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Sweet - its nice picking them off . BTW - whats your load you settled on for the 20PRAC ? Im having one built , gotta take barrel blank to niel monday , my new action will be there and i haven't seen it yet . Soo excited - cheers

Nice A , im no way near finished ! But did get the 2nd of a pair 2 days ago that was soo shy - because id nailed his partner . Every time id have him almost lined up with s410-177 , when i would cheek the rifle heed see the movement . This happened 6 odd times over the last 2weeks . He had somehow got the feeder on the floor taken one of the food balls under the bbq bench and was having a good meal , he did look up at for at least 5 seconds but i didn't move and he carried on ! seconds later a 7.9 accupell whistled thru the boiler room richochayed off the patio and tinged off the metal shed 10 yards behind . He made it a few feet and fell over ! Im going to put in some bisley HP - pestcontrolls now , but a wise one off the streets as it were

Looks like a juvenile as the leangth of his tale is short . And the definition of colour in his feathers arnt quite there yet , well he won't be getting anymore defined in plumage now anyway This is interesting tho , i remember a few years back seeing an all black 100% magpie on the same bit of ground every morning for about a month , then he went missing ! I think some one stole my idea - took it with an air rifle and sent it to the taxidermist ! Thats what id of done if id managed to get it ! I bet John Darling would of too RIP

Two more from the bedroom window earlier , almost had a 3rd . ILL let them settle for a bit, then S410 on the ready

Lol plastic fantastic

Is that an plastic one ? I got a little owl but never tried the wings thing !

I got 1 earlier , missed a second at about 100ish as my scope was still dialled 1+3/4 MOA for a jackdaw - that i missed juuust high

LoL , hees doing mine also ! The wait is a drag . - for bits not niel !

One of two down , an accupell between the shoulder blades from bedroom window

Well mind made up , i view magpie as the terrorist of the countryside , hees going down !

Should i drop the magpie gathering food from my bird feeder ? Thats the thing its probably feeding chicks or young , what would you do ? My instinct is to take him , hees very jumpy , i had him in cross hair once - then flitted away .

Got one comming not too far away i hope , its a little different , when i drop barrel blank over to smith , the action should be there and ill take a few pics of that as a start and try to post for ya ! i cant wait .

3 more magpie today

Thankyou for input im thinking so i dont necessarily need goretex as they be used mainly spring to autumn ? If leather is good quality and looked after ? I normally just wear chamu wellies and cheaper dunlops when its muddy and wet mostly for winter !

Hi all , iv needed some for a while now but not sure which ones to get ? What do you guys wear or recommend ? as thell be used for dog walking varminting on farms / some very hilly , foxing , maybe some decoying from hide etc . I do like berghaus fleeces / gortex jackets etc there stuffs quality ! budget upto maybe 200 ? Cheers

I know what you mean , it varys , they are i think the most difficult quarry to snyp ! obviously it helps when they haven't seen you . It sometimes pays to move position but they could be watching from distance . So wont ever come back . But they do get deeply curious and sometimes do ! Iv often shot 2-3 maggies in succsession which makes me over the moon

Hi there , do you mean squirrels ? Iv used peanut butter that worked good but really need to bait at least a few days . What you shooting them with ?

lol nice , i do love air rifles for sniping them . Theres a certain tree they love 48 yards away , and my first milldot ( with .177 AAs410 ) is set as point of aim at that distance iv had two recently both one shot kills , its a credit to pcps accuracy and effectiveness . keep it up lads off soon with hmr to deal with some more

visited 3 shoots today , it was quite windy and iv broken my kestrel ! limited my shots to 300 but still struggeled today, missed carion at 270 yards - not enough windage . But have managed to start my magpie cull with a lone 231 yarder ! - had 1 rabbit 1oo yarder , BUT my biggest annoyance was a grey squirrel just over 100 , i dialled 8 clicks - 2moa to account for my 200 yard zero ( 2" high at 100y ) and i dialled the wrong way ! IDIOT - i seen the large hole appear 4" above its head lol, how stupid ! At least it was a stunning day ! ATB-Tim

cheers lads keep em coming , hopefully be out this weekend ! weather permitting . Ill have to cheak zero on hmr first - then on the hunt !

Its that time of year when im out after these little challenging feathered pests , this year im gunna start asap ! I noticed a few days ago a maggi allready building a nest ! Christ they dont hang about ! And after chatting with si-snipe recently ( he is an amazing marksman ! ) and seeing some of his awsome footage again on Utube iv really got the bug . weather is getting better and dryer ! Atm ill start with my hmr then hopefully not too far away im having a .20 practical built ( using 223Ai now ) for mostly daytime vermin . So anyone else share your magpie encounters, i will cheers tim.

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hi people , i also had geovid 10x42 , awsome , in 1200mtr model but i did manage to get them to ping off houses at over 1400 ! the same downside is there slightly heavy , iv now traded them in for a custom barrel !