Better times ?

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Miss my old patterdale bitch , very versatile , would do anything you asked of her even retrieving off water. Here she's retrieving a coot.

Edited April 12, 2020 by FOXHUNTER

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A few whites ...

 

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Out with .22LR...

 

[shovel leaner 7,650]

1 hour ago, Sausagedog said:

Pheasants like chickens like to scratch in the earth. The damp also softens the grain. I've seen fallow raiding hoppers but not fiddling in state so much.

Full time keepering means I am out twice a day feeding, morning and afternoon. If you have wheat on the ground that is going wet you’ve fed too much and wasted the wheat . I keep my birds a bit “sharp” , so they know that the food is there when they come down from roost and then for the second feed before they go to roost . All shoots are different and what suits some won’t suit others , because of the amount of time and effort involved. I do have some hoppers and minolas about and it’s these that tend to get targeted by the deer .

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[Sausagedog 7,381]

48 minutes ago, shovel leaner said:

Full time keepering means I am out twice a day feeding, morning and afternoon. If you have wheat on the ground that is going wet you’ve fed too much and wasted the wheat . I keep my birds a bit “sharp” , so they know that the food is there when they come down from roost and then for the second feed before they go to roost . All shoots are different and what suits some won’t suit others , because of the amount of time and effort involved. I do have some hoppers and minolas about and it’s these that tend to get targeted by the deer .

Sure. You got to meter it just right. We use to whistle them to and they would come running in but they probably missed a few days. Tell tale sign would be the ground worked over etc.

[Stavross 15,281]

Another 3 foxes

first one is longshanx first fox with the .243, this one came charging in to the vixen in heat call, by the time he took the shot he could of kicked it in the face with them legs

the second one is Hugo’s dad, up at the sheep farm, this one came from nowhere, with the wind behind use blowing towards the fox he took the shot in a split second and to my amazement he dropped it

the third one is me up at the shoot, again with the vixen in heat call, I shot this customer running, it turned out to be a very big old dog

 

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 A gobfull.

 

Edited April 12, 2020 by FOXHUNTER

[Stavross 15,281]

A bit of squizzer bashing while out feeding up at the shoot last season, A good bit of fun shooting from the quad

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Ferretting years ago ...

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[Stavross 15,281]

They are the type of times I wish I had taken pictures of, out ferreting and running dogs 

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2 minutes ago, Stavross said:

They are the type of times I wish I had taken pictures of, out ferreting and running dogs 

Used to love my ferretting , sport of kings.