Cutty Dyer
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.22 precharged is also used in my never ending war with the garden's resident vermin.
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.22 precharged is also used in my never ending war with the garden's resident vermin.
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Good on ya mate and keep at it, once those squirels and magpies get established you will have no small birds at all. I find a Larsen trap is labour saving in the springtime, great for maggies if you have a call bird! Kept the garden here clear for 20 years and ther are countless songbirds of every kind! Some places none at all now they have all been killed by cats,rats,magpies and squirrels
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Ok - so bit off topic then
what pellets do you favour? this is not a what's best etc etc
I love Thunderbolts but know many people hate them
what pellets do you favour? this is not a what's best etc etc
I love Thunderbolts but know many people hate them
Turboman
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Bisley Magnum work well for me.
Cutty Dyer
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I also favor light .22 pellets - Falcon Accuracy Plus at 13.3 grains fly flat & fast;found them to be very effective on greys.
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I love .22 prometheus
Somewhat overkill though and do tend to go straight through........ :5breddevil:
Somewhat overkill though and do tend to go straight through........ :5breddevil:
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I think most of the quality hunting pellets are good now,grey squirell I think are hard for their size, I like to set up the shot. I have a strategic peanut feeder its about 15m outside an upstairs window so almost a perfectly safe and guaranteed fatal shot!
Cutty Dyer
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Good on ya mate and keep at it, once those squirels and magpies get established you will have no small birds at all. I find a Larsen trap is labour saving in the springtime, great for maggies if you have a call bird! Kept the garden here clear for 20 years and ther are countless songbirds of every kind! Some places none at all now they have all been killed by cats,rats,magpies and squirrels
After 5 years of culling the corvids & grays the garden's small/song bird population has reached really healthy numbers. A good indicator of the numbers of small birds is the ever increasing presence of sparrow hawks - these have a minimal impact of numbers unlike maggies/crows/jays etc... might give a Larsen trap a go next spring.
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Turboman
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Got some on order - I'll let you know how I get on
You will be pleased.Agree with Bromsgrove,always found them fast and consistent
I used to use prometheus back in the day, deadly accurate
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You will be pleased.Agree with Bromsgrove,always found them fast and consistent
Rabbit back on the menu then lol
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Yup they'll knock over a bunny no problem
Have heard folk moaning about loss of accuracy beyond 20 metres??
But I always try and get into 20 metres or less anyway so I honestly haven't noticed any inaccuracy.
Always set range practice targets at 25 metres and again not noticed any bad grouping. Apart from rushed/snatched shots
Also heard of folk moaning about the yellow jacketed variety melting in the barrel.....
I always use the black ones and have never had a problem. Can only assume they're perhaps using a rifle over the legal limit??
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I'm not sure how to add links but if this works it worth a watch
rat catching ratting with farm dogs - YouTube
rat catching ratting with farm dogs - YouTube
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one to me
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Judging by the blood on the stone to the left of the tail, you shot it up the arse?
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more to aim at in the dark.it ran about 8foot after i shot it.thats where it finished up.:violent:Judging by the blood on the stone to the left of the tail, you shot it up the arse?
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As a kid in Suffolk the local farmer used to have an organised rat hunt everyyear. All the local lads were invited with terriers, ferrets, catupults, air rifles, 410 shot guns. Great fun. One likley lad decided to flush the wee buggers out by pouring petrol down the holes and set alight to it. Cue pandemonium as one hot rodent shot out trailling flames and legged it under the stack of straw bales with the inevitable consequences.....
Following on from an earlier post. It is illegal to release a Grey Squirrel back in to the wild. It is legal to kill them but it has got to be done humanely. We trap a lot in our garden using a cage trap. They're then shot. Drowning is classed as causing unnecessary suffering and you could be prosecuted under the prevention of cruelty to wildlife laws. I know this as a mate was a police wildlife liason officer.
Following on from an earlier post. It is illegal to release a Grey Squirrel back in to the wild. It is legal to kill them but it has got to be done humanely. We trap a lot in our garden using a cage trap. They're then shot. Drowning is classed as causing unnecessary suffering and you could be prosecuted under the prevention of cruelty to wildlife laws. I know this as a mate was a police wildlife liason officer.
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