Stupid question

[The one 8,482]

You like making it hard for yourself snare it

[secretagentmole 1,701]

 

OK folks, here is an overhead shot of the permissions...

 

1, Top right corner where most of the action in fields is from observation.

 

2, Not even checked out for rabbits, yet....

 

3, The original permission, heavy rabbit activity from mega bunny complex at the end of the access track (must try and get a photo)...

 

4, The access track, belongs to the farmer that owns fields 1 and 2, but other farmers have access rights over it, lined by brambles and drainage ditches, up and down like a snake with hiccupps, heavy activity all along it.

 

So tonight I will try lamping the track!

Edited March 12, 2011 by secretagentmole

[matt_hooks 188]

That ain't lube, it is hand steriliser, I am a diabetic and have to inject insulin in the field, I like to make sure that is all I bleeding inject! That mat is to stop damp, it was still bleeding soggy in that field, usually I lay on the ground, when it is dry, pneumonia not good! Fags, took them out of the pocket so when I waled round they did not rattle or get folded in half when I crouched, lighter removed to lessen noise too, thats why they are behing the gun rest, hide em out of sight!!! I dunno how many a day bunnies smoke

 

Edited to say use a shooting bag so when I inject insulin, eat etc, I don't have to lay the rifle on the damp ground! Also the hump is not 2 foot, more like 6 inches, perimeters are surrounded by ditches with water and loads of holes. Ground other side of ditches is covered in nettles, brambles and about 2-3 feet lower than the permission, ditches immediately behind fence, filled with green and brown liquid, that does not smell very nice! Trust me! Been down wind of that ditch!

 

Edited to add been diabetic since I was 10 by the way! Pain in the backside, arm, leg, stomach, wherever else you can hit a muscle on a subcutaneous injection....

 

Excuses excuses! Man up!

 

Know all about sub-cut injections, had to inject myself with an anti clotting agent for a few weeks a while back, don't envy you having to do it all the time mate! I do have to finger prick test occasionally, but thankfully not every day.

 

You should put a little insulin in the back of the pellets, perfect poison! You'd not need to worry about penetration, a few drops of that would have bunny turning up his toes in no time!

 

As for the fags, surely one major illness is enough, without all the nasty illnesses that come with smoking? Anyway, if you've had a fag in the clothes you're wearing in the past day, buggs will smell it.

 

As for bags and mats, I was kind of kidding about them, though the bag isn't the most mobile solution, but if it suits you then knock yourself out!

[secretagentmole 1,701]

I am trying to give the nicotine the heave ho, down to about 7 a day, we had the bag knocking about for ages, the mat, well I do use the green side up, lol, found another problem on the permission, the bleeding trees on the top of the track are a home to a load of woodies, walk down there with a torch on, wings flap like gun fire! Damned loud those things, nervous too!

[matt_hooks 188]

I am trying to give the nicotine the heave ho, down to about 7 a day, we had the bag knocking about for ages, the mat, well I do use the green side up, lol, found another problem on the permission, the bleeding trees on the top of the track are a home to a load of woodies, walk down there with a torch on, wings flap like gun fire! Damned loud those things, nervous too!

 

Can you walk down the track without the torch? Woodies make excellent alarms for the bunnies, plus with the torch there's always the risk of light spilling in to the field and tipping off the bunnies.

 

I'm an ex smoker, and it took two lots of open heart surgery (not smoking related I hasten to add) to get me to stop.

 

Most of that first post was in jest, though the points stand.

[andyfr1968 772]

You'll stand out like a hard-on in a nudeist camp where you are, judging by your pics, Mole.

 

Use those ditches as has been said, or at least get yourself as close to the fence as you can.

Edited March 12, 2011 by andyfr1968

[matt_hooks 188]

Moley, out of interest, could you pm me the grid ref (lat/long or a google map link is fine). It looks like an old airfield, I'm always interested in those!

 

Can you get into the fields in a vehicle? Often you can get closer in a vehicle than on foot.

[secretagentmole 1,701]

Nope not an old airfield, nearest two would have been RAF Sutton Bridge (where there is now a power station), or RAF Downham Market (FIDO equipped). The stripes were caused by google earth, not anything in the fields! this bit was too soft! Had a few go down round here though! The highlighted track is an old concrete track put in by POWs in the second world war (happened a lot round here that did).

 

If you want to see some real interesting second world war history go down to Snettisham Beach, there was an RAF gunnery school down there using tracked targets, some of the rails are still visible behind the sea defences, simply walk towards Heacham and you will find it! Other good places to go, East Kirby airfield and climb in a Lanc (really, yes, you can, hang on, I will prove it)...

 

 

Now that is a real aircraft!

 

Here is Biggles as well (a 6 month old Biggles)...

 

Edited March 12, 2011 by secretagentmole

[pianoman 3,587]

I gave up smoking 7 months ago with the help of a course of precription tablets called Champix. I reckon at a saving of around £11:00 per day I've just about covered the costs of my rifles and scopes or pretty near. Given the cost of smoking these days, you can either pay a high tax to the Government to poison yourself or, put the money into your shooting and live longer.

 

Seems a pretty good incentive to quit, to me.

 

Old airfields in Norfolk will possibly, likely mean former WW2 US Army 8th Air Force B-17 and B-24 Bomber stations or 9th Airforce P-38/P-47 or P-51 Mustang Fighter Escort stations.

 

Just one of my professional interests .

 

Airfields are always good for rabbits too!

[matt_hooks 188]

It was the shape of that top field that had me wondering, it's unusual to see a field that shape, with the sides so perfectly parallel. I know there are loads of old wartime bases over that way. I know Heacham fairly well, and up the coast a bit to Hunstanton and Kings Lynn. Did they not turn Snettisham into a race track at one point?

 

Gotta love twin 20mm cannon, though I wouldn't have fancied that seat in the war, best place in the world to get shredded by Messerschmitts!

[secretagentmole 1,701]

You can sit in all the seats in Just Jane! She is a beaut, mind you they wound all the engines up, taxied off and Biggles tried to catch the worlds biggest blasted pheasant! A six month old black Lab was trying to fetch a Lanc. Snettisham was not a race track as far as I know, there was also a gravel pit down there! But it was a tracked gunnery range for aircraft gunners! Sedgeford had a first world war air strip, there was the nuke base at RAF Sculthorpe, the Coastal Command bomber base at Bircham Newton became the construction skills college, where Theoben are made was a bomber base then a surface to air missile base (RAF Witchford)!

Edited March 13, 2011 by secretagentmole

[secretagentmole 1,701]

There was a first world war grass strip at Sedgeford, they used that to stop the Airship attacks on King's Lynn. Further points of interest, the cliff guns at Hunstanton are under the shelters on the cliff top, and there is an observation corps post near the cliff top car park. Old anti aircraft shells can be found at Titchwell beach, but some muppets are trying to split them with seaside spades (had to get bomb disposal out to clear a load after one tide, heard them calling off a pound of semtex, played havoc with the Royal West Norfolk Golf Club that did, could not go out to play)!

 

My grandfather was in the Polish Free Airforce Heavy Bomber outfit, attacked the sub pens at Brest (150 feet lobbing bombs in through the doors)!

 

Further edit, the race course on the airfield you are thinking of Matt is Snetterton, still has a corner called The Bomb Hole! Snettisham is (as you know) by a beach!

 

Further edit, private racetrack, on an old airfield, owned by Lotus now! Quite a few of Bernard Matthews farms are on old airfields.

Edited March 13, 2011 by secretagentmole

[matt_hooks 188]

Ahhh Bircham, I've got some Great Bircham Windmill mugs somewhere, from a long ago visit.

[secretagentmole 1,701]

There were some starfish airfields around as well, surprised them, once a bomber landed, got separated, lost and followed the lights. Think it was near Norwich!

[pianoman 3,587]

I can tell you about this Lancaster moley. I've known her very well.

 

She originally stood as the Gate Guardian at RAF Scampton when I was serving there with the unit's Regiment Flight in 1983. This station was famous as 617 Sqn's Dambusters base in 1943, but it was in fact a huge wartime Lancaster Station where several Lanc bomber squadrons operated from. During the war, this Lanc had flown operationally with another unit when it returned from a night raid over Stuttgart badly shot up in late 43. Her wireless Op had been killed on the raid. She was repaired and used as an aircrew training aircraft before being uprated to B-Mklll status in 1944 and re-armed with the 20mm rear Turret you are sitting in. She ended her flying days in `the 1950s and ended up guarding the gate at Scampton. When I was there, RAF Scampton had four Nuclear-ready Vulcan Bomber Squadrons parked on the old lancaster dispersals.

 

We had many reports of "Clicking and tapping" sounds coming from inside the Lanc that were traced to her radio panel switches -even though she was a stripped out, empty airframe then. The police Flight dogs wouldn't go near it. This was opposite the spot where Guy Gibson's black Labrador "Nigger" was buried. And the ghost of his black Labrador has been seen around the tech site where the Hangars are quite a number of times.

 

Our CofE padre performed a blessing on it and the sounds stopped.

 

Time passes on and the MoD wants rid of its last original gate guard aircraft, including this Lanc. the Panton brothers wanted to buy her as a memorial to their older brother Chris who was killed on an operation flying a Halifax. With no Halifaxes left, the Scampton Lanc was the only Bomber Command Heavy Bomber left available to buy. So, one of my last memories there was our flight helping the engineering wing guys to get it secured while it was taken apart for transport to East Kirkby. I really miss Scampton. I had some very happy times there.

 

 

Back on thread.

 

How did you get on tonight Moley?

Edited March 13, 2011 by pianoman