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[Sixstring]

Reckon Di and me could open a nice bistro or small specialized menu restuarant in wales somewhere!!

share the cooking, and about 40 covers would be manageable, witha nice menu using fresh veg and specialized meat dishes with my mum's puddings.......Mmmmm..........(thinks....)

I used to live in Thornbury Mike, so what a pity I still don't!

We could have had a threesome - er, for cooking of course!!

My aunty is still in Thornbury (knapp road).....small world!

Pity you all live so far apart, up for an evening meal for OOfers, happy to cook and play host...............one day...

[Lizzie_Zoom]

Reckon Di and me could open a nice bistro or small specialized menu restuarant in wales somewhere!!

share the cooking, and about 40 covers would be manageable, witha nice menu using fresh veg and specialized meat dishes with my mum's puddings.......Mmmmm..........(thinks....)

I used to live in Thornbury Mike, so what a pity I still don't!

We could have had a threesome - er, for cooking of course!!

My aunty is still in Thornbury (knapp road).....small world!

Pity you all live so far apart, up for an evening meal for OOfers, happy to cook and play host...............one day...

It is Mike, with us living off Siblands in Jubilee Drive!

[Varche]

I have just hatched 10 out of 11 ring neck pheasants today so might be having a brace for Xmas lunch!

delicious.

Where we lived as kids, some locals used to climb trees and tie young stoggies(wood pigeons) to the nest and go back when they were big enough to eat.

[Mr Skrunts]

I put a bird feeder and bird bath in the garden about a month ago, seen no activity bt the bath so am wondering if the water is too deep for then, but the feeder is doing well now they are used to it.  4 yellow finch's all come and feed a few times aday, and last week when it was humid there was some very fine rain so all the insects gathered under a row of sycamore trees at the bottom of the garden and there were about 40 swallows feeding off them, it was like watching the battle of briain with them swooping in to feed, then in the back deeper into the trees there was a squirel jumping from branch to branch.

I need to learn more about my camera, I cant seem to take the shots fast enough, time will tell though.

All I saw at the last place I lived were blackbirds and starlings.

Here I have seen the pigeons, yellow finch's, swallows, partridge, magpies, crows, partridge, pheasant, peacocks and a hawk.  Have only been here a year.

Plus I have a horse, a ram, 2 sheep that come over to the fence for a feed and often find chickens in the garden (they never leave any rent though) there have also been the farmers rabbits running lose all ofer the place and have allready found evidence of a fox that's visted the garden.

So might get some good shots one day.

[Gaffers]

Now where's MY .22 rifle...................

.177 is better, flatter trajectory and higher velocity which means the pellet penetrates deep and you can be more accurate 

[Mr Skrunts]

Now where's MY .22 rifle...................

.177 is better, flatter trajectory and higher velocity which means the pellet penetrates deep and you can be more accurate 

I know you know your stuff, but surely depends on the .22 and the type of pellet

[Gaffers]

Now where's MY .22 rifle...................

.177 is better, flatter trajectory and higher velocity which means the pellet penetrates deep and you can be more accurate 

I know you know your stuff, but surely depends on the .22 and the type of pellet

I shoulld have added the caveat to my earlier post of the assumption that the two rifles would have the same lb/ft2 power rating.  pellet type?  Well as long as it's a proper lead pellet it makes little difference compared to the calibre and power.  Get a good .177 rifle rated at the legal 12 lb/ft2 power limit and i guarantee that you can hit any quarry, in the kill zone, upto 25m easily.  With a .22 at that distance you will have more bend in the trajectory thus making hitting the target more difficult.

Then again, I use a .22 rated at 10 lb/ft2 and dispatch quarry cleanly up to 20m.  Unfortunately, due to the mechanism it wont allow better accuracy than that. 

[Mr Skrunts]

Now where's MY .22 rifle...................

.177 is better, flatter trajectory and higher velocity which means the pellet penetrates deep and you can be more accurate 

I know you know your stuff, but surely depends on the .22 and the type of pellet

I shoulld have added the caveat to my earlier post of the assumption that the two rifles would have the same lb/ft2 power rating.  pellet type?  Well as long as it's a proper lead pellet it makes little difference compared to the calibre and power.  Get a good .177 rifle rated at the legal 12 lb/ft2 power limit and i guarantee that you can hit any quarry, in the kill zone, upto 25m easily.  With a .22 at that distance you will have more bend in the trajectory thus making hitting the target more difficult.

Then again, I use a .22 rated at 10 lb/ft2 and dispatch quarry cleanly up to 20m.  Unfortunately, due to the mechanism it wont allow better accuracy than that. 

I keep fancying annother riffle but having owned one since i was 18, think I had an underlever one.  BSA Mercury or airsporter seems to ring a bell but it's that long since and was quite a heavy riffle.  Borrowed a  Weihrauch HW77 quite a while back, and whilst messing arround I shot a bird at quite a distance over on some pylon wires, hit the poor thing with the 1st shot, my old riffle the pellet wouldnt have even got there which is why I didnt think I would hit the bird in the first place.  Nice riffle though, not as good as the .410 and the 12 bore that I had a go with though.  and the highlight for me was a 5 shot pump action shotgun which are now completly illegal, great for ratting rond the pig farm where we were.  8-)

[Sixstring]

My own kit is a pre-charged Falcon 8 shot .22  at 12ft/lb with a carbon fibre silencer and a 4-18x 60 german night scope with a lightened stock and laser gunlight. good for 40yds with a relatively flat trajectory due to prometheus non lead pellets 40 shots from an air fill, or my CO2 powered 25ft/lb (FAC) 8 shot custom rifle with 3-12x56 super moonlighter scope and mannlincher silencer on a .25 calibre. Proper recoil and total accuracy with that, but only 20 shots from a full charge. Will not shoot anything I am not prepared to skin/pluck/eat that day or next.

[Mr Skrunts]

My own kit is a pre-charged Falcon 8 shot .22  at 12ft/lb with a carbon fibre silencer and a 4-18x 60 german night scope with a lightened stock and laser gunlight. good for 40yds with a relatively flat trajectory due to prometheus non lead pellets 40 shots from an air fill, or my CO2 powered 25ft/lb (FAC) 8 shot custom rifle with 3-12x56 super moonlighter scope and mannlincher silencer on a .25 calibre. Proper recoil and total accuracy with that, but only 20 shots from a full charge. Will not shoot anything I am not prepared to skin/pluck/eat that day or next.

Like the sound of those.

I back onto a farm yard and am tempted to ask the farmers permission if I can shoot on it. Would only go for vermin though, but would love to go bak to the days of rat hunting with a 5  shot pump action 12 gauge.   

[Terbs]

I wish someone would come round here with a .22 gun. I live on a rural estate with load of trees and greenery and we are absolutely plagued with Woodpigeons. They are every where, breeding like the clappers.
Unfortunately, although a beautiful bird, the Red Kite is becoming a pest round here too.
Due to people putting out food for them (as well as for pigeons) it is not unusual to have up to FIFTEEN Red Kites swooping down into gardens. And they are BIG 
The Kites and pigeons seem to have no fear and seem intent on committing Hari-Kari by flying low level up the roads.
Its a shame Kites don't eat Pigeons..

[Sixstring]

Put me up for the night and I will remove them all for you................

[Terbs]

Put me up for the night and I will remove them all for you................

Awwww.....if only 

[Gaffers]

My own kit is a pre-charged Falcon 8 shot .22  at 12ft/lb with a carbon fibre silencer and a 4-18x 60 german night scope with a lightened stock and laser gunlight. good for 40yds with a relatively flat trajectory due to prometheus non lead pellets 40 shots from an air fill, or my CO2 powered 25ft/lb (FAC) 8 shot custom rifle with 3-12x56 super moonlighter scope and mannlincher silencer on a .25 calibre. Proper recoil and total accuracy with that, but only 20 shots from a full charge. Will not shoot anything I am not prepared to skin/pluck/eat that day or next.

Nice pair! 

Seriously I wish I could get some like that.  I have always fancied a 12 ft/lb CO2 air rifle but having a wife who is quite anti guns I only get away with what I have because I owned it before I knew her...plus it is technically an antique (Diana Model 50.22)  8-)

[Terbs]

 

Struth....I can't remember seeing Diana guns since I had one in the late fifties !!!!!!!!!!!