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Some women just have the power to do that to a guy though. You just haven't met one yet.

that was a bit harsh!!! A 22 rimfire is (correct me if im wrong) the smallest calibre avaliable on FAC other that FAC air rifles, so not sure where your coming from on this one, the 222 however is a serious round and im suprised he got this with no questions asked, does he have thousands of acres to shoot? My question on this one, why would a .17HMR be refused and a .222 be ok? seems a bit daft to me that one as it is a bigger calibre faster bullet??? If a case was made for .22 LR for vermin and for a more powerful centre fire rifle for fox or long range vermin, the HMR would perhaps be seen as falling between the two and could be regarded as unnecessary since the other two would be appropriate for the jobs described on the application. It has always been my experience that the officers making these decisions are experienced and able to make judgments about whether they can trust the character involved to behave properly. If a sensible man of impeccable record presented himself with a good reason to use a .222 such as the destruction of foxes, and property suitable for its use, the police would be duty bound to grant the request. If they had concerns about him, they would be entitled to impose conditions. Applicants don't all get the same treatment, generally because they are not all the same in age, maturity, wisdom, and experience. Any one of the above could influence the way things go.

As I recall it took ten days from my delivering the application until it was delivered on the doormat and a recent variation for an HMR took eight days, but at least three of them were taken up because I hadn't sent in my old FAC and they had to ask me for it. Northumbria Police Firearms and Explosives Licensing are very efficient, reasonable and polite.

Nice...... Sounds to me like the officers involved thought that one fellow needed supervision and the other didn't. Maybe it could be to do with the maturity (age or otherwise) of the people involved. Stuff like whether they seemed calm or irascible and ill tempered maybe?

what kind of stop do they put on a licence as thats a new one on me! Being a photo licence that doesn't get checked when you buy ammo etc they are pretty useless without you there. Glad its been found but as said you have 7 days to report it but who is to say when you realised you had lost it. This post is mostly a case of chinese whispers as you don't have to keep it locked away and loosing it doesn't result in your guns being removed. Exactly right. My question too (how do they put a stop on it?). When did anyone last have the dealer who was supplying cartridges or a gun ever do anything other than look at the licsece and take a quick glance at your face to see if it was as ugly as the one on the picture? I never yet saw a dealer disappear with the license to check against a list in the back of the shop. And as for 2shots comments about Northumbria Police - I have never found them anything but reasonable except in one long ago interaction when a Policeman of the force had been shotgunned by a license holder the week before. They are a picture of reasonableness and courtesy. I just don't understand the paranoia of some folks who think the cops have nothing better to do than catch them out over some minor fuax pas or technical infringement. Not up here they aren't. Their interest lies in making sure you aren't a jerk who can't be trusted to keep his firearms safe, a nutter who would really quite like to shoot the people he dislikes, or an irresponsible fool who is a danger to the public. As for revoking the license because a guy lost it..... Pull the other one that man. Do you think they never lose a warrant card? They do. I found one, tracked the guy down and phoned him up so he could come and collect it. He was rather grateful at the way I handled it, rather than reporting that I'd found it in the street.

I sympathise with your wondering about it, but really, what are the chances that any policeman would be in the least bit interested in exactly what the ammo was once you'd waved your ticket at him? I think that unless shooters have done something really stupid or outright criminal, the cops don't start going through their cupboards with a fine toothed comb. I remember once years ago when I was about 24 sitting outside my mates house at 4 am in the van with a shotgun in the back and waiting for the lazy b***ger to get up and bring his gear out. Cop car drew up alongside and asked me what I was doing there at such a time. 'Waiting for my mate to go shooting,' says I. Cop asks if he can look in the back, I open the door and he looks in, eyes the cased gun and says, 'Got a license for that have you?' 'Yes, I do have one, but it's at home', says I. 'OK that's fine sir. Thanks and sorry to have bothered you.' With only one exception, my dealings with the police have shown them to be pretty hands off with this kind of stuff. As long as when you open your mouth you don't sound like you just stepped out of the caravan, they are not bothered - up here at least. I do take care to remain within the law mind you, as I am sure we all do.

Those 'home invasion' paranoia scenarios we see in America make me laugh, I have to say. Still, it's a different world to ours I suppose

What kind of groupings were you getting? Obviously with the lower velocity, you'll have a different kind of trajectory, but maybe the cost will be so low you won't mind that a bit as long as you keep to shorter ranges.

You could contact the Italian embassy and that of any country you would pass through on the way. Also any carrier that would transport you may have regulations. BASC might help advise if you are a member. I am assuming it is a low powered air rifle you are talking about.

If you are not talking about .22 centre fire, I doubt it, though any sharp noise can damage hearing. The use of a moderator would reduce very much any risk there was. I am shooting a new HMR without a mod and at times I am aware that the crack from the muzzle blast is probably verging on the level where some hearing damage could occur. It is way louder than an un silenced .22lr.

My advice would be to take the greatest of care about the direction you take. I used to manage the IT in an organisation I worked for and whenever we advertised a technical role we got sheaves of no hope applications from people who fixed their own PC and had done a wordprocessing course at the local adult education centre. We had about 800 desktops and a few servers and telephone systems. It is especially hard to break into a decent paying job when you have no track record in the business. I remember one application from a guy who was desperately keen to be a network admin assistant, but aside from his self taught skills, his entire work history was as a pavior and roofer. I can almost guarantee that ten years later he has still not broken through. Wookie is right about the outsourcing of certain kinds of work, though itis usually developing and programming type work. One of my sons has recently started working as technical consultant fro Cap Gemini and when he was doing his degree, I drummed it into him that the only futureproof way in this business was in providing business consultancy and support. They can't really outsource the face to face problem solving type of work. Even network admin can largely be sent abroad. A mate of mine is an IT contractor and he had a big contract for Lever Brothers in which he was updating the operating systems of thousands of desktop PCs remotely from his home. The machines were distributed world wide and he was upgrading their software, so you can see the nature of the problem. Running your own computer clinic business may be harder than the advisor above thinks. You need a decent regular income and you could (likely would) face hard times at the beginning and maybe often. Also, you have to be good at winning business for much work if you are an independent and not everyone can do that. Take care, and hold onto your day job as long as you can. You are wise to avoid shelling out a lot on training, unless a) you are certain you will pass the qualification, b.) you know there is loads of demand for the skill and your history will allow you to get a job doing it, and c) that you know the work won't and can't be outsourced to India or China. Sorry if that seems pesinistic, but you will be up against thousands of well qualified young Computing science graduates for even the most basic kinds of jobs.

you like a drink then. Yeah and then he takes the cans out and shoots at them from four hundred with a twenty-six and a half foot holdover which he calculates of course, since no scope adjustment could manage to do that. When you use a .22LR every day, you can do that, just like you can kill a fox with a catapult.

I take the CZ with me sometimes too, but to be honest, I've hardly used it much since I picked up the Winchester HMR. It is very light, about five and a half pounds and pretty handy. The accuracy is astonishing, even with a really poor scope on it. It's an old air rifle scope I had, a Nikko Sterling silver 4x32. Certainly not ideal for distance work, but I am regularly knocking off rabbits at well over a hundred yards even so. I like the point and shoot with no hold over. The other day I had one at around 150 yards out of the car window on a farm track. Just wound it down, rested it on the window sill, blocked the front half of the rabbit out with the cross on the scope, raised it a tad and squeezed. It fell over instantly still and the sound of the thwack, came back about a second later. I just couldn't believe it. With the .22, I'd have been a foot or more above the target and it would have been an unethical thing to even try and shoot a live animal like that, because to be honest, I could as well have shot it in the foot or the ear there'd be so much guesswork at such a range. Look at that photo up top - there is no skull at all. The skin of the head was completely floppy like a glove. All the structural stuff was gone. That one was an eighty yarder.

Yeah - I know the annoyance of the tippy tapping into the bedroom at night. Mine is scared of thunder, one distant rumble and I have an impression of Ginger and Fred dancing all around the bed.

That's what I thought. They aren't too long in my opinion. I think a lot of people want to cut them too short.

I think a lot of people including me have upset their dogs by trying to cut their toe nails too short. My little Border Terrier bitch hates me to even touch her feet after one enthusiastic clipping episode. Their nails hurt when cut too short. Dark nailed breeds can easily be over done and will bleed. My advice is to use proper dog nail clippers and take off only the tips. The dog should have a chunky amount of nail left. My bitch will not tolerate anyone touching her feet at all, which makes clipping her hair a right pain as she struggles as soon as you get anywhere near her feet. It is very easy to make a ham fisted job of this so mind how you go. Nail Clipping

Look on the bright side. If they are as big as you say he'll be able to run much faster without them. He'll enjoy that. He might even be able to catch up with that fast little bitch he's had his eye on for weeks.

Well done to the lad. That is a good result, hard won after a lot of work - whatever the Daily Mail has to say about standards. Kids work harder than ever in general and get their efforts rubbished in the papers year after year by a bunch of dysfunctional old **** and twisted old women. That's a particularly good set of grades for a boy. Lads usually don't try as hard as the girls at GCSE and do less well in general. Not in his case though. He'll probably go on to do something important for the same old **** that are no doubt moaning about the falling of standards. The problem is, the people who write and talk on TV about this subject, fail to distinguish between the gangsta rapping, gun toting and knife wielding scum, and the decent, hardworking kids who make up the majority of our youngsters. They also seem to forget that there were always psychotic youths around. link

Well surprisingly there were a couple of kicks from it inspite of the fact that it had no skull at all and no brain. All that was left of the head was the skin and ears, which flopped like a glove as I picked it up. I have seen many such kicking corpses with no central nervous system left at all. There are reflexes controlled by the spinal chord so you would expect to see a decapitated rabbit kicking as well. It is a well known phenomenon in chickens and other birds. I really like the gun from a shooting and appearance point of view, but it has an occasional 'fit' and doesn't extract maybe 5% of the cases. It is still new with only 200 rounds through it so I'm hoping it eases up in the chamber department. I have registered the issue with the seller who is happy to rectify matters. I'll put another couple of hundred through it and see how she goes. I wondered if it might be a bit gory, but thanks. I used a phone camera which is not very good.

no its a bruno sight that is tailord to fit the CZ452 lux i sell them for $200 canadian which is about 100p in your money if interested let me know Thanks. I actually had half a mind to buy a peep sight for my Winchester 9417, but that has a slightly different dovetail. Also, although it is probably a good price, that's a little more than I had in mind. The williams ones fitb the winchester and are obviously of lesser quality. Thanks for the info though. Cheers

What kind of peep sight is that on the CZ? Is it a Williams?

err 17 I think. 80 yard shot tonight and no head. Literally inside out.

I think it is the enthusiasts who dictate the breed standards rather than the KC. In any case, those KC guys were wetting their pants that the 'enthusiasts' (AKA nutter obsessives) would run off and do heir own thing in any case - they said so in so many words. We are stuck with these weirdos destroying the breeds completely. Pedigree dogs cost about three times as much to insure than a mongrel for one reason, they are far more likely o be sick and crippled and that is because of the way they have been bred.

From what was said on the programme by the vets and from my own direct experience, you are onto someting good with a cross bred dog. It's just as you found out yourself. Field trials lines of animals should maybe be better than the show dogs though, but they are also bred into the same stock over and over again so maybe they will suffer the same kinds of difficulties because of inbreeding though the problems may be different ones. It's the breeding methods as well as the searching out of weird appearance that is the problem. That programme was an eye opener, even though I have noticed the deterioration in mobility and robustness of German Shepherds over time. It has got so bad that some breeders are crossing GS with collies to get a dog that can walk. Such a shame as there are few breeds that are as intelligent and loyal as the GS. The problem with crossing a lab and a spaniel from lines that have been damaged by inbreeding is that they still carry defective genes. They are I suppose less likely to be expressed in a particular pup than if you went back to the same lines on both sides but the concentration of genes is still there. It wouldn't surpise me if we had to go back to the mongrel mutts that used to run about all over our cities to get back to some decent canine genes. The problem has probably been m,de worse by the recent tendency to spay all dogs besides breeding stock - the very ones that have the problems. Where are old the old mongrels we used to have? Spayed and extinguished by the do gooders of the breeding fraternity and their stupid fashions. We may end up keeping foxes in the future!!

Totally agree. The German Shepherds were grotesque. About twenty five years ago, I had an old fashioned, straight legged GS and he was a fine hound. He could run twenty miles in an afternoon and didn't have those horrible bent legs. Those show GS dogs were being bred for crippledness. They couldn't walk, let alone chase down an intruder. Mine could run like the wind and in his whole life he was never ill until he was ten. The people who have become the breed 'experts', were obviously self selected groups of fanatics with no rational support for the deformed breed standards they are promoting. They were also quite immune to the argument of experts such as vets and academic specialists in animal genetics.