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Saturday 6.10.2012 First blood
Saturday 6.10.2012.While everyone else is out having a pint or sat in drooling vaguely towards the gogglebox I thought it was a fine night to go out and look for a fox. The moon was something over 60%...
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Sunday 07.10.2012 Shed life
So I had a baited Fenn trap in the shed waiting for a rat customer. The bait had been eaten and it had triggered one morning, so I figure mouse.I set up my new Scoutguard SG 550 camera to watch the...
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Monday 08.10.2012 Lamping the bog again
The Geological Survey of Ireland site has a Public Viewer which is a great little asset to me. Unfortunately Google Earth only offers poorly defined shapes and colours to represent the geography of...
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Monday 09.10.2012 Swamp search
As promised I headed for the bog to search the swamp for the first fox I shot last night. Truth be told I was neither confident nor looking forward to the task. I simply don't get on with these...
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Optimus prime? The Jury is out...
I got a new toy in the hope of ridding myself of the weight of the 28amp battery I'm currently using to light up the countryside with my LF170 Striker. The Optimus LD-50 Laser Designator is it's name....
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The Optimus strikes back... Oh, so corny.
I ditched the 28amp battery and Lightforce tonight, instead using my EagleTac T100C2 Mark II LED torch as my spotter. The lack of a heavy backpack weighing me down was quite a relief, this I can get...
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Large moon here at the moment (99% full but on the wane now), not good for lamping so it's a little quiet. I had hoped to get out with the HMR and pop some bunnies or corvids during our recent good...
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Changing my ways...
Evening folks,For some time I've grown tired of lugging a heavy lead acid battery about, I've never weighed it but I do intend to do so in the not too distant future. But, as of tonight, it's become a...
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Sandy beach to mountain high...
I'm laid out here typing, swigging away on a bottle of home brew gut rot cider, which is, I must say starting to taste vaguely like something that wasn't brewed in a septic tank, trying to recount the...
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So, the last two foxes I shot, what did I do with them? After picking them up I was thinking which farmers driveway I'd leave them in... As there are a few farmers in that valley who have asked me to...
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I ordered a FandyFire STL-V6 from DealExtreme (the slowest shipping website in the Universe, but it's cheap so I shouldn't complain...) before I bought the Thrunite TN31 on special offer, to use as a...
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To temper the disappointment of my Crelant not arriving, yet again, I thought tonight I'll give the Fandyfire STL-v6 a go as a scope mounted flashlight. The first item on the agenda was to make a...
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I've just been trawling a few sites for flashlight mounts for my scope. I was tickled to see, what looks to me, exactly the same two piece figure of 8 mount with a screw in the middle selling for €8 on...
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Outfoxed...
Dad owns some land on the end of an island, linked to the mainland by bridge. When he started farming there first there were no foxes at all. They'd not discovered the island, that all changed when...
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This morning, at the mart in Maam Cross I was told where I could find the carcass of a ewe. This is a serious bit of information for any fox shooter, something not to be wasted, particularly with the...
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Wahey! My Crelant 7G5CS and its Collimator head arrived this morning. I thought I'd be waiting at least another week for it to come in the door.First impressions, it's heavy and seems quite well made....
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I've been neglecting my little blog!Luck hasn't been going my way of late with weather and shifty foxes.Last night I was going to the valley to compare the Crelant 7g5cs with it's collimator head and...
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High Intensity Discharge lights are something I've been keeping an eye on for a while. There have been a few put out on the market before now. I think there may be a one scope mounted HID lamp but I'm...
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Since my last outing cabin fever had well and truly set in. The next night had been foggy and though we ventured out we saw exactly diddly squat, actually I lie, we saw one cat and one dog.The next two...
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Finally, something to write about !If it hasn't been bad weather stopping me going out it has been something else.I was approached last Saturday at the local livestock mart by a fellow shareholder on...
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