Savhmr

Uniknot, Albright or full or double blood knot depending on what it is I'm tying. To a certain extent, dacron lines changes many of the knots I used to use

I count the BASC partially responsible for backing GP reports and felt so strongly about it that I didn't renew my membership. That and off the back of all their other disastrous debacles. Not a chance in hell I'll re-join now. Looks like Medicert or similar and the extra cost now involved. The whole things' become a s&*^ show.

Lucky to get a GP form returned! My GP is flat out refusing to have any part of it and so are most local to me (they're all part of private practice contracted to the NHS Trust and have ganged together to say they conscientiously object to shooting). Looks like I have to find one of the agencies/consultancies offering to retrieve and produce the report on my behalf now.

If you're after a short barrelled rifle, 308 is your best bet due to little really disadvantage to a 20inch barrel over a 24 inch and really wide variety and availability of ammo. Something like a Ruger Ranch comes from the factory with a 16.4 inch barrel and might be just what you're looking for? 6.5 is a great cal, in 'x55 or in CM but you do need the extra barrel length to avoid dropping MVs. Most 6.5's do best with between 24 and 26 inch barrels

Still flavour of the month for lots doing fox control but many have woken up to the fact you can get almost the velocities as 204 factory from home loading .223 lightweight bullets fast...as in up to 3700fps for something like a 40g Vmax. For anyone with a 223 it's not worth the swap especially as barrels last longer in 223 chambering. A mate swapped his 223 for a 204 and loves it but admits it's only a marginal difference from the 223.

Precisely that John. It's a great shame but with care and careful placing of wifi cameras dotted around as well as other necessary security measures you can make it harder for would be criminal types and make them think twice before attempting such things. It's still a concern though.

I had a gen2. Fantastic vehicle that would go virtually anywhere a landy might albeit limited ultimately in ground clearance, it was better than most suv's. Reliable petrol engine, better than the diesel and very nippy too as well as economical, and used a clever auto-mechanical difflock which once at 18mph or below automatically locked the diffs and was permanent 4WD. It saved weigth by omitting a low range box and instead used a crawler gear in first which was also a clever touch. Never once got bogged down off road but avoided deep mud as clearly any SUV has its limitations, but steep grassy banks no problem, rutted racks no problem. I had slightly raised suspension and used 16 inch fat tyres (geolanders). Loved it. No rust underneath as I'd coated it liberally with Lanoguard. Only sold it last year as I was moving and already had two other vehicles so needed to raise some cash. Could kick myself now as to find another Gen 2 (which I rate as the best of them) in such good condition is getting very hard and the ones locally are all silly money now, £4K-£5K. Mileage isn't that important. Those petrol lumps are virtually indestructible and use chain drive to the cams so no cambelt. If looking for one, the major changes for the worst happened on the gen3 and gen 4 versions which were more road oriented. Look for a 2001 to 2005 model (gen 2). I rate those as the best. Great road car but limited off road as they have now switched to the road oriented low profile 17/18 inch wheels & tyres. New ones are either e-cvt or manual but without the crawler gear of the gen1 and gen2 which negated LR box to some extent. Even the new 4wd versions are more for rain/snow than true off road 4x4s. Not really as good an off road vehicle and really I'd be too scared of damaging a now expensive road car in that guise. Great cars though.

Ask yourself why that might be? In many cases it's because the landowners refuse to press charges for fear of further retribution. I had direct experience of this when my primary shooting ground was subject to blatant poaching on a large scale. Not hunt sabs but a syndicate ignoring boundaries who were warned numerous times. We confronted them peacefully only to be threatened with physical violence. Police came straight out, rounded up the ringleaders and were shown a smashed up truck belonging to the landowner, damaged by these thugs. He refused to press charges for fear of reprisal. Had he pressed charges, these thugs would likely have received criminal sentencing. I wonder how many landowners simply don't think it's worth it for whatever reason? They are at liberty to insist that charges are brought where there has been a clear criminal act committed and if none are brought, they can make a formal complaint and go to the pcc. We need to do more ourselves sometimes to ensure these things happen.

They can be prosecuted not under trespass but under legislation prohibiting the right of anyone disrupting a land occupier from rightful enjoyment of their legal activity. The landowner is permitted to use reasonable force to evict them but the sabs know this and are quick with the cameras to accuse shooters of threatening behaviour which is why it's not a good idea to lay a finger on them or become aggressive. The police should treat this aggressive onslaught of sabs with the seriousness it deserves and the CPS prosecute them with full sentencing and no leniency for these divisive and disruptive acts. In short, they should be treated as what they are...countryside terrorists.

It's a national disgrace that we're getting 1000 plus illegal immigrants (NOT refugees or at least I'd wager a tiny minority are genuine refugees) landing on our shores almost every day now, with successive governments not having the cahoonies to turn the boats back around. We need a blockade stretching across the channel to stop this so in effect it's just going to carry one. The french continue to service this route by allowing it to happen. So we're not in the EU any longer, it was little different when we were!

I've had my carbine TX200 for close on 17 years now and it shoots as well now as it did back then. Pellet on pellet at 25 yds using Acupel 22 pellets. Tested it from new at 10.8ft-lbs which was about right from the factory. Thousands of pellets later and it still tests at 10.6ft-lbs. The most consistent and accurate springer ever! I wouldn';t be tempted to a pneumatic. Expensive and little advantage over the groups I get from this. Shoots very silently with 22 mod fitted.

Avoid 243 if future proofing for LF. Suggest 30 cal, either 308 or 30-06 or 6.5CM or 6.5 x55. Better LF bullet choice and ballistics than the options for .243 of the ones above, 308 will give better efficiency than 30-06 with a slight disadvantage to MVs but for all UK stalking it's more than enough. Ditto for the 6.5CM. Efficient cartridge allowing long for cal bullets to be loaded; Less powder space compared with 6.5 x 55 but still enough for LF options.

If concerned it's easy enough to make an MDF cabinet to go over the main cabinet with a removable and lockable door. Thinking of doing this myself to tidy the room up a bit. Make it look like a small talboy or locking book case!

The sides of most cabinets are made of thin pressed steel and any cordless grinder these days will eat through them in no time. Mind you if they made the sides as thick and tough as the cab doors on mine it would be impossible to lift into place!

I use one with SeaClean solution my compact U/C cleaner....2 caps per 400l warm water. Does a cracking job and unlike the "clock cleaner" mentioned above does not contain ammonia. Best to avoid any cleaner with ammonia as it can damage your brass. Jif's highly acidic but cleans well. You can also just squeeze the juice from half a lemon into warm water for the same effect!