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Good effort for having a go 👍 I was looking at some skins being done in Africa last week and they seem to rely on time spent in salt crystals. Using finely ground salt to get into the small areas around the eyes, toes and under the lips.

I'll be watching the first episode later, but must say,,,, surely it's better than the vast majority of the other garbage being broadcast most nights ?! 🤷‍♂️

Pop a parakeet, plenty of bright green feathers on them and on the list.

In the above reply no one has explained how this works. It is easy enough to state " oh yeah it's out there but who actually puts an advert online... Wanted 1 waif and stray for a very unpleasant experience. Just saw... Read the above. What's the benefit for someone doing stuff like this because it is illegal in every country on earth. Who actually replies... yep I've got x people for you to chose from for xyz purpose. Challenge. Put a live link online. Few years ago there was some bloke who told the police that there was a pedo ring in this country that were USING and Killing boys from homes in this country. Plod and others spent a LOT of time and money in estimating this blokes claims and the end conclusion was that it was all made up rubbish which resulted it the bloke being charged , found guilty, and jailed himself for various offences.

The stainless steel drilling tip that I had, a few years ago, from Old Farrier, and which I have successfully followed ever since, is to use tallow as a drilling lubricant. I've found it much better than cutting fluid. I've also found that a lathe centre drill used as a drill bit is very effective too, as they are quite rigid.

she proberly thought you were looking at combines and agricultural equipment....

aaahhhhhhh .thank you ....got it now

I accidentally came across 1 clip and could honestly say hand on heart I would have swung a baseball in the face of the poor excuse of a man doing what did. Very unfortunate I cannot unsee what I saw. It was SICK 😫

No, it doesn't involve smearing her body with ice-cream.

I think tis is the third or fourth time they have put a new version online and had significant issues only to revert back to the original after a few days, utter shambles .

Im going to pick one of the birds mentioned in that paper, the common buzzard. This graph appears to show them in decline. Yet its widely accepted that buzzards are doing very well at the moment, and are very 'common' This graph shows them doing OK to good. So which graph is correct , or is the one in your supplied paper out of date ? All I can say is in my area of the Vale of Belvoir, there are wall to wall buzzards, all trying to carve out territory, along with many other BOP that we are often told are endangered. The reason being , all the shooting that goes on in these areas, and the ready source of dead things for them to eat.

Second dibs on the infac please

But of course. 😊

Stainless plate in the oven , don’t tell the mrs 😂

NOW HAVE GONE

New Gun Trader format is terrible and I can't get it working correctly at all. They need to return to old format ASAP

To address your first query about lead shot and soil and plant uptake there is no evidence of that and as per BASC's response to the HSE consultation quoted earlier in this thread "Lead exposure pathways are not conclusive for livestock, soil, soil organisms, plants, and surface waters; and current legal and regulatory frameworks are in place to manage risks". To address your second query on grey partridge, the 2005 research was done by the late Dr. George Richard Potts (as per author title in the paper, Potts, G R) drawing on data from various study sites, including his own study area, who had a lifelong interest in grey partridge ecology and conservation and as the director general for Game Conservancy was responsible for a huge amount of research of importance to shooting. As for other studies the following 2016 paper drew on data for various studies to model grey partridge population level impacts from lead shot: Can Ingestion of Lead Shot and Poisons Change Population Trends of Three European Birds: Grey Partridge, Common Buzzard, and Red Kite? https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147189 Look at the references section in the above paper for the other studies from Europe. There are also other grey partridge studies in USA and Canada.

Ever thus, although I feel it's more the killing of stuff than the shooting of things, that is the driver.

Going to record the rest of the series now and see how he gets on

Well said

'cause it's the plain/basic variety aka "vanilla flavour".

Hi id be interested in the Infac if I can find a sensible way to collect D

I've an experiment. Get two cages and provide each with water and suitable food. Put a six partridge chicks in one cage with a feral cat and six partridge chicks in the other cage the bottom of which is "a minefield of lead pellets". I'll bet £10 a chick which die first. Therefore proving, for me, that lead shot is less a risk to partridge chicks than are feral cats. Anything can be proved with science if you set up the test to prove the get the answer you want to the question you've asked. And actually in life the reality is that for ground nesting birds, especially the chick of ground nesting birds, more likely die each June and July from feral cats than from loose lead shot.

From lead shot could you tell us who conducted the survey 20 years ago and if there has been any further scientific studies

One of each this morning 1106