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Been lamping bunnies last few weeks.......and im loving it.

Used to be on the foxes week in week out but im bored of that now wasting my time and diesel.

Now running a litle 17 and t50 in green .had a 119m bunny tonight shooting right hand (wow that wasnt easy being a leftie)

Im still cheatin with the thermal tho

Good for you - I have found spotter lamping has a place too, particularly on quarry that has not been lamped before, leaving the NV for later in the season.

I still lamp now and then, it just seems "simpler", a little more basic. Use a red T20 and .17hmr.

We still red lamp for foxes but haven't been out for around a month...... I keep getting them just sitting and waiting, either up a high seat or standing on the back bumper of my3 door GrandVit. I had 2 that came steaming into the mating screams on the Foxpro this week.....second one was a shy vixen too. Result.

Got some bunnies to do too but they'll be with the thermal and a red torch. Looking forward to that.

I've spent a lot of time on the back of the Vit, including a few all-nighters, and have just improved that by buying a square hop up work platform from Toolstation - just about spot on bumper height and enough room to get a seat on now. Also got a normal rectangular one from Wickes for round the side against the rear wheel so I can now just step round and shoot across the roof to the right. Luxury. Sheer luxury.

Fizz

Fizz, don't you find the Vit a little small when you're wearing your gimp shooting suit, just a touch restrictive ?

Any pics of trucks set up for shooting. My friend wants to do his disco some how......thinking seat on front bumper for driving

thesmi wrote:Any pics of trucks set up for shooting. My friend wants to do his disco some how......thinking seat on front bumper for driving

It's this simple, even with the head up if using a screen. Same for the other side of the car - a right handed shooter can shoot left handed off the mirror because the rifle forestock is already supported. Note the piece of foam lifting the rifle to make it more maneuverable with more range.

I also find I can track quite a wide path - sort of point the rifle around the window a bit while viewing the screen because they have a wide viewing angle.

Its not the support more the eye dominance and changing the norm

Hello all.
"thesmi wrote:
Any pics of trucks set up for shooting. My friend wants to do his disco some how......thinking seat on front bumper for driving"
Very basic and can be uncomfortable and "bloody cold" but the early Land Rovers had their good points "fold flat windscreen and removable door tops and they all used pre metric nuts and bolts " plus if you have one of the pre 72 models there is no road tax required . The early Mark 1's are not cheap any more and even the Mark 2's and the Mark 2A's are getting expensive for what they are, but as a solid "VERY BASIC 4 X 4 WORKHORSE" quite hard to match in this country for value. When you compare the price of a farm utility vehicle against the price of a used older Land Rover "can't figure out where the value is in buying farm utility vehicle".
Farms in this part of the country are mostly small i'sh 100 plus acres would be the average and a 300 odd acre farm would getting big etc so legal road use is essential as several permissions might be visited in one outing. Best I have seen to date is a old ex utility LR crew cab 130 open back truck with hand and roof rails and a old captains chair out of a Winnebago bolted to heavy solid plastic pallet that was easily loaded and removed into and out of the trucks open back. Being a "all bolt together vehicle" the police had a bit of a "purge" in this part of the country a few years ago because there was a large number of alleged pre 72 LR's with the newer engines, g/box, coil springs on disc axles driving around on the historic/exempt road tax. Another vehicle that has the utility type build and usefulness that I would like to have good look at is the Toyota Utility that is sold in Australia and also in Africa and Asia (don't think that any have ever been commercially available over here)
A older Land Rover is a bit like a Lego kit, a set of Whitworth and AF spanners and sockets and you can build or alter a LR (within reason) to suit yourself and you can legally drive on the roads for pennies if it is Agri licenced to use red diesel within a reasonable radius of home etc. As a "no airs and graces with very few frills 4 X 4 workhorse" that can be customised and altered to suit anyone's taste they are very hard to beat for a "lets go and do it and get it done vehicle" Just my ramblings but I have had so much off road work, fun and laughter in a LR I have to give credit and "mark them up" Thanks all Phil
PS. went with a mate to see a tray back LR near Southampton a year or so ago engine had been converted to a 2.5 Ford turbo (I think it had the "dura chain cam drive" ?) hell of a improvement over the standard LR engine.

Edit and re-stating "If anyone is not prepared for a bit of hard ship by being uncomfortable and they are also not very happy about been cold and being bounced about most of the time, then "A older basic Land Rover is never going to be their choice for a shooting vehicle"