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How often do you hunt

  • 06-07-2012 7:46pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭


    I was looking through the for sale section and noticed that a lot of the rifles on offer havent seen a whole lot of use and I was wondering how often everyone goes out shooting.

    Personally I go out a few times a week. And I could easily go through 500 rounds a month- weather depending really. I have my form in at the minute for a 300winmag. Im thinking that will be my one rifle that will more than likely only get a few boxes of ammo every year. :(


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    Go out with the gun a few times a week, actually go hunting once a week i guess


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,120 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    Havent been out in a long time lost my permission :mad:


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 28,743 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cass


    I don't get out near as often nowadays as i used to. My Father and mate across the road go out about 4 times a week, however he may use at most 20 rounds per month. That would be a busy one.

    He enjoys the outing more than the shooting itself. During deer season that would increase a little. My mate shoots far more often when out. He is bigger into vermin control, and with his own land, and livestock to cover would even go out more often than 4 times a week.

    My shotgun was for clays. I'd go through 300 per week easily. The Father's shotgun was a game gun, but even so it has probably only seen that much (300 shoots) in 5 years.

    A factor would be the amount of firearms rather than the amount of times you go out. I mean if a lad has a.243 only then he uses it for deer, vermin, etc. However if you have a lad with a shotgun, vermin rifle, deer rifle, target rifle, etc then each gun naturally gets less use or more to the point specific use.
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 280 ✭✭Mike87


    tommyboy26 wrote: »
    Havent been out in a long time lost my permission :mad:

    Howd that happen..??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭garv123


    I try to go out for a stroll when the weathers good even if i dont get to shoot anything.
    Some lads with a dedicated foxing or deer rig might not fire many shots a year as they dont use it for targets.


    Some people might not shoot 5-10 deer a season and thats the only use the rifle would get but it could be out on lots of stalks where they get no shot.

    My shotgun isn't getting much use at the moment until we reach september and november


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭kildare.17hmr


    tommyboy26 wrote: »
    Havent been out in a long time lost my permission :mad:
    Come over anytime lad


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,203 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    Not as often as I'd like as my dad seems to have lost interest and I always go with him
    I get out with the ferrets bout twice a week
    And during hunting season I get out bout 4-5 days a week with the hawk


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 961 ✭✭✭Longranger


    I'd probably go out maybe 4 mornings a week, sometimes more if I'm on vermin patrol for the farmers who give me permissions. Mostly bunnys and crows/magpies/pigeons with charlie thrown in every once in a while. Some days I won't fire a single shot,some days I'll go through a box or more of hmr in a session. It just depends on the day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭blindside88


    I used to get out at least once a week but myxi has taken hold in the last number of months, could often go through 7 of my permissions in an evening and not see a thing. Although a farmer called me this morning to say he has lost 5 chicken to a fox he has seen about so I'll have to get cracking again


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,120 ✭✭✭tommyboy26


    Come over anytime lad

    Keep meanin to txt you to go out will def do so soon


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 793 ✭✭✭declan1980


    I usually head out 4 times a week depending on weather, work, and what kind of humour herself is in. At the minute I'm shooting a lot of rabbits for different farmers, I shot 60 on one farm in 2 evenings this week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,805 ✭✭✭juice1304


    Not alot at all anymore:( the permission i had to go to i can't anymore. No rabbits left anyway to many trigger happy people around here. I really need to get up of my arse during the week and call into some farmers a bit further out the road.
    I will be out every day once deer season comes around though.:]


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭FISMA


    I shoot about 100 rounds a month and stockpile 250-500.
    ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,868 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Between work commitments(new business set-up with my foreign based collegue, plus regular job = alot of travelling:() and my interest in a small farm in North Mayo, all means that my hunting career(such as it was) has been very curtailed in recent years. As of now it involves occasional vermin control on the out-farm and catching a day or 2 every season for a bit of wildfowling with some friends on their permissions down the country.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭Shoot2kill


    Every single opportunity I get, which is probably 4 times a week, be it either just for a few bunnies with the .22 or a fox with the .243!

    This time of year I'd hunt a bit of handy cover with the springers for a few bolting bunnies, keeps me up to scratch on the O/U & keeps the dogs interests up.

    I'm only just back in the door with 8 rabbits for the dogs dinner. Nice morning for it with plenty of them sitting out in the sun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 493 ✭✭pheasntstalker


    not at all :mad::(havent fired a shot since before xmas im trying to get a few quid together for a cheap an cheerfull bunny buster 22lr,,fields behind me are full of bunnies but too close to houses for the shottie:mad::mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭Spunk84


    Every evening after work I go for a dander with the shottie or rifle,usual I just go for the walk but end up clattering something along the way


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 442 ✭✭doyle61


    Waiting to get my rifle back, getting it rebelled. Getting itchey finger to get out. Can't even go out after a few bunnies as the grass is too long on all my permissions


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 935 ✭✭✭dicky82


    no where near as much as i'd like but about two or three times a week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭anthonyos


    once a week for me usually shooting a few crows was out for 3 hours this evening with the shotgun but missed the 3 or 4 crows i seen:(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭cubbyleader


    anthonyos wrote: »
    once a week for me usually shooting a few crows was out for 3 hours this evening with the shotgun but missed the 3 or 4 crows i seen:(
    Same as myself I got 1 crow and 3 pigeons I think it was too warm for the crows


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,019 ✭✭✭anthonyos


    do crows learn to avoid areas i think we might of over shot the place because a few weeks ago loads of crows not a bother on them but now feck all and anyone i see legs it straight away


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 217 ✭✭cubbyleader


    Same thing happened us we shot about a hundred over a week or two now we can't get any


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭Stevegeraghty


    Been up the walls with work and any free tim is spent at the pheasant pen, next month I'll get back at it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,323 ✭✭✭Cruel Sun


    When I'm hungry.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭charlie10


    id say"not enough" herself would say "too much";)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 457 ✭✭Browning2010


    Fck all this time of the year, maybe a few early morning excursions with rifle which more often than not produce nothing but come September onwards.... its all go, Pheasants, Ducks, Deer, pigeons and foxes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭Steyr243Hunter


    I d like to say every week, More like once a month with the .22

    Cant remember the last time i used the shottie,

    Deer Season which was very quiet this year with 6.5

    Really enjoy using .22lr have to get out more.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭Alchemist2


    would do a bit during the season.. but very little thereafter... i'd love to be able to get out on the trail of the vermin but with 3 small kiddies in the house it just wouldn't be fair on her indoors... terrible to be wishing their lives away but the sooner they grow up a wee bit the better as they have an interest in country sports... i take one at a time when fishing which isn't all that often but they do ask when they're goin again so i guess it's a good sign


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