Thread: Game bird diary for all

I have some breasting to do tomorrow (Parries are the only bird I wont pluck)





Used the SxS for the first time. and last

First shot cough shots! blew me back a bit. Figured it out in the end the front trigger lets both barrels go but if I pull the back trigger then front trigger its fine.

Good haul Tobes

I spooked a mob of parries tonight and three went into Possum Trappers sights while he was sitting with his blonde demon and he got three with two shots.

Blonde demon?

Originally Posted by Gibo

Blonde demon?

Blonde bitch the same age as @Toby bitch

Originally Posted by Dundee

I spooked a mob of parries tonight and three went into Possum Trappers sights while he was sitting with his blonde demon and he got three with two shots.Attachment 25812

Good work PT.

Originally Posted by Toby

First shot cough shots! blew me back a bit. Figured it out in the end the front trigger lets both barrels go but if I pull the back trigger then front trigger its fine.

You didn't make the fatal mistake of putting two fingers on the triggers while using a double triggered gun did you?

Originally Posted by Toby

Used the SxS for the first time. and last

First shot cough shots! blew me back a bit. Figured it out in the end the front trigger lets both barrels go but if I pull the back trigger then front trigger its fine.

Take it to a gunsmith, it might be doubling. My fathers old sxs did this. Pull one trigger and both barrels go. I had this happen to me when I was about 8, the possum wasn't happy either!

Originally Posted by Pointer

You didn't make the fatal mistake of putting two fingers on the triggers while using a double triggered gun did you?

Nope, but a guy in the group did haha.

I'm not too worried about it stug, it gives me something to tinker with

Went out for my weekly walk this morning, left home at 8am, had a bird by half eight, home by nine!

Wasn't exactly plain sailing, some terrible shooting on my behalf meant the rooster that Betty found for me was hit a bit far back. It dropped a leg as it sailed away, nearly over the crest of a hill 100 metres away. I thought at this point it was all but lost, when at the top of the hill, it spiralled out of the sky like a burning helicopter and bit the dust! Needless to say it was one very much alive and annoyed rooster that was retrieved to hand by Betty. This is her first retrieve on a pricked bird and runner, so I'm happy with how she took it all in stride:

Betty
Dad

Nice effort and well done Betty!

What were you doing to break your winch rope?

Ask Gibo

Rrainstorm turned our spot to sloppy custard, sheared the front pin on the PTO shaft (never again, now carry spares) and stripped the cable from the hook. Rolled a tire of the rim, spent the night sliding down a clay slope... Luckily snatched out by a mate of a mate the next morning (in a Nissan thankfully)

Those shear-pins are a real pain to get at too! Thought of getting rid of the steel cable and using synthetic rope?

Yep, welded the rear one together, and drilled the front one out and put a 8mm high tensile one through it. so if it breaks, it breaks the front one only.
I thought about synthetic yeah, but am worried about its life span, hear its no good left in sun, it perishes? I wouldn't mind because then I can get rid of the massive Nissan fairlead and bring the front back about 75mm.
I have a china winch new in the box here, might pull the cable off that but I'm suspicious of its quality?