Recent content by Polestar

Looks like a great ri+*e Pierre, and I love the scope. Also love the idea of the Police selling off g*@ns ... over here they send all siezed/handed-in 'items' to the foundry where they are melted down. I've seen some absolutely beautiful weap**s (including some with historical significance)...

Pothunter. I've given a lot of thought to your comment, and have come to the conclusion that when I'm 'hunting', my priorities are different tomost of my 'bushcraft' forays. I don't mean that I'm not tuned in to my surroundings, or use a lot of fieldcraft skills etc. simply that I have a...

That's one of the great joys of belonging to a forum such as this ... not only will ignorance be quickly pointed out ;) , but this will always be followed up with some appropriate advice/information.

Thanks all. I'll keep a close look-out in future. I must admit I didn't mess about with the cysts too much .... as soon as I found them I threw the liver away. I cut up the rest of the animal into small pieces before the cat got it so I'm pretty sure I'd have spotted anything else in the meat...

I have been thinking about starting to look for a trap myself - having seen one of the River cottage episodes a couple of days back where HFW had one made to a French design. I'll have a browse on the River Cottage website when I have some time. I think the flavour of eels are vastly underrated...

In one of the rabbits I shot yesterday, I noticed that the liver had two fluid-filled cysts inside of it. They were about 1-1.5cm long and about .5cm diameter. The rabbit looked (and acted) healthy and there were no other signs of it being anything other than OK. The rest of the insides and ofal...

DECISION MADE .... I'm now the proud owner of a Sako Finnfire Varminter (heavy barrel), and beautiful it is. I tried the CZ's, but there is no comparison in the engineering, and particularly in the trigger action. It's a bit of a heavy beast especially with the sound-mod and scope, but I also...

Had a semi-auto years ago and never really got on with it. Also need to consider that my son (11) is usually out with me, so safety (both perceived and real) are paramount ... hence a bolt action this time round. David

Well my ticket finally came through, and I'm now in the market for a rim-fire (.22lr). I've managed to track down a Sako Finnfire but am not sure if it's worth spending 150% :eek: of the price of a CZ (the 'style' in synthetic and nickel looks the business) when it's essentially for...

I always 'double bag' mine and put them straight in the dustbin. I'll be calling round and checking your bin ... just to make sure you havn't accidentally thrown out that good looking blade with the bones ;) David

Ian. Two of the best 'identification' books I've found are the 'Field Guide To British Deer' edited by F.J. Taylor Page (of the British Deer Society), and 'Deer' by Norma Chapman. I find the former particularly useful as it contains information on the different seasons as well as things like...

Would be fantastic if it can. :) The course sounds great, and much preferable to learning 'on-line'. The theory part doesn't worry me too much (one of the joys of having an academic background), and the 'grouping' should be quite straightforward. I need to give myself as much time as possible...

Thanks Mark (and all others that have answered my call). I was going to get the CD but it appears that it is only available for PCs (I have a Mac!). Looks like the only option is either to book a course now for next year, or carry on studying now, and wait until closer to the course date to get...

Does anybody have a copy of the Deer Stalking manual which they would be willing to loan me for a short while. I am hoping to do the course either later this year or at the beginning of next year (it would be easier to do it locally and I think that the only course this year is in a couple of...

Sorry, I seem to have got some of my responses in with the quotes I was responding to. Hope it all makes sense.