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My only concern with the tape would be that if an area isn't perfectly applied and watertight, it could actually trap salty water and cause an even bigger problem than not having it on would.

Virgin Media, up to 120mb download speed, Infinity ain't geting anywhere near that yet! I have the 50mb for £30/month. Had it for 6 years,it's been down once for one day.

That's much better.

Completely agree. I use a camo gun because the paint protects the metal bits from the saltwater, and the other bits are plastic. To be honest, if they did a matt black gun with a matt black coated barrel, I'd go for that in preference, AFAIK, they don't.

I think you should make BASC aware of this, either by PM'ing DavidBASC or emailing them.

Are there any EDUCATED minds on here who KNOW how this affects the back? I enjoyed rowing in the gym, but I have a dodgy lower back (possibly slipped a disc a few months ago but unconfirmed, bloody hurt, I know that much!). I know it would benefit from strengthening my core and I suspect rowing is very good for doing the back? I need to get back into something. Running isn't an option, I love it but too high impact at the moment...cycling I find very tedious! Cross trainers don't really seem to do anything much!

...and let us thank the Lord for that! I too shoot tidal and since the cold snap set in, things have perked up considerably with the Teal putting in an appearance in numbers. I've managed to almost double my tally for the season in the last two flights. Not taken any pics of the 'bag' as it's been dark! You'll have to make do with one of the dog watching about 700 Brent coming off the stubbles and back onto the harbour!

You really should stop posting ******** about something you blatantly don't comprehend! Statistically bikers are more likely to have an accident. No denying that. It does not mean however, that every time a group of people go for a ride, one of them is going to fall off! I've ridden thousands of miles, many of my friends have ridden thousands of miles and often we are riding together, yet somehow we manage to all make it back home in one piece! I've seen people fall off/have accidents and guess what, I've seen car crashes too. In 2010, 403 motorcyclists died on the road. While a grim statistic, when you then look at the number of bikes on the road and the millions of miles covered, you're actually far more likely to make it home than not.

Oh yes! Not helped by the fact that my mud plugging skills and balance need some fine tuning! I've never yet taken a full on dip, but landed on my **** in the bottom of a muddy gutter on several occasions, as well as falling off my perch last year...that was in the middle of a big gutter, still 12" deep with water and the gun was fully submerged! Change of cartridges and it was going again. It did get a good strip and clean after that time though!

Fantastic! I've driven cars on track and ridden bikes... cars are rubbish! Don't get me wrong, the car is probably as quick around the lap due to higher cornering speeds (although it will get wiped on acceleration), but the bike will be moving and vibrating and howling and squirming and drifting under you all the way round! Bikes are a visceral thing to ride, you feel so much more a part of the machine than you ever will in a car.

At no point have I said that bikes are safe. My point was that your brother rides with a bunch of lunatics/idiots to have suffered fatality levels like that! Knowing as I do that riders of a certain mindset tend to stick together, I'll keep my fingers crossed for your brother. Anyway, as you seem to be the risk averse one, I suggest that you sell your car. Statistically it's far too dangerous! You should get a bus pass, as you are statistically safer on a bus than in a car, to take you to the safest (measured by miles travelled) form of ground transport, namely the train, from there the country is your lobster! Personally I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than regularly travel by public transport!

Now that has really surprised me as I've always found the AA Fields top notch in most guns I've had, but never liked the Logun pellets.

I keep coming to this thread and leaving again with no comment. just the thought of it makes me feel physically sick. I'm sure you did all you can and while you no doubt feel terrible, you are as said, still here to tuck your kids in at night.

Which is why I bought the Hatsan and leave the Browning in the cabinet if going near the marsh.

Hatsan Escort in 3". I shoot as well with it as anything else, and I don't start crying when I drop it in the water, or worse in many ways the mud!

On that basis I tend to agree, but at the same time I do worry that it's another erosion of our rights.

Nicely put.

I've ridden for 10 years, 6 of those regularly with a group of local riders, probably 40 or 50 in total. In that time we've lost one of our number in a bike related crash, and maybe half a dozen injured, none severely. Maybe your brother needs to find safer mates. Let me guess, with your brother or one of his loon mates?

Indeed you are, but if you die in your car it'll probably be from boredom! You don't ride, probably never have and probably never will in case you get hurt, so I cannot begin to hope you'd understand. Tell me though, when you leave the house of a morning, do you look up in case of falling masonry? Is your whole life based on being risk averse, or do you ever get the adrenaline running? However, please don't think your immune from nasty things happening while you're in your tin box. An artic' hitting you at 40 mph will leave you no less ****** than it will me.

Your ground needs to tighten it's Safety Marshalling/rules. If you did that at my local ground (Northall CPC) I can pretty much guarantee you would get a very loud and very public rollicking. Only time a gun's closed outside the cage, it's in a slip or you are with an instructor.

Had a Collie X Alasatian that went to 18, a very good age for sure..I've got a goldfish that's probably pushing twenty years old, either that or someone keeps replacing it with an identical one!

Sorry mate, but you have definitely got that **** about! I drive and I ride and it's true, 4 wheels move the body, 2 wheels moves the soul! You are equally entitled to sit in traffic jams for half of your journey, insulated from the outside wrold in your little tin box. I would choose every time to be riding through and around the jams, with the smells and sounds of my environment stimulating my senses. But that's where the equality ends, the car may be safer, the bike is not the safe option, but if I wanted safe I'd live in a padded sell. I'll stick with the option that reaffirms that I am still alive!!!

Sorry, seen it and not got time. Need to watch the first episode of NCIS Season 10! Been waiting AGES for it, then not been able to watch it for a week!!!

Have you read any of this thread?

LOL at 'a few pence'. I saved hundreds, no thousands of pounds a year. I was doing £100 plus weekly on diesel. I was producing good, fully converted biodiesel for less than half the forecourt price and my only reliability issue was a blocked fuel filter which was completely expected and cost me about £15 IIRC. Get the right vehicle (as I said before, a few just don't like B100, end of) and do your homework and you can eliminate pretty much all of the 'problems'.