Recent content by Andy seatrout

Well if I don’t even look at it then I can’t trigger FOMO…

I’m not going as; 1) the OPs post says there’s only carp for lunch and I’m not into eating course fish….. 2) for the reason there being lots of shiny new things that dangerously in some cases I can afford but don’t need… at all….. but I’ll have an internal conversation with myself to convince...

Well I’m afraid it shows the Walt Disney sensibilities of the general human population on earth, perhaps they thought a song and dance number would ensue….. You could split it up, but I’m not sure what calibre rifle would do the splitting…..

My most common miss….. i have very large hands ( they go with the rest of me) and I think my fingers don’t help me pull the trigger always as I should… I set the triggers all the same on my rifles 2lb 6oz and that seems to cure it mostly… thumbhole stocks do seem to suit me too….

The report is USA based, seems fairly scientific but acknowledges that most pheasants in the USA are shot up the arse!! Our small shoot feel that steel even a couple of pellet sizes larger than lead is inferior to lead for duck….. Of course we’re all dying from lead poisoning….. dropping...

I think it’s been proven through smolt tracking that up to 96% of smolts get predated before they reach the sea…… on the Welsh coast there’s no fish farms, the seatrout don’t migrate that far, there’s plenty of food ( bass are doing very well) no large towns and sheep farming point the cause in...

From my DSC1 it was explained to me that venison is one of the few meats that can be defrosted and then re-frozen…. I’ve done this lots of times to make burgers- shoulder meat roughly cut and frozen after butchering - then minced into burgers ( with about 30% beef and 5% streaky bacon) made into...

I think I’ll try some wide pan feeders - maybe experiment if I can find one of our feeders is a big empty ( we filled them all two weeks ago….) the issue is whilst I can sometimes get to them twice a week. Other times it’s not at all….. the autofeeders seem reliable tbh…. But costly to install…...

As a salmon fisher still - took it up in 2001…. There’s a multitude of problems; salmon west coast fish farms impact both salmon and seatrout. Pollution from water companies and farmers…. Lots of siltation and where I live in Powys - chicken farms….impacting the Wye and the Severn…. The coarse...

Started with one or two residents, but now flushing about ten each time we go out (Powys) the Lady of the manor doesn’t want them shot, but if they are (accidentally or in the heat of the moment) they have to be presented to her to eat ….. we’ve shot one so far ( five days in)

True 18 inches a bit deep but it was six inches in July! I’ll look at repositioning them

Thanks for the answers- they’re stood in water at the moment just to safeguard them a bit from the pheasants that are in two adjacent woods…. I want the pheasants to be up the hill, not by the lakeside…. But there’s a couple of islands with bridges I might try to use… I think I’ll look at a...

Yes I’m trying to avoid another £100 or so for the autos - mech plus battery, I’ve tried barley but it’s more difficult to get hold of round here for some reason

Yes I use Wright feeders on all my pheasant feeders ( there’s a few pan feeders I’ve inherited) but neither are ideal for a ducks bill….. you are quite correct, spirals are a pain. I haven’t got time to riddle the wheat when we top up, just not practical when you’ve limited time and it might rain….

Hi all, We put down 350 duck on our shoot and so far so good….. I’ve bought 3 auto-feeders that work well, and I’ve got five ‘soft spiral springs’ on the bottom of five 200 litre metal drums on long legs in about 18 inches of water…. I’m getting blockages in the spiral feeders, often enough...