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  1. 1 hour ago, Lloyd90 said:

    That said, it does appear (although I’ve hardly researched it at all) that many Palestinians support them, share a hatred for the Jews, yet want to stand back when it comes back their way saying “oh that wasn’t us”. 

    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.

  2. 1 hour ago, Lloyd90 said:


    That’s helpful considering you can’t pay by card on person to person payments 🤣🤣

    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 😁

  3. 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.

  4. On 11/05/2023 at 23:59, 39TDS said:

    I suspect a certain part of the population would disagree on that. I don't agree with this trying to change history to fit modern values but it has always been offensive and always used in such a way. 

    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. 

  5. 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.

  6. 18 hours ago, Dougy said:

    Just got in and watched it back "TWICE" the report clearly says they were incompetent yet they blame a fault with the licensing system and want improve it. 

    Fuming. 

    The guy simply should not have been given his licence back, and reading the report from Dunblane and Hungerford again failing of the issuing forces. 

     

     

    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. 

  7. 43 minutes ago, clangerman said:

    I don’t take entertainment from killing anything pest control is merely a job farmers are to busy for hence they give others permission hope that’s not to confusing for you lol 

    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. 

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 6 minutes ago, 12gauge82 said:

    The Hunts can not claim they are only doing it for pest control. 

    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.

  11. 5 minutes ago, Dave-G said:

    Except a bullet is usually humane because the quarry didn't see the kill coming and shock would likely cause it not to feel the pain.

    Imagine if we had to see and feel ourselves being shredded to death - or die from a bullet we didn't know was coming.

    Another anthropomorphic view of the fox.

  12. 15 hours ago, Scully said:

    I’ve always maintained that a lot of ‘the hunts’ problems was the fact they couldn’t decide that what they were doing was ‘sport’ or pest control. 
    If it was sport then there was obviously a reluctance to admit it; if it was pest control then why introduce and release foxes to areas where there previously were none? 

    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.

  13. 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.

  14. 56 minutes ago, THEINVISIBLESCARECROW said:

    At my range I can shoot any other gun from another member providing I have that cal' on my ticket. On open days I can shoot anything so can visitors without an fac as long as they are supervised on the stand with the gun owner. Out in the field the rules are more ar less the same, shoot another person's gun while in their presence if you have that cal' on your ticket. Obviously things go unseen but at my range the police are members & no one knows who they are so rules are very strictly enforced.

    Where did you dream that one up from, certainly not from the "Estate Rifle "rules.

  15. 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.

  16. 29 minutes ago, enfieldspares said:

    It is my belief that the "estate rifle" exemption will not benefit the OP as the law states that

    The ‘Estate Rifle Exemption’ allows a person who is over the age of 17 without a certificate to borrow a rifle from the occupier of a private premises and use it on those premises in the presence of either the occupier or the occupier’s servant as per s16(1) of the Act.

    As it is the OP that is the occupier. Not the person who they are asking to borrow the rifle from.

    https://www.knights-solicitors.co.uk/uploads/HJREOlzX/160429-NeveraBorroweroraLenderbe-KtBSum16-KnightsLegal.pdf

    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. 

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