Back up at the shoot

[BenBhoy 4,706]

4 hours ago, Sausagedog said:

Your dance partner looks knackered!

Not surprised after run around she give me! 

I set up in first field, we park the bale carts in there & I like shooting off them prone. Set gc350 up about 50yds to my right. Within 10 minutes spot vixen enter to my left 200+yds. Making steady progress towards call, stops for a wizz then keeps trotting. All of a sudden something spook her, didn't even freeze to think, just turn tail & legged it! No idea. Wind not changed, I made no sound & she never looked towards me. Annoying. Gave it another 20 minutes or so then move towards field she ran off too. 

This field is a old rig & furrow field, and as I come through gateway, thermal just picks out two little white triangles, like a couple of dairylea! Just poking up above a ridge, took me a moment to realise it was tips of a foxes ears. I set pard on her, only 63yds but could only see the dairylea triangles & occasionally a wisp of head fluff. Just a waiting game. I know this field & its flat & sloping down from me, giving me a view of entire field. Within 5 minutes she lifted just enough, head & shoulders above top of ridge. I always had the crosshairs on her whole time so pop down she went. 

When went over, shed been chomping on a big pile of shit that muck spreader had chucked out, no doubt it was full of worms & grubs.

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

Loved that ....

Dairylea triangles

[Dervburner 2,549]

12 hours ago, BenBhoy said:

Better than strictly! 

Foxtrot eh?            Well, you’re holding your partner all wrong and you need to smile a bit more Ben. Let’s hope you’re not in the dance off....

[BenBhoy 4,706]

Foxtrot, brilliant wish I'd thought of that now!  

[shovel leaner 7,650]

Good result Ben , I wish I’d gone out but, I had a bit of trouble with off roaders, probably Britain’s worst off road duo . The phone goes and it’s this old guy who lives near the shoot , his house overlooks one of the valleys .“  Are you out tonight “?“ No , I’m at home watching strictly “, ( There is only one reason men watch strictly, and yes , I am a perv) , “ because there are torch lights in the valley “ , “ cheers , be there in a minute “. I got to the valley and the lock on the gate was broken, and I could hear revving and talking and see torches . As I approached I put my lamp on and saw two vehicles stuck in a swamp . I thought they were poachers with running dogs , so I steeled myself for a bit of a confrontation, “ what the f@ck are you doing?” It turned out to be a couple of , off roaders ( shit off roaders) . They were wading about in the mud with a shovel . “ good job you brought that shovel otherwise you’d be f@cked “ I joked and I could hardly contain my laughter. I said I’d be back in the morning at 10am with a tractor to pull them out . I spoke to the boss and we met them this morning and charged them £200 . They apologised for the lock and promised never to return. I don’t think they will be back . 

[shovel leaner 7,650]

[shovel leaner 7,650]

On a different note , saw some ducklings on a flight pond yesterday, they weren’t there today .Its November for Christ sake , weird .

[Baldcoot 2,352]

Weird or what did mum get her calendar from poundland?

Sorry for ducks it would be pondland

[Dervburner 2,549]

51 minutes ago, shovel leaner said:

Looks a bit soft to be driving on, not surprising they got stuck.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

3 of us met up the small diy shoot we do normally for a little walk round with the .410 s this afternoon for an hour .Squirrels but anything goes types of walk .Mate hit a woodcock that lifted by my foot but we never found it in the dense reeds .

 

Had a squirrel each .Started raining just as we left big time .

 

[Stavross 16,142]

3 hours ago, shovel leaner said:

They are lucky they had such understanding people to pull them out, on many places that would of been black and crispy by morning 

[villaman 9,983]

Should of but the bucket under them and turned them over , fcuking scum think they can go anywhere 

[shovel leaner 7,650]

30 minutes ago, Stavross said:

They are lucky they had such understanding people to pull them out, on many places that would of been black and crispy by morning 

I know what you mean . I had a run in some years ago with a guy I caught breaking into a shed on the shoot . We put a bale spike through his transit . Felt great at the time , but the trouble we had after from him and his friends made us reevaluate our approach to such things . Now , we just report things to the police , which we did with this case , and all we got was an incident number . We could also have left the vehicles there till the spring , but we would have had all their mates up trying to get it out . The best and easiest thing was to get some money off them , take the piss out of them , and hopefully they won’t be back . 

 

[Dervburner 2,549]

1 hour ago, foxdropper said:

3 of us met up the small diy shoot we do normally for a little walk round with the .410 s this afternoon for an hour .Squirrels but anything goes types of walk .Mate hit a woodcock that lifted by my foot but we never found it in the dense reeds .

 

Had a squirrel each .Started raining just as we left big time .

 

Ever since I’ve had shotguns I’ve had a fourten. I’m wondering now how we will get on with steel shot in them if it’s forced on us?

[Stavross 16,142]

Definitely the right way to go about it, a long time ago my mates brother wrecked a pickup that the local wrong’un had ploughed one of his fields up with, 3 weeks later one of the barns was touched