THE PRETEND KEEPER
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stavross
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Been a difficult week, I almost shuffled off this mortal coil on Monday but I’m still here and my apprentice and his brother have really stepped up, I was up there with them yesterday morning and we’ve done a few feed areas and came up with a little plan of what we will do next Saturday, with me not being up there this week we are a little bit behind but this shouldn’t be a problem for the first day as my intention is just stir them up a bit 
Smellydog
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Don't let them get you down mate, no need to slash your wrists!!
What you been doing to your arm.
stavross
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Managed to stick a angle grinder into my wrist
Nickb
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Ouch...bet you dont do that again.Managed to stick a angle grinder into my wrist
Smellydog
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Keen ell lad!! Just slow down will ya!Managed to stick a angle grinder into my wrist
stavross
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Nearly never did anything ever again
Mrs Stav would of got a good payout but she would of had to learn to cook 
Nearly never did anything ever again
Kids showed me a vid the other day of couple out for dinner. The guys about to dig in and she says wait! You normally say grace first.
He responds with yeah but the chef knows how to cook
. Daughter said that would be me
stavross
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Up at the shoot for the best part of the day today with my apprentice, I’d be buggered without him as I still can’t lift anything heavy or ride the quad, we have got birds where we want them for the first day and we have created another small ( fill in ) drive that we have kept between us, it right at the far side of the piggeries, almost on the boundary, when we got to it we seen around 30 birds there, none of them ours 
so that could be a nice little surprise for the guns, we’ll be back to do a lot of hand feeding on Friday with a couple of other young lads from the shoot so with a bit of luck we’ll know where there’s a few birds on Saturday 
On another note I’ve got a day on the 15th of November and I can’t make my mind up what to do with it, I could find someone to give it to, try and sell it or just not bother because I’ll be running the full day because my shoot captain isn’t there that day and I might not have time to look after someone who hasn’t shot there before
so that could be a nice little surprise for the guns, we’ll be back to do a lot of hand feeding on Friday with a couple of other young lads from the shoot so with a bit of luck we’ll know where there’s a few birds on Saturday On another note I’ve got a day on the 15th of November and I can’t make my mind up what to do with it, I could find someone to give it to, try and sell it or just not bother because I’ll be running the full day because my shoot captain isn’t there that day and I might not have time to look after someone who hasn’t shot there before
stavross
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Well I’m all set for tomorrow, I’m aiming for a 40/50 bird day tomorrow and after feeding today I’m pretty sure I could end their days shooting with one drive, so some selected beating will be required and my pre shoot speech will be very much about selective shooting, and if anyone gets carried away there will be hell to pay as me and young Josh have put a lot of work into it this year with pretty much no help from anyone else in the syndicate, we’ve created 2 other small drives with the possibility of another bigger drive later in the season, we’ve made new feed areas and shelters and we have doubled the amount of feeders we had last year, so they better show some appreciation in the way of selective shooting and more importantly to me, letting the birds get up, as this is the first time they will of flown for their lives
Here here!
3 and abit weeks now till our 1st day. I know the graft all to well now. Having abit of a mare moving birds to where I want them but solved that with some bird puller and an oil slurry soaked rag hung in trees where I need them. Darkerer evenings don’t help
gone from 3+ hours after work to about 45mins so had to start bunking off! I’m nervously excited!
BenBhoy
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Aye good man. Hope it's a good start to a good season mate. You gonna have to share your tips this year with young josh????
stavross
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I’ve been feeding different this year, where as everyone around me is just using wheat, I’m using, wheat, split maize and broken beans, and I’ve found it very easy to move them with maize, I also use bird puller but mainly to swap them over from pellet because I get pellets with aniseed on them so the bird puller smells the same and they don’t tend to empty feeders onto the ground looking for one bit of pelletHere here!
3 and abit weeks now till our 1st day. I know the graft all to well now. Having abit of a mare moving birds to where I want them but solved that with some bird puller and an oil slurry soaked rag hung in trees where I need them. Darkerer evenings don’t help
On another note I’ve just been told I’ve got a spare gun ( stand one beat one ) for every day this season to do what I want with, so that’s a nice thing if someone wants a day or i can find someone who’s new to it
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stavross
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I know, I don’t mind sharing the day tips with him and he deserves it but I’ll have to draw the line at the end of season whip roundAye good man. Hope it's a good start to a good season mate. You gonna have to share your tips this year with young josh????
There’s a day for you here if you can fit it in
BenBhoy
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Appreciated mate thanksThere’s a day for you here if you can fit it in
stavross
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If you want a go just let me know and I’ll send you the datesAppreciated mate thanks
stavross
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Early on in the season with us I could easily do them a 100 bird day but what bothers me is half of them don’t take birds at the end of the day, so 40/50 bird days are what they will get because that number of birds will go, still annoys me a bit that some are happy to shoot them but don’t want them after they have shot them
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