice Story enjoyed that./

 

I thought that was a long sleeve cammo till i realised they were tatts

 

 

cheers lads, the tatts come with the territory mate, its my day job...

all the best, wurz

 

I might have to speak to you soon then mate as im after some more work doing!

 

On the shooting subject, bit of a scary one, ive had a few close calls when ive been out in the field and police cars have driven by or the local chopper has hoverered above, but fingers crossed no "ello ello what have we ere then" yet.!

[Alan Clark 7]

Nice shooting, and well done not being arrested / shot.

 

I know plod can be a bit twitchy, just like the bunnies when suffering DLI (Direct Lead Injection), but two cars and an egg whisk.

 

I wish they would call the person who reported it back and tell them it was a person carrying out pest control and they just cost £xx,xxx, afterall a whisk is a good couple of grand per hour. I think the ordinary person in the street should get a bit of education about just how much offing of bunnies, pigeons etc there is and not everyone with a gun is a crazed psychopath.

 

So far it hasn't happened to me but where I shoot is only overlooked at a couple of locations and that is by the residents of the local estate (think shameless and you aren't far wrong) who are probably more heavily armed than I am.

[Phantom 631]

Nice shooting Gurtwurz, its a rush when the blues n two's turn up mate eh! Have a slut for not getting arested

 

Yeah a real rush, straight to the fecking toilet

 

now i know how stallone felt...

 

 

 

I had it last year, half two in the morning, cruising down a country lane, the dark one poking out the pasenger window at the hedge, at first I thought it was lightning, until I looked in my rear veiw mirror I think Davyt63 had a close encounter last year too

 

 

Davy had it a few weeks ago if I remember correctly, but then that was when he told me about it?

 

When I first started PC in the Cemetery, I had Oscar 99 over me on a regular basis

 

I have never called the police before going out but when In either the horse paddock or the Cemetery I usually have signs on the gate saying in BIG red letters "WARNING! Authorised Pest Control Operative Currently Working On This Land" and then my Mobile telephone number.

So far the Police have visited only a couple of times, other than the initial regular low flights with O99.

The 1st time I had the flashing blues was in the evening before xmas, was one of the local lasses in uniform. I was just about to take the shot when I realised that the blue flashes were not on the main road (A63) but they were bouncing off the eyebell of the scope So Bugs had a very lucky escape!

Jackie sort of heaved a sigh of relief when she said "Oh its you Mr Hill I thought it was the Horse thieves that are being rather prolific in the area"

No one had called them, she had been comming off the A63 and as she approached the Welton slip road, she'd seen my lamp.

The only other Police visit I had was a few weeks ago, that anti that had given me grief from the bridge had called them, they came, saw me, waved and turned around again like they had more important things to deal with

Apparently that nutter with the gun is well known round these villages :laugh:

 

Nice story John; as you say generally the police give what they get, be polite and respectful and hey presto, its returned Act like an asshole and they will respond accordingly.

I've made so many arrests and hand overs in my last job I had the police at the med centre almost daily and it was always the same, the Dicks got cuffed and the less agressive and less lippy ones usually went without the cuffs.

 

SPA and the Book and gifts will be in the post tomorrow managed to remember to get two lots out today but left yours on the table

 

Thanks for the loan buddy

 

Phantom

[gurtwurz 792]

cheers tony, looking forwards to them mate, and i'vejust learned how to do attachments so that emails heading to you for the avatar photo thingy, some photos from the south africa anti poaching unit and acouple of others,hope they'll be fit for purpose, but if theyre not at least i know how to get em to you now!!

 

cheers all,

 

all the very best, wurz

[Bradford Lad 74]

Great post mate, and great shooting.

 

I always phone the cops before i go to any permission and call em again when i've left. I know it seems a bit of a bind but f you'd have got cops with attitude you could quite easily have ended up in the back of the panda heading for the nearest nick!!

 

Believe they appreciate you calling as it means they dont have to piss about with helicopters and wasting officers time dealing with you.

 

Just out of interest did they ticket you for driving a hairdressers car

 

SPA for your efforts

 

atb BL

[gurtwurz 792]

no bl, they merely sympathised...

 

the haidresser motor,or jeepette,lulls the bunnies into a false sense of security, kinda like a mobile salon-er i mean hide-lol

 

all the best, wurz

[jackinbox99 41]

The only problem ive ever had is a house overlooking one of my permissions saw some dodgy looking tattooed skin head wandering about with a gun in the field. Luckily they phoned my the land owner (my aunt) and told her about this nutter. She soon put them straight and said "yep, thats my nephew" so problem solved and im safe there now!

[gurtwurz 792]

i should imagine thats the exact same wording used to call em out for me jack!!

 

all the best, wurz

[jasper65 6]

i should imagine thats the exact same wording used to call em out for me jack!!

 

all the best, wurz

 

Same old story Wurz! I've had in in the past with people jumping to the wrong conclusion about me just because they don't like the look of me or perhaps they don't like Tattoos....

 

I remember sitting in a truck going on a cock shoot and one of the guys said to me "was there any need for you to have then things tattooed on you hand"? I said to him "Yeah at the time their obviously was".

 

I have to say his comment and the way he looked down his nose at me pissed me off for the rest of the day.....

 

atb

 

Jasp

[Phantom 631]

 

I remember sitting in a truck going on a cock shoot and one of the guys said to me "was there any need for you to have then things tattooed on you hand"? I said to him "Yeah at the time their obviously was".

 

Jasp

 

My answer to that would have been, "Yes Sir there was; you see it hurts me less when I smack the sh!te outta stuck up toffee nosed tw@ts like you; would you like me to demonstrate this for you?"

 

Must admit, tatts aint for me although I have felt like them at times, but he should have kept his comments to himself!

I'd have been sorely tempted to stick a marrigold rubber glove to his head and using him as the COCK

 

Phantom