The out yesterday or today thread and...

Smellydog · Jun 7, 2026

Hadn't had a squirrel with my old new to me Original 50 air rifle so scratched that itch this afternoon.
6 sqizzers and a pigeon. The air rifle has really improved with a good barrel clean and crown polish.

Found this moth. My granddaughter assures me it's a White Satin moth.

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Mike1979 · Jun 8, 2026

Out yesterday on the corvids after the farmer had phoned to say they were on the maize clamp. Got up at 4.20 and set up and ready to go at 6.00. Windy old day and a lot were coming in from behind me which made it challenging at times (doesnt help the hedge is about 9 ft tall

) Shot until about 12.30 and called it a day with a mixed bag of 85.

wytonpjs · Jun 8, 2026

Immediately by my house in the middle of a housing development by a busy bus lane - no opportunity for a shot

When moved on was in poor condition with worst tail I’ve seen. Bastard took a moorhen chick barely 50m away on way out from the pond, despite being chased FFS

Smellydog · Jun 8, 2026

Mike1979 said:
Out yesterday on the corvids after the farmer had phoned to say they were on the maize clamp. Got up at 4.20 and set up and ready to go at 6.00. Windy old day and a lot were coming in from behind me which made it challenging at times (doesnt help the hedge is about 9 ft tall ) Shot until about 12.30 and called it a day with a mixed bag of 85.

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Thought you said you struggle with a shotgun?!
Well done

Mike1979 · Jun 8, 2026

Smellydog said:
Thought you said you struggle with a shotgun?!
Well done

I like to get the excuses in place nice and early

. Im not the best shot ...average at best but love it. On a bad day I'm maybe 2:1 ...best day I think I shot 105 corvids for about 115 shots...but that was a one off

John Gryphon · Jun 8, 2026

wytonpjs said:
Immediately by my house in the middle of a housing development by a busy bus lane - no opportunity for a shot When moved on was in poor condition with worst tail I’ve seen. Bastard took a moorhen chick barely 50m away on way out from the pond, despite being chased FFS

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Looks to be in very poor condition that fox.

wytonpjs · Jun 8, 2026

John Gryphon said:
Looks to be in very poor condition that fox.

Thin, coat matted, base 3" of its brush non-existent and appearing very haunted. If it had been elsewhere, I would have shot it there and then but I simply cannot do that here where we live.

As I stood watching it with Gary of @BE Precision, my neighbour went down and moved it one, only to see it grab 2 moorhen chicks from the reeds. With his intervention it dropped one which swam off, but the other was snacked on the move as it exited across a bus lane. It lives across the road on part of a large University campus that has about 200 hundred acres of mature scrub. I regularly fly a drone over there to look at the deer but there's no way any shootings is going to take place there. Indeed, pre-COVID I ran an activity for some second-year biology students to propose a management strategy for the deer that they had fenced in. No action taken on any of the proposals

John Gryphon · Jun 8, 2026

wytonpjs said:
Thin, coat matted, base 3" of its brush non-existent and appearing very haunted. If it had been elsewhere, I would have shot it there and then but I simply cannot do that here where we live.

As I stood watching it with Gary of @BE Precision, my neighbour went down and moved it one, only to see it grab 2 moorhen chicks from the reeds. With his intervention it dropped one which swam off, but the other was snacked on the move as it exited across a bus lane. It lives across the road on part of a large University campus that has about 200 hundred acres of mature scrub. I regularly fly a drone over there to look at the deer but there's no way any shootings is going to take place there. Indeed, pre-COVID I ran an activity for some second-year biology students to propose a management strategy for the deer that they had fenced in. No action taken on any of the proposals

Big chance its been hit by a car and cant hunt enough to keep up a normal physical fox appearance. Or perhaps a major tapeworm/parasite infection.

finnbear270 · Friday at 10:25 AM

When your hands are tied. :banghead:

Round back into the village with the first batch of dogs this morning, a little later than usual, those fe#*'in Magpies were at it again, a perfectly formed & fledged Blackbird pounced on & killed

Mike1979 · Friday at 10:27 AM

finnbear270 said:
When your hands are tied.
Round back into the village with the first batch of dogs this morning, a little later than usual, those fe#*'in Magpies were at it again, a perfectly formed & fledged Blackbird pounced on & killed

Utter nonsense ... vile birds....Off decoying tomorrow and glad to be across the border so dont need to worry when a rook or magpie flies by. Lots I like about Wales but the approach on corvids is utter madness.

finnbear270 · Friday at 10:30 AM

Mike1979 said:
Utter nonsense ... vile birds....Off decoying tomorrow and glad to be across the border so dont need to worry when a rook or magpie flies by. Lots I like about Wales but the approach on corvids is utter madness.

I would love to site a Larsen on my front lawn.

Mike1979 · Friday at 10:33 AM

finnbear270 said:
I would love to site a Larsen on my front lawn.

Agreed...see groups of 15 or 16 in the hedges on some of the farms I shoot ...how in any way that will benefit wider biodiversity is beyond me...but lets not digress into politics

Smellydog · Friday at 4:43 PM

A crow was at my blackbirds second brood yesterday. I shot into the lyme where it roughly was and it flew off. I've not seen the black birds since. Bastard things, I hate crows with a passion.

Smellydog · Saturday at 8:33 AM

05:00 to 08:00 back o farm. 45 winged vermin. 22 to classic air and the rest taken off the wing with the hush power and 21gm target loads. 23 for 26 shots!
My airgun blind with comfy garden chair.

jall55 · Saturday at 1:47 PM

11 squirrels and a rat for me this morning
Had an hour just sat by a feeder i set up on the neighbours
Bliss

Smellydog · Saturday at 11:17 PM

Shot another 20 assorted corvids. Including a magpie for extra points

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Then went and check for Charlie on cut grass but ended up watching my roe pair.

jall55 · Sunday at 10:55 AM

Just had another 7 squirrels this morning - sat in the dappled sun listening to the songbirds too - mint

Smellydog · Sunday at 12:29 PM

Sniping at crows this morning. Missed a few

but got two.

mammoth200 · Sunday at 12:32 PM

Squirrels laughed me off this morning, all zipping around in the trees and not on the feeder. Same can't be said for a foolish magpie however, first one I've managed to whack on my permission.

Foxyboy43 · Sunday at 4:11 PM

Smellydog said:
Sniping at crows this morning. Missed a few but got two.

Missing???? With the triple deuce????
Good heavens Smelly, that simply won’t do.

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