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Deershooter, If you have personal experience and you're saying that you know that's what happens, then I'm not disputing that. The table you refer to is - in my opinion - a supposedly complete list of all the tasks which may be required out in respect of a grant, each with the responsible organisatiojn identified. From my reading of the document (and I'm not going to invest another half-hour) it did not seem as though a doctors letter would be requested unless a response the the medical question on the application form gave cause for concern. D

That's half an hour of my life I'll not get back. I think you're wrong, read page 36 of the full document again. It seems quite clear that a doctor's letter is requested when there is an answer to the medical history question on the application form which gives rise to concern. I think that's in line with the Home Office guidelines and seems quite reasonable.

According to the BBC, quoting independent data, 18% of badgers shot in the cull took more than five minutes to die. I don't shoot vermin, so I have no direct experience of foxing, but the general impression one would form from posts and pictures on here is that a 100 yard plus clean kill on a fox, at night, was pretty routine. Assuming it's true, what's your view? Posters on here are heroic super-shots? The badger shooters were poor shots? A badger is difficult to kill? I don't know - but it's not great publicity for shooting as a humane means of badger control. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26369306

********. Defend it as a tradition by all means, but it is catagorically not a primary source of food or income for the Faroese

Chuck, I made a similar point a year or more ago on the rare occasion that someone accidentally submitted a gramatically correct post. The general concensus was that I should 'get my head out of my ****'. I have a personal dislike for 'emoticons', but I think I'm swimming against the tide. D

The great big one back at the nick is 'evidential' - not from personal experience, thank God.

Personally I would stop short of making a complaint. A polite note to your FEO noting the conversation, setting out the facts as you see them and reinforcing the 'rifle in sleeve, bolt and magazine removed' good practice would be a good idea, in my opinion. The officer's recollection of your conversation will very probably be documented, it makes sense to get your side set out also.

You don't get a say I'm afraid. I saw this on the BASC site and wrote to both the PCC and the Chief Constable of Cumbria Police asking for clarification. They confirmed that they had signed an information sharing 'Memorandum of Understanding' with the RSPCA to share info in the interests of crime prevention and investigation. Other police forces - but by no means all - have done the same We can beat our gums as much as we want to each other on here. It would be more use if we got off our **** and wrote to our MPs - but we will not, will we?

I don't think it's unreasonable, but I think you're cutting your nose off to spite your face. Why don't you invest in a map and a pen and ask the shoot captain to mark it up for you? I've been in my current syndicate for three seasons and - when in the driven season, as many other have said - you go where you're told. By the end of the season, you'll have a much better idea of the landholding; you may well have met the farmers or landowners. At this time, in your first season with the syndicate and as a half gun, if you asked for your money back with my lot you would get it straight away and one of the long waiting list would take your place the very next week.

I've got a Perennia 1, which I think is simply the game version of the Prevail. Bought new in early 2011 Over 12k cartridges and it has never failed to eject. Maybe lucky, or maybe it's one of the 'later' guns? I wouldn't get rid of it.

Point taken - but what if it were someone else's child? What about the point of view of the estranged father who might regard the child's mother as responsible for the circumstances which led to a tragic loss of life? I've sacked people in the past for causing 'accidents' in which they themselves were the only one of my employees hurt. To not take action is to condone the behaviour on the grounds that 'they've suffered enough'. Purely my view and I don't expect anyone to pay the slightest attention to it, but I'm not participating in some vicarious grieving process either; the only one I feel sorry for is the child.

Agree re: Leatherman aftersales. I use a Juice C2 constantly. It basically fell to bits after a couple of years hard use and it was replaced by return of post. Anything can fail - it's how the supplier deals with that which sets it apart.

Would anyone care to share their experience of the new 486 Parallelo side by side?

The 32g seem to be available now, the 36g are not yet made - or so I've been told.

A tragic loss of life. A knee-jerk blanket approach to every dog owner, based on the actions a small number of irresponsible owners who ought to be subject to severe sanction rather than imposing unnecessary controls on the vast majority? Is it any wonder firearms legislation in this country has developed as it has?

...because one thing which will really enhance your future employment prospects is a period of work related stress right? Or maybe fraudulantly claiming sick pay whilst working for someone else? Three months is not very long; if you're any good your future employer will see that. It also works both ways, if your employer was to terminate your contract I'm sure you would expect them to honour your contractual notice period. With respect to your original question, if you want a legal opinion you need to ask a lawyer. In my 30 years of hiring (and to be fair, firing) I've rarely seen anyone held to their full notice period unless it is to keep them out of the market because they're going to a competitor. Even then it's always been garden leave; no employer wants someone cluttering up the workplace when they no longer give a monkey's.

Save your money, they're rubbish. Components probably cost a fiver and the ideas worth a tenner. £90 is a joke.

If I remember correctly the first batch were subject to a recall, which I think was from them being over pressure. What Malmo mean - I suppose - is thet the next batch will be correct, and therefore lower pressure. What I do know is that I've been waiting forever for the damn things. Ordered from my RFD six weeks ago and it's always 'next week, maybe the week after'. With all the focus on non-toxic this year I'd have thought thay Eley would have got their finger out

****** the tip - where are you getting walked up grouse for less than £400 per day?

Three-piece is for keepers, in my humble opinion. For walked-up. I dress for practicality. On driven. I make the effort.

Yes, HETAS are the trade body - like Gas Safe for gas. The prices quoted above for supply and installation - especially with the siainkess steel flues - seem very reasonable. I've recently paid much more, twice.

I've got a Sebo conventional vaccuum and a Henry - both excellent. Henry's 'suck' but a conventional upright also has a rotating beater / brush which - in my opinion - makes them better for carpets.

Only 7 out of 122 posts with emoticons - is that a PW record? (Just to demonstrate my head's not firmly up my ****: )

The reported situation is changing and it does now seem that it was a poor decision to detain Miranda under the legislation in question. If today’s reports are true and he was in possession of stolen classified information then detaining him and arresting him under more conventional powers would have been a more appropriate course of action; in my opinion. Little boys (or girls in Manning’s case?) playing with fire and crying when they inevitably face the consequences of their actions - meanwhile possibly putting their fellow citizens at risk. I have no sympathy whatsoever for the perpetrators or the swivel-eyed scaremongers who make them out to be heroes. Happily - or not - we all face considerably more risk on the roads in this county than we do from terrorism - but that story doesn't sell newspapers.

It is simple - but if you're just going to replicate a 'package' holiday you may well find it's cheaper through an agent - the tour operatiors have massive buying power and get decent prices. You will also have some protection vs the operator going bust and all the organisation's done for you typically with transfers to and from airport and acommodation. If you're doing someting other than a straightforward package-replica, it is easy enough to sort yourself. Flexibility is probably the biggest advantage rather than price. You also have to make all the arrangements yourself. I prefer the DIY option, but I suspect it costs me more than getting an agent to do it.