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Post by mrfatso on Aug 3, 2017 6:41:24 GMT
My Dad was brought up,in the "Dig for Victory" era we always had a vegetable garden, and Blackcurrant bushes, raspberry canes strawberry plants . My Uncle used to,have hutches of rabbits at the end of his garden,,some he sold as pets some for the pot. We used to go "Lamping" with a .22 air rifle, in the local fields... Strap a torch to the underside of the barrel, and the air rifle because it didnt scare too many away, used to come back with a bagful, the farmer was always happy to have rodent control, and we got a free supper?.. swap out one or two for another bagful of veg at the back door of the farmhouse on the way down from the hills, early morning... did he ever sleep?.. We always did that, the farmer got free wabbit, and it saved us carrying the veg from the field.... At harvest time when the combine harvesters where going through the field Dad would,go,out with the farmer 'Uncle' Bob as he was to me , along with other men and shot the various pests like rabbits flushed out using his 12 gauge. Wood pigeon pie, rabbits, pheasant, partridges were all on the table at that time.
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Post by silverdragon on Aug 3, 2017 7:29:31 GMT
One thing I never agreed with was "The glorious twelfe"... open season.. As a Kid, I joined up to do some grouse beating. If it was all done the way its supposed to be done, it would have been fine. But then I saw who was renting the shooting Buts, and was concerned for my own safety.. Some of the participants turn up having NEVER shot 12 or 13 gauge at all?.. You would have thought they should have gotten some tuition down at the clay pigeon range before they came?. I watched with horror as one of the started to train the gun on the general direction of the beaters to catch the grouse as it flew up from their feet...
Never did go back.
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Post by mrfatso on Aug 3, 2017 13:44:31 GMT
I used to be taken by Dad to "help" with the beaters when old,Sir Harold used to hold a shoot. Y It was pheasant mostly that they tried to hit, but it was pretty much the same drunk toffs and rich boys shooting guns they could not handle.
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Post by the light works on Aug 3, 2017 14:15:33 GMT
that is how cheney's friend got shot. what is usually done, here, is the shooters walk across the ground to be "beaten"
in another incident a guy I worked with - also his first and last - one guy took off at a dead run, to the point he flushed a bird BEHIND him, which flew back towards the rest of the line - and he spun around and shot towards the line.
I draw the conclusion some people can't follow simple directions. reminds me of my first charter fishing trip. the deckhand's directions were "don't try to cast away from the boat, because it makes no difference, but if you simply feel you must, you have to go underhand so you don't smack the people around you with your rig. open the bail on your reel, release the line, count 26 seconds, then close the bail and reel in your fish."
so while most of the boat was simply dropping their rig and reeling in their fish, one plank was doing everything he could to fling his rig as far as he possibly could away from the boat, and then only letting it run for a fast 13 count, and couldn't figure out why he wasn't catching anything.
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