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over a year ago
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"Anyone else on here into Hunting or Fishing?? And before anyone goes on about killing animals etc... anything I shoot or catch is for the table!!"
I love fishing but I always throw the runts back in but for some reason they always get caught again.
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"I used to hunt but turned to target rifle years ago and fishing I tend to go for pike or coarse fishing. "
Do you like target rifle?? Thinking about getting a rifle, Mainly pheasant and woodcock hunting for me. I mostly fish for trout with a couple of days on the river for salmon thrown in, and maybe one or two local pike comps a year!! And a days mackrel fishing for the freezer |
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"Anyone else on here into Hunting or Fishing?? And before anyone goes on about killing animals etc... anything I shoot or catch is for the table!! I love fishing but I always throw the runts back in but for some reason they always get caught again. "
The runts are always hungry thats the p_oblem  |
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"Anyone else on here into Hunting or Fishing?? And before anyone goes on about killing animals etc... anything I shoot or catch is for the table!!"
What’s the point in shooting something and it can’t shoot back ? Very one sided affair |
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"Anyone else on here into Hunting or Fishing?? And before anyone goes on about killing animals etc... anything I shoot or catch is for the table!!
What’s the point in shooting something and it can’t shoot back ? Very one sided affair "
Well when I used to shoot rabbits, crows, gulls, foxes etc it was more for pest control. But anything I shot that was edible rabbits duck pheasant etc was eaten. Wild fame is one of the healthiest meats going. |
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"Anyone else on here into Hunting or Fishing?? And before anyone goes on about killing animals etc... anything I shoot or catch is for the table!!
What’s the point in shooting something and it can’t shoot back ? Very one sided affair
Well when I used to shoot rabbits, crows, gulls, foxes etc it was more for pest control. But anything I shot that was edible rabbits duck pheasant etc was eaten. Wild fame is one of the healthiest meats going. "
I was the exact same. Would love to meet up and go for a shot if you were interested? |
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"Anyone else on here into Hunting or Fishing?? And before anyone goes on about killing animals etc... anything I shoot or catch is for the table!!
What’s the point in shooting something and it can’t shoot back ? Very one sided affair "
Alan stick to the top of the league posts and trolling united fans!! (Im also a liverpool fan)  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Anyone else on here into Hunting or Fishing?? And before anyone goes on about killing animals etc... anything I shoot or catch is for the table!!
What’s the point in shooting something and it can’t shoot back ? Very one sided affair
Well when I used to shoot rabbits, crows, gulls, foxes etc it was more for pest control. But anything I shot that was edible rabbits duck pheasant etc was eaten. Wild fame is one of the healthiest meats going.
I was the exact same. Would love to meet up and go for a shot if you were interested? "
Id definitely be interested in meeting up for a shot |
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I don’t get shooting, our wildlife is becoming scarce. What skill is there in shooting anything with a shotgun ? How many animals get injured by these and aren’t picked up and left to suffer.
Pointless in my opinion.
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"I don’t get shooting, our wildlife is becoming scarce. What skill is there in shooting anything with a shotgun ? How many animals get injured by these and aren’t picked up and left to suffer.
Pointless in my opinion.
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It's about population control and it's a numbers game.
Lets take the fox as an example, their habitat has been vastly reduced, it's awful and sad but unless you want to move out of your house and give it to the foxes it's done.
You then have two choices left:
1. Leave them be, don't hunt them and let them breed away as they please. Result? They will attack livestock and even babies in extreme cases as there just isn't enough food, you get a population of starving and prone to disease animals who eventually die off.
2. Control the population through hunting with rifles. Result? You have fewer animals but they have enough to eat and you therefor have a healthier stock to breed.
It's either have lots of sick foxes who create sick offspring or a smaller number of healthy foxes with healthy offspring.
Yes Humans took their land but that's done and ignoring the p_oblem because foxes are cute and you think they shouldn't be controlled is doing them no favours. |
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"I don’t get shooting, our wildlife is becoming scarce. What skill is there in shooting anything with a shotgun ? How many animals get injured by these and aren’t picked up and left to suffer.
Pointless in my opinion.
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Personally been hunting roughly 14 or 15 years and can count on one hand the amount of birds ive shot and not been retrieved! |
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Tbh anytime I went fishing the only thing I could seem to catch was a cold  so I tried a more different approach
Headed off one Saturday morning to my local railway bridge took my rod out  put some bait on the hook and tru it over the bridge onto the line and waited
And waited
Eventually a passer by stoped with me .. have you cought anything Ollie today yet
Yea your the first. |
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Personally been hunting roughly 14 or 15 years and can count on one hand the amount of birds ive shot and not been retrieved!
I have rescued a number of wildfowl that have been injured by shotgun pellets and left badly injured and wounded for days by hunters.
Is this humane or part of the great sport of shooting and hunting ?!
Is the barbaric shooting of thousands migrant birds in Malta and Greece acceptable then , regardless of species ? |
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"Personally been hunting roughly 14 or 15 years and can count on one hand the amount of birds ive shot and not been retrieved!
I have rescued a number of wildfowl that have been injured by shotgun pellets and left badly injured and wounded for days by hunters.
Is this humane or part of the great sport of shooting and hunting ?!
Is the barbaric shooting of thousands migrant birds in Malta and Greece acceptable then , regardless of species ?"
It’s like anything, if you don’t like it just don’t do it. If you don’t like others doing it try to vote to get it banned. I’ll hunt as long as it’s legal. It’s a skill and a nessecary way of controlling vermin.
The main reason I took up hunting is so that no matter what happens to the government or civil authority in a time of crisis I can ensure my family is well fed. I can hunt in a field behind my home if I need to! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Personally been hunting roughly 14 or 15 years and can count on one hand the amount of birds ive shot and not been retrieved!
I have rescued a number of wildfowl that have been injured by shotgun pellets and left badly injured and wounded for days by hunters.
Is this humane or part of the great sport of shooting and hunting ?!
Is the barbaric shooting of thousands migrant birds in Malta and Greece acceptable then , regardless of species ?"
Ive also had to put deer out of their misery after they have been hit by cars and left on the road to die!! Which is worse in my opinion!! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Once it is legal and within the dates of the hunting season. Not much meat on a duck or pheasant though
Not much fruit in a grape, but they taste great."
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Tbh anytime I went fishing the only thing I could seem to catch was a cold so I tried a more different approach
Headed off one Saturday morning to my local railway bridge took my rod out put some bait on the hook and tru it over the bridge onto the line and waited
And waited
Eventually a passer by stoped with me .. have you cought anything Ollie today yet
Yea your the first."
My kind of fishing |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don’t get shooting, our wildlife is becoming scarce. What skill is there in shooting anything with a shotgun ? How many animals get injured by these and aren’t picked up and left to suffer.
Pointless in my opinion.
It's about population control and it's a numbers game.
Lets take the fox as an example, their habitat has been vastly reduced, it's awful and sad but unless you want to move out of your house and give it to the foxes it's done.
You then have two choices left:
1. Leave them be, don't hunt them and let them breed away as they please. Result? They will attack livestock and even babies in extreme cases as there just isn't enough food, you get a population of starving and prone to disease animals who eventually die off.
2. Control the population through hunting with rifles. Result? You have fewer animals but they have enough to eat and you therefor have a healthier stock to breed.
It's either have lots of sick foxes who create sick offspring or a smaller number of healthy foxes with healthy offspring.
Yes Humans took their land but that's done and ignoring the p_oblem because foxes are cute and you think they shouldn't be controlled is doing them no favours."
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By *al2001Man
over a year ago
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I live in the countryside and walk miles through fields everyday with my dog and there is hardly any wildlife left,foxes are rare now they definitely don't need culling
I'd cull some people first
Starting with hunters |
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"I live in the countryside and walk miles through fields everyday with my dog and there is hardly any wildlife left,foxes are rare now they definitely don't need culling
I'd cull some people first
Starting with hunters"
Good luck with that. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I live in the countryside and walk miles through fields everyday with my dog and there is hardly any wildlife left,foxes are rare now they definitely don't need culling
I'd cull some people first
Starting with hunters
Good luck with that."
They probably never seen dawn break so have no idea about the nocturnal behaviour of most wildlife!! |
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"I hunt and fish..
Deer stalking in wicklow
Fishing in wexford
Enjoy both greatly
Do you paid for shooting Deer ?
Something like €400 per carcass ?
I’m sure that adds to the enjoyment ."
Lol 400 euro per carcass
Are they made of gold???
My family farm in wexford and wicklow..
Maybe, seen as you know everything, tell me this
20 deer will eat as much grass as 20 sheep
How am I meant to make a living if I let the deer eat all the grass..
Maybe ill sell all my sheep
Go on the dole
And look out at the deer all day
I never sold a deer carcass in my life
If that adds to your enjoyment
Then I'm up for it
O wise 1 |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I hunt and fish..
Deer stalking in wicklow
Fishing in wexford
Enjoy both greatly
Do you paid for shooting Deer ?
Something like €400 per carcass ?
I’m sure that adds to the enjoyment .
Lol 400 euro per carcass
Are they made of gold???
My family farm in wexford and wicklow..
Maybe, seen as you know everything, tell me this
20 deer will eat as much grass as 20 sheep
How am I meant to make a living if I let the deer eat all the grass..
Maybe ill sell all my sheep
Go on the dole
And look out at the deer all day
I never sold a deer carcass in my life
If that adds to your enjoyment
Then I'm up for it
O wise 1"
My family farm in Clare, was hunting on my uncles land yesterday, when i got back to my car a fella was there, told me I was trespassing on his land etc etc.... Now my uncle has around 90 or so acres and I only hunted half of that yesterday and was never near my uncles boundarys!! Some people would make you laugh!! |
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"I live in the countryside and walk miles through fields everyday with my dog and there is hardly any wildlife left,foxes are rare now they definitely don't need culling
I'd cull some people first
Starting with hunters
Good luck with that.
They probably never seen dawn break so have no idea about the nocturnal behaviour of most wildlife!!"
You have to laugh, threaten to "cull" the people who have the guns. Smart lol |
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Id be a townie who moved to the country. I spent 3 and a half years as a vegetarian for ethical reasons. Now I hunt and fish and I feel much more justified in eating and feeding meat to my child as I know where it came from, that it was killed humanely and that it lived its life as nature intended.
Hunting is not easy you have to work for your food, that adds great value and conscience to life.
Just my opinion lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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How could I get into hunting? I have no interest in killing fox’s or other so called vermin. What I’m Interested in is hunting game. I like knowing where my meat comes from and where better than to source it myself.
Any advice on how to get started would be greatly appreciated |
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By *aid backMan
over a year ago
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"How could I get into hunting? I have no interest in killing fox’s or other so called vermin. What I’m Interested in is hunting game. I like knowing where my meat comes from and where better than to source it myself.
Any advice on how to get started would be greatly appreciated "
I don't know about gun laws up north but you'd probably have to start with land either your own or some that you have permission to shoot on, join a gun club/shooting club etc |
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"How could I get into hunting? I have no interest in killing fox’s or other so called vermin. What I’m Interested in is hunting game. I like knowing where my meat comes from and where better than to source it myself.
Any advice on how to get started would be greatly appreciated "
Hi there
You need written permission off a farmer that has deer on his land
You need to apply for a deer hunters licence
Then apply for a deer caliber rifle
If you intend hunting on coillte forest
Then you need to do the
HCAP exam
Quite easy to pass
Then try get onto a coillte lease
A decent rifle and scope
Camo gear
And your away
Hope this is of some help |
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"How could I get into hunting? I have no interest in killing fox’s or other so called vermin. What I’m Interested in is hunting game. I like knowing where my meat comes from and where better than to source it myself.
Any advice on how to get started would be greatly appreciated
Hi there
You need written permission off a farmer that has deer on his land
You need to apply for a deer hunters licence
Then apply for a deer caliber rifle
If you intend hunting on coillte forest
Then you need to do the
HCAP exam
Quite easy to pass
Then try get onto a coillte lease
A decent rifle and scope
Camo gear
And your away
Hope this is of some help"
This is the law in the Republic
Not sure about the north |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"How could I get into hunting? I have no interest in killing fox’s or other so called vermin. What I’m Interested in is hunting game. I like knowing where my meat comes from and where better than to source it myself.
Any advice on how to get started would be greatly appreciated
Hi there
You need written permission off a farmer that has deer on his land
You need to apply for a deer hunters licence
Then apply for a deer caliber rifle
If you intend hunting on coillte forest
Then you need to do the
HCAP exam
Quite easy to pass
Then try get onto a coillte lease
A decent rifle and scope
Camo gear
And your away
Hope this is of some help
This is the law in the Republic
Not sure about the north"
Top man. Very helpful, thank you so much |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I live in the countryside and walk miles through fields everyday with my dog and there is hardly any wildlife left,foxes are rare now they definitely don't need culling
I'd cull some people first
Starting with hunters
Good luck with that.
They probably never seen dawn break so have no idea about the nocturnal behaviour of most wildlife!!
You have to laugh, threaten to "cull" the people who have the guns. Smart lol"
I get it all the time as I follow hounds. I am in bred and a posh toff who has so much money I think I am above the law .... If they met me in the street and not in my hunting attire they would think the opposite!!!!! |
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"Seems a lot of you boys over in Ireland shoot and fish.
Any over here in England?
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It's rarely proper hunting, more like culling animals on your own land or a friends land.
Not like other places with hunting seasons and you get your gun and go off into the _ilderness.
That said a girl refused to date me because I killed a fish when I was in primary school. She said it was barbaric.
The mentality of the anti hunter is, they are pro abortion, they eat eggs, and killing an animal is disgusting. Basically they are just devoid of logic. |
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By *aid backMan
over a year ago
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"Seems a lot of you boys over in Ireland shoot and fish.
Any over here in England?
It's rarely proper hunting, more like culling animals on your own land or a friends land.
Not like other places with hunting seasons and you get your gun and go off into the _ilderness.
That said a girl refused to date me because I killed a fish when I was in primary school. She said it was barbaric.
The mentality of the anti hunter is, they are pro abortion, they eat eggs, and killing an animal is disgusting. Basically they are just devoid of logic."
We do have hunting seasons in this country the only reason why you can't just go off into the _ilderness is we don't have "_ilderness" in this country most land in this country is privately owned. You can apply to shoot some state lands but it's tough and expensive and mostly just for deer. You can also apply for a foreshore licence and hunt duck on lakes etc |
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"Anyone else on here into Hunting or Fishing?? And before anyone goes on about killing animals etc... anything I shoot or catch is for the table!!"
Haven't hunted in a few years but I do fish, not as often as I should but I do, mainly course and Sea. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I hunt for men and fish for compliments
Whilst I hate hunting, I’m game for hiding out in a tent while others participate; I’ll equally feast on the goods |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A few of us fabbers went fishing before for a weekend. Might have to try and arrange another trip in the autumn"
A bunch of lads hanging around with their rods out catching nothing......sounds like sounds familar |
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"A few of us fabbers went fishing before for a weekend. Might have to try and arrange another trip in the autumn
I’m game
Must be the bait "
The finer the bait the shorter the wait |
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"A few of us fabbers went fishing before for a weekend. Might have to try and arrange another trip in the autumn
I’m game
Must be the bait
The finer the bait the shorter the wait "
I won't dispute that |
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"A few of us fabbers went fishing before for a weekend. Might have to try and arrange another trip in the autumn"
That was the day I caught more than you
Remember Laid??
Remember that day I caught more than you ? |
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By *aid backMan
over a year ago
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"A few of us fabbers went fishing before for a weekend. Might have to try and arrange another trip in the autumn
That was the day I caught more than you
Remember Laid??
Remember that day I caught more than you ? "
Ha ha sounds like that day was a highlight of your life |
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"A few of us fabbers went fishing before for a weekend. Might have to try and arrange another trip in the autumn
That was the day I caught more than you
Remember Laid??
Remember that day I caught more than you ?
Ha ha sounds like that day was a highlight of your life "
I just knew you’d have to bite
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anybody catch mackerell lately..have tried this past few weeks and nothing"
Still a bit early I think - once the sand eels come in and you see the birds picking them off - that’s when I start filling the freezer with mackerel for pike bait |
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anybody catch mackerell lately..have tried this past few weeks and nothing
Still a bit early I think - once the sand eels come in and you see the birds picking them off - that’s when I start filling the freezer with mackerel for pike bait "
Mackerel being caught off kilmore for the last 2 weeks in numbers |
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anybody catch mackerell lately..have tried this past few weeks and nothing
Still a bit early I think - once the sand eels come in and you see the birds picking them off - that’s when I start filling the freezer with mackerel for pike bait
Mackerel being caught off kilmore for the last 2 weeks in numbers "
Kilmore is easy pickings for mackerel though. I've probably foul-hooked more there than I've actually properly hooked anywhere else  |
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By *obLMan
over a year ago
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Just up date on the mackrel front starting to show of greystones.
Still dont waste my time fishing here tho. If ur into seriously best to head nw or south coast. Was out in the boat on weekend in donegal bay any anout of mackrel and scad only one blue shark tho very poor for this time of year.
Hmmm coukd this fourm take over fishingirleands one for fishing updates  |
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By *aid backMan
over a year ago
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"I used to hunt but turned to target rifle years ago and fishing I tend to go for pike or coarse fishing.
What distance is target rifle shot at and is it done sitting or standing ?"
50 and 100m for paper targets and then silhouettes are 25,50,75 100 |
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I’m an animal lover, well not lover, I admire them from a far so altho I dont agree with hunting I do respect it. I do think that majority of hunters are professional & go for quick kill & produce rather than for 100%pleasure & to torture. Years ago a neighbour hunter brought home abt 10 rabbits all tied together & walking by me he purposely for d laugh walked my me & rubbed them on my head, I had nightmares for ages, I was only a kid & he was a prick. |
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"Giys when u talking about hunting...is there any site for used hunting equipment in Ireland? My dad is looking for night vision...i don’t think i can find something like that on Donedeal.."
Yeah good few in Ireland for equipment |
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"Giys when u talking about hunting...is there any site for used hunting equipment in Ireland? My dad is looking for night vision...i don’t think i can find something like that on Donedeal.."
Are you on facebook?? Or snapchat?? Loads of groups on there that coulr advertise you looking for somethinh etc... let me know if you want me to mail names of groups |
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Love waking up the first Sunday of September and hearing the hunters' guns. It's one of those comfortingly reliable markers of the change of seasons. On the downside, my fishing season is almost done. Nearly time to bring the boat in for Winter. |
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By *ergalMan
over a year ago
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"Giys when u talking about hunting...is there any site for used hunting equipment in Ireland? My dad is looking for night vision...i don’t think i can find something like that on Donedeal.."
Try the shooting section on Boards.ie they have a selling page |
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