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Super! At least they'll still be being used which is the most important thing of all and the best news of all.

No. As MM above. I keep posting this link to New Zealand. And their law. Lead is just as poisonous in NZ as in UK. The nonsense from BASC is nonsense. This isn't about anything other than the "big bag" boys trying to justify saturating an environment with unsustainable densities of birds to then kill them as if they were so many feathered clay pigeons under the supposed justification that they can sell as food what then is shot. Lead use being irrelevant to game that isn't sold. https://fishandgame.org.nz/game-bird-hunting-in-new-zealand/hunting-regulations/non-toxic-shot-regulations/ And everybody else can go hang. There's suddenly money at BASC to fund an opposition to the Wild Justice judicial review of DEFRA's Game Release proposals but not money for a judicial review of the applicant having to pay for medical certification nor money for an all around study into actual impact of lead shot to the environment and/or coverts that have on many estates been shot over for a hundred years. But then we are merely no more than "mug punters" paying £80 a year.

A 16 bore cartridge would have been better. Slightly less resistance offered to the hammer.

What a splendid offer. I'm in LE9 2BN so not far from Atherstone. If as a last resort nobody with a more meritworthy claim needs them I'd take them if only to stop the them going in the fire.

ULTRASTU. Correct. 100%. We, the UK, is now the next Italy. May God help our seniors because Johnson has condemned them to die.

It is the same logic of the asylum as ending reduced price television licences for blind persons because "there aren't many" or stopping pensions for War Widows "because there aren't many". Yes they may not be many but that does not mean that a concession or benefit is not needed. It simply means that happily the cohort of people that need it is few in number. That's all it means.

He has dithered too long. And left it too late. Cases here are now increasing at an exponential rate if you draw a time chart. My wife was speaking to friends in France. They were dumbfounded that Johnson hadn't already closed the schools as, apparently, that is the biggest vehicle for its spread. And I for one want now to see any potential Huawei contracts voided. The Chinese have caused this and we in Europe need to spend our money now with businesses based in Europe to revive ourselves once this pandemic is over.

That'll be the Europe or rather EU that we've just left will it? Which is there is a "no deal" may or may not accept ANY game regardless of what it is shot with?

If genuine antique and muzzleloading then unless you specifically have them for actual use then no licence. Any modern replica of a (genuine) antique muzzleloading revolver is licensed as s1. Notwithsatnding it is an exact replica even down to the thread pitch of the screws and pins if it is modern made it is s1.

LOL!

I tried wearing one of these when decoying once. Worked a treat....pigeons came from near, from far. And terrified hawks and kestrels gave the whole farm a wide berth. But missed every shot as the plastic beak interfered something rotten with a decent gun mount.

Everyday a schoolday. I never knew that about mini roundabouts.

I went walking in the hills once. Hoping to find myself. I never did. All I found was a blister on each heel of my foot.

I used Serjeant's for my stuff wayback in 1982. They were not cheap but with inventions if you tell anybody then you can't subsequently protect it. The story of Sir Alec Jeffries and DNA and how him having caught a cold so being unable to deliver a lecture is worth looking at. https://serjeants.co.uk/

It has no option as ten years of a Tory Government has so underfunded the NHS that it cannot now function as it should to deal with this national emergency. Years ago we could have used all those beds as isolation wards in all the cottage hospitals that were closed. But even before that if this crisis had come in the late 1980s I doubt we could have coped either. We could have used the redundant wards in all the old asylums before they were closed and sold off to the mantra of Thatcher's "care in the community". The NHS had enormous infrastructure assets in hospital facilities and so had a built in slack to be used in time of emergency. Those old tuberculosis hospitals are and example. All of it was disposed of to give tax cuts to Thatcher's cronies. But it'd be wrong merely to berate the Tories. The closure of Haslar Hospital by Gordon Brown under Labour. Again a huge asset that could have been used today. All gone. Short term gain for what?

I eat what I shoot. I have a gob that inside has more metal than a redundant Sheffield foundry and more ceramic in it than a Stoke on Trent outlet shop. Steel shot game or steel shot pigeons are going nowhere near my mouth just as I long ago stopped eating shot wild duck for the same reason. And Waitrose and the BASC backed British Game Alliance will also find that out when the "no blame no claim" lawyers start the proceedings against them for cracked crowns, chipped teeth and fractured fillings. Then what's going to happen once because legal free for all of that that steel shot game becomes unsaleable?

It is amazing the guff that has been written on here about how BASC has somehow prevented a total ban on lead shot being enacted imminently by is call for a voluntary lead ban. Absolute guff. This is nothing more nor less than an attempt to stop a ban on released game by arguing that even though the "big bag" boys saturate their environment with put down birds that it is all justified as what they sell is sold for food. This is below is what New Zealand does: https://fishandgame.org.nz/game-bird-hunting-in-new-zealand/hunting-regulations/non-toxic-shot-regulations/

A leather slip on extender slip on pad. Many will have one they don't need and would be happy to sell here on PW. Or try eBay.

Ah! I take it that you are far far away?

Excellent Mick M. Here's what New Zealand does. https://fishandgame.org.nz/game-bird-hunting-in-new-zealand/hunting-regulations/non-toxic-shot-regulations/

I have seventy five or so Lylvale English 5 Special Game. I am near M1 J21 at Leicester Forest East. If the distance isn't a problem PM me and I'm sure we can agree a price.

An afterthought. If it is a TRUE AYA 25 be it the sidelock or the boxlock it will have the correct AYA take on a Churchill rib with the letters AYA inlaid in gold. If it hasn't got that then then gun is an AYA that's been cut down. Likely as it has dropped a wad and caused a bulge near the chokes.

Confidence, confidence, confidence. If you don't have confidence that it'll shoot well it won't shoot well. Your mind will be "will it or won't it" not on taking the target properly. I had two SMLE rifles. One would all day shoot into three inches at one hundred yards. Consistently. It wouldn't shoot any better. But it would never shoot any worse. I had confidence. The other wouldn't. I got rid of it. Confidence. If it doesn't shoot get rid.

Heck they were rich kids' toys back in the early 1970s when I was a school. Not that I might not have been a rich kid but, coming from a shooting family, we had a BSA Airsporter Mk1 and a BSA Meteor instead. As for model static steam engines if I wanted to see one working I could see a real one if I asked my father to take me down to tne family factory to spend a day with "Uncle Ken" in the steamhouse.

Sheds maybe. But please, for other things that need "holding up" please never use breeze blocks. Use railway sleepers of something else. A friend lost his life through breeze blocks. He had started up a small local bus service using a minibus to ferry local people to the shops. To save money he did his own vehicle maintenance. And stupidly as he couldn't afford axle stands or ramps or railway sleepers had jacked his minibus up and used breeze blocks to keep it "up". Well you know the rest. One of the breeze blocks crumbled the minibus came down on him and he died from it. Not crushed per se but from suffocation from being unable as his chest was compressed to breathe. My brother in his early years as did I did our own car maintenance. The very first thing he drummed into me was never use breeze blocks to support a vehicle. Use axle stands or use railway sleepers or blocks of other hardwoods.