An Afternoon Out With Pianoman...

[just jack 998]

fair play fellas

[andyfr1968 772]

Thanks, Jack

[hunter1989 91]

hi lads

 

cracking read and fair play for getting out in the crap weather

 

atb steve

[pianoman 3,587]

Cheers Steve.

There is a vast amount of ancient forest and farmland that makes up my permission in total and I'm very, very lucky, when I read of lads looking for places to shoot and a permission of their own. There is just about every type of air rifle quarry feeding off the crops here and the winds are predictable for successful approaches. My farmer friend lets me know where the main trouble's coming from and I saddle up and shoot over it. Very few squirrels but there's a hell of a lot of mink coming in for some reason, that gets into the woods and the river valley. Tons of rabbits but you really have to be up on your fieldcraft to get to them, And it's a real tough terrain for air rifle precision shooting over long ranges with so many exposed crop fields with very little shelter from the elements. I couldn't design a better training ground for air rifle shooting. You really have to be a cracking good shot and skilled in fieldcraft to get the best of the sport from it.

 

It's my paradise on Earth.

 

ATB

 

Simon

Edited February 15, 2011 by pianoman

[hunter1989 91]

thats sounds some permission there si

 

and very true regarding the minks very alert vermin

 

looking foward to your next shoot and read up get the piccy up

 

atb steve

[Karpman 44]

Sorry I did not comment earlier I thought I had!

 

Feel like a right ignorant pig now, Read this from the word go. Must of been the fosters I have been sampling to many of lately

A superb read of your day which is only ever fruitless to those who don't understand the enjoyment of being outside, This thread has also developed into a fine descriptive read that I cannot help my self from being a bit green about!

 

Sounds wonderful over there guys, In such a place time passes way to quickly.

 

Many thanks for the rad and insight into your land

 

Karpman

[andyfr1968 772]

Thanks again for the comments, fellas

 

I've only seen a small part of Simon's shoot but from what I have seen it really is a cracking spot with what seems like a bit of everything.

 

There's the river Went down in the valley, loads of varied woodland, open fields and pasture's with miles of hedgerows running through them and the farm itself with all the surounding buildings.

 

Now then, about this picture thing...... Both Zini, Davyt63 and Phantom have tried to help me out on this but I just can't get my cluncky old laptop to talk to Photobucket and the like and Simon's in the same boat as me.....

 

What I'll do next time is to take some photos and email them to one of you guys, if you'd be kind enough to post them for me??

 

Cheers

[fazerman 3]

it does really sound a great permission simon your so lucky to have had this for many many years and no dought you son will take the reins there one

day and he to will have many a great day hunting there,i live in somerset and everywhere you look there is great looking farmland but trying to get my first permission is like flogging a dead horse,ive tryed every thing,knocking on doors leaflets,i allways dress smartly,i leave them my card,etc

but still nothing,ive been trying for around a year and its getting very frustrating,when i here of all your great hunting trips on here im so envios,i would love to learn the ropes off an experianced hunter like you,im 47 and gagging to learn some hunting for vermin,i shall just keep trying and trying and trying.

regards

tony.

[davyt63 1,845]

Thanks again for the comments, fellas

 

I've only seen a small part of Simon's shoot but from what I have seen it really is a cracking spot with what seems like a bit of everything.

 

There's the river Went down in the valley, loads of varied woodland, open fields and pasture's with miles of hedgerows running through them and the farm itself with all the surounding buildings.

 

Now then, about this picture thing...... Both Zini, Davyt63 and Phantom have tried to help me out on this but I just can't get my cluncky old laptop to talk to Photobucket and the like and Simon's in the same boat as me.....

 

What I'll do next time is to take some photos and email them to one of you guys, if you'd be kind enough to post them for me??

 

Cheers

 

 

hi Andy

all you have to do is

open a Photobucket account "its free!"

once you have downloaded them to your PC,then you upload from your PC(documents/pictures files) via a upload option in Photobucket.then you just copy and paste where you want them!!as easy as that!!

 

if you need me to talk you through it let me know!

 

regards

 

davy

[pianoman 3,587]

Thank you Karpman.

Are you in Yorkshire? Come over and have a shoot and a mooch with us sometime.

You are right about time here. I've spent whole days from dawn to dusk on my shoot and every minute is filled with 60 seconds of sensations of sight, sound and smell. I've seen Kestrels and Buzzards nest building. Roe deer with their young fawns nervously emerging from the woods into the morning mists at first light. Badgers snuffling along the forest tracks made by scores of woodland animals before.

 

I have a very strong and proud sense of history and this place connects with centuries of human activity. Even the legendary fight between Robin Hood and Little John for passage across the river is recorded in a 13th century manuscript as having taken place over the river Went here. Highwaymen used the valley as a hideout to rob the coaches on the Great North road that ran through Wentbridge village. And Witches lived deep in the valley woods where folks came for spells for good fortune, cures for bad luck, fertility and the like. There was even a trade in unwanted babies conducted in the valley during the 16th and 17th centuries. During the Civil war, when Pontefract Castle was coming under heavy siege by Parliament's Roundhead soldiers, Oliver Cromwell's cavalry and artillery train watered and quartered their horses and Oxen along the river banks and hay fields.

 

Now it's acre after acre of peace and quiet; where you can unsheath your rifle and walk for miles undisturbed.

 

I could write volumes about my shoot.

 

ATB

 

Simon

Edited February 15, 2011 by pianoman

[fazerman 3]

sounds a fantastic place even just to gather your thoughts and get away from all the hustle and bustle of every day life.

[andyfr1968 772]

it does really sound a great permission simon your so lucky to have had this for many many years and no dought you son will take the reins there one

day and he to will have many a great day hunting there,i live in somerset and everywhere you look there is great looking farmland but trying to get my first permission is like flogging a dead horse,ive tryed every thing,knocking on doors leaflets,i allways dress smartly,i leave them my card,etc

but still nothing,ive been trying for around a year and its getting very frustrating,when i here of all your great hunting trips on here im so envios,i would love to learn the ropes off an experianced hunter like you,im 47 and gagging to learn some hunting for vermin,i shall just keep trying and trying and trying.

regards

tony.

 

Stick with it, Tony, you'll get there

 

I've three permissions of my own but there's only one very small one where I'm OK to take guests, sadly...

 

Stick around on here, mate, I'm out tommorow with another lad (thanks, Benji ) I met through this place by selling the bloke a gun and he's offered my a day out with him. It's funny where they come from sometimes...

 

Cheers.

[fazerman 3]

thanks andy if at fisrt you dont succseed and all that,i will certainly keep at it,hopefully i will get lucky.

[andyfr1968 772]

Thanks again for the comments, fellas

 

I've only seen a small part of Simon's shoot but from what I have seen it really is a cracking spot with what seems like a bit of everything.

 

There's the river Went down in the valley, loads of varied woodland, open fields and pasture's with miles of hedgerows running through them and the farm itself with all the surounding buildings.

 

Now then, about this picture thing...... Both Zini, Davyt63 and Phantom have tried to help me out on this but I just can't get my cluncky old laptop to talk to Photobucket and the like and Simon's in the same boat as me.....

 

What I'll do next time is to take some photos and email them to one of you guys, if you'd be kind enough to post them for me??

 

Cheers

 

 

hi Andy

all you have to do is

open a Photobucket account "its free!"

once you have downloaded them to your PC,then you upload from your PC(documents/pictures files) via a upload option in Photobucket.then you just copy and paste where you want them!!as easy as that!!

 

if you need me to talk you through it let me know!

 

regards

 

davy

 

Thanks, Davy

 

I tried to follow the instructions you, Si and Tony gave me but I just couldn't make it work....

 

I'll give you a ring the next time so maybe you can hold my hand while I try to get my head around it, I really am sh*te with technology

 

I've got your mobile number but if you'd PM me your landline it'd help 'cos it may well take a while!!

 

Cheers, Davy

Edited February 15, 2011 by andyfr1968

[fazerman 3]

sorry to slightly hijack this post but do you guys know why my profile says warn status underneath it,i feel like ive done

something wrong,i am a good boy honest.