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Chaps,

Thanks for the kind comments -very glad you enjoyed it.

As in my email:

In addition to echoing thanks to Andrew V, my parents, the producers and the people of mid-wales without whom ...etc I'd just like to pass some 'public' thanks to TerryH too; not there on the day (right now he's busy enjoying the delights of some dodgy spot on the Dark Continent) he helped plan the thing -but didn't get to do the fun part.

Next time Terry!

Thanks to all for good fun, good banter and getting into the spirit of it - not to mention a uniformly impressive standard of marksmanship that made the whole thing worthwhile.

Precision reloading skills put to the test on the first detail eh BD.......

I am sure it took a lot of planning leaving no time for your relaoding

Emergency re-sizing

They just wouldn't let it lie Can't believe you got a bloody pic too

Thanks 6 Pointer.

Here's are the new links:

http://www.snh.gov.uk/snh-for-you/deer-managers/

http://www.bestpracticeguides.org.uk/

Ian,

Great links; thanks!

My closest connection to royalty is an occasional trip to Burger King.

German,

That made me chuckle!

I too avidly read your articles; delighted to see you here

Not a very strong act to follow Tony's pics; but here are few pics of a sparrowhawk circling below me on StMichael’s Mount last week – taken with a pocket Nikon

Very nice. How did you take the 'through the spotter' pics? I can never manage to do that well

HWH,

Following your advice on the Lumix, and a wee bit of research; picked up one of the new FZ38s this afternoon. Seems a very impressive piece of kit so far ....hopefully some new pics here soon!

Any top tips on a robust bag for it? (I'm trying to find something that is outdoory/mountain as opposed to 'day snapper')

Thanks

Matt

Stag,

Thanks for the pointer; I shall look into that

This thread has passed me by for some reason Some excellent photos.

I gave up roe shooting because I found that I enjoyed the fieldcraft involved in stalking 'just to see how close I could get', and to enjoy watching them close up, more than taking a shot..

Had the odd (not very successful) go with my little digital 'instamatic'. A bit frustrating because of the limitations of the camera and lack of meaningful zoom. Never upgraded to posh kit -the price of lenses for digital SLRs frightened me off! (Thought these pics were only a couple of year's old; rather shocked to dig these out and notice they were taken way back in Jan 05