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The big boy
The question of whether or not you can have too much firepower while goose shooting has been comprehensively answered. With the ban on goose lifted a few days ago, I headed out onto the neighbouring farmland this morning with Richard, a registered firearms dealer with a new acquisition. The single barreled bolt action ten bore… Continue reading
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Tripod
Over the past two decades, I must have shot several thousand rabbits. In recent weeks, ferreting has upped that toll even more, and I like to think that I have now handled enough dead bunnies to know when there is something wrong with one. Aside from the inevitable black, white and creamy varients on the… Continue reading
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In amongst them!
I have always tried to take a photograph to accompany any text on this blog, but not being very sharp with a camera always means that I am fairly well incapable of taking any good wildlife snaps. Sometimes, though, I have real gems dropped right into my lap. Trying to decoy s0me of the pink… Continue reading
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The end in sight- the ban is lifted tonight…
The month long shooting ban placed on wildfowl comes to an end at midnight tonight, and from where I’m standing, it has never looked like a better time to be a goose shooter. Thousands of birds have been sitting on the fields around my house, and the clamour is almost constant. Heading out to the… Continue reading
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The new regime
Every well managed grouse moor has spring traps over every stream and above every break in a wall, and in an effort to put the black grouse bog on vermin lockdown, I have borrowed some important tips from the experts. Over the next few days, I will be establishing stoat and weasel traps along a… Continue reading
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Off to a flying start
Any regular readers of this blog will know that its subject matter sways back and forth with no discernible structure or pattern. I make no apology for this, but should explain one particular absence over the past few months. Sixteen weeks have passed since I last saw my favourite blackcock, and it had become fairly… Continue reading
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Welcome 2011 – it’s all uphill from here.
Having had no running water in my house for a fortnight now, I must say that this cold weather has really become a serious pain. The ground has reached a state of partial thaw and refuses to go any further, so the water pipes to the house are still miserably clogged with ice. If I… Continue reading
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Winter stoats
After Christmas away from the Chayne, I headed up this morning to inspect the damage caused by more than a month’s uninterrupted snow cover. The ground is still as hard as a board beneath half an inch of slushy mud, but the grass is looking decidedly fresh and invigorated after a month free from grazing.… Continue reading
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ENOUGH!
It’s now beyond a joke. With shooting wild birds in Scotland provisionally banned for another fortnight as of tomorrow, it looks like there is going to be no let up in this relentless cold weather. It’s outstaying its welcome, particularly since I am having to walk a five mile round trip to the Chayne every… Continue reading
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Countless multitudes
Out ferreting again today, I was amazed by the sheer quantity of geese that are out and about at the moment. From what I can gather, the pink feet have been forced down from Islay and the west coast of Scotland by all this hard weather, and there are now record numbers of geese on… Continue reading
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Swn y galon fach yn torri, 1952
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