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Post by sakorifle on May 14, 2024 7:19:25 GMT -5
greetings to you all.
I am back after a very long time away, now retired from professional deer control, but still hunting as a hobby, a lot slower than i used to i may add.
The reason i left was because i was working for the goverment and my posts could be viewed on other sites google itself being the main one, and as a civil servant one had to be careful.
But im now retired as is Bailey my faithful old dog who never once let me down finding a carcass or a wounded deer.
Hope i will be accepted back into the Indiana community.
regards to you all
yes its really Billy from tne uk, older and dafter
lol
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Post by huntsemall on May 14, 2024 7:45:23 GMT -5
Welcome back......retirement is a great thing!
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Post by onebentarrow on May 14, 2024 8:54:31 GMT -5
Boy I missed you. Tryed to find information on your health to see if you were alive and kicken but no luck. Glad to have you back.
1st question. Do you still have to use non lead bullets or was that just required thru work?
Did you cut all access to us while you were gone or did you follow along and just not post?
Onebentarrow
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greetings
May 14, 2024 8:56:27 GMT -5
via mobile
Post by Woody Williams on May 14, 2024 8:56:27 GMT -5
Billy,
We are very happy to have you back with your wit and vast knowledge of hunting.
We were concerned about you and your health. Glad it wasn’t that!
Looking forward to your posts!
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Post by Mack Apiary Bees on May 14, 2024 9:01:01 GMT -5
Welcome back and I bet you are loving retirement.
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Post by sakorifle on May 14, 2024 9:35:14 GMT -5
Well thank you all pleased to be back,
onebentarrow
The uk law at the moment is that we can still use lead for hunting deer etc but not for wildfowl or anywhere near water.
The forestry England policy is not to use lead but that is there policy not law.
At the moment there is a review and we know the ban is coming, there is lead free ammunition for bigger rifles and shotguns that is not a problem but nothing for 410,16 bore or 22lr that works,
There is i believe 2 3/4 inch 20 bore steel but at the moment nothing for 2 1/2inch and old enflish guns are 2 1/2 inch
there is bismuth but its very expensive.
They have reccomended that lead be allowed in our air rifles but all this could change at anytime.
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Post by sakorifle on May 14, 2024 9:43:44 GMT -5
Loved my job mack Apiary bees
46years 8 months and 3 days i did and i miss it but what i do not miss is the modern nonsense that went along with a goverment job.
would i do it again you bet if i was 20 and before the nonesense all started but i learn to switch off to it as much as i could.
how many deer did i shoot
well i shot at least 200 a year for the time i was on so you can count up. lol
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Post by whitetaildave24 on May 14, 2024 9:52:42 GMT -5
Welcome back and glad to hear your doing well and enjoying retirement. Look forward to your future posts.
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Post by bowonlykindofguy1 on May 14, 2024 11:21:56 GMT -5
Welcome back,it has been a while!
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Post by HighCotton on May 14, 2024 14:51:52 GMT -5
My My!
Good to see you back Billy!
I had a few thoughts of you in the past few months.
Once as I was fitting a scope to my Sako Finnfire P94S.
And again as I mounted a set of Craven panniers to my BMW Toaster tank motorcycle. Badge says they came from Eden Grove London. I'd guess you'd know where that is!
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Post by sakorifle on May 14, 2024 16:57:32 GMT -5
Hello High cottontail
Hope you are as everyone else on here is keeping well
i know where London is but i have never been there i am a country lad it is over 300 miles away from me and when i see the trouble and stabbings etc i thank my lucky stars i live away out here.
Yes i still have my old bonneville and i bought (WAIT FOR IT LOL) A honda monkey bike and i tell you what it is a smile a mile great fun to go to the local coffee shops the nearest being nine miles away.
180 miles per uk gallon, im now in no hurry to get anywhere so it is lovely on these single track country roads.
And yes i still have the sako 75 and it will be getting used again in the roe rut if not before.
This is going to take a little explaining but as you know all shooting rights and land in the uk is owned by someone, one can sell the land and still keep the shooting rights oneself
Now the forestry bought this land but unknown to them but known to me for over forty years they did not own the shooting rights i did know the titled sir ***** that did own them and when i retired i hired them from his esate.
So i can still go into the forest with a gun of any description and shoot all legal quarry.
It has not gone down too well with the forestry as you can imagine but that is the uk law.
i am changing this into a post so i had better stop. lol
regards to all
Billy the professional pensioner, lol
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Post by saltydog on May 15, 2024 4:37:45 GMT -5
Welcome back, you've been missed !
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