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culinary solution"/><category term="the gear junkie"/><category term="the london poacher"/><category term="the shard"/><category term="the terrierman"/><category term="the vik"/><category term="this american life"/><category term="thr lighthouse keeper"/><category term="three peaks"/><category term="tiger skin"/><category term="tiger under the bed"/><category term="tika"/><category term="tim smith"/><category term="toasting fork"/><category term="towel"/><category term="toys"/><category term="tracker"/><category term="traditional"/><category term="trail food"/><category term="trapping"/><category term="tree rats"/><category term="true grit"/><category term="turkey tail"/><category term="ulfhednar"/><category term="unbox"/><category term="uncontacted tribes"/><category term="urban foraging"/><category term="urban fox control"/><category term="urbn outdoors"/><category term="valencia"/><category term="varmland"/><category term="vegetable"/><category term="viral"/><category term="wanderings of an elephant hunter"/><category term="wapiti"/><category term="watch"/><category term="water purification"/><category term="wellies"/><category term="wellington"/><category term="welsh"/><category term="west london shooting school"/><category term="west winds"/><category term="whistle"/><category term="wild turkey"/><category term="wild works"/><category term="wisdom"/><category term="wombles"/><category term="wood carving"/><category term="woodlore"/><category term="yacht master"/><title type='text'>The Suburban Bushwacker:                                   From Fat Boy to Elk Hunter</title><subtitle type='html'>A tubby suburban dad watching hunting and adventure shows &#xa;on TV and wondering could I do that? &#xa;This is the chronicle of my adventures as I learn to learn to Forage, &#xa;Hunt and Fish for food that has lived as I would wish to myself - &#xa;Wild and Free.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' 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from the wind with my back to one block, a ride to my left and the fence line falling away infant of me.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ive seen the little Roebuck break cover and cross the ride a while back, but now only the wind in the trees, the creaking of the dead lower branches, and a terrible racket coming from behind me. The way the seat is it&#39;s not easy to turn around that far.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ahab is a notorious, and compulsive practical joker so my first thought is this is yet another of his practical jokes. The thrashing and cracking continues. Twisting my head there&#39;s defiantly something there.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&#39;s only one stop where Ahab could possibly get out of the close-planted block, I&#39;m not going to point even a de-cocked rifle at the spot. I&#39;m just preparing a witty retort for when he steps out when a Red deer with a neck larger than my waist tears his antlers free of the branches and steps into the gully where the ride borders the trees. As I shoulder the rifle he hears something of my movement and spins 180 disappearing into the forest block. Never to been seen again. Easily one of the two biggest Reds Ive ever seen in Scotland&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every dawn, and every dusk, for two or three hours a time &amp;nbsp;for the next five days I sit there. Not a sausage.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every day I stalk up the ride to glass the fence line, every day I find hooj deer turds, steaming a couple of times, big foot prints, but I never see him again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Should I have pointed my de-cocked rifle at the gap? No. Should I have sat still and waited? Of course.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hunting, not shopping.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;more soon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;your pal&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;SBW&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/7538150948407385611/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=7538150948407385611' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/7538150948407385611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/7538150948407385611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2024/01/scotland-thrilling-encounter-with-big.html' title='Scotland : A Thrilling Encounter With Big Boy '/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilt9lRIK5wg4bWhLf7ny7HN97BuzGrGE09Cwj9eO2-g6D_zFCDvnaTLbijLBue0IGDLP1z5617xcvGWdz_53Of_3TgYw4Ls7OIIracIaCF0DcukEtSyo-BUKB5ojBUTmd-mH7csy3-w-3VUD9Zh7FeZtj98BThaWIHemPJyPXB5HiKLQPF8n8xYaMuGpdZ/s72-w480-h640-c/IMG_7203.HEIC" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Cromarty Firth, United Kingdom</georss:featurename><georss:point>57.6796964 -4.0987251</georss:point><georss:box>55.252668739252968 -8.49325635000001 60.106724060747027 0.29580615000000954</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-2265755405555451799</id><published>2023-07-29T15:16:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2023-07-29T15:16:59.297+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="6.5 creedmoor"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="red deer"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="shropshire"/><title type='text'>The Shrewsbury Reds Pt1</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn0wH-1zEpHusUpfrMH7qN-m1ac3M2j732CyBDzFV76EFiClc2XKJ9xlpa5yP3wyNeIkefv7M4onhCX2KkNu_KM-NptrzjbzH4EYYWrsnxhPDGz9Axi5joTEIPnCXF0xaemUkXtfxzjUcppn_hSxyPVvpnvoH2y26SwUPlAnSy5N_5Ne332AZ_Dhjb4g/s3264/1E431514-2D8A-4E66-AAA8-DED5797B4005.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3264&quot; data-original-width=&quot;2448&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn0wH-1zEpHusUpfrMH7qN-m1ac3M2j732CyBDzFV76EFiClc2XKJ9xlpa5yP3wyNeIkefv7M4onhCX2KkNu_KM-NptrzjbzH4EYYWrsnxhPDGz9Axi5joTEIPnCXF0xaemUkXtfxzjUcppn_hSxyPVvpnvoH2y26SwUPlAnSy5N_5Ne332AZ_Dhjb4g/w480-h640/1E431514-2D8A-4E66-AAA8-DED5797B4005.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;The Shrewsbury Red, all 11 points of him.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My friend Captain Ahab invites me to go stalking with him in Shrewsbury, where a herd of parkland escapee Reds are eating a local farmer out of house and home. He&#39;s been sending me pictures of some crazy big deer, one so big it couldn’t be lifted into the chiller. I&#39;ve seen pictures and the slots left by monster Reds in Norfolk where they live by crop raiding rather than fighting for every calorie in the highlands. These boys get the same (or better) nutrients without the wind chill the fens are rightfully famous for so I&#39;m pretty stoked to be invited &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shrewsbury is almost exactly in the middle of the country and mainly famous for a tiny herd of long-coat Fallow which are miles from a huntable population, plenty of Muntjac, Roe and Ahab&#39;s feral herd of turnip raiding Reds &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The pre-dawn drill is familiar to stalkers everywhere. Stumble across a field just before first light, gap in the hedgerow, turn back on yourself and there’s a highseat. Pop the magazine, try to climb the ladder without mishap, mag back in, work the bolt, make safe and adjust clothing to exclude drafts &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once comfortable the despondency sets in.&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;&quot;&gt;kvetch&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;&quot;&gt;kvetch&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;&quot;&gt;kvetch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;&quot;&gt;Are 120gr big enough?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); color: #202124;&quot;&gt;Has Ahab already shot em all?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When have you ever seen deer on a dry ploughed field?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Turns out that: yes, no, and in the clear light of day the field abounds with rape, that&#39;s Canola not sexual assault . &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;Ive been scanning the more promising looking field behind me for a while, when i turn back to find a smallish horse has rocked up, a smallish horse with ANTLERS! Seen Reds with antlers, never seen one, in season and through a scope! This young gobshite has eaten his last turnip, I gave him a round and he drops to the shot within three steps. Antlers are nothing to write home about, but as we&#39;ve already seen, I’m no trophy hunter and on this trip we’re here to generate meat for Ahab’s game butchery and to keep the farmer who wants his fields deer free happy. No sooner than I&#39;ve put the phone back in my pocket and huddle of Reds make their way into view, including this mighty brute, all 105kg of him, if his pal looked like a pony he&#39;s a shire horse. He gets a round, his pal gets one too, and loading loading through ejection port the forth deer of the day goes down. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sellier-bellot.cz/en/products/rifle-ammunition/rifle-ammunition-with-exergy-blue-bullets/&quot;&gt;120gr S&amp;amp;B Blue Energy&lt;/a&gt; are suitably destructive. I never found the bullets but it&#39;s safe to say expansion was, er, complete.The biggest deer Ive ever shot, and the most deer Ive ever shot in a day, or hour for that matter.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lots more to tell&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Will try to post more regularly&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Your pal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;SBW&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9FuLwWbW7r1jWWOC4CZ7ZqVAfvLgGd7fNwGHIlYg34KVVBcN08QKjpaTZyKKS2iBHT70YuAgJzYTWZKGfI3EM_Qg5fiEUXRMr7BewMwxYfb8vWfLKoa6WdRDrJhBnUyu5D8ZIAe5D6fSm1yXsQes2Fta2b-nMe98Iqo3pZfBzXuxpOpZuTcXeqFPJ2w/s3264/04991606-D2BB-40BA-9398-540244C69882.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; 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Like most founding myths, it&#39;s usually somewhere between revisionist half-truth and outright bullshit. So its come as something of a surprise that for once I&#39;ll be able to park the cynicism and tell you a tale where the trope came true. Half true, it was one guy &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;Anyone who has ever slaved away into the night; tapping at a trickler, trying to get a set of beam scales to balance so they can get on to charge No.2 of 250, has wondered if perhaps there could be a timely middle ground between the inaccurate dispense-by-volume and the tedious dispense-by-weight.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are lots of offerings; scales and dispensers, dispensers with built in scales, at all kinds of money from a round of drinks, to well over a grand. Some are very accurate, some are very quick, at the spendy end some are both. When you come to think about it all of them top-out at one kernel accuracy.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Way back in the early 80’s Working from home, in his shed or spare room, Allen Edwards was looking for a solution to the problem of accurately dispensing small pistol loads. When he hit upon the bleedin&#39; obvious.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;If all the kernels are the same size all you need to do is dispense them one at a time, and a trickler already does that very well. What a trickler doesn&#39;t do is monitor itself. But it could do &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Target Master : an all together better trickler. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As it rises to zero The beam of your existing scales breaks a beam of light, the photoelectric cell stops receiving a signal, and turns off the motor driving the trickler. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That&#39;s all it does. Brilliantly.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dump a scoop of powder onto the pan, press go, and the Target Master whirrs away until the beam settles on the mark. To increase the speed, use a bigger scoop. To increase the accuracy, set the trickler to drop the last few kernels a little slower and set a camera in front of your scale to remove the potential for parallax error &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&#39;s very easy to plan out a workflow where you&#39;re adding a scoop and pressing go, then turning to seat your next bullet and work the press, as you put the finished round into the box, the Target Master has already come to a stop and you&#39;re ready to start again. Simples.&lt;/p&gt;“I designed the first Targetmaster in the early 1980&#39;s particularly for light charges of fast pistol powders. I found that no measure was accurate enough for the 1.2-1.5 gn charges required for the .32 S&amp;amp;W Long target pistols of the time.” AE&lt;p&gt;You can find &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.targetmasteruk.com/page2.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;TargetMaster here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;if you&#39;re not in the UK or you want the extra bits: camera, remote start, and stand, which i would recommend, you can email Allan &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:mail@targetmasteruk.com&quot;&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;His name above the door he will sort your order personally&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More soon&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your pal&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SBW&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span face=&quot;arial, Arial, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-size: 14px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/1622339311292107234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=1622339311292107234' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/1622339311292107234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/1622339311292107234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2022/05/target-master-review.html' title='Target Master review'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN6JxUdCTben61aAvyP3ek8juy6UWhAty4FV5k2El2yV-jCaBzEQhObd7gQIZdztq9vmoVV4bHWAFuuFtFAuOieUBMZ6IUgCzt7_1jV02dreojCHH6NFMN5dP_Jx8jseL9N1zOcgjxVjBeW_5j1HPErAbsfb6UMDeb0cyNjfy1rgQ80f5zGLN8W6ikyg/s72-w640-h640-c/7C2A5A37-D626-453B-A0FD-11E4678D7E0D.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-8189808271848664151</id><published>2022-04-17T16:35:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2022-04-17T16:35:03.183+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Mysterious Ticking Muntjac  </title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYzy1g2YLxR3zurzdpGFac6Ts91SrwCy6mCEOetbLg7h7z2hejdlHAA5biEctVVWrYmxjtZdxeobDGlPhAj5Q66692C2V291v4p5YgejwMQ4Aebm9OMTNw5noYBBDVllKC57Lz6gbl6B8puNBsnrqUQ5PBWO7B9hkqGoySD7evxa5sC5KVng9JX4pGyA/s2219/2C87CD80-DD5B-4F0F-BE08-351ECD63D9D2.jpeg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;2219&quot; data-original-width=&quot;2117&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYzy1g2YLxR3zurzdpGFac6Ts91SrwCy6mCEOetbLg7h7z2hejdlHAA5biEctVVWrYmxjtZdxeobDGlPhAj5Q66692C2V291v4p5YgejwMQ4Aebm9OMTNw5noYBBDVllKC57Lz6gbl6B8puNBsnrqUQ5PBWO7B9hkqGoySD7evxa5sC5KVng9JX4pGyA/w610-h640/2C87CD80-DD5B-4F0F-BE08-351ECD63D9D2.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;610&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While were making a list:&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Few months back SSD and I made the trip to horse country to stalk with &amp;nbsp;Mr 7mm&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;left me in a highseat and took South Side D stalking on another farm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It had been a while, at the far end of the field there was no clear backstop so I’d let some fallow walk on by and the light was starting to turn. When a most remarkable thing happened.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You know that sense that some kind of prey is pressnt, unseen but definitely present. Glassing the hegdes to left and right. Then starts an odd decidedly metallic ‘ticking’ coming from the hedgerow beneath me. To start with I thought it was SSD and Mr 7mm playing a joke on me, but they were nowhere to be seen, the sound was qiet enough that it would have had to be next to the high-seat &amp;nbsp;i was starting to feel i was playing chicken with some unseen advisory &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ticking stopped so I stopped looking for its source and just had time to move the zoom ring to 4x &amp;nbsp;when a muntjac doe exploded out of the hedge and made a dash into the field &amp;nbsp;At less that 50m I gave her an “Erhum”:she paused, turning first her head back whence she’d come, seeing nothing she turned a little further and caught a 140gr SST had destroyed her front leg and raked her ribcage. SSTs seem to transfer so much energy into the animal, it had flipped her through the air, she came down like a sack of wet cement &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I like to pause for a bit before collecting the carcass but cloud was blowing in so it was getting draker quicker than id like so i retrieved her and waited for the chaps.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Had covid so didn’t get out on the pigeons, more next time&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your pal&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SBW&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/8189808271848664151/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=8189808271848664151' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/8189808271848664151'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/8189808271848664151'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-mysterious-ticking-muntjac.html' title='The Mysterious Ticking Muntjac  '/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYzy1g2YLxR3zurzdpGFac6Ts91SrwCy6mCEOetbLg7h7z2hejdlHAA5biEctVVWrYmxjtZdxeobDGlPhAj5Q66692C2V291v4p5YgejwMQ4Aebm9OMTNw5noYBBDVllKC57Lz6gbl6B8puNBsnrqUQ5PBWO7B9hkqGoySD7evxa5sC5KVng9JX4pGyA/s72-w610-h640-c/2C87CD80-DD5B-4F0F-BE08-351ECD63D9D2.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-128046064548775311</id><published>2022-04-12T17:27:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2022-04-12T17:35:31.338+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="6.5 creedmoor"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ACL"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Chinese Water Deer"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="muntjac"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="red deer"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="shooter"/><title type='text'>Chinese Water Deer: A tale of hunting hubris, or is that being hunted by hubris?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig2nFJDWDA36bvKyjO9vk527fgrEZnAYqBK6CU2aZdbjsii0CoY57I6uXRiR-SBU4XiX5-ZQnnUmG0BDVrDHlwjaUIYmW7BZ0sviVI60mITm7E4Q4fU4IIKKKhQc8Wrf8gBHFW5wLYovrLTg9O24aIqlFlhfS8Iro_LNXhMDm-jj5yjfC9FkD-81CmMg=s3024&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig2nFJDWDA36bvKyjO9vk527fgrEZnAYqBK6CU2aZdbjsii0CoY57I6uXRiR-SBU4XiX5-ZQnnUmG0BDVrDHlwjaUIYmW7BZ0sviVI60mITm7E4Q4fU4IIKKKhQc8Wrf8gBHFW5wLYovrLTg9O24aIqlFlhfS8Iro_LNXhMDm-jj5yjfC9FkD-81CmMg=w640-h640&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;The idyllic nature of this shot can never show the sheer agony my butt cheeks were in after a couple of hours sitting on the bare metal slats that had once supported the seat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There&#39;s two trophies: a full freezer and a great tale.  Ticked those two off, nearly got the other kind too. Nearly.  Pull up a log, warm your hands by the fire, pour yourself a tin mug of scotch, this one has to be the most SBW hunting saga yet   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Long term readers will remember the blogger known as Shooter and his &lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;Mountain Lion&lt;/a&gt; hunt. In the intervening years his kids have grown up a bit and he&#39;s moved to the country. Back in touch I was delighted to accept his invitation to a walked up day which I&#39;ll tell you about later, obviously we agree to catch up next time I&#39;m in the area. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ACL [who features in a few of the more recent tales] and I had made the journey to the fenlands, a hundred miles north east of London, for Shooter’s walked up birds, we&#39;d got chatting to the gamekeepers; they&#39;d shown us some pictures of substantial Red Deer, we&#39;d seen some bloody deep slots left behind by some even bigger deer, and listened to their tales of many many Chinese Water Deer seen on the thermal scope while Foxing. These are the closing weeks of the season. With a much needed freezer top-up on our minds before we sack  most stalking off until the big boys are back in season on the first of August. We eere both keen as mustard to get out there  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having been the victim of the curse of the Bushwacker- where I invite you stalking, shoot two deer and miss a third while every deer you see will be siluetted against a farm house or scared off by a dog walker, the ACL had booked us in for a couple of stalks so he was inviting me  Prudent  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My favourite Russian saying : we wanted it to be different, it happened just the same&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The usual early start, the usual delays for all the usual reasons, [misplaced firearms certificate, wrong socks, only one boot] then once on tbe road it’s the usual realisations that the usual X,Y and Z had been left behind. That exhilarating  feeling of the open road, the frustration of rounding the corner into a slow moving morass of traffic, the inevitable phone call to announce our arrival would be significantly delayed and the surreptitious roadside consumption of banned foodstuffs  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fortunately the ACL is excellent company and has been avidly following the war in Ukraine and so knows all kinds of great stuff about it. that soaked up a couple of hours and we found our way to Shooter&#39;s place. Only driving past it twice  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shooter, the long suffering Mrs Shooter and all the little Shooters are all in fine fettle. The new house is  perfect for playing Tom and Barbara   The menagerie has expanded to include rare chickens, peacocks and goats have been ordered. Theres even a puddle rather optimistically being called the pond  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where as the ACL,has one rifle per task, all rare and charismatic, Shooter has a vast collection of rifles all as horrible as i remember them being. On the other hand his shotgun cabinet is as glamorous as a weekend at Downtown Abby and he’s the only person i know with  ore than one 10 bore shotgun  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a hearty and sustaining lunch  and some trading over a .410 we set off to meet the keepers  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Norfolk is pretty big and pretty flat the fields are punctuated by drainage dithlches the locals call sewers. Great banks of rushes line the sewers. You can really see how a deer with water in its name would be at home here. The road kill count suggests there are lots of them. Every 200m there&#39;s another dead deer by the side of the road&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinese water deer are natives of the Yangtze flood plain and Korea. They were introduced to Woburn Park, Bedfordshire, in 1896, and Whipsnade Zoo in 1929-30. I’ve not tracked down why they were deliberately released into surrounding woodlands from 1901 onwards, but that release is often sighted as the start of their spread. Since then there have been numerous releases, translocations, and escapes. Adapting to live in gardens, deciduous woodland, grassland, arable land as well as their native wetlands, coastal &amp;amp; marshland,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A small, even compact deer, a pale fawn colour, with large rounded ears and button-like black eyes. The Bucks are antlerless, but have moody long tusk-like canines. &lt;br /&gt;A bit taller, and paler than muntjac, lacking that hump-backed look. They look more like a mini roe deer.&lt;br /&gt;Between 82-106 cm long with a tail length 2.5-9 cm tails and about 42-65 cm at the shoulder Males weigh 12-18.5 kg; females 14-17.4 kg. Some study’s show them living to at least six years old.&lt;br /&gt;As the name Water deer would suggest they seem to prefer wetlands adjoining woodland and fen, though they often range onto nearby farmland where they will feed in the open. They are most evident in the Norfolk Broads and  the coastal wetlands. Although a feral, uncontained, population in the grounds of Whipsnade park inhabits parkland and dry woodland, with no wetland available.feeding mostly around dawn and dusk, on weeds, grasses, herbs and some browse. Although they often feed in arable fields, they seem to be eating weeds rather than crops.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The keepers drop me off and I walk to my highseat, wish I’d noticed what I noticed later. I climb up to find that the seat is missing, tentatively I settle onto the slats that once held the seat arse rest. For a while I manage to space out and even doze a little, but the sheer agony brings me back  I roll my jacket up and that alleviate a some of it  now I’m cold  This is clearly what Buddhism  refers to as the sheer unsatisfactoriness of existence  Some very encouraging barking is coming from the reeds behind me to pass some time I spend a while twisted round looking into the standing reds and willing something to wander out  what looks at first sight to be a car gliders silently past, a human head pops up , it’s the roof of a boat  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile at the other end of the field   The ACL has found his highseat knee deep in water and looking precarious  so he sets up shop in the hedgerow  a while passes, a couple of Hares bounce past, a Fallow doe rocks up, spooked by something behind ACL. Weary of this life she sets herself down within range and waits to be shot, ever the gentleman stalker ACL decides it’s somehow outside of the pact between hunter and prey to shoot while they are both seated, not used to being ignored she waits a while and then ups sticks and toddles off in search of someone who will release her from the wheel of earthly suffering  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile back at the SBW end of things three deer have ventured out of the reeds  if they turn left they’ll at the only buildings in the neighbourhood. I’m willing at them, trying to lure them in my my Jedi powers  it’s actually working ….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ACL feels a bustle in his hedgerows and a little CWD saunters into range  having got all his nerves out of the  way with the Doe ACL turns theory into practice, pops his cherry and her right through the shoulder.  Text book &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His story proves something of an interruption to mine. There’s a fizzing whoosh from his moderator,  the posse of three deer disappear. Spooked deer usually run them pause to add whatever scared them to the database, if they check and it’s looking like a false alarm they often resume their previous behaviour. I’m promising Artemis the earth and everything on it, for once she delivers and the three of them come back down their unseen camino towards me  The X from the X Yz of left at home were my posh binos, the short comings of the Bushnells the ever cost conscious Shooter has lent me are becoming clear, but  that’s the only thing that is, I resort to spotting through the scope  the Deer’s on the right is wearing some pretty impressive mandibles  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The balancing act: wait but don’t let chances evaporate while waiting for better chances  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bolt of the SR30!acts as the safety catch, by some kind of German engineering voodoo it snicks forward into battery without a sound  our boy turns slightly to  look up hill and catches one in the pocket behind his front leg  the 120gr S&amp;amp;B blue takes the top off his heart and purées his lungs  we are both unaware of this development and he takes off like South Side D’s Porsche  for the first time in my life I’m completely invested in the trophy, they usually  stagger and die, i e only ever had one run off into the last light and hail of a Scottish hillside I can’t bear to risk it he’s arcing back towards the reeds, he breaks  stride and gets another one, staggers a bit and lies down twitching  the other two are watching  Muntjac doe points herself towards the reeds,  the buck presents a shot, jumps to the bullet and legs it too. If it’s in the Reed bed that’s all she wrote  the light is dying and the keepers and a dog are a long way off  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A long time ago someone who gave me a rifle lesson told me he’d spent a summer reading the accounts of deer stalking written by army officers in the late 1940’s and 50’who brought the concept of Roe stalking home from Germany. smoking wouldn’t be bad for you for years, so smokes were a unit of time ‘Shoot the deer, then smoke a cigarette before going to look’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  I’m still worried the Muntjac will have made it to the reed bed. I’ve not walked 25 meters before I find him  must’ve pulled the shot a little, bullet entered third rib mashed things up a bit and destroyed the off side shoulder from the inside.  Dead is still dead  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_IFZCG3w1VUsn5c3sdJbqeVzilNrrq6StEocJa6Yr-rJycaZlwtnNRgZ5Q3iNXXeTeZHdqZmmnAiTyNy80DzGIx3rpkfbLaQS2ajsJDqWUcGluR_tYnXKIpy7dvYlAERNwFMRzCYRqPhmYb6tc_C_3vaUxOoLRnPU75ihq5uQxLPeiH6Ok76MRrloUw=w640-h640&quot; /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally. The Money Pit a Heym SR30 in 6.5CM doing the job I&#39;ve always believed it was born to do. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ive just taken the picture above when suddenly it hits me, a wave of illation the joy of not having to hear my own whining as i look for my much fettled Lapua cases in the long grass beneath the high seat! Turns out there’s a lot to be said for factory ammunition  i leave the spent cases where they fell, walk past where much needed seat from the high seat lies almost at the bottom of the ladder and head off to find the ACL&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Y is why did I leave my rifle sling behind?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN4ekmoZTj1NhVhkktYgwTxUQxQNnVY2K_IpEWVf_P_2_EEFO0DxF2Xl1tLcB98SAdhXAL6d8f5URJ_hJ9s8ayLf99XgMi5bCjBihcRbPMR9WK-mQeHqoAiykrCu_duhJzULMtTE_q5Ft62_-fLXv0I7F7UQ-8Km3T4Ul7cVSVg7xLfoQkcr4gcY6bCw/w480-h640/25F05B9A-69A0-4D92-8764-89EF5F4E3739.jpeg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Shultz and Larsen Victory in 6.5x55 Swedish  Nice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He’s standing around looking at his dead deer  with a ‘I always wanted one, now I’ve got one I don’t know what to do with it’ look on his face  I give him a hug  I remember that moment all those years ago, when I had the same face on  ‘Sheeet I’m a deer hunter!’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gralloch  and back to Shooter’s place&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just because that part of the story ended on a high don’t think for a moment that the feral failure ends there  oh no not for a moment &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hour back flies by but it’s been a long day Shooter is a wonderful host, and a fantastic cook we hang our deer in his outbuildings and set about the feast he’s laid on  Pile of carbs and a bucket of Islay malts later we hold a snoring competition for a few wee hours. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Are you still alive? I thought you were dead for a moment there”.  “Why had i stopped snoring?” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ll leave it to you dear reader to guess who said what  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A brief tussle with Shooter’s coffee machine and hit the road  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trying to learn the ground we set up near a wood we saw muntjac in on our walked up day. Not a lot happens. I start to regret not wearing a smock length coat. By now I’m not only cold but busting for a piss. Out of the high seat and out of the wind it’s a beautiful morning  still sling-less I’m pissing with the money pit leaning against me  Who should pop his little antlered head out of the bushes but Mr Muntjac, by impatiently raising the rifle when I should have made like a statue , I spook him   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ACL tells his usual tale of dog walkers and we make a shameful detour to the Golden Arches  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’re three little deer up, its a beautiful morning, we’re a hundred miles from home, neither of us is wearing sunglasses and ACL is making all kinds of rash promises to Mrs ACL regarding his arrival time  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You could say its all going swimmingly. Could  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we walk over to the hanging Chinese Water Deer Shooter gasps in administration “you didn’t say they were that good! Those tusks are Bronze, or maybe Silver” I grab the CWD lift and turn to check the symmetry and im met by a sickening tale of rural vandalism. During the night something with immense bite strength has grabbed hold of the lowest part of the carcass and rented at it, trying to break it free from its rope  the broken off tusk is nowhere to be seen, my broken dream lies all around  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikgRm5v3xYi5uLXUbDoX6smvnBLDA9toeqV7GsKy6ApLT3nmyWtinKj4wt7zYofO3cMA5TW86iB97g4jl5EJSw9sQLJZW5JTAbaD9aiHcA3Junnf_3NWF215o0DPYs5dN80fntzUvl3wuzDvO2SOZLSlK1gKYVAnSgtWbxbG04w6a9Q2lbfbEhQWSdxw/w640-h640/FEB34D8E-DCDA-48B1-ADF8-F439584BC8C5.jpeg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best crack on with the butchery  Chinese Water Deer have hair, but unlike other deer it looks almost fur-like and is hardly attached at all, moving the carcass onto a different larder hook it’s coming off in clumps  The skin too seems barely attached, even this end of the season theres an impressive layer of subcutaneous fat, you call pull the skin off with no knife work  The ACL has just been on a butchery course so Shooter and I are at our most encouraging &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“You’re actually in luck today. You want to process your first deer and we&#39;re here. I don’t know if you know this but Shooter was in the Indian National team for butting in, and I’m an exceptionally gifted amateur,  if you&#39;d like us to mither at you and butt in while you do it, we’re standing by. ready to interfere.”  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All bagged up and ready to go we wend our now weary way back home  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cant help but wonder what might have been, so I make one last mistake..I post the good side picture on Facebook&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLgQKldNIEPyI6O-AZ6CO_6GELCaKZPvRBgNI5OdHjQpkVNA73qnKrXV7mrMZBDZDe5CQcy-oj0pp1-zwM0efY5CQVoUpVLgqi3IVFGKeKhx4JDL4ygtCiJeBK5SXuJQkE2DNdFCseot6FHqUPP0bZmoCsjyOafXrHf0JZgqSUiUoN7Efy5NrLr9YUjw/w478-h640/1F672016-6B8F-45EB-8C22-60AC93CAAEDE.jpeg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next time it’s pigeons &lt;br /&gt;Your pal&lt;br /&gt;SBW&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/128046064548775311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=128046064548775311' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/128046064548775311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/128046064548775311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2022/04/chinese-water-deer-tale-of-hunting.html' title='Chinese Water Deer: A tale of hunting hubris, or is that being hunted by hubris?'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEig2nFJDWDA36bvKyjO9vk527fgrEZnAYqBK6CU2aZdbjsii0CoY57I6uXRiR-SBU4XiX5-ZQnnUmG0BDVrDHlwjaUIYmW7BZ0sviVI60mITm7E4Q4fU4IIKKKhQc8Wrf8gBHFW5wLYovrLTg9O24aIqlFlhfS8Iro_LNXhMDm-jj5yjfC9FkD-81CmMg=s72-w640-h640-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-3869904673240463015</id><published>2022-01-20T03:33:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2022-01-20T03:33:13.990+00:00</updated><title type='text'>Scotland 2021 Pt5 Wharp Wharp That’s The Sound Of The Police </title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi12bOk9E1BD-vE_zBsWr8jXQUwnjuKMhb4048tRVaUDTqFkH0YUYYDRmOGA4PHznEGY99ZduPlWUQwGY6fF_QisoUYm8_Hk6Dewut7zRAK6bQJJIUbnCMQ-Bc1IziP6954wWayqX1ZsfsXwhZjk07IVELlUkZ6RLB8cfDKFqKHwwXCjvUkl-6AjThU2A=s260&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;193&quot; data-original-width=&quot;260&quot; height=&quot;475&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi12bOk9E1BD-vE_zBsWr8jXQUwnjuKMhb4048tRVaUDTqFkH0YUYYDRmOGA4PHznEGY99ZduPlWUQwGY6fF_QisoUYm8_Hk6Dewut7zRAK6bQJJIUbnCMQ-Bc1IziP6954wWayqX1ZsfsXwhZjk07IVELlUkZ6RLB8cfDKFqKHwwXCjvUkl-6AjThU2A=w640-h475&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Back at the guest apartment i pack up, empty the safe, and take a forlorn look at the unused ice packs a vacuum bags. Hunting not Shopping&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Im 400 miles from mi casa, my phone rings incessantly with work nonsense, i bid the chaps farewell and stifling a yawn hit the road. &amp;nbsp;The panel van is slightly reluctant to go into first. The phone routes me away from the M6 and on to the M1. The traffic fairy is my co-pilot and southward i trundle. As the afternoon wears on i could feel better. After 200 miles my eyelids are drooping so i take the turn off for Leeds and rock up at The Northern Monkey’s gaff.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I ring The Witch who is unable to contain her almost vegetarian delight that no goats were harmed during production of this blogpost and offers a stark choice, death on the roads or an early night.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bit o’ ring road, 200 miles o’ M1 turn right and your at your mum’s. In either direction this is how TNM and i comute between our matriarchal abodes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The deal with the hire company means we have the van for the rest of the week,, i set about running some errands, moving piles of floorboards from site to site. My phone runs out of charge. On what was to be the last of my cross town errands the left hand peddle wont depress, then it will but won’t rise, and the smell of burnt clutch fills the air.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I coast to a stop half on half off the pavement. Hazard lights on. Dead phone. I don’t know anyone’s number off by heart.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Flag down some passing cops. And begin the arduous process of explaining:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;there is no number livery’d on to the sode od the pannel van, no i don’t know the mame of the hire company or their phone number/ email adress off by heart, no i cant look in my phone, no i cant charge my phone, which is the reason im interypting your day to ask you look up the name of Master At Arms’ company on google, ring the main number,,ask for The Viking and explain whay ive just told you to him so he can look up the hire company and ring them to find out which breakdown service provides covet.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the third time we&#39;ve been through this one of the cops is laughing so much he is no help at all and the other wanders off to ‘Make a call’ which see s to involve a cloud of cigarette smoke coming from behind a bin store.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The Viking will be back from lunch in ten minutes, could we call back?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A long and arduous &amp;nbsp;process that has the laughing policeman in stitches several times later it transpires that the number for the rescue service is written on the van” s key. His colleague pushes him over the edge, into helpless giggling, one last time with the words&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;“If this doesn&#39;t work I&#39;m arresting you for wasting police time”&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Your pal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;SBW&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Join me next time for Shirt and Tie duck hunting&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/3869904673240463015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=3869904673240463015' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/3869904673240463015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/3869904673240463015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2022/01/scotland-2021-pt5-wharp-wharp-thats.html' title='Scotland 2021 Pt5 Wharp Wharp That’s The Sound Of The Police '/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi12bOk9E1BD-vE_zBsWr8jXQUwnjuKMhb4048tRVaUDTqFkH0YUYYDRmOGA4PHznEGY99ZduPlWUQwGY6fF_QisoUYm8_Hk6Dewut7zRAK6bQJJIUbnCMQ-Bc1IziP6954wWayqX1ZsfsXwhZjk07IVELlUkZ6RLB8cfDKFqKHwwXCjvUkl-6AjThU2A=s72-w640-h475-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-1479196349577307573</id><published>2021-12-26T08:23:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2021-12-26T08:23:44.696+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="goats"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="roe deer"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="scotland"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="SR30"/><title type='text'>Scotland 2021 pt4. A Roebuck, A Mob Of Goats, And A Catalog Of Errors </title><content type='html'>&lt;table align=&quot;center&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;tr-caption-container&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggEAmpF0DBieFx5GVaFvtf61pdhVulA-BjcgOyK_jdFTEGGAJVnKy2TsRhuDTzjLTDn2Z1LyN9l8DrQMsYEPCN6CWTveFK68ReT1CovEf85BX9ziOl7AfN3taup-U-j3j2K7JNvYJDqpFiCTCua11ACTCElPTXGPy2hVFmsOqWAWBzn_4yEMaeeLK_eA=s4032&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;4032&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggEAmpF0DBieFx5GVaFvtf61pdhVulA-BjcgOyK_jdFTEGGAJVnKy2TsRhuDTzjLTDn2Z1LyN9l8DrQMsYEPCN6CWTveFK68ReT1CovEf85BX9ziOl7AfN3taup-U-j3j2K7JNvYJDqpFiCTCua11ACTCElPTXGPy2hVFmsOqWAWBzn_4yEMaeeLK_eA=w480-h640&quot; width=&quot;480&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class=&quot;tr-caption&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;The road south&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you want to make Artemis laugh tell her about your plans for the hunt.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At last the bit I’ve been looking forward to.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;During that perfect summer of the early pandemic South Side D and I had ventured north of the wall to hunt goats with our guides Alan and his son, the eagle eyed Bryce. It was a great trip &lt;a href=&quot;https://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2020/09/hunting-goats-in-scotland-stalking-roe.html&quot;&gt;READ ABOUT IT HERE&lt;/a&gt; I had high hopes of doing it again. Yeah. Right.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The drive down the west &amp;nbsp;coast was as stunning as ever, the Irish sea as flat as that northern light that washes over it. The roads are refreshingly clear, unburdened by the library and blacksmith’s shop the van really picks its skirts up. The road is lined with speed cameras &amp;nbsp;The van lowers its skirts&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Truth be told I’m really starting to feel proper battered I stop for a sarnie and take an involuntary nap &amp;nbsp;in the van. Stranraer is the closest point between Ireland and Scotland so its also the ferry terminal between the two. The roads are winding county roads, the trucks are international road haulage &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Allan’s joint is usually self catering but his mrs has taken pity on me and included me in family dinner time. &amp;nbsp;After a substantial feed I slope off to my bed pausing only to marvel that not many london hotels have water pressure like that.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNGxj2EY39XbVJh5WYLfkeK0jFUFIRahIEFH6gvQXIWYc0fR8WfyDHPRICnKuR_iaOztnNV0q2ZSFPV4LoaF9DvnWUr_NtmVSDcdUuLVrhWeAeYtN-Fd7XvhbAiRz524LPZhVZNDbJ77xJVMibRJElJhDHGPoGCLF0pmEe3D3KJ0ZviQAhRyG4TOxQxw=s3024&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNGxj2EY39XbVJh5WYLfkeK0jFUFIRahIEFH6gvQXIWYc0fR8WfyDHPRICnKuR_iaOztnNV0q2ZSFPV4LoaF9DvnWUr_NtmVSDcdUuLVrhWeAeYtN-Fd7XvhbAiRz524LPZhVZNDbJ77xJVMibRJElJhDHGPoGCLF0pmEe3D3KJ0ZviQAhRyG4TOxQxw=w640-h640&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Goatland, a bit different to our hedgerow stalking in the south. My happy place &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dawn, goatland&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’ll not make excuses, this is what really happened &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Allan’s thermal binoculars were in the shop being serviced, we scan and scan, there are no goats.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Allan hops into the truck and drives off up the coast. Bryce and I follow the unbrowsed grass fringe along the cliff tops. By crawling and hiding, crawling and hiding we manage to put the hustle on a handsome Roebuck &amp;nbsp;Did I mention I’ve lost my annoying Harris bipod? Well I have.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bit more crawling and I’ve got the Money Pit balanced on top of a fence post. Chip shot.. 50 yards. Max &amp;nbsp;High and right clean miss.Round sails over the Roe’s back. &amp;nbsp;Bryce gives me a look that says ‘I don’t remember you being this shite last time” Obviously the Roebuck and his two pals have now skedaddled and are jeering from a safe distance. &amp;nbsp;Probably 51 yards.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0BJF-IFgjV6MFr9WmGjI4Mf8GQcy2TU_PX1pXRJCbhBH_9kFkMe94x4scdGQ_nH8i_OxR22p6dZXpIlFix9_EWOttK7v1vyMh5ki3UcVlknTSsk8kVBFhxL0vWyFfaZHdSILyQHgRx7VPEr0leC4wnGiULCVeFBrACBscsp1q0b_yhKUl902QsRhDQA=s3024&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0BJF-IFgjV6MFr9WmGjI4Mf8GQcy2TU_PX1pXRJCbhBH_9kFkMe94x4scdGQ_nH8i_OxR22p6dZXpIlFix9_EWOttK7v1vyMh5ki3UcVlknTSsk8kVBFhxL0vWyFfaZHdSILyQHgRx7VPEr0leC4wnGiULCVeFBrACBscsp1q0b_yhKUl902QsRhDQA=w640-h640&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Bryce is growing up fast, from mumbling teenager to Highland Profesional. His dour Ghillie quips are coming on too “Its not awful, I prefer my Tika, scopes not too bad. I suppose “&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;It gets worse&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;We make some headway along the cliff tops and elect to go under a fence, even though the Heym SR30 is a german de cocking safety design I elect to pass it to Bryce without anything in the chamber like a good safe sport. &amp;nbsp;Bolt won’t extract the round.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here’s for why. while I’ve always intended to shoot 108gr lead free bullets from the Money Pit I&#39;ve not finished developing the load, so I tested with everything I had, and found the 140gr SST load from my old barrel on my Tiktac gave excellent performance and being SST’s are guaranteed to mash up anything they hit. Where I was remiss is, I’d put a couple into the vbull, but I’d never cycled one through the action.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The SST load has a COAL of 2900 up from the factory 2800, Heym’s chamber is much closer to the lands than the Tiktac , I beat on the bolt and extracted an unfired case and mess of powder, its clear I’m at literal jam, and the bullet is still in the lands. Interestingly after checking the fired cases, I later fired the last three rounds from that batch, all accurate AF and no pressure signs. My policy of loading hunting ammo to the lower node is a good one. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We shan’t dwell on how I cleared the obstruction with a piece of fencing wire, but I was glad to have a VFG pull through with me just for a little reassurance afterwards. Allan’s mockery ringing in my ears we move goatward &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We’re now on to the goats, up on a bluff overlooking the shoreline where they are feeding. We’re at 300ish yards, and trying not to silhouette. They can clearly see something is afoot, they eventually settle, we’re not getting any closer without moving back into sight. &amp;nbsp;I take a hail mary off a rolled up jacket, the goats vamoose and that’s s all she wrote &amp;nbsp;Bah!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hunting not Shopping, Proper preparation prevents piss poor performance, yah de feckin’ yah &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sadly thats not all folks&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;See you next time&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your pal&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SBW&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gun Jesus of Forgotten Weapons has done a &lt;a href=&quot;https://youtu.be/a-44H321Bsg&quot;&gt;review of the SR30&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/1479196349577307573/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=1479196349577307573' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/1479196349577307573'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/1479196349577307573'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2021/12/scotland-2021-pt4-roebuck-mob-of-goats.html' title='Scotland 2021 pt4. A Roebuck, A Mob Of Goats, And A Catalog Of Errors '/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggEAmpF0DBieFx5GVaFvtf61pdhVulA-BjcgOyK_jdFTEGGAJVnKy2TsRhuDTzjLTDn2Z1LyN9l8DrQMsYEPCN6CWTveFK68ReT1CovEf85BX9ziOl7AfN3taup-U-j3j2K7JNvYJDqpFiCTCua11ACTCElPTXGPy2hVFmsOqWAWBzn_4yEMaeeLK_eA=s72-w480-h640-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-3713294096841955611</id><published>2021-12-25T07:50:00.002+00:00</published><updated>2021-12-26T08:17:06.711+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="goats"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="roe"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="scotland"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="the vik"/><title type='text'>Scotland 2021 pt3  Hoarding A Spectator Sport. </title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfekqvlAzQxBrnj40Q7dZpUHz_bD-YR_SG2xnNl2yAYRwL8l4esq04nFA0DUwpda8-BgWiJi-vrsdSEjtLxRxoZvHq5lup_2qzLeGCxFwCKLUgoXTrcjBM4FEbcId8Rce-4L1_wzFGa73I5_isAKcY1cPs8RegyIHZxacPTwPcOKH28KYNA4BzwWx52A=s3024&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfekqvlAzQxBrnj40Q7dZpUHz_bD-YR_SG2xnNl2yAYRwL8l4esq04nFA0DUwpda8-BgWiJi-vrsdSEjtLxRxoZvHq5lup_2qzLeGCxFwCKLUgoXTrcjBM4FEbcId8Rce-4L1_wzFGa73I5_isAKcY1cPs8RegyIHZxacPTwPcOKH28KYNA4BzwWx52A=w640-h640&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;East Kilbride late one night . light rain &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A few roundabouts off the ring road we find our way to a street of post war housing, Not built with the expectation of car ownership proving as popular as it’s become , I know this as a certain fact, as I&#39;ve inched a panel van down it. Despite WCC’s characterisation of the area lots of tradesmen seem to live there. Their bastard vans are double parked the length of the street. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We finally find somewhere to park and start ferrying the shooters to the flat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;TheViking rented the flat sight unseen over the internet, its ex public housing, somehow it never occurred to him to ask which floor it was on. Third floor. No lift. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I didn’t mention this before but its worth mentioning now. There was a club in central london, where one night a very famous ballet dancer, so famous that shes the only ballet dancer I could name, sat on his lap and played with his beard. He is both proud and nostalgic of this high water mark in the history of his adorableness, as he should be, shes as fit as a butcher’s dog &amp;nbsp; The covid pandemic has done for the club, and they auctioned off loads of furniture &amp;nbsp;Hes bought a bed, its massive. &amp;nbsp;Possibly too massive to make it up the stairwell. There is another problem&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Somehow when I’d left him and his pal &amp;nbsp;packing the panel van it never occurred to me to enquire as to the order of disembarkation. Its certainly not a conversation they had in my absence. Theres now the content of a blacksmiths forge, a significant collection of swords, pikes, and a restorers library, between his bed, his household chattels, and the vans only door. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We let ourselves into the flat, its newly done up. By chumps. We put our rifles and the great menagerie of shotguns into the cupboards and head back to the van for our travel kit and sleeping bags.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On our return to the flat, what’d ya know &amp;nbsp;the front door handle is so cheap that it gives up the ghost on second use. &amp;nbsp;We’re locked out. It goes without saying that the letting agents have cashed the deposit are now out on the town spending it buying gin and tonics for inappropriate milfs. straight to voicemail &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Back at the pannel van I’m pissing myself laughing as the poor Viking blunders about by the light of his phone looking for a tool chests he last saw 400 miles ago before the seismic collapse that’s &amp;nbsp;taken place during our last near miss with a Karen in an Audi. Howls of rage and invocations of dark dark ancient gods punctuate the wait &amp;nbsp;The rain has slowed to a drizzle &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Suddenly he reappears, jaunty and seemingly unconcerned “lets get the door fixed shall we?”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Time an motion being what they are I’ve inflated my Thermorest while he was fighting the door, so once back inside its a very short trip to collapse . Its been a long day &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The dawn comes, bringing with it a charming light drizzle which lends an air of bleak northern shite hole to the area &amp;nbsp;you can see roundabouts from the window &amp;nbsp;lots of them &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A quick tour of the property reveals some spectacularly substandard renovations, piss-poor water pressure, inarticulate setting out of the tiling and its never occurred to the renovator that securing the floor boards usually takes place before carpeting the hall. Its warm, dry, and by london standards, massive &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We find the van, despite what people say about East Kilbride, exactly where we left it. &amp;nbsp;With all its wheels &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After another breakfast of indigestible shite, under the Golden Arches, we’re off to meet The MAA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Enter the dragon. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Every saga needs a dragon, sitting on his horde, in an impregnable fortress. &amp;nbsp;the Master At Arms, the Viking’s friend and &amp;nbsp;boss. A sniper rifle aficionado, and field artillery enthusiast &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MAA has an industrial unit where he runs several businesses and fights against a tide of collections. he has the kind of floor space Londoners can only dream of.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We stand in the rain drink espresso while the Viking tries to re organise the van’s contence onto pallets to be forklifted to the far reaches of the warehouse . &amp;nbsp;Part of deal seems to be ‘You store, I torment’ &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having made my contribution, i stood in the drizzle drinking espresso, missing cigarettes and taking notes &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MAA:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Did it not cross your mind that this wasn’t the ideal opportunity to get rid of loads of this shite?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do you imagine you’ll ever read those books again?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I’m getting the district impression that there may have been some consideration given to the london end of the trip but feck all for what might happen at this end &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hold on, I recognise those &amp;nbsp;[cast iron plates weighing about 40lbs a piece. Twelve of] &amp;nbsp;they&#39;re yer girlfriends, did she not want them at her own hoose?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Once the goods, books, swords, a stuffed boar’s head and assorted chattels are off loaded we head out to a clay ground &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Its a pleasant drive through the rolling hills where wind farms line every ridge sadly there were no picturesque highland cattle. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqeYP7HkJbYvgdYxLBO4iKdyQI70DFgK7a9JOP0vhVOldTzVo-wtq9A62iwcaMJ492bdZRU-J4U1hAZWqH8RRgA_VWxVE91h8a60FLfZ-dBvHAIPzakQRdgw1xEnC_e2ZenSOgFdNdovhfVuAxLl_Uj_RmsvKbBJ7jOYSkQ40tY6IE90cA38lJLnXIFQ=s3024&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqeYP7HkJbYvgdYxLBO4iKdyQI70DFgK7a9JOP0vhVOldTzVo-wtq9A62iwcaMJ492bdZRU-J4U1hAZWqH8RRgA_VWxVE91h8a60FLfZ-dBvHAIPzakQRdgw1xEnC_e2ZenSOgFdNdovhfVuAxLl_Uj_RmsvKbBJ7jOYSkQ40tY6IE90cA38lJLnXIFQ=w640-h640&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The clay ground is an everyman sort of affair, no walks through forrest glades but plenty of launchers so each stand has several lines of flight from doddle to fiendish &amp;nbsp;the last stand is fantastic, two of you stand in the bay and the other has eight buttons to hammer at launching flurry after flurry &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The relentless tick tick of my schedule means we don’t have the option of a proper lunch so I bid the boys luck and head goatward. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;See you next time&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Your pal SBW&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/3713294096841955611/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=3713294096841955611' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/3713294096841955611'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/3713294096841955611'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2021/12/scotland-2021-pt3-hoarding-spectator.html' title='Scotland 2021 pt3  Hoarding A Spectator Sport. '/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfekqvlAzQxBrnj40Q7dZpUHz_bD-YR_SG2xnNl2yAYRwL8l4esq04nFA0DUwpda8-BgWiJi-vrsdSEjtLxRxoZvHq5lup_2qzLeGCxFwCKLUgoXTrcjBM4FEbcId8Rce-4L1_wzFGa73I5_isAKcY1cPs8RegyIHZxacPTwPcOKH28KYNA4BzwWx52A=s72-w640-h640-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-8355291934618842257</id><published>2021-12-24T13:54:00.003+00:00</published><updated>2021-12-25T18:36:07.211+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="bipod"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="GRS"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="review"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="unbox"/><title type='text'>Unboxing Review The GRS Bipod</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHDxH90JRHhXEzRNkYWXba6fYxuXj5GBw9TpB7V0yk8I8_tJfrEOFtimNCCUF3z7z2RKRhVtclwZWrbHSeBcfTD5W8Tp2qVH6yALrRSKNzp1eupyoSmVomDHi6EP2aID56DRXuCX1iUfoXUzubeQ-FJvp5xh2OsgMCdjkFPae8Rx4-5vjCJ0EPIksX_w=s3024&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHDxH90JRHhXEzRNkYWXba6fYxuXj5GBw9TpB7V0yk8I8_tJfrEOFtimNCCUF3z7z2RKRhVtclwZWrbHSeBcfTD5W8Tp2qVH6yALrRSKNzp1eupyoSmVomDHi6EP2aID56DRXuCX1iUfoXUzubeQ-FJvp5xh2OsgMCdjkFPae8Rx4-5vjCJ0EPIksX_w=w640-h640&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Been through a few bipods over the last year or so at all kinds of exorbitant prices, some are a ripoff some cost less but are awful. All demand a degree of compromise. Of the bipods that don’t pan from side to side the fortemier and the RPA were best, the RPA is a Sako TRG clone and is more ‘hunting and range’, &amp;nbsp;the Fortemier is a range bipod. GRS [who are famous for their stocks] have taken a few ques from both ending up at a ‘hunting fortemier’ compromise.&amp;nbsp;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVa_ICu-D8jgOgzRwcKeVQGhnQj-NNb10E25M6tLdTUtFe7aOciuox9C-SgC3cWbGOndIPnK9AlCLswAS6OMxLTLgUXbYv2BQpxlwu1GQJDmAmVg7keVTFPmFluoij2AjYB9pw9cX0y8Lm3qX5ZN4odvr6zXVF54SDMrSHRy1YWtUorRXWKJPtnpLfmA=s3024&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVa_ICu-D8jgOgzRwcKeVQGhnQj-NNb10E25M6tLdTUtFe7aOciuox9C-SgC3cWbGOndIPnK9AlCLswAS6OMxLTLgUXbYv2BQpxlwu1GQJDmAmVg7keVTFPmFluoij2AjYB9pw9cX0y8Lm3qX5ZN4odvr6zXVF54SDMrSHRy1YWtUorRXWKJPtnpLfmA=w640-h640&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pro:massive controls, all the catches are upsized for use with mittens in cold climates&amp;nbsp;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There’s a lot less play in the legs than the early RPS &amp;nbsp;I had &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With the Fortemier you have to choose between 6 o’clock or 12 o’clock mounting, the GRS mount is reversible&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of offering loads of optional feet, there are ski feet that reverse to toothy ski feet &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9c6iEbGh-y28g2WAjWKJReFDKUdEz5j03qlGfrfOMOiXyTOMUVIILcMZ4rKu9UncYaQs1SfVr-fk6Vjcqv7_CiRQm_MqTc9YBo0ka-YGvm5cO-mSQRyetEEu16gZ_NCKd1AeyiFkRgZ6Q2zuLJsHf1q4cOFHaEcrKl-l7ZBruKvANUOya-UIXY52YQg=s3024&quot; 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margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJf5R_GiHPIT3mgBr14sP8iCYFGHxizIIE-eUx2xifY-JjEFr8PCXPyRyK3V1UDzyC3-KdHZgggznBwbIfVUzrIT70nyVwgdA5nxWsuGrKdiO0vGv21hz2OtTt55ZX-2MsKu6rhlDNlhvkY9bXVAOwElVNWjefvDkpOutijriBun-Bn1Igz4n6ya4VdA=w640-h640&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cons: the screw that locks the tilt isn’t captive&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The spigot is their own size so you have to buy another proprietary spigot for every rifle and they ain’t cheap &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GRS has missed a trick not offering an ARCA spigot for the PRS crowd, there are a few available but none in the proprietary size. &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;May your groups be small &amp;nbsp;and your deer drop on the spo More soon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your pal&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SBW&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/8355291934618842257/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=8355291934618842257' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/8355291934618842257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/8355291934618842257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2021/12/unboxing-review-grs-bipod.html' title='Unboxing Review The GRS Bipod'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHDxH90JRHhXEzRNkYWXba6fYxuXj5GBw9TpB7V0yk8I8_tJfrEOFtimNCCUF3z7z2RKRhVtclwZWrbHSeBcfTD5W8Tp2qVH6yALrRSKNzp1eupyoSmVomDHi6EP2aID56DRXuCX1iUfoXUzubeQ-FJvp5xh2OsgMCdjkFPae8Rx4-5vjCJ0EPIksX_w=s72-w640-h640-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-7686875735761597934</id><published>2021-12-22T11:35:00.024+00:00</published><updated>2021-12-22T18:45:55.935+00:00</updated><title type='text'>Scotland 2021 Pt2. M6 See A Sign For Glasgow Turn Left. Easy. </title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote style=&quot;border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  2. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0zkEtWrdcWx8QpiOSYb7Q-BeB_kKrp_7T2QoRs6707-Alvn3maYJEuvaGd9gZX7IWZlrpd2KvlwvbF358zeDg1BA8TStv7dmqIFV6sOImxSyK8w9xr4PBTXdD2igE9iioJ29lLoX0EGsjZ0UpPqgt--o5f1r_fxW_W4qmCw2VSm6c77o9mgcgy4GGdw=s3024&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0zkEtWrdcWx8QpiOSYb7Q-BeB_kKrp_7T2QoRs6707-Alvn3maYJEuvaGd9gZX7IWZlrpd2KvlwvbF358zeDg1BA8TStv7dmqIFV6sOImxSyK8w9xr4PBTXdD2igE9iioJ29lLoX0EGsjZ0UpPqgt--o5f1r_fxW_W4qmCw2VSm6c77o9mgcgy4GGdw=w640-h640&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  3. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18.4px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  4. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;The world of tomorrow, cut short.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  5. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  6. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  7. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Theres a Russian expression from the Soviet era&amp;nbsp; We wanted it to be different, it happened just the same &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  8. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  9. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;A statement of intent :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  10. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Casting this blog’s fine tradition to one side there is little or no spontaneity to this tale. Even the pseudo spontaneity of middle class professionals was brutally stamped out. Bookings were made weeks in advance&amp;nbsp; and the departure time set in stone.There will be none of the usual struggles with escape velocity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  11. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  12. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;A statement of fact:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  13. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;No plan survives contact with the enemy, the Viking or The planning department&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  14. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  15. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  16. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;What actually happened was the usual debacle, I&#39;ve had a seriously interrupted sleep only to find, no cabs, back to sleep, now really late &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  17. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;instead of the usual highly entertaining Nigerian communists who are my regular uber drivers, by using another service I seem to have opened a pandoras box of misery which i have to listen to for the hour it takes to get there another hour of it and the driver and I would be entering into a suicide pact&amp;nbsp; not a happy camper &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  18. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  19. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;West London&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  20. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;I meet the Viking on his doorstep, Mrs Viking is there too, looks like she’d rather be in bed, The Viking cheerily announces that we’re dropping her off at her yard.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  21. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;If i were a Spanish woman i would have shouted “;you’re a mental nobia estación de tren, finito” but I&#39;m English so it was a cherry “no problem “ &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  22. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  23. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;the Viking who travels by train, clearly has a very limited understanding of the geography and road network of southern England&amp;nbsp; Mrs Viking lives in Reading &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  24. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Mrs Viking has a look on her face that says “Sorry, i know this is ridiculous, but hes not having the best week, and he’s trying to be chivalrous, sorry”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  25. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  26. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;The main road north from london the M1 Britian’s first motorway is about ten minutes drive away, Reading an hour away to the west &amp;nbsp; Off we trundle&amp;nbsp; it’s Saturday morning of course there’s traffic. We drop her off, fight our way out of Reading. On to the road north-ish every species of middle class wanker in a 4x4 is represented in the traffic either dawdling in front or wildly changing lanes.&amp;nbsp; The second time i give the anchors a&amp;nbsp; hearty stab the load audibly shifts in the back I develop the strong &lt;span&gt;kinaesthesia racing drivers have with their tyres, but mine is with both the Money Pit and my Browning which are foolishly stored in the same soft bag in the back.&amp;nbsp; Its not as though i don’t have several Peli cases. In my minds eye my scope is now dented, the stock splintered into firewood, and my barrel literally knotted like a pretzel. I feel sick &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  27. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;At this point in the saga it would be great if there was an interlude to the roaring inconvenience of it all, but no. Its starts hammering down with rain. Somewhere between monsoon and biblical.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  28. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;We decide to stop at a service station for breakfast, it’s actually not too awful. Things in the back of the truck aren’t great, we can open and close the door, but only just. Its a right tumble, so we rescue the shooters, ive brought a modest travelling sportsman’s battery, The Viking seems to have a cased example of every iteration of shotgun design in the last 150 years, we now have no space in the cab at all&amp;nbsp; my seat is so far forward that only the seatbelt stops me from nutting the windscreen&amp;nbsp; the upside to which is i can now wipe the condensation from it and occasionally see a little more than the taillights ahead &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  29. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;We pull out of the slip road rejoining the motorway and join the que of stationary traffic. Bollox.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  30. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Two and a half hours later i venture&amp;nbsp; tentatively into second gear, then with my heart in my throat, third, forth, and we’re rolling! The Viking celebrates by dozing off&amp;nbsp; Just me the road, and the intermittent sound of Radio 4, a station for muddle class people who aren’t&amp;nbsp; yet depressed enough about the state of the world &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  31. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;The weather is now so bad even Audi drivers are keeping to the speed limit&amp;nbsp; Rain is overwhelming the wipers, the wind has really picked up. The van rocks from side to side a bit but nothing our payload doesn’t&amp;nbsp; counter act. A woman with a RADA-northern accent has just investigated the affect climate change will have on teenage girls who forgo university to be Tabla player in the punjabi wedding bands of the West Midlands. I’m steering with one hand and trying to pick the smug out of my ear with the other, a program about the history of the Duffle coat is about to begin, when the Viking awakens.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  32. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;To give him his due ges a tower of good cheer and sets about DJing a Bardcore set, where contemporary pop music is performed in monastic style &amp;nbsp; We then have a great chat about the routine racism of the 1980’s workplace&amp;nbsp; I&#39;m about 20 years older than him and its great to hear that he’s totally unfamiliar with things that where once commonplace&amp;nbsp; Thankfully neither of us wishes to discuss football, he&#39;s kind enough to feign interest in the socio economic factors that lead up to the Spanish civil war, unfortunately we are not able to discuss the design history of Porsche 1967-1973 as South Side D isn&#39;t with us&amp;nbsp; so we do a quick lap of the calibre debate, shot placement on a Great Dane etc and its time for lunch &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  33. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;So much for Fat Nav taking us the the fabled Cantina but we do get to visit the legendary Forton Services &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  34. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  35. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;In a way a perfect explanation of the post war ambition of a few visionaries, shot down by the usual provincial NIMBYs determined to stamp out an irrational exuberance. Large part of why we are such an awful country&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  36. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Sir Thomas Bennett, Founder of the practice TP Bennet&amp;nbsp; &amp;amp; Sons&amp;nbsp; saw the site, almost equidistant between london and Edinburgh both as a way point and a destination for local people. The tower is cleverly designed to need the bare minimum of internal support so it’s internal spaces can be easily reconfigured.despite his obvious interest in brutalism he was a believer in the ethos of the arts and crafts movement and held life drawing classes during lunch breaks&amp;nbsp; obviously you&#39;ll know a true genius as the dunces will be In confederacy against him, so the IMBY’s had him reduce the height from 30 meters to 20 &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  37. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Although a listed building these days its all looking a bit shabby, i was hoping for hearty northern fare served up by feisty northern birds, you know where Abagondas di campo are still called Faggots. the only food on offer was McDonalds and on our visit the view was closed due to inclement weather &amp;nbsp; Perfect symbol of Britain 1945 to Date &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  38. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  39. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Fed and watered with the half way point under his belt the Viking falls back into the arms of Morpheus and i drown out his snoring with a visit to local radio. Theres a phone in about the economic chaos wrought by covid x Brexit People who phone in are clinging to scraps: they talk of pride, tradition ect, and are seemingly baffled that our prime minister is a member of the london elite, who told them he wasn’t a member of the london elite, and has turned out to be….&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  40. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  41. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Every so often someone whoo actually does things, owns a fishing boat, factory or logistics firm will demand to know how they are supposed to fulfil their social contract with their community&amp;nbsp; The programs presenter then has do do some kind of verbal quick step, falling short of both agreeing with the bleeding obvious and denouncing the head of the chamber of commerce as a Trotskyite &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  42. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;As Robert Anton Wilson and his pal George Carlin would have pointed out, if you give your groceries to a gang of monkeys all you’ll get back is rocks and monkey shite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  43. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  44. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;I was very excited about driving a panel van full of shooters over Shap, the highest road in England but the satnav rerouted us and i wasn’t about to stop and sightsee in the growing gloom.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  45. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  46. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;As we cross into Scotland the rain suddenly abates without the clouds we get another twenty minutes of daylight&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  47. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  48. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;On we trundle, into the night.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  49. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  50. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Join us next time as The Viking and SBW finally arrive in EKB, meet The Master At Arms, and open the door to schrodinger&#39;s panel van.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  51. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  52. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;More soon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  53. &lt;p style=&quot;font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;&quot;&gt;Your pal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  54. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; SBW&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/7686875735761597934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=7686875735761597934' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/7686875735761597934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/7686875735761597934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2021/12/scotland-2021-pt2-m6-see-sign-for.html' title='Scotland 2021 Pt2. M6 See A Sign For Glasgow Turn Left. Easy. '/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj0zkEtWrdcWx8QpiOSYb7Q-BeB_kKrp_7T2QoRs6707-Alvn3maYJEuvaGd9gZX7IWZlrpd2KvlwvbF358zeDg1BA8TStv7dmqIFV6sOImxSyK8w9xr4PBTXdD2igE9iioJ29lLoX0EGsjZ0UpPqgt--o5f1r_fxW_W4qmCw2VSm6c77o9mgcgy4GGdw=s72-w640-h640-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-757714728886378344</id><published>2021-12-21T15:17:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2021-12-21T15:17:02.641+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Sc"/><title type='text'>Scotland 2021 Pt1 Goatland A Viking Saga </title><content type='html'>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: right;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5OB2s1i1neM/YWfuL8Ww0JI/AAAAAAAAFmw/V0INaNOMYgc0B_IXq4zuAY42rrddONI9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1285/8D8F8EDC-D3C6-4A08-8D2A-0D0020B575AA_1_201_a.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1285&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1080&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5OB2s1i1neM/YWfuL8Ww0JI/AAAAAAAAFmw/V0INaNOMYgc0B_IXq4zuAY42rrddONI9ACLcBGAsYHQ/w538-h640/8D8F8EDC-D3C6-4A08-8D2A-0D0020B575AA_1_201_a.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;538&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;If this doesn&#39;t work I&#39;m arresting you for wasting police time&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Both the coppers piss themselves laughing. I laugh too, by this time it&#39;s all wearing a little thin. The smells of boiling piss and burning clutch hang in the air. But all that happens much later &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Spontaneity &amp;nbsp;its a wonderful thing. &amp;nbsp;I love surprises and the words “ lets sack it off and go Deerstalking” have crossed my lips more than once This time it was all booked a month in advance. Still turned into a bit of a saga.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Viking saga for our times, featuring: a viking, an ambulance chasing lawyer, a lightweight rifle in the 6 to 7mm range, some stout boots, the finest german glass, the infuriating loss of a bipod, &amp;nbsp;300+Kg of rare books, a panel van, a mob of goats and a rather handsome Roebuck. In an earlier iteration of the plan there were also three 17th century cannon, but for reasons both practical and fiscal. they are being saved for another day&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are always unintended consequences, they abound. When that first wolf decided to saunter over to the campfire and maybe catch a few scraps, he had no idea that a few millennia of civilisation later one of his descendants. with nearly all the wildness wrung out of him, would wear a pink bow, sunglasses and travel around in a Kardashian’s handbag. The feral goats of Scotland have made the opposite journey, forgoing the easy life of food delivered by bucket and a bed of straw, they live wild and free &amp;nbsp;amongst the crags and feast on seaweed and juniper.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Somewhere on that continuum there are a few wild hairs left in us all, and I&#39;m easily lead. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Viking is a crafty one, like Loki the blacksmith. Unable to drive himself he lights on a simple but effective plan. He asks me how many goats I&#39;ve shot with the rifle lovingly known as The Money Pit &amp;nbsp;having heard the answer he already knew, zip niltch nada, he happens to mention that he’s going to be moving to the industrial belt that crosses Scotland and will therefore be within spitting distance of Stranraer home of the delicious Juniper feasting Goats &amp;nbsp;would i perhaps join him?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The cast and crew&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SBW: Your pal and humble Scribe of this chronicle&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Viking: blacksmith and vintage firearm enthusiast the sort of person who wouldn’t own a gun made in his lifetime. Tidy shot with a side by side. He doesn’t own any rifles that meet modern standards of accuracy so his precision shooting remains cloaked in mystery &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SSD: South Side D some time dispenser of cab driver wisdom, some time arborist, traveling sport, and now Working Stiff &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Matriarch In Waiting: all gun clubs are ruled by a matriarch, it&#39;s the only way to keep order. Our club has two &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ACL: Ambulance chasing lawyer Monday while Friday, dad taxi on Saturdays, niche firearms enthusiast and stalker on Sundays.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When heading out of town its not a bad idea to see who might be about I contact a chap I know on Facebook, our West Cost Correspondent, and suggest we meet up for a few beers &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;East Kill-feckin’-bride! Wha? Does he like single mums and roundabouts?&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It turns out im not the only one who fancies a trip to Scotland to pit his 6.5 against a wiley adversary. Some people know the ACL as a suburban dad, and partner in a law firm. Secretly he&#39;s an adventurer, a hunter and outdoorsman: ad-libbing freestyle poetry about lairy pistols around the campfire, living entirely on fried food and panic-inducing espressos.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One afternoon at Bisley, we’re discussing the sporting opportunities made possible by dropping The Viking off on the west coast of Scotland,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ACL: If you’re going goat stalking I thought id tag along&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SBW: I would love that, a tale of two 6.5’s, Creed vs Swede, we can share the driving and theres a farm shop with a cantina attached i want to visit &amp;nbsp;that’s basically on the way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MIW: Is there anywhere you go where you don’t use food vendors as way points?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SSD: No. Never. It’s called Fat Nav&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SBW: we will be literally passing Cumbria have you ever had Potted Shrimp?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MIW: Are you going too?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SSD: nah Working Stiff&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MIW: we&#39;ll have to change your name to Not Allowed Out&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;SSD: nah you’re alright, that one&#39;s taken&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A quip that proves precinct. A few days later, I receive a phone call, ACL doesn’t sound quite as ebullient &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ACL: spoken to the missus, turns out I’m a suburban dad, a partner in a law firm who is preparing for trial, and that spontaneous six day hunting trips with a pair of anarchists are ‘taking the fucking piss’&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I try to change the subject “ I&#39;ve been reading Helen McDonald’s excellent book about falconary, H is for Hawk, did you know the falconers knot is so loose its kept closed with one digit? Its where the expression ‘ under her thumb’ comes from ?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I know i heard it, but I&#39;m still not sure if it was the roar of an enraged goat or yap of a lapdog that came from telephony or telepathy. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No SouthSide D, no ACL, this is starting to look like a very long drive, knowing the answer full well I make a halfhearted attempt to engage MIW in the trip. She politely informs me &quot;Sorry I&#39;m, busy that day, when are you going?&quot; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More soon&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Your pal SBW&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Join us in part two, where the Viking and your chronicler make their way north, by route most&amp;nbsp;circuitous, endure weather most&amp;nbsp;precipitatious and arrive in&amp;nbsp;Hibernia, the land of perpetual winter, single mums, wild goats, and roundabouts.&amp;nbsp;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/757714728886378344/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=757714728886378344' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/757714728886378344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/757714728886378344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2021/12/scotland-2021-pt1-goatland-viking-saga.html' title='Scotland 2021 Pt1 Goatland A Viking Saga '/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5OB2s1i1neM/YWfuL8Ww0JI/AAAAAAAAFmw/V0INaNOMYgc0B_IXq4zuAY42rrddONI9ACLcBGAsYHQ/s72-w538-h640-c/8D8F8EDC-D3C6-4A08-8D2A-0D0020B575AA_1_201_a.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-7850105840931526024</id><published>2021-09-26T19:55:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2021-11-01T08:06:25.335+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="deer stalking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="rifles"/><title type='text'>Thoughts On The Gentleman&#39;s Stalking Rifle</title><content type='html'>These days I shoot my Tiktac a lot more than anything else, its a big black lump of cast aluminium and its latest barrel has turned it from tactical to bench-artillery. &amp;nbsp;I&#39;ve taken it stalking a few times, not through choice. By the time you&#39;re dragging a deer across a ploughed field, you&#39;ll wish you&#39;d brought something built for speed not comfort.&amp;nbsp;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  55. The Stalking Rifle. It&#39;s lighter than a dangerous game rifle, both in the hand and in its chosen load - somewhere between .240 and .280 [6mm and 7mm in the new money]. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A modestly figured, svelte stock of &amp;nbsp;Walnut, you wouldn’t want to flinch at the sight of a shale bank or a barred wire fence, a recoil absorbing stock pad, at the other end probably an Ebony or Rosewood tip. Perhaps some case hardening. No engraving.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To be carried for what feels like miles over rough ground, fired once, and carried back again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In England TT Proctor, John Rigby &amp;amp; Co., Westley Richards, Holland &amp;amp; Holland and a host of others made [or still make] iterations on this theme. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There once was another contender. One who ploughed his own furrow, who’s insights are as valid today as they were then. Not to everyone’s taste and at £1000 in the early 1970’s (about £12k today) appealing to a limited clientele. You’d have had to make a trip to&amp;nbsp;Pipewell Hall where a sport could commission Messers David Lloyd &amp;amp; Co. Riflemakers, who had put a lot of thought had been put into building such an instrument.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The proprietor, an experienced stalker himself, coined the expression &#39;Attach a rifle to a scope&#39;. While the others all made an open sighted rifle adapted for a scope, David Lloyd made his rifles solely &amp;nbsp;for use with one of the new fangled four or six power scopes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n5tr8eeilbc/YMvJJDhtTiI/AAAAAAAAFhk/50pRqSi3FYU_HE8CmBc8zFwhoikrpyulQCLcBGAsYHQ/s625/F9BFB2B2-A1D4-4BA3-984E-698BE0B88448.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;625&quot; data-original-width=&quot;500&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n5tr8eeilbc/YMvJJDhtTiI/AAAAAAAAFhk/50pRqSi3FYU_HE8CmBc8zFwhoikrpyulQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/F9BFB2B2-A1D4-4BA3-984E-698BE0B88448.jpeg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Using the rifles that bore his name&amp;nbsp;David Lloyd is rumoured to have accounted for more than 5,000 highland reds in a stalking career that spanned 60 years. Knew a thing or two about it then.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;For him name of the game was to create; an ergonomic, flat-shooting rifle, capable of dependable accuracy at 300m [+/- 100m] without recourse to adjusting the scope. His stipulation was that the scope be attached with mounts so robust that the rifle could confidently survive the rough and tumble of highland stalking without ever needing to be re-zero&#39;d. To that end he silver soldered his mounts in place. That for ain’t rattling about.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;
  56. &lt;div&gt;My somewhat more modest experience suggests that; he was right about the point-and-shoot requirement, up on the hill there&#39;s no time for fart-arseing about with adjustments to elevation and windage. The shot, and the Ghillie, wait for no man.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Following my highland humiliation, where the scope was loose enough to rattle in its rings, no sportsman who still casts a shadow is a bigger believer in anchoring scope and rifle together than your pal SBW. Regular readers may remember The Ghillie also has strongly worded views on the speed with which clients cycle an action,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The stalking rifle, as bespoken by SBW&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Chambered to shoot 100gr + lead-free Bullets. The weight means legal for all six species in the UK, and lead-free means the carcasses meet the coming standard to enter the food chain.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A round that can be bought over the counter for use while staking on forestry commission land and other places where home loads aren’t permitted. &amp;nbsp;The Creedmoor revolution of the last ten years means that there&#39;s now an excellent chance of buying 6.5mm in any gun shop.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A slim wand-like Walnut stock. The laminates are too heavy, the composites are too chunky, and the full carbon are more than I want to spend on the whole rig.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Magazine-fed. call me over-cautious but I prefer to do all that bouncing about in the back of a Landrover with an unloaded rifle, and clambering in and out of highseats without a loaded rifle will always be preferable.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V5mtJfyBNiY/YTXzTVVZQvI/AAAAAAAAFmI/e1zN-7n7Njk9zLD8SUzL09nxs2-LCOe0wCLcBGAsYHQ/s272/70E27C3D-B725-49C7-8B1C-2C31E27A7EEA_4_5005_c.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;249&quot; data-original-width=&quot;272&quot; height=&quot;308&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V5mtJfyBNiY/YTXzTVVZQvI/AAAAAAAAFmI/e1zN-7n7Njk9zLD8SUzL09nxs2-LCOe0wCLcBGAsYHQ/w336-h308/70E27C3D-B725-49C7-8B1C-2C31E27A7EEA_4_5005_c.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;336&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Decocking safety. Stalk with one in the chamber, but still be able to safely use the rifle as a club if needed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A super slick fast action, a straight pull fills this part of the brief nicely&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Barrel of 20”max, and lightweight: this is rifle to clamber in and out of high seats and Landrovers, carry across muir, up monroe, and down glen. &amp;nbsp;Fire one shot, and then carry back to the cottage, hopefully dragging a dead beast along. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Screw cut for a lightweight moderator. I use a&amp;nbsp;B&amp;amp;T &lt;a href=&quot;https://bt-ag.ch/en/products/bt-schalldaempfer/&quot;&gt;[Brügger &amp;amp; Thomet]&lt;/a&gt; which gives the rifle a nice balance. The new generation of 3D printed titanium moderators are still in the £850-£1500 range. So No.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ceracoat not blued; rough treatment, blood and guts, anti reflective. Welcome to the 21st century&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;While we&#39;re on the subject of carrying, [and lessons learned from highland disasters], I want to anchor the sling to the rifle by the strongest fitting available, with the rear swivel on the flat of the butt to carry the rifle flat against my body, so crawling isn’t impeded.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A robust scope in the European low-light class, with a simple reticle: cross hairs bob-on at 200m capped turrets so nothing to adjust or get knocked out of place.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The lowest rings possible. &lt;a href=&quot;https://spuhrwebshop.com/en/hunting/picatinny/30/&quot;&gt;Spuhr do a hunting set at 19mm/4mm&lt;/a&gt;, milled to their usual super-high standard. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  58. For the action; its all personal taste. I&#39;m still all about Heym&#39;s Fortner action&#39;d SR30, &lt;span&gt;sacrificing a little englishness for&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;a little extra svelteness I chose the Bavarian stock, a little more &#39;pistol&#39; in the pistol grip and a few grams shaved off, but still with the look of a sporting rifle&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  60. Of course you could just buy a Tikka off the rack and have done with it. But where’s the fun in that?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;More soon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Your pal&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;SBW&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An onboard cleaning kit wouldn’t go amiss, snow in the barrel only happens a couple of miles from the landrover.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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  63. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/7850105840931526024/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=7850105840931526024' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/7850105840931526024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/7850105840931526024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2020/05/thoughts-on-gentlemans-stalking-rifle.html' title='Thoughts On The Gentleman&#39;s Stalking Rifle'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n5tr8eeilbc/YMvJJDhtTiI/AAAAAAAAFhk/50pRqSi3FYU_HE8CmBc8zFwhoikrpyulQCLcBGAsYHQ/s72-c/F9BFB2B2-A1D4-4BA3-984E-698BE0B88448.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-4273316419251074888</id><published>2021-06-24T16:37:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2021-06-24T16:37:07.493+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="TrueMiller"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="viking rifle series"/><title type='text'>Review: TrueMiller - Circular Mil Master</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;
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  65. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aIHknpPZsZg/XSWupje5M3I/AAAAAAAAFEY/pK5sSqDU3IswxWCah99SqDYwIuPTxXQigCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_6103.JPG&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aIHknpPZsZg/XSWupje5M3I/AAAAAAAAFEY/pK5sSqDU3IswxWCah99SqDYwIuPTxXQigCLcBGAs/s640/IMG_6103.JPG&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  66. If you do it with a First Focal Plane scope in &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliradian&quot;&gt;Milliradians&lt;/a&gt;, you&#39;ll love the TrueMiller.&lt;br /&gt;
  67. Target size, Distance, and Number of Mill in your scope; any two will tell you the third.&lt;br /&gt;
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  69. During the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.vikingrifleseries.com/&quot;&gt;Viking Rifle Series&lt;/a&gt;&#39; Midnight Sun Rifle Challenge there&#39;s a Mill-ing Stage, so you&#39;ll need one if you&#39;re going to join us in 2022.&lt;br /&gt;
  70. &lt;br /&gt;
  71. More soon&lt;br /&gt;
  72. Your pal&lt;br /&gt;
  73. SBW&lt;br /&gt;
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  75. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/4273316419251074888/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=4273316419251074888' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/4273316419251074888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/4273316419251074888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-truemiller-circular-mil-master.html' title='Review: TrueMiller - Circular Mil Master'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aIHknpPZsZg/XSWupje5M3I/AAAAAAAAFEY/pK5sSqDU3IswxWCah99SqDYwIuPTxXQigCLcBGAs/s72-c/IMG_6103.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-2544103202587724568</id><published>2020-09-10T16:07:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2020-09-24T07:13:18.456+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="6.5 creedmoor"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="deer stalking"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Goat"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="roe"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="scotland"/><title type='text'>Hunting Goats In Scotland. Stalking Roe In Scotland. </title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AUzj7mDJxw0/X0pifJyMoZI/AAAAAAAAFbE/owwNvrA6MLsh3NsYjbrn4Ha-KSvEH0rdQCLcBGAsYHQ/s3024/HG%252BozzQKSd2UU6i7yN%252Buhg.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AUzj7mDJxw0/X0pifJyMoZI/AAAAAAAAFbE/owwNvrA6MLsh3NsYjbrn4Ha-KSvEH0rdQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/HG%252BozzQKSd2UU6i7yN%252Buhg.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  76. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;An adventure in the Lowlands of Western Scotland featuring: your pal SBW, and South Side D a target shooter and sportsman who dives an electric taxi.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  77. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  78. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Work, that curse of the stalking classes:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  79. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Covid 19, overly emotional Milfs, air travel diminished by 97%, clients putting off having repairs done, annoying offspring, the range will be closed for the foreseeable, theatre-land may never reopen. A shortage of primers. I think its fair to say that your pal SBW and South-Side D are beset by difficulties on all sides.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  80. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  81. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SBW: This is bullshit, shall we sack it off an’ go stalking?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  82. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SSD: Not doing much else.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  83. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  84. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SBW: Do you have a midge net?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  85. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SSD: What’s that?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  86. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SBW: Your only defence against Scotland’s apex predator.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  87. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  88. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;I once read that the Scottish tourist board had conducted extensive market research. Scotland is a popular destination for all the reasons you might imagine; Whiskey, Salmon, Deer, Ginger Birds.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;The last two questions proved more illuminating:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  89. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Will you be coming again next summer ? NO&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  90. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Why not? MIDGES!!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  91. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  92. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Been a while since i made it North of The Wall, to the land where you can hunt Roe Bucks with a 22 centerfire, Mars bars are served fried, sausages are called Lorne and served skinless and square, Tablet is a cause of diabetes rather than yet another iProduct .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  93. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  94. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SBW: How much would it cost to go to Stranraer in a Taxi?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  95. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SSD: Where’s that?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  96. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SBW: west coast of Scotland, south of Glasgow, for stalking purposes. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  97. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SSD: £ LOTS, each way. But to you SBW, for stalking purposes, we can split the juice.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  98. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SBW: I’ve found this guy on the internet…&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  99. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SSD:&amp;nbsp; I need to sort out someone to look after the dog&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  100. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SBW: No worries my ex wife would love to help me out, I’m the only person taking her side against the kids.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  101. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  102. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;A long time ago: I was making idle chit-chat with one of the guns at a shoot, as we fell to discussing a sportsman&#39;s travels he said ‘ ah yes the Scottish stalking experience, I’ve been, you spend all day crawling through very soggy ground, shoot a deer, then the walk back to the cottage turns out to be 200 yards, I bet you love it”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  103. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  104. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;That very morning a member called Gallowaycountrysports had posted on the Stalking Directory that he had availability and accommodation. A few days later we were on our way north. By london black taxi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  105. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  106. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;The first six hours pass in a pleasant re run of: the calibre debate, chewing over the&amp;nbsp; design stratagem of Porsche 1967 to 1992, the latest outrage(s) perpetrated by my daughter against her long suffering family, and the lack of strategy being deployed by our lords and masters at this most difficult of times. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  107. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  108. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Somewhere just the other side of the wall the roads narrow and out pace slows considerably. We pull into a Shell service station where we were surprised to lean that the sad-arse sandwiches they serve are now ‘By Jamie”.&amp;nbsp; Yes that Jamie Oliver the fat-tongued deceiver himself, has sunk so low that he’s now shilling for the sweat shop where they fulfil service station sandwich contracts. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  109. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  110. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;At the service hatch a bleached, shivering whippet of an Emo is manning the till. His stupid haircut reflected in the luminous glow of his pasty skin.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  111. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  112. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SBW What kinds of sandwiches do you have?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  113. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Having seen Jamie Oliver’s fat face I was expecting some kind of mangling of the cuisine of several nations, Jerk Chicken with a Mediterranean Herb Crust, and the like.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  114. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;The Emo: What’s this the feckin’ Krypton Factor? &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  115. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;South-Side D: Think of it as a job, what’s in the meal deal?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  116. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  117. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Some crappy sarnies, indistinguishable from crappy sarnies not ‘by Jamie’&amp;nbsp; later.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  118. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  119. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Alan calls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  120. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;‘So yer nearly here? oh aye what’s yer vehicle?’&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  121. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;“We’re In a sherbet” then I remember to translate “a black cab, a london taxi”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  122. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;“Slurhh feckin’ heel, what’s that cost? Poond-a-mile?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  123. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SBW “Nah South Side D is a cab driver it’s his whip”&lt;br /&gt;
  124. SSD “tell him it’s £LOTS to Glasgow ’bout £X a mile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  125. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  126. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;The rest of the drive passes without incident and were soon following Alan’s seemingly vague but surprisingly accurate directions through the village. By the time we arrive Alan has gone to bed leaving his lad to welcome us to the self-catering accommodation end of the business. Alan runs a great outfit, or I suspect Mrs Alan runs a great outfit, and Alan fronts it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  127. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  128. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;If you’re thinking of heading north I’d warmly recommend Galloway Country Sports, they have something for every kind of visiting stalker or Gun. Alan is dad-shaped and around 50, a fantastic host and an experienced rough shooting and goose guide. His lad is built like a racing snake with the eyes of an eagle. Between them they provide some fantastic days afield. The beds are comfortable and the duvets reassuringly weighty. I sleep the sleep of the self-righteous.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  129. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  130. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;The following morning&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  131. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Alan’s birds have just arrived so he’s out looking over his pen and feeding them up. We stumble out of our rooms to find glorious sunshine, a neighbour enquires as to our well being, we ask after his. “sumingz rang, dez ner water fal-in from the sky”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  132. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;The village has no shops so we head into town, all of three miles, to look for a charging point and some breakfast. With me enthusing about the Scottish breakfast experience. Sadly no Lorne sausage is available but we do get a Tattie-Scone. It’’s a lot like the backing board for tiling. Which is a shocker as they are easy to make and usually delicious.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  133. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  134. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Ingredients:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  135. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;mashed floury potatoes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  136. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;an egg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  137. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;some flour&amp;nbsp; .00 is best&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  138. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  139. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;perhaps a little cream or milk - emphasis on the little, the dough must be firm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  140. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  141. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Method:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  142. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;mix into a dough&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  143. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;roll out and cut into pleasing shapes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  144. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Either fry or bake at a moderate temperature&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  145. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Serve lathered in butter. Unsalted is my preference. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  146. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  147. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SSD has asked that the record show that our visit to Stranraer was also the occasion of my saying the most Middle Class / English thing ever.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  148. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SBW “Is there a Marks and Spenser here? I need to buy pants”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  149. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Under-crackers un-purchased we return to the house in time to meet Alan and do my laundry in the wash basin.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  150. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  151. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Wisely Alan wants clients to confirm their rifles and marksmanship, he tries to be as polite about this as he can, I suspect he’s had some resistance from clients before, and seems a little surprised at my enthusiasm.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  152. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;I’m keener on shooting a confirmation than the in-house photographer at St. Ursula’s. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  153. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Here’s for why.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  154. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Having survived [just] the shame of having a loaned rifle where the scope wasn&#39;t moored to the rings and missing the first five deer on a previous trip to Scotland, to say I’m keen never to have it happen again, is what is known north of the wall as a feckin’ understatement.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  155. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  156. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;The sheep rifle should above all be portable, handy, and relatively light, as the sheep hunter carries a rifle a lot more than he shoots it. &quot;Notes on the Sheep Rifle,&quot; Jack O’ Connor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  157. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  158. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;There’s a question mark hanging over my .243 so I took my Tiktac. Its a wonderful target rifle, but there s something deeply un-stalking about it, its heavy, the opposite of handy, and all those sections of picatinny rail mean it snags on your clothes, Its also laughably Black Rifle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  159. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  160. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Alan: ‘does an Afghan campaign medal come free wii that?’&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  161. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  162. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Its way more accurate than me and has no trouble mashing up the 4 inch square used as a zeroing target. Zeros established we break for lunch.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  163. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  164. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;As Roe are best stalked at the top and tail of the day, Alan has a suggestion.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  165. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  166. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;How about we go and look for some Billies?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  167. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  168. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;I’ve met people who have been to Scotland to stalk feral goats before and none of them has had a good word to say about the beasts: they are extremely wily, live in inhospitable terrain and are pretty smelly. They often reside in places called Heart Attack Hill, Fat Boy’s End or Dead Plumber’s Gully. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  169. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Alan explains that he cant stalk Roe or shoot Foxes on this particular stretch of coast as the landowner has a sentimental attachment to both, however he is a Juniper Berry enthusiast and as the goats eat them he’s more than happy for Alan to thin the trip.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  170. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  171. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;These are coastal goats, living where the Irish Sea batters mini fjords. We spend a while glassing the rocky outcrops, things that move turn into tricks of the light, every shadow seems to be cast by horns.&amp;nbsp; When we’re finally sure only shadows are moving we turn south and our luck improves, a trip of ten or so goats are just the other side of a bluff, we walk the long way around and begin the crawl into range. Oddly its still not raining.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  172. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  173. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;There’s something about seeing your precision rifle and its posh scope lying in the muck that’s deeply disconcerting, later I’m to learn that loosing a round and seeing your fettled Lapua case disappear between the tussocks isn&#39;t much better.&amp;nbsp; All I can do in consternation is mutter “that’s £1.08p I’ll never see again”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  174. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  175. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;With the goats only about 50m away SSD starts crawling forward and I’m trying to deploy the Harris bipod without that annoying D’oing noise from its springs. The goats are suddenly on the move, towards us. SSD is between me an them so I’m still to set up for a shot. I’ve taken all of five off-hand shots with the Tiktac all of them were over a year ago, in Norway.&amp;nbsp; Heavy is a help, but the shape and balance point are unwieldy. We both fire. Someone hits the largest Billie and it disappears down the seemingly vertical cliff. As SSD and Lad pursue it&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  176. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Alan points to the next spur, “There’s yours, can you shoot it?” &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  177. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  178. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;“The mountain sheep keeps his horns as long as he lives, and on them he writes his autobiography. He records his age, his species, his good years and his bad, and his battles.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  179. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;The Stories Sheep Horns Tell - Jack O’Connor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  180. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dlMJvMy9qyo/X0pihI9tSSI/AAAAAAAAFbQ/ADqOEp_WF607qXhhovYa5NxchoE-1UMPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s3024/fbLKnP8wTE6IrU96QNTVOw.jpg&quot; style=&quot;font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dlMJvMy9qyo/X0pihI9tSSI/AAAAAAAAFbQ/ADqOEp_WF607qXhhovYa5NxchoE-1UMPQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/fbLKnP8wTE6IrU96QNTVOw.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;I love it when the leaves change colour - Hodgeman&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  181. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;He’s right, there on the next spur, partially concealed by the dead ground, my Goat is waiting patiently for his dinner invitation. Yet another outdoorsman’s skill that still eludes me is the ability to judge distance. Alan’s call is 300 yards, deduct 10% is 270m which the muscle memory in my fingers tells me is fifteen clicks aka 1.5 milliradians. The legs of my bipod are a constant annoyance to me, off the bench they are too long, prone, which i hardly shoot,&amp;nbsp; they are ok-ish, off the tussocks of scotland they are invariably too short. The first one sails over his head, which prompts him to make the fatal mistake of standing up, so after a bit of contortionism on my part he catches the next one on the left side of his spine. While I’m still listening to that resounding TWACKKK expanding ammunition makes as it hits flesh, as if by teleportation he disappears.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  182. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;To my delight I actually find one of the Lapua cases. £1.08p up on the day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  183. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  184. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;A deer that has been shot at will go around the side of a hill a quarter of a mile away and lie down. A ram will leave the country.—&quot;The Bighorn,&quot; Jack o’Connor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  185. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  186. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Its a long walk around the spur tops and when we get to the patch where Billy was last seen there’s a patch of frothy lung blood, and no more. Nothing, zip, nitch, nada&amp;nbsp; no sign of a trail to be seen. There’s only one way to where we were when I took the shot and we just walked along it, there’s only one way down from where the blood trail starts and stops.&amp;nbsp; The mini canyons are treacherous under foot and the drop below enough that the medics would be well pissed off by the time they recovered you, or at least your body.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  187. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Alan is ahead of me and has taken a turn away from the direction of travel, I skirt round to catch him up and squeeze past him to climb into the line of sight he’s gesticulating down. There’s Billy sitting panting under an overhang, its just the place you’d want to shelter if you were going to overnight there. I wind the clicks back off and put an SST through his neck. Another £1.08p case tumbles away never to be seen again.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XGmbdtZfQ-0/X0pifu1c8LI/AAAAAAAAFbM/kepYMIjwceUJHGLSy0dghCPBRd0gM-bjgCLcBGAsYHQ/s3024/ULIYYG9NR%252Be3b6R8N0IR8Q.jpg&quot; style=&quot;font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XGmbdtZfQ-0/X0pifu1c8LI/AAAAAAAAFbM/kepYMIjwceUJHGLSy0dghCPBRd0gM-bjgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/ULIYYG9NR%252Be3b6R8N0IR8Q.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  188. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JjCTn_7fgHI/X0pid470fVI/AAAAAAAAFa4/mw8EjBwZdyA5XUKFmwkxPhf8094T5jIDQCLcBGAsYHQ/s3024/4ic%252B3DTlQa6ycXLrvhlEAA.jpg&quot; style=&quot;font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;3024&quot; data-original-width=&quot;3024&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JjCTn_7fgHI/X0pid470fVI/AAAAAAAAFa4/mw8EjBwZdyA5XUKFmwkxPhf8094T5jIDQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/4ic%252B3DTlQa6ycXLrvhlEAA.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  189. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;High above us and 300 yards across a mini fjord Lad and SSD are struggling with two goats the extraction looks like the 200 yards are ‘feckin vertical’. Turning back to our own situation this isn&#39;t going to be easy, especially with the long dead black weight of the Tiktac to hump along.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  190. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  191. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;On opening him up, Billy has been doing very well for himself, easily the fattest wild animal I’ve ever butchered, great globs of shining white fat around his organs. I’ve still got his dinner pate sized liver in my freezer. Gralloched he’s lighter but not that you’d know it draggin’ him along.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  192. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;You can see why the locals shoot ‘em with a little Tikka Triple Two.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  193. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;As I puff along the Tiktac seems to have trebled in weight .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  194. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  195. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;A couple of words about Alan’s place&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  196. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;If you want to go shooting with a few pals and make a few days of it, you’re the customer alan had in mind when he set up shop. He has his own pub that you can stock yourselves. Being only three miles out of town you can call in a takeaway delivered or, you could copy a team from France who bring their own chef and use the fully equipped kitchens. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  197. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MNNAM-_BZRg/X0picElqGII/AAAAAAAAFas/GNd1TYMrkVoTU9qMyJDNfjCmnp1jF1lRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/4ea5b1ba-39b2-494e-904e-22f20f382f5b.jpg&quot; style=&quot;font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MNNAM-_BZRg/X0picElqGII/AAAAAAAAFas/GNd1TYMrkVoTU9qMyJDNfjCmnp1jF1lRgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/4ea5b1ba-39b2-494e-904e-22f20f382f5b.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  198. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;A Galloway Roe Buck&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  199. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  200. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;I’ve been having a run of luck, lucky for me not so lucky for the new people. At my gun club we have an unofficial hunting committee - if you express an interest we’ll hook you up with some stalking.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  201. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;I know a couple of people who I regard as as near to dead certs as its possible to be. We go to their ground, I tell the guide ‘this a newbie they need to shoot a deer’, they see deer, I shoot deer, they don’t. Sometimes I shoot more than one deer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  202. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  203. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Lad and I hop out for the truck and as soon as we’ve negotiated the first fence we have a doe under observation. Not doe season but every night is ladies night, girls get in free, so it wont be long until a buck shows up. Sticking to the hedgerow we make out way up the field conveniently into the wind. About 30 feet in front of us, there’s a bustle in the hedgerow as a Roe fawn makes several frantic attempts to first ram and then jump the fence. We wait patiently until he thinks better of it and turns, sprinting across the field. Stooping down we do a bit of glassing. Lad is all over it, doe one, doe two which I could see but then the Buck which is both standing between them and invisible to me. Trying of suppress the hateful doioiing of the Harris bipod’s springs and get set up, I even had time to dial the zoom in a bit. The Buck stands at three quarters, Buck helpfully turns broadside, takes a step or two, I take up stage one of the trigger, one more step, “stay right where you are” and pop-TWACKKK. Lad awards me the accolade “Feckin’ textbook”. Buck runs on about 20 feet and slumps into the dead ground. The girls are now nowhere to be seen. We saunter over. he’s never going to win a medal but has&amp;nbsp; pleasing symmetry. I couldn&#39;t wait&amp;nbsp; to take him to dinner.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  204. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;In that great tradition of Scottish stalking, instead of dragging the deer across the field back the way we’ve come, we amble down a tarmac road that was just the other side of the hedgerow we’d crawled along.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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  206. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SSD is yet to score a deer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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  208. &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;About half of our trophy stash&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Unlike most of the places I go stalking Alan has full food processing and vacuum packing facilities. I spend the last day in the chiller doing the butchery and caping the Billy and Nanny SSD shot. To my surprise, in a moment of wild profligacy, SSD commissions not one, but two rounds of taxidermy. I get the feeling he’ll soon know how the punters feel when they get out of his taxi.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;More Soon&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Your Pal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SBW&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/2544103202587724568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=2544103202587724568' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/2544103202587724568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/2544103202587724568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2020/09/hunting-goats-in-scotland-stalking-roe.html' title='Hunting Goats In Scotland. Stalking Roe In Scotland. '/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AUzj7mDJxw0/X0pifJyMoZI/AAAAAAAAFbE/owwNvrA6MLsh3NsYjbrn4Ha-KSvEH0rdQCLcBGAsYHQ/s72-c/HG%252BozzQKSd2UU6i7yN%252Buhg.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>4</thr:total><georss:featurename>Scotland, UK</georss:featurename><georss:point>56.490671199999987 -4.2026458</georss:point><georss:box>0.73440309660252723 -74.5151458 90 66.1098542</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-3954810739551904343</id><published>2020-05-08T10:21:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2020-05-08T10:21:38.583+01:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="gun shops"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="heym"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="rifle"/><title type='text'>Review: Heym SR30 Pt2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  209. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-66jdAQABOsA/XrMko7M4khI/AAAAAAAAFUQ/I4BqZCbg2Loqc6o-9ukxYuAQPkErH-ijgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_0043.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-66jdAQABOsA/XrMko7M4khI/AAAAAAAAFUQ/I4BqZCbg2Loqc6o-9ukxYuAQPkErH-ijgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_0043.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  210. My Heym has been sitting at the back of the cabinet for a while. Not for lack of love. But I will admit some sentimentality has been creeping into my game.&lt;br /&gt;
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  212. Any shooting dad would like to gift a precision rifle to the offspring, but in their aluminium chassis&#39; they&#39;re no heirloom. They have the accuracy but not the vibe. Picture the scene if you will.&lt;br /&gt;
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  214. Sometime in the future, hopefully a long time in the future. I&#39;ve joined the choir invisible. It&#39;s the day after the wake, the b&#39;tweeded ghillie (replete with splendid whiskers, smelling slightly of; Islay Malts, RS62, and mothballs) will stand solemnly by the fireplace, fighting back the tears, he cant very well hand a PRS rifle to &lt;strike&gt;James Bond&lt;/strike&gt;&amp;nbsp;my progeny with the words &quot;This was your father&#39;s hunting rifle&quot;. &amp;nbsp;For that it&#39;s got to be wood and blued steel, so he can gruffly add &#39;an elegant weapon for a more civilised age&#39;.&lt;br /&gt;
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  216. Elegant is as elegant does, you can keep your fine scroll work and your exhibition grade woodwork, the real elegance is simplicity, where less yields more. The SR30 is a stunningly simple straight pull action, probably the most elegant design yet, mine sits in a nimble Bavarian stock of modest &#39;expedition grade&#39; timber.&lt;br /&gt;
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  218. Back in the mid 80&#39;s Peter Fortner was tying on a few cold ones with his friend&amp;nbsp;Peter Angerer who had just taken gold in the Biathlon at the winter olympics. &lt;br /&gt;
  219. Angerer lamented that the equipment available wasn&#39;t giving him much of an advantage over the Russians. Taking notes on a napkin, Fortner set about tilting the playing field in his friends favour. &amp;nbsp;Intending to design a faster action, by serendipity he also designed a stronger action.&lt;br /&gt;
  220. The strongest possible shape is a sphere and here six of them are the lugs. You get an incredibly strong and precise, self-centring lock-up. So strong that Heym certify that the SR 30 has been tested by the Suhl proof house to 116,030 psi or 8,000 bar.&lt;br /&gt;
  221. Wonder what that looks like? So did the guys at Norhunt.no&lt;br /&gt;
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  223. &lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; height=&quot;578&quot; sizes=&quot;(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px&quot; src=&quot;https://heym-fabrik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/10700-bar-4.jpg&quot; srcset=&quot;https://heym-fabrik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/10700-bar-4.jpg 650w, https://heym-fabrik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/10700-bar-4-300x271.jpg 300w, https://heym-fabrik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/10700-bar-4-600x543.jpg 600w, https://heym-fabrik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/10700-bar-4-415x375.jpg 415w, https://heym-fabrik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/10700-bar-4-553x500.jpg 553w, https://heym-fabrik.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/10700-bar-4-624x564.jpg 624w&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  224. &lt;i&gt;Using a .30-06 calculated according to Hartmut Brömels QuickLoadat 10,000 bar peak gas pressure the following experimental setup was used to fire a Heym SR30N straight-pull repeating rifle and the effects of this excess force photographed. Although the bolt did not withstand the force unharmed, even with this amount of force the bolt was not ejected to the back into the shooter’s face.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  225. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.norhunt.no/blog/heym-sr30-trykktest&quot;&gt;Full story HERE&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
  226. &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  227. My SR30 came preloved in .243 with a 1/10 twist and never liked 100gr bullets, at 23 inches the barrel is more hill-rifle than woodland-stalker. I washed a lot of copper out of it which helped, I considered chopping a couple of inches off the end but when I took a look though a borescope I abandoned hope. Time for a new barrel and a change of chambering to shoot lead free 6.5&#39;s. Since the Creedmoor craze/revolution of the last ten years shows no sign of abating, every gun shop now has new rifles so chambered, I&#39;m confident that factory ammunition will be as ubiquitous as .308 and end up replacing .243.&lt;br /&gt;
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  229. &lt;i&gt;Barrels and Baffles are like Tyres and Brakes, the more fun you have, the more frequently you have to replace them.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  230. &lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
  231. I needed to engage the services of a gunsmith and buy a barrel. And there hangs a tale, a pretty sorry tale at that. For readers in The US of A. I know this next bit will stretch your credulity, but I promise you this all happened.&lt;br /&gt;
  232. The greatest impediment to shooting sports in the UK isn&#39;t the government and the vegans, its the gun trade. From the importers, to people I know and consider friends, there&#39;s a surly malaise. Its literally as though they don&#39;t want your money. Everything is too much trouble.&lt;br /&gt;
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  234. Our slang term for gunsmith is Gun Plumber, the &#39;plumber&#39; bit presumably inspired by their reluctance to answer the telephone, or on the rare occasion that they do, to give even the vaguest idea of when they might be able to &#39;fit you in&#39;.&lt;br /&gt;
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  236. The obvious choice begrudgingly agreed that yes he could source a barrel for me from Heym, with a timeframe extending into, and possibly beyond, three months. His price? &amp;nbsp;Almost two thirds of the list price of a brand new SR30. Nothing like supporting the brand.&lt;br /&gt;
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  238. For 30% less the well-regarded F1 engineer, who specifies a high end stainless steel barrel, would take a look, I was welcome to visit, but no timeframe could be offered.&lt;br /&gt;
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  240. Top boy in the north was too pushed with his own builds, and suggested top boy in the south who is yet to return calls or emails.&lt;br /&gt;
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  242. A couple of other gunsmiths would, for only a little less cash, deign to allow me to join the long tail of their waiting list.&lt;br /&gt;
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  244. Sentimentalist that I am, this time I want my Heym to look like a Heym. If I was going to build an SR30 on a plastic stock I&#39;d go with the stainless F1 guy or Top boy up north. I bought my SR30 because I wanted the Bavarian stock, it should have a german scope, ideally swing off mounts, and a blued barrel hammer forged from Krupps steel. As Heym intended.&lt;br /&gt;
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  246. Somewhat despondent I called a gun shop (in Scotland) where I&#39;ve received excellent service before to see if they had a recommendation, and although not listed as a Heym stockist, the proprietor opened my eyes to a little known fact, (little known in the english speaking world anyway), Heym sell pre-fit barrels threaded and chambered for their rifles. Available within a fortnight and could be fitted and sent for proof immediately for ein kleines bisschen less than 50% of the original quote.&lt;br /&gt;
  247. As simple as that.&lt;br /&gt;
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  249. Probably cursed it now, let&#39;s see how long it takes?&lt;br /&gt;
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  251. More soon&lt;br /&gt;
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  275. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/3954810739551904343/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=3954810739551904343' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/3954810739551904343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/3954810739551904343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2020/05/review-heym-sr30-pt2.html' title='Review: Heym SR30 Pt2'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-66jdAQABOsA/XrMko7M4khI/AAAAAAAAFUQ/I4BqZCbg2Loqc6o-9ukxYuAQPkErH-ijgCLcBGAsYHQ/s72-c/IMG_0043.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-1855446163446309416</id><published>2020-03-25T01:24:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2020-03-25T01:24:09.117+00:00</updated><title type='text'>On This Day 1916: Ishi Died</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  276. &lt;a href=&quot;http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dVIuFalvnzg/S5oLc3UyqnI/AAAAAAAABUE/sDtWdb2F7xE/s1600-h/ishi-the-last-yahi.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dVIuFalvnzg/S5oLc3UyqnI/AAAAAAAABUE/sDtWdb2F7xE/s640/ishi-the-last-yahi.jpg&quot; width=&quot;490&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  277. In europe we have&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi_the_Iceman&quot;&gt;Otzi the iceman&lt;/a&gt;, we have a few artifacts, some of his&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tomahawksadventuretravel.blogspot.com/2010/03/every-day-carry-edc.html&quot;&gt;EDC if you will&lt;/a&gt;, but the languages we speak were not due to be heard for thousands of years after his death. He&#39;s a Polaroid, a snap shot, just one frame (in not too sharp a focus) of a world we can only imagine and even then imagine only through the distorting lens of a viewpoint far far removed from anything Otzi would have known. His world was long gone before ours was born or thought of. We&#39;ll never know the date of his death, or the shape of his life, we just get a&amp;nbsp;tantalizing&amp;nbsp;glimpse into the day he died on. A glimpse that asks a lot of questions and answers very few.&lt;br /&gt;
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  279. On the other side of the pond there&#39;s an actual date, a day and a time when the last stone age man in North America saw the door close behind him, and breathed his last. His friends put some of his tools in a simple bag by his side, and committed his empty body to the flame. I like to think of his spirit going to the happy hunting ground. Wherever he went, his body turned to ash and his brain went to medical school.&lt;br /&gt;
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  281. A lot of things flicker to life in my imagination, but very few have consumed me like&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/8084&quot;&gt;Saxton Pope&#39;s book&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;about his friendship with Ishi the last of the Yahi people - the last north american to live in the stone age - literally a time traveler who came to the 20th&amp;nbsp;century.&lt;br /&gt;
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  283. A victim of genocide, born on the run from an encroaching culture that was totally&amp;nbsp;alien&amp;nbsp;to the frame of&amp;nbsp;reference&amp;nbsp;he&#39;d have known. Fresh out of options, he turned to face the very thing he&#39;d run from his whole life, and one afternoon bewildered and&amp;nbsp;exhausted&amp;nbsp;Ishi stepped out of the stone age and into the 20th century. &amp;nbsp;He was&amp;nbsp;imprisoned, poked, prodded, and gawped at. Then at last, protected, befriended and given the&amp;nbsp;welcome&amp;nbsp;such a stranger deserves.&lt;br /&gt;
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  285. None of us can ever know the &#39;real&#39; Ishi. We can only project the Ishi that we wish for onto his legend, but that probably makes him all the more special. I&#39;ve read Pope&#39;s book several times now.&amp;nbsp;It&#39;s not a very well written book, its in the style we might now call &#39;blogging&#39; (it slips from history, to how-to, to&amp;nbsp;eulogy, to call to adventure), but there&#39;s something about it.&amp;nbsp;Something&amp;nbsp;beguiling. I&amp;nbsp;sometimes&amp;nbsp;feel it&#39;s the book I&#39;d been waiting to read. Pope and Ishi&#39;s friendship is a reflecting pool can I see myself in, and if you ever played at Robin Hood with two sticks and a shoelace you too may hear the call Pope was so compelled by.&lt;br /&gt;
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  287. At the end, against the express wishes of those who knew and cared for him, his brain was taken to medical school with what intent we can only speculate. &amp;nbsp;Ishi&#39;s legacy hasn&#39;t come from that bag of cells and inanimate neural pathways, it&#39;s come from the fire he lit in the hearts and minds of Dr Saxton&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tmuss.tripod.com/shotfrompast/pope.html&quot;&gt;Pope&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;and Art&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.archeryhalloffame.org/inductee.aspx?id=12&amp;amp;v=1&quot;&gt;Young&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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  289. If I couldn&#39;t have my hearts desire and become more like Ishi, I&#39;d settle for being more like Saxton Pope and consider it a life well spent.&lt;br /&gt;
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  292. &lt;i&gt;How you treated that stranger might just be how you really are.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  293. SBW&lt;br /&gt;
  294. PS:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot;; font-size: 13px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thefreelibrary.com/LEGEND+OF+ISHI+REVISED-a083904380&quot;&gt;&quot;Ishi felt Western society was essentially silly - the only things that impressed him were matches and glue,&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  296. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404708057.html&quot;&gt;A bit more about Ishi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/1855446163446309416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=1855446163446309416' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/1855446163446309416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/1855446163446309416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2020/03/on-this-day-1916-ishi-died.html' title='On This Day 1916: Ishi Died'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dVIuFalvnzg/S5oLc3UyqnI/AAAAAAAABUE/sDtWdb2F7xE/s72-c/ishi-the-last-yahi.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-9113931945008160111</id><published>2020-03-11T14:55:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2020-03-11T14:55:11.552+00:00</updated><title type='text'>Current Situation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  297. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jlU6BfNkd5k/XmZWbKOk8_I/AAAAAAAAFSs/JQTAWn9MeNgkhiEWqiDCsepeEZvKK3jAACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_7662.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;960&quot; data-original-width=&quot;738&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jlU6BfNkd5k/XmZWbKOk8_I/AAAAAAAAFSs/JQTAWn9MeNgkhiEWqiDCsepeEZvKK3jAACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_7662.JPG&quot; width=&quot;492&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  299. Reader, I bought a cut price unicycle, and have found a vintage bakelite phone I&#39;d traded with a client a while back, I must be able to part with some of the drawer full of knives I never use, how many rucksacks do I really need? Everything must go!&lt;br /&gt;
  300. &lt;br /&gt;
  301. But lets not get ahead of ourselves.&lt;br /&gt;
  302. &lt;br /&gt;
  303. This one started in a hotel room in the North of England. A long time ago.&lt;br /&gt;
  304. It was back in the golden age of blogging, on a pre-facebook internet. So long ago that Field and Stream was actually written by staff writers who owned muddy boots and guns, rather than fixie-riding blue-haired interns who are reluctantly rewriting things they&#39;ve misunderstood from the internet, while they dream of writing for Buzzfeed.&lt;br /&gt;
  305. &lt;br /&gt;
  306. I&#39;d written a few blog posts, and was trying to turn my love of out-loud storytelling into a passable ability to tell them on the page. As I was lying on my skinny bed, in a hotel room used to train submariners. To my unexpected delight one of the F&amp;amp;S staff writers commented on this very blog, and we started an email conversation based around; our mutual belief that cartridges in the 6.5mm class are inherently wonderful, as are the the peaty malts of Islay, that Sarah Palin&#39;s candidacy was as baffling as it was alarming, and that punk rock is the appropriate soundtrack to an evening out.&lt;br /&gt;
  307. &lt;br /&gt;
  308. 11 years later....&lt;br /&gt;
  309. &lt;br /&gt;
  310. Both of us have kids in the Uni; I&#39;m mending rich people&#39;s central heating, and he&#39;s the face of a conservation organisation.&lt;br /&gt;
  311. &lt;br /&gt;
  312. And there hangs a tale...&lt;br /&gt;
  313. &lt;br /&gt;
  314. Adventure is around every corner, and the world is still full of corners&lt;br /&gt;
  315. Your pal&lt;br /&gt;
  316. SBW&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/9113931945008160111/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=9113931945008160111' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/9113931945008160111'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/9113931945008160111'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2020/03/current-situation.html' title='Current Situation'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jlU6BfNkd5k/XmZWbKOk8_I/AAAAAAAAFSs/JQTAWn9MeNgkhiEWqiDCsepeEZvKK3jAACLcBGAsYHQ/s72-c/IMG_7662.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-5574049051176344195</id><published>2020-03-10T04:33:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2020-03-10T04:33:02.493+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="shotgun"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="squirrels"/><title type='text'>More Squirrel Hunting In The UK.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
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  326. We won a day&#39;s squirrel bashing in a charity auction. Months passed, various people dropped out, in the end it was the Ambulance Chasing Lawyer formerly known as &#39;Sailor&#39;, South Side D, and your pal SBW who made the trip to the west country. We took a fairly large number of cartridges with us. Thankfully.&lt;/div&gt;
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  330. What can I tell you; it wasn&#39;t quite the usual tale of incompetence but it wasn&#39;t the most cost effective carry-on either. SSD and myself were billeted in a local hostelry where the burgers were pretty good but we had to significantly mark them down on the fries. Half a dozen phat G&amp;amp;T&#39;s later the bed seemed comfortable enough. In the morning dehydrated by the evening&#39;s entertainments I awoke, stretched and gave myself a lovely dose of cramp. Once the tears had subsided I joined SSD for breakfast. Limping.&lt;/div&gt;
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  334. The ACL joined us for our repast then we set off to meet the keeper, a cheerful sort who, once the usual tall tales of game numbers were out of the way, &amp;nbsp;apologetically told us &amp;nbsp;&#39;I&#39;ve just taken over this estate it was the last guy who donated the day, totally happy for you to be here, but, small problem, my missus says there&#39;s water pissing though the ceiling so I&#39;m going to leave you to it.&#39;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  338. Regular readers will know that squirrel sniping has at one time and another been a preoccupation of mine, always conducted with pellet guns. SSD is a proven slayer of squirrels and instead of taking the crappy farmers gun approach that&#39;s seen me roundly mocked at more than one shoot, has made an investment. SSD has a licence for a tricked out tacticool shotgun that can hold many cartridges, ACL and I have cheapo semi-autos that are only allowed to hold three shells. Instead of disturbing the squirrel&#39;s Drey with a set of drain rods, SSD blatted away at them until they were either proven empty or the incumbents had been evicted into the arc of fire laid down by ACL and myself. &amp;nbsp;Within ten minutes of arrival we were right into it, then things slowed down for a couple of hours. &amp;nbsp;We trudged around taking it in turns to cynically decode the keeper&#39;s speech, now convinced the wood was shot out and we&#39;d come an awful long way for three squirrels. We saw three Fallow and a Muntjac. We sat out a rain storm in a beaters lodge.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  342. Any day in the woods is better than a day at work. ACL doesn&#39;t seem to have grasped this and takes a string of calls about an electrical installation or rather the lack of one. It&#39;s hilarious. He&#39;s very good at withering sarcasm, but this doesn&#39;t seem to advance his cause. Which is also hilarious.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  346. The daylight is in short supply so we skip lunch and fuelled by chocolate give the densest area of woodland a blatting. The day springs to life and eleven more tree rabbits fall to the cloud of pellets.&lt;/div&gt;
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  348. In an honourable attempt to bring a timely end to a wounded squirrel SSD shoots at too close a range and the end of his shotgun opens up like a flower. It&#39;s a sobering moment and signals that&#39;s its time for burgers and home.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  352. More soon&lt;/div&gt;
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  354. Your pal&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  356. SBW&lt;/div&gt;
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  361. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/5574049051176344195/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=5574049051176344195' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/5574049051176344195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/5574049051176344195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2020/03/more-squirrel-hunting-in-uk.html' title='More Squirrel Hunting In The UK.'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZB-VaQCERRg/XmJhfj4DkLI/AAAAAAAAFRY/8MZ7LZjTQKYb9rbcp_rui9KXA_fyM78DgCLcBGAsYHQ/s72-c/IMG_8021.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-7053332516651059019</id><published>2020-03-09T10:19:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2020-03-09T10:19:06.563+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="peli case"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="review"/><title type='text'>Choosing a Peli Case 1750, 1700, 1745</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  362. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q6aee1cP83s/XmYXDr_eMYI/AAAAAAAAFSQ/rbeE0iQPzrQkoJVfnd92ncbdXQLAPtoQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/26F76138-AAA1-432F-AB1F-48085FED5289.jpeg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q6aee1cP83s/XmYXDr_eMYI/AAAAAAAAFSQ/rbeE0iQPzrQkoJVfnd92ncbdXQLAPtoQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/26F76138-AAA1-432F-AB1F-48085FED5289.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  365. As the new year rolls in the Precision Wombles have been talking up our preparations for the coming season. Training and travel, how much do you really need to spend to get a bipod worthy of the name? And that perennial question of the traveling sport, will ramp monkeys mash-up my rig?&lt;br /&gt;
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  368. Back to the beginning &amp;nbsp;At my home club its a gruelling 10 yards from the car to the firing point, so the concern is moot. As Precision Wombles for our first fixture it&#39;s; trains, two planes, and a mini bus. With the same to get back home. So cases have become a hot topic of discussion. There are lots of cases, some people will keep their rifle in an airsoft box they got on eBay, I&#39;m sure they&#39;re fine for the trip from car to firing point.&lt;br /&gt;
  369. Various cheapskates have chipped in their, I felt slightly defensive, recommendations of budget boxes but the unavoidable truth is If your ambitions are international, your cases are Peli.&lt;br /&gt;
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  372. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;There are Hard Cases, and there are Flight Cases.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  374. &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Flight Cases are made by Peli.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  376. And here&#39;s for why; When traveling internationally with your kit it all comes down to a couple of &amp;nbsp;clarity inducing questions.&lt;br /&gt;
  377. 1.Which is more delicate/expensive, your built-for-battle rifle and scope, or a broadcast standard movie camera? Both of which are cheaper than BoB&#39;s testing gear.&lt;br /&gt;
  378. &lt;br /&gt;
  379. 2.Have you ever seen a camera crew with any other brand of case?&lt;br /&gt;
  380. &lt;br /&gt;
  381. BoB [brother of bushwacker] takes some very expensive testing equipment to some very inhospitable places using small planes, big trucks, boats of all sizes, and Peli cases.&lt;br /&gt;
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  383. Do a google images search for damaged luggage there are tales of grief. The search for damaged Peli cases gets you pictures of abrasions, the odd broken wheel, and tales of relief.&lt;br /&gt;
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  385. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pelican.com/us/en/product/cases/long-case/protector/1750&quot;&gt;The 1750&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;is the gold standard for long guns; they are big and they are clever but, they&#39;re also heavy.&lt;br /&gt;
  386. I took a Peli 1750&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2019/11/midnight-sun-rifle-challenge-pt3.html&quot;&gt;with me to Norway&lt;/a&gt;, rifle arrived un-crushed despite the ramp monkey&#39;s systemic disregard, pulling it through the airport(s) I thought my arm would be pulled out of its socket. Tough came at a serious weight penalty. So this time around I fancied something lighter and as we live in the age of the hinged stock, that could also mean something a bit more compact.&lt;br /&gt;
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  388. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pelican.com/us/en/product/cases/long-case/protector/1700&quot;&gt;The 1700&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;that&#39;s lightish, and fits AR&#39;s and take down rifles so well, is annoyingly just a bit too short for my stalking rifles, I was tempted by a 1720 which will swallow a 1000mm rifle with not much space at either end, but for longer trips I really wanted a case that could take two 1000mm rifles with 50mm of padding at each end, and I wanted it to be lighter. The Storm range (added when Peli bought out Hardigg) are a bit lighter but not significantly.&lt;br /&gt;
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  390. Seems someone at Peli felt the same way, as now there&#39;s&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pelican.com/us/en/products/cases/air-cases&quot;&gt;the AIR range&lt;/a&gt;. Claimed to be a sweet 40% lighter with the same guarantee of toughness.&lt;br /&gt;
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  392. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pelican.com/us/en/product/cases/long-case/air/1745&quot;&gt;The&amp;nbsp;1745&lt;/a&gt;. So far the AIR range is mostly camera and scientific sized, there&#39;s only one long case, but it&#39;s deep enough to be one-case-fits-most-kit case, interior dims are &amp;nbsp;111 × 42 × 20cm I like a short rifle for stalking and the Tiktac has a folding stock, once I&#39;ve sorted the foam, it&#39;ll take two rifles or due to that 20cm depth, a rifle and a compound bow, without being one of those crazy big double cases that need its own trolly at the airport and takes up most of the bed of a pick up.&lt;br /&gt;
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  394. Kit to buy, deer to stalk, plans to make, and adventure just around every corner&lt;br /&gt;
  395. happy new year&lt;br /&gt;
  396. Your pal&lt;br /&gt;
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  408. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/7053332516651059019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=7053332516651059019' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/7053332516651059019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/7053332516651059019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2020/03/choosing-peli-case-1750-1700-1745.html' title='Choosing a Peli Case 1750, 1700, 1745'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q6aee1cP83s/XmYXDr_eMYI/AAAAAAAAFSQ/rbeE0iQPzrQkoJVfnd92ncbdXQLAPtoQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s72-c/26F76138-AAA1-432F-AB1F-48085FED5289.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-8205210510613146952</id><published>2020-01-29T13:45:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2020-01-29T13:45:34.256+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="review"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ulfhednar"/><title type='text'>Review: Ulfhednar Range Bag </title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  409. &lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IzRyALuUwDU/XEC2aCwCM_I/AAAAAAAAFBQ/rLNX9Hx104U1SHSWVWIWJQJWwfNYFhxCwCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_5159.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1307&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IzRyALuUwDU/XEC2aCwCM_I/AAAAAAAAFBQ/rLNX9Hx104U1SHSWVWIWJQJWwfNYFhxCwCLcBGAs/s640/IMG_5159.jpg&quot; width=&quot;524&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  411. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ulfhednar.no/products&quot;&gt;Ulfhednar&lt;/a&gt;; if Kifaru was made in Norway. Really.&lt;br /&gt;
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  413. SBW&#39;s First rule of hobbies: Every hobby begins with a hat, and a bag. Regular readers will know how much I love gear, handmade in small batches, by enthusiasts. I&#39;ve seen all kinds of range bags over the last couple of years, but I&#39;ve never seen one as well thought out as the&amp;nbsp;Ulfhednar offering. It was my birthday, I put one on the list and was delighted when one showed up. I took it with me to sight in my CZ527 and it went from box-fresh to lived-in on its first outing.&lt;br /&gt;
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  417. Based in Kløfta, Norway their gear is &#39;made for harsh arctic conditions&#39;, &amp;nbsp;with classic scandiwiegen understatement: &quot;Our relatively harsh Arctic climate makes us set extremely strict requirements for the materials used in our products.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  421. &quot;The Ulfhednar (pronounced Ulf-heth-nar) were a group of Viking warriors. They wore wolf skin, and their own skin was black-died. Like the Berserkers, they preformed chants and ritual prior to battle to get in a &quot;Berserker Rage”. Through adrenaline they became much stronger and faster, became immune to pain, and bled less.&quot; - Snorre Sturlason &quot;Ynglinga Saga&quot;&lt;/div&gt;
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  423. It&#39;s all in proper 1000D Cordura with real YYK zippers but in their own grey with a comedy wolf rather than coyote brown with a Taliban/Zombie hunter logo.&lt;/div&gt;
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  425. With Wolf-like cunning they differentiated themselves by making gear for the guys who want beyond-military-grade equipment but don&#39;t want to endorse that tiresome wannabe-military-contractor [playing soldiers] look that so puts the public off target sports.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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  430. SBW&#39;s fourth rule of outdoor websites: &#39;the better the company the more laughable the website&#39; &lt;br /&gt;
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  432. Optics Warehouse (bless&#39;ed be their name, great company) stock some of the range, but make little mention of the different options - there is another stockist, but what they may or may not stock is a complete mystery. In accordance with the fourth rule Ulfhednar&#39;s own website is horrible and doesn&#39;t reveal that much more. Fortunately a couple of the sites listed on the stockists page shine a light a bit further into the cavern of wonders that contains Ulfhednar&#39;s output. They make really really good stuff.&lt;/div&gt;
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  436. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #2f2e2e; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;caret-color: rgb(47, 46, 46);&quot;&gt;I&#39;ll do a round up of some more of their offering soon&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  437. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #2f2e2e; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;caret-color: rgb(47, 46, 46);&quot;&gt;In the meantime, Work, curse of the stalking classes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  438. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #2f2e2e; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;caret-color: rgb(47, 46, 46);&quot;&gt;Your pal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  439. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #2f2e2e; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;caret-color: rgb(47, 46, 46);&quot;&gt;SBW&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  445. &lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/8205210510613146952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=8205210510613146952' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/8205210510613146952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/8205210510613146952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-ulfhednar-range-bag.html' title='Review: Ulfhednar Range Bag '/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IzRyALuUwDU/XEC2aCwCM_I/AAAAAAAAFBQ/rLNX9Hx104U1SHSWVWIWJQJWwfNYFhxCwCLcBGAs/s72-c/IMG_5159.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-1154670163907142764</id><published>2020-01-14T17:02:00.001+00:00</published><updated>2020-07-14T10:29:52.923+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Running Deer: For Competition And Practice</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4mV5ckLRmAI/XgzgcKr9iGI/AAAAAAAAFQI/eRag6OBV8m00FgDz_2y70expdchF4dneACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_4174.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;939&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;376&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4mV5ckLRmAI/XgzgcKr9iGI/AAAAAAAAFQI/eRag6OBV8m00FgDz_2y70expdchF4dneACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_4174.jpg&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  446. There&#39;s a game we play at Bisley, some people for fun, and some as deer stalkers looking for an insurance policy for the deer that doesn&#39;t drop to the first shot. They call it Running Deer.&lt;br /&gt;
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  448. You stand in what&#39;s probably fairly described as a draughty shed. &amp;nbsp;100m away a picture of a two headed push-me-pull-you deer, mounted on a motorised sled, crosses a 23m gap. It&#39;s only actually doing about 13 mph, giving you an exposure of about 4.3 seconds, but when you&#39;re holding the rifle it looks quicker. You get one warm-up run at 6mph, then its either a round a run, or two rounds a run. Engine room shots, 4 for a centre, then 3, then 2, with 1 for a body hit, nothing for a haunch hit, total derision for a miss.&lt;br /&gt;
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  450. There are two classes: an open class where as long as it complies with the range orders you can shoot it, and the Deer Legal class.&lt;br /&gt;
  451. Lots of people choose their all purpose sporting rifle; for the CSR crowd that&#39;s usually a straight pull AR15 in .223/5.56 Nato, stalkers use their stalking rifle, some people bring short barrelled &amp;nbsp;.22 CF&#39;s in thumbhole stocks, the other strategy is to shoot something a bit weighty, being Bisley the Enfield&#39;s of old England are always popular. &amp;nbsp;For the two shot game, the smoother/faster straight-pulls like &lt;a href=&quot;http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2018/09/unboxing-review-heym-sr30.html&quot;&gt;Heym&lt;/a&gt;, Strasser, Merkel, and Blaser all work wonders. If the open sights of the Enfield aren&#39;t for you Red Dot&#39;s are becoming popular. For the aficionado, the aficionado with deep pockets, very deep pockets. There are &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nickel-ag.com/en/products/scopes/rt.aspx&quot;&gt;specialist scopes with two aiming marks&lt;/a&gt; or for the same money you can buy a very nice rifle. New.&lt;br /&gt;
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  455. The competitions pre-date the NRA at Bisley and were shot at the previous site on Wimbledon Common from as early as 1862. Victorians didn&#39;t have digital scoring. Outside the NRA building these are the original thick steel plate push-me - pull-yous that, being victorians, were probably pulled back and forth by impoverished orphaned ten year olds, on day release from the workhouse or debtors prisons.&lt;br /&gt;
  456. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cmvYW1zGnmU/Xw16eoVDpxI/AAAAAAAAFY0/20K-NfhVjNASQ2UYz6LDLnxEpMInQz6fQCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/107554250_892511251244596_4956772284042078265_o.jpg&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;960&quot; data-original-width=&quot;561&quot; height=&quot;981&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cmvYW1zGnmU/Xw16eoVDpxI/AAAAAAAAFY0/20K-NfhVjNASQ2UYz6LDLnxEpMInQz6fQCLcBGAsYHQ/w581-h981/107554250_892511251244596_4956772284042078265_o.jpg&quot; width=&quot;581&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  457. Back then you got one point for a haunch hit [seems a little unsporting to me] and between 1908 and &#39;48 Running Deer was an olympic sport, at its 1908 debut Oscar Swahn of Sweden won gold in the single shot, and took the bronze in double shot. With Walter Winans of the US of A taking gold in the double. Over the next 40 years Sweden took more medals that any other county. Vikings init.&lt;br /&gt;
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  459. Although the NRA had kept the sport going from 1862 it was dying out, the targets only being used at the Imperial Meeting. Until 1962 when the splendidly named&amp;nbsp;Archie J. Butterworth, rose to the occasion and formed the &lt;a href=&quot;https://bsrc.co.uk/&quot;&gt;The British Sporting Rifle Club&lt;/a&gt; which has run the facility ever since. Rumours that the hut was second hand then remain unconfirmed. &lt;br /&gt;
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  464. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: palatino; font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;Displayed at the bottom of the stairs in the NRA building you will find an&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: palatino; font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;important piece of running deer&#39;s history, in the form of a table cloth on which&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: palatino; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Landseer&quot;&gt;Landseer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: palatino; font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;drew the original sketch for the Running Deer target.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  466. For more history and some sage advice on equipment and technique here&#39;s a link to&lt;br /&gt;
  467. RJ &#39;Bob&#39; Maddison&#39;s &lt;a href=&quot;https://bsrc.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Moving-Target-Shooting-R-J-Maddison.pdf&quot;&gt;Shooting at Moving Targets&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;which may be the definitive work.&lt;br /&gt;
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  470. Your pal&lt;br /&gt;
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  486. &lt;a href=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EyKFAsi-xBA/XFsUXrzmcUI/AAAAAAAAFB4/VXWi8KArbm8g8-reo0t5yAGcRaf7PXDGwCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_5293.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EyKFAsi-xBA/XFsUXrzmcUI/AAAAAAAAFB4/VXWi8KArbm8g8-reo0t5yAGcRaf7PXDGwCLcBGAs/s640/IMG_5293.JPG&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  487. You can pay all kinds of money for your ear defenders. So I&#39;m just going to ask you this.&lt;br /&gt;
  488. How much is being able to hear worth to you? Serious thing.&lt;br /&gt;
  489. One of the artful codgers I shoot with had been shooting for well over 40 years when he fired a ten shot string from a 308 wearing a muzzle break, he&#39;d left his ear defenders in the car and didn&#39;t bother. Now deaf in one ear. Its not just cumulative.&lt;br /&gt;
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  491. Do you wish to avoid the &#39;NRA handshake&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
  492. That&#39;s the one where you shake with right hand, cup the left hand to your ear, and shout &quot;whatcha say yer name was?&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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  494. Here in Blighty 3M&#39;s Peltor are the default choice for the target shooting fraternity, all the shops at Bisley sell them. A lot of MSA&#39;s efficacy is in how well the cup seals to your noggin, here&#39;s where&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://us.msasafety.com/Hearing-Protection/Headband,-Electronic-Ear-Muffs/Supreme%26reg%3B-Pro-X-Earmuff/p/000090007600001028&quot;&gt;MSA Sordin Pro X&lt;/a&gt; stand out over their other models and other brands. Gel Cups: Done. End of.&lt;br /&gt;
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  496. In scandiwegian &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vikingrifleseries.com/&quot;&gt;Viking Rifle Series&lt;/a&gt; matches for well over half the field MSA Sordin&#39;s seem to be the default setting. The shotgunning crowd run the whole gamut from; nothing, foam plugs, to cast in-ear plugs, I&#39;ve got cast plugs myself and they are excellent at damping the sound but nothing beats a big pair of solid cans that make an almost perfect seal. For those of you sucking a lemon at the price I also have a building site pair of one of the cheaper MSA models they don&#39;t have the socket for the radio, the gel seals, &amp;nbsp;or the microphone but they really really deaden sound.&lt;br /&gt;
  497. Standing in the pissing rain I recently met a bird shooter wearing a pair of Sordin&#39;s so old they&#39;d been slightly discoloured by the wind and the rain, [I was going to say the plastic looked bleached by the sun but that&#39;s just not plausible] his best guess as to their age was &#39;oh years&#39; he reported them working exactly the same as they&#39;d always done, but was on his second set of batteries. &amp;nbsp;At a quoted 600 hours a set, that&#39;s a fair amount of use.&lt;br /&gt;
  498. &lt;br /&gt;
  499. More kit-tart-ism and adventures afield to follow&lt;br /&gt;
  500. Your pal&lt;br /&gt;
  501. SBW&lt;br /&gt;
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  503. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  504. &lt;br /&gt;
  505. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/1598792324911852310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=1598792324911852310' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/1598792324911852310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/1598792324911852310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-msa-sordin-pro-x.html' title='Review: MSA Sordin Pro X'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EyKFAsi-xBA/XFsUXrzmcUI/AAAAAAAAFB4/VXWi8KArbm8g8-reo0t5yAGcRaf7PXDGwCLcBGAs/s72-c/IMG_5293.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-5485521321020045914</id><published>2020-01-02T01:00:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2020-01-02T01:00:01.270+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="VFG rifle cleaning"/><title type='text'>Review: VFG Rifle Cleaning</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  506. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XOy7et9PdLo/XgpCB_8FyRI/AAAAAAAAFP8/YdnaoAp--Rk9aIvUT8yl6JywLrks8It9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_6029.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XOy7et9PdLo/XgpCB_8FyRI/AAAAAAAAFP8/YdnaoAp--Rk9aIvUT8yl6JywLrks8It9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_6029.JPG&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  507. &lt;br /&gt;
  508. Bore patches have made it into the 21st century with this innovation from&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vfg.de/en/assortments-brands/vfg-weaponcare.html&quot;&gt;VFG&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;weapon care.&lt;br /&gt;
  509. &lt;br /&gt;
  510. VFG should stand for Very effing Good!&lt;br /&gt;
  511. &lt;br /&gt;
  512. Little woollen pellets that fit snugly in your barrel, or very snugly if you buy the intensive version that have brass strands mixed into the wool. You can pull them on a wire, or you can push them with a rod. They really do remove an unbelievable amount of crud. Making a satisfying squeak as they do it.&lt;br /&gt;
  513. Horrible price, but if you hunt around you will find them for about half the price of the most expensive offer. Only ever buy the bags of 500, they&#39;re only twice the price of the boxes of 50.&lt;br /&gt;
  514. I got the last lot posted from Norway which was cheaper than the previous purchase from Amazon.&lt;br /&gt;
  515. It took me a while to accrue the calibers I shoot, and I still don&#39;t have .303. No one seems to stock every size, and the&amp;nbsp;intensive&#39;s have similar availability to rocking horse poop.&lt;br /&gt;
  516. &lt;br /&gt;
  517. More soon&lt;br /&gt;
  518. Your pal&lt;br /&gt;
  519. SBW&lt;br /&gt;
  520. &lt;br /&gt;
  521. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/5485521321020045914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=5485521321020045914' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/5485521321020045914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/5485521321020045914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2020/01/review-vfg-rifle-cleaning.html' title='Review: VFG Rifle Cleaning'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XOy7et9PdLo/XgpCB_8FyRI/AAAAAAAAFP8/YdnaoAp--Rk9aIvUT8yl6JywLrks8It9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s72-c/IMG_6029.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-414848298240714011</id><published>2019-12-30T18:01:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2019-12-30T18:01:53.768+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="6.5 creedmoor"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="review"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="review 2"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="rifle"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tika"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Tika Tac A1"/><title type='text'>Review: Tika Tac A1 Part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  522. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jKeYFh8CHvY/Xgo3_KMdjhI/AAAAAAAAFPw/CtXCC24IycIAtID930Rh4P_jvaRA4n18ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_5725.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jKeYFh8CHvY/Xgo3_KMdjhI/AAAAAAAAFPw/CtXCC24IycIAtID930Rh4P_jvaRA4n18ACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_5725.JPG&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  523. &lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  524. 20&quot; Barrel chambered in 6.5mm Creedmoor, scope is a Delta Stryker FFP with the DLR1 reticle.&lt;/div&gt;
  525. &lt;br /&gt;
  526. Been a while since that happy day when I bought the Tiktac, and the even happier day when I could afford a scope worthy of the name, and finally got to shoot it. I&#39;ve put almost 500 rounds through it.&lt;br /&gt;
  527. In skilled hands these rifles have put the hustle on some very expensive custom rifles.&lt;br /&gt;
  528. &lt;br /&gt;
  529. Accurate AF! As the petulant teenager formerly known as &#39;the littlest bushwacker&#39; would say.&lt;br /&gt;
  530. &lt;br /&gt;
  531. But what, SBW, is it like to live with? I hear you ask.&lt;br /&gt;
  532. &lt;br /&gt;
  533. Well dear reader, it is big and it is clever, and in fairness there are a few things where you get to see the corners that were cut to bring it in for its bargain price. &lt;br /&gt;
  534. &lt;br /&gt;
  535. Finish&lt;br /&gt;
  536. The Tiktac is anodised, which is great if you just carry it from the car to the firing point, mine has been yomped up and down a grimy Norwegian hillside and is showing a few marks.&lt;br /&gt;
  537. I&#39;ll probably Cerakote it at some point. A sleazy purple, seeing as you ask.&lt;br /&gt;
  538. &lt;br /&gt;
  539. Weight&amp;nbsp;5, 098kg&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;background-color: white; color: #70757a; font-family: &amp;quot;arial&amp;quot; , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  540. Its not a light rifle, there&#39;s always some online-hero telling how he uses it as his stalking rifle, wouldn&#39;t be my first choice.&lt;br /&gt;
  541. By the time you&#39;ve added; scope 1,042g, moderator .380g, and mounts .100g&lt;br /&gt;
  542. You&#39;re at &amp;nbsp;6,630kg or 14.6 lbs + Bipod.&lt;br /&gt;
  543. For competitions where there&#39;s a bit of walking involved, or very active Stalking, it might well swing me towards a lighter option if it was to be my only centerfire.&lt;br /&gt;
  544. &lt;br /&gt;
  545. Trigger&lt;br /&gt;
  546. There are both kits and aftermarket triggers, I thought the one it comes with an absolute joy, and in search of greater accuracy the money would be better spent on bullets, powder, primers, and practice.&lt;br /&gt;
  547. &lt;br /&gt;
  548. Muzzle&lt;br /&gt;
  549. I&#39;m not a muzzle brake kind of guy, I find them obnoxious and frankly anti-social. Tika ship all Tiktacs with a .30 brake. The barrel is both threaded and the brake clamps in place, so Tika didn&#39;t concern themselves with cutting a shoulder for your suppressor/silencer/moderator to mate to. As I&#39;m using a &lt;a href=&quot;https://stalonsilencer.com/&quot;&gt;Stalon&lt;/a&gt; moderator which is sized up to .30 cal. this hasn&#39;t affected me, but some shooters with more bore specific moderators have had issues. Tika and the UK importer GMK have offered some washers, and the option of voiding the warranty if you get a gunsmith to sort it out.&lt;br /&gt;
  550. Yeah, pretty crappy isn&#39;t it.&lt;br /&gt;
  551. &lt;br /&gt;
  552. Magazine&lt;br /&gt;
  553. While we&#39;re on &#39;pretty crappy&#39; the magazine is a proper let-down, where the rival Ruger Precision takes generic aftermarket magazines, yer Tiktac &amp;nbsp;can only be fed from Tika&#39;s £120 magazine that, from new, wobbles about and fits so poorly the rifle feeds from it sporadically.&lt;br /&gt;
  554. You can bend the cut-out for the magazine retention catch with a pair of needle nosed pilers and its all good. But really?&lt;br /&gt;
  555. &lt;br /&gt;
  556. That&#39;s not the end of it.&lt;br /&gt;
  557. I&#39;m not the only person to have the magazines floor plate bind, and the spring fail to lift rounds 9 to 1, I&#39;ve seen this fixed by drilling out the rivet that holds the magazine together bending the spring to give it a bit more push and reassembling. For my heard-earned £120 I&#39;d expect better.&lt;br /&gt;
  558. &lt;br /&gt;
  559. A welcome upgrade (not shown, I&#39;ll update the picture at some point)&lt;br /&gt;
  560. If you&#39;ve ever shot an Accuracy International (if you want to you can rent one for the &lt;a href=&quot;https://nra.org.uk/events/mcqueen-2019/&quot;&gt;McQueens at Bisley&lt;/a&gt;) you might well remember the ergonomic joy that is its bolt handle, its not one of those knurled &quot;tactical&quot; numbers, just a sphere on a short length of bent bar that falls to your hand with a pleasing proportion. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/SterkShooting/&quot;&gt;Sterk in Australia&lt;/a&gt; make something similar for Tika rifles, book early to avoid disappointment they do a couple of batches a year and you can put your name on a waiting list. After an interminable wait I got the &#39;its time to pay&#39; email and mine shipped within ten days.&lt;br /&gt;
  561. It&#39;s wonderful, everything the original design should have been.&lt;br /&gt;
  562. In order to fit it you need to strip the bolt which brings us to....&lt;br /&gt;
  563. &lt;br /&gt;
  564. The Firing Pin.&lt;br /&gt;
  565. While I had the bolt stripped down to add the new handle I was horrified to notice there is some &amp;nbsp;galling - &amp;nbsp;binding and scratching on the shaft of the firing pin, leading to an unwanted increase in lock time. I&#39;ll add some pix when I decide how to deal with this niggle.&lt;br /&gt;
  566. &lt;br /&gt;
  567. Would I buy another one?&lt;br /&gt;
  568. If all I wanted from it was shooting from a highseat or firing point near the car. Hell Yes. Unequivocally. Several people have shot gold medal scores with mine.&lt;br /&gt;
  569. &lt;br /&gt;
  570. Coming soon - Clash of the Creedmoors: Tiktac Vs Ruger Precision Rifle&lt;br /&gt;
  571. &lt;br /&gt;
  572. More soon&lt;br /&gt;
  573. Your pal&lt;br /&gt;
  574. SBW&lt;br /&gt;
  575. &lt;br /&gt;
  576. &lt;br /&gt;
  577. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;blogger-post-footer&quot;&gt;Get a feed to here the latest SBW nonsense as soon as it&#39;s posted&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/feeds/414848298240714011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8825273392145948457&amp;postID=414848298240714011' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/414848298240714011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8825273392145948457/posts/default/414848298240714011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2019/12/review-tika-tac-a1-part-2.html' title='Review: Tika Tac A1 Part 2'/><author><name>The Suburban Bushwacker</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09372690405902840131</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jKeYFh8CHvY/Xgo3_KMdjhI/AAAAAAAAFPw/CtXCC24IycIAtID930Rh4P_jvaRA4n18ACLcBGAsYHQ/s72-c/IMG_5725.JPG" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8825273392145948457.post-402507921066061836</id><published>2019-12-03T17:14:00.000+00:00</published><updated>2019-12-03T17:14:07.954+00:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Midnight Sun Rifle Challenge"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Norway"/><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="viking rifle series"/><title type='text'>Midnight Sun Rifle Challenge pt7</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
  578. &lt;a href=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CtR6q5tddMw/Xda5TCwnI4I/AAAAAAAAFM4/U0gHjGlM3J073cgfOg0JillaPlITYyGzACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/IMG_6869.JPG&quot; imageanchor=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1600&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1600&quot; height=&quot;640&quot; src=&quot;https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CtR6q5tddMw/Xda5TCwnI4I/AAAAAAAAFM4/U0gHjGlM3J073cgfOg0JillaPlITYyGzACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_6869.JPG&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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  580. &lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;helvetica neue&amp;quot;; font-size: x-small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  581. &lt;ol&gt;
  582. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Work on your fitness, I talked a good fight but didn’t do enough. Not nearly enough.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  583. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Book everything long in advance, we could have halved our travel and hotel costs.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  584. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;EU firearms pass. If you live in the Met police area its child’s play, their paperwork game is strong, other forces may vary in their application of the legislation&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  585. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Develop a load and record its data to 5m increments, choose a powder you can defiantly buy regularly and stockpile bullets. Even Spud1967 ran out of SST’s during our practice period.I’m trying to horde enough to last the life of the barrel.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  586. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Be very sure you’ve set your zero stop correctly. If you don&#39;t have a zero stop get a proper scope.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  587. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Travel early - the money you saved on early bookings will be well spent acclimatising. Norway looks like a nice place to hang out. We were both battered by the time we arrived and I’m sure it added to our woes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  588. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Dress light but windproof - knee and elbow pads are a great idea. There are cheap alternatives to Snickers work pants but the way the knee pads are held in place on the Snickers floor layers trousers makes them the best. Of course Crye precision come with fantastic looking knee pads.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  589. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Lightweight boots - learn from ultralight hikers, a pound off your feet is worth three off your pack&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  590. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;You need a Jerven bag&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  591. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Take your own 10 power binos - more time studying the targets will help&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  592. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Take Compeed it didn’t save my competition but it did save the day for a lad who wore wellies. Its the best insurance £3 will buy you.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  593. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Shoot off a rear bag, if our bipod-only strategy was any good the Vikings would be doing it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  594. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Bring a shooting sling that you’ve adjusted to a perfect fit, and use it.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  595. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Water isn’t hydrating enough - bring Dioralyte (isotonic salts).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  596. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;A rifle scabbard like those made by Vorn, that keeps the centre mass nearer your belt are a much better idea than the barrel-down designs. That wobbling weight between your shoulders is fatiguing. Putting your bag, and therefore rifle down moderator first is a bad bad idea.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  597. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Paint some engineers blue/red on your cases if you plan to retrieve them. It’ll save a lot of time.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  598. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;If you’re planning a build: 6mmBR, 6XC, or 6mmSLR (if you can face the 1500 barrel life) [or perhaps 22 Nosler or 223 Valkyrie?] are all potential 1200m alternatives to the 6.5mm rifles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  599. &lt;li style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;A First Focal Plane scope; with an unfussy reticle, that reads in Milliradians is minimum bid. As ever; spend whatever it takes to get a good, robust scope, then drop the change on a rifle.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  600. &lt;/ol&gt;
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  604. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Now we’ve mapped out the bumps in the road for you, you’ll have no excuses in 2020.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  605. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
  606. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;There&#39;s a crew who claim to be going, ping me and I&#39;ll join you to the facebook group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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  608. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;Your pal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  609. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;SBW&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  610. &lt;span style=&quot;font-kerning: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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