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You're right Irish Lucher, getting a car meant we could pull and shag to our hearts content, my furry passenger seat cover in my MK1 Escort took a hammering, and my furry dice always came in handy to mop up afterwards :laugh::laugh::laugh:

 

:laugh: maybe we should have a The Hunting Life members girl friend/wives gallery! :laugh::laugh::D:)

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I loved my old Mercury S Frank :clapper:, I remember when it was first being tested in Airgun World by a guy called Geoffrey Boxall and then a field test with another guy called Rod Lynton, I fell in love with it as it was spitting out .177 Eley wasps on the test at a average 875fps :yes:! I remember jacking in a BSA Super Meteor, a BSA Standard Mercury and all my savings for this lovelly Mercury S, I then saved up spent out on a Tasco 2.75 x 40 scope and a Galloway silencer and I was happy as larry picking off the local Squirrel and pigeon population :laugh:.

 

I looked after this gun like it was wrapped in cotton wool! but as I got older I did a silly thing, I met a girl I liked alot and it was her birthday coming up! I was desperate for the cash so I sold the lot for £30 to the local gunshop to buy her a watch :icon_eek:, a short time later she blew me out :blink:. I then moved onto a Airsporter S but couldn't hit em Like I could with the Mercury....

 

:D Yes, unfortunately, the same sorta thing happened to me, met a girl, who promised me the world ect and amazingly enough, thats exactly how much i sold mine for :icon_eek: £30, at a gun shop in Northampton town, Guilders, i think they were called. :blink::laugh::laugh: Happy days. :drink::clapper:

 

Frank.

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i remember walking and running for miles without a thought, from h/regis in beds to sharpenhoe for a little ferreting. it would bloody kill me now.
70s/80s would'nt have had much time always out digging .or poaching the odd pheasant - maybe the terrier locator would have been a decent topic or if chapmans russell wer any good :haha: yes even way back then.
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Was that not the plummer era ??

 

When he became famous or infamous I was not born till 81 so i would not know..

plummer and plummer books wer like dog shite in them days every fekin where :no: he even got on tv wi some ferrets and one bit that twat that used to do countdown finger :clapper: he used to get about a bit in them days terrier shows, game fairs ,pissed so many o the lads off never saw much of him from the late 80s . :bye:
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cheers fella least i know now...

 

joking about and all but i wish i had started my hunting in the 70 and 80s in this day and age there is to many resrictions and red tape some of you old timers were real lucky fare dos you had all the strikes and thactcer to dell with but hunting wouldof been sweet then...

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cheers fella least i know now...

 

joking about and all but i wish i had started my hunting in the 70 and 80s in this day and age there is to many resrictions and red tape some of you old timers were real lucky fare dos you had all the strikes and thactcer to dell with but hunting wouldof been sweet then...

spent many winters on the dole in them days bit o poaching raid on the local allotments put good grub on the table . loads o spare time for digging them black and white things :D the good old days . never thought i'd say it
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does anyone remember ''terrier talk'' a page dedicated to the hunt terrier men up and down the country it was a round up of various digs etc even badgers in the shooting times in the seventies it was wrote by a chap called bill gilpin.

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does anyone remember ''terrier talk'' a page dedicated to the hunt terrier men up and down the country it was a round up of various digs etc even badgers in the shooting times in the seventies it was wrote by a chap called bill gilpin.
he had a nice russell dog called patches used to do a bit and a looker wonder if he's still around its 25 year ago ? shooting times used to list all the shows in the back and sponser the game fairs bit like cm wkly of today
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