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CharlieT

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  1. I quite happily contribute to Wikipedia one a year to help with their running costs and would be more than pleased to do the same to PW. I would have thought that if PW were to follow the same fund raising model as Wiki it would make a significant inroad into costs without putting new and old members off.
  2. These are the truest words spoken. Both sides absolutly detest one another and neither side will rest untill the other is driven into the sea.
  3. How very Luddite of you, easy enough to buy and use a card reader in this modern age and hey presto the world of safe payments has arrived 😁
  4. Interestingly, I had an email alert from my bank this morning (Lloyds) warning of Facebook Marketplace scams. The Lloyds warning contained the following............ • Never pay by bank transfer. Pay by debit or credit card to protect your money.
  5. Have a probe around, particularly where those paving stones are and find the main run and set a trap there.
  6. I'm not convinced one little bit that the use of that particular word in the context of a dog's name based on its color was offensive. BCC20 was a standard color from the 1930's onwards and Gibson's dog was one of many in that era named so. I can remember buying tins of black paint using that very name.
  7. I feel this proposed legislation should be viewed the same as any other proposed government legislation, in so much as legislation should reflect the majority views of the people for the good of the people Therefore, with this in mind, everyones view counts and rightly should be taken into account. It is therefore extremely important that everyone takes part and all who shoot band together.
  8. Type, in your case, means rifle. Action is not required and does not need to be specified on the application and should not be confused with "type". This allows you to request a .22 RF rifle and then chose which action you fancy when you go to buy one. Bolt action, semi auto action or single shot action as an example.
  9. Of course it will and more to the point you don't need to detail the action type of the application.
  10. Yes. But I didn't feel the need to share the fact much like I don't feel the need to tell the world every time I put on a clean pair of knickers
  11. And let us not forget that FELWG, who meet regularly to discuss and formulate licensing policy discussing in minute detail everything from staff training to how many rounds license holders should use to zero their rifle, is attended by and made up from representatives of licensing departments one of which happens to be Devon and Cornwall. There is no excuse for D&C not doing their job properly when they themselves formulate policy.
  12. Don't hold your breath. If it ever gets off the ground It will form part of the environmental grant paid directly to landowners. I'm just waiting for the outcry in the Daily Mail that public money is to be spent on killing cuddly little foxes.
  13. There you are Scully, he's just a kind hearted chap who, despite the fact he vehemently abhors killing does so because he feels sorry for a farmer. What a splendid chap he is.
  14. Simply because we have been pushed into a corner and have decided to justify our field sports with such drivel. It matters not a jot to our opponents how we dress it up. Providing food, helping farmers control vermin, cover for little birds, etc. is all a smokescreen. We take part because we enjoy an exhilarating sport be that hunting or shooting that, at the end of the day, results in the killing (death) of an animal. The sooner we all sing from the same hymn sheet and stand together the better.
  15. I have yet to meet anyone who enjoys killing for killing's sake be they hunters or shooters. That's just emotive drivel put about by the anti brigade. However, that said, both hunting and shooting end with the death of the quarry. The death in both cases be it bullet or hound is humane and instant.........I've never in my 79 years seen a wounded runner with a pack of hounds, it's either dead or gets away.
  16. But they are not, they're doing it because they enjoy it, just like those that shoot enjoy it. Thays the whole point of the exercise. Anyone who says they do so for any other reason is telling fibs or coming up with an excuse to justify their actions.
  17. Fox hunting has always been both, sport and pest control. Primarily sport with the added bonus of pest control. As you say, with a shift in public opinion and a perceived need to defend our sport, there became a reluctance to admit it and the narrative changed to pest control. As livestock farmers, we always insisted that any fox that went to ground was dug out and killed. It's the same argument many fox shooters on here use when that say they don't shoot foxes for enjoyment, but purely for altruistic reasons in doing their landowner a favor. In today's climate it is becoming increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to justify any sport in which any animal or bird is killed for sport be that fox, pheasant or pigeon. In the cold light of day I don't see how pheasant shooting can ever truly justify its continuance when the spotlight falls that way. It always amazes me that people will accept a couple of terriers killing a rat, but be absolutely be appalled by a couple of large foxhounds killing a fox. Both capable of killing their prey as fast as a bullet will.
  18. Once again this demonstrates just how useful this forum is. We all learn from it.
  19. As you say, your personal theory. However, that is not what the law actually says regarding the estate rifle exemption. It matters not a jot what firearms you have on your FAC, when you use someone else's rifle under the ER rules it is their FAC conditions that apply. You can shoot any caliber they may own providing they are legally entitled to permit you to shoot on the land.
  20. Where did you dream that one up from, certainly not from the "Estate Rifle "rules.
  21. You appear to be looking for flaws when, in practical terms, they do not exist. We can all dream up hypothetical illegal scenarios where people may try to circumvent the law. However, doing so is an offense. The only sure fired way to stop knives falling into the wrong hands by the methods you describe is a complete ban on sales other than face to face with ID. Perhaps you should start lobbying your MP and Police and Crime Commissioner to do so. And while you're at it, perhaps you should include banning the home storage of firearms just in case some child opens his father's gun cabinet with the family angle grinder..................the list goes on.
  22. The rules have changed since 2016, when that article was written. The estate rifle rules now state, as per 7.6 in the Firearms Guidance, iii. the lender either has the legal right to allow others to enter the premises for hunting animals or shooting game or vermin; or, iv. has written authorisation from such a person to lend the rifle or shot gun on the premises.
  23. So sad to hear this, he was a very likeable chap who I will dearly miss.
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