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  1. Now is a good time to dip your toe. LTC is under 40 quid a pop and I would be pretty sure at some point in the future be it 6 months or a year it will clear 200 once things swing around which they will 

  2. Your bang on about the folding up. I gave it a quick test today . All I did was drill a hole in my floater and just push on. Stayed on a treat but as you say the wing curls up. One real bird and one floater on here

     

     

    No idea what the pigeons think as not  a bird to be seen. I should have known mid day is waste of time but it was just to test the magnet really and see if the plastic burd held together 

  3. 4 minutes ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

    Hello, you can still buy SportPlast decoys, not cheap but look to be very well made, keep us posted how your magnet decoys captain h ?

     

    I will do some good ideas here. I think I can mount my floaters y just drilling one hole so won't wreck them after all. Just be handy to use rather than fresh birds 

  4. Another thing I dont get is soldiers on the news wear face coverings all the time. I have no idea but when shooting the more awareness you have with hearing and vision the better. When your life depends on it even more so. As for a tank you wouldn't want to be any where near one

  5. I just find it unthinkable. Just as one example. Pottering about on a frosty morning with a ferret and a dog. That rumble under the ground before a bolt. That man and dog team work. To outlaw some thing like that is insanity . You have to draw a line 

  6. 8 hours ago, greylag said:

    Unfortunately there is not one member of the Welsh government in favour of country sports .They are determined to pick away at our way of life little by little,as can be seen from last week's decision by NRW a government funded organisation to alter the general licences .

     

    Simon Hart ? though not many like him for sure sadly 

  7. So from the news the latest is

    The US president also made headlines during his European trip, announcing any chemical attack launched by Russia in Ukraine would be met "in kind" by Nato. Though he declined to go into detail.

    This now means there is a point where we will get involved which is a development. If doing the right thing puts my kids at risk then I am not for doing the right thing. If it was just me that would be different 

  8. Well I emailed basc and they rang me today in fairness . Nothing much will change if it does go through and you can still use one or two dogs to flush hunt and catch a rabbit for example.

    He also said when the government or Basc ask for the surveys to be filled out it is important we do so as they take notice. For example one was sent out in Wales recently to do with game birds and out of 7000 members in wales only 200 did it.

    So they are trying 

  9. Nothing to do hounds that has been lost. The issue is lurcher work and all the people that go ferreting and lamping legally which there are plenty. A proper way of country life where you nip out for a few unbeatale hours of sport and puts some food on the table if you wish. How they have the audacity to take that off people amazes me

  10. 33 minutes ago, benbobailey said:

    Hello, I am a member of the Scottish Gamekeeper Association , they are actively opposing this bill. I have received communication from them with suggestions of action I can take personally eg list of MP emails etc. I have no real involvement with dog packs (although a pack of hounds are covering my small shoot next week)but I will oppose the introduction in anyway, it's just another in a long line of actions to totally eliminate fieldsports of all kinds. As a past member of Wagbi/ Basc it must be said that those organisations along with others, have been very poor in the protection of shooting and country sports. I fear the overall battle is almost lost , and there is very little will on our part for a fight. Regards

    Thank you for your reply and glad to hear the Scottish Gamekeeper Association are having a go at least. Once its gone its gone and you never hear of any thing being recovered.  Once lost it stays lost 

  11. 25 minutes ago, redial said:
    4 hours ago, captainhastings said:

    Just about sums it up really. So when they screw your chosen sport that will be good enough for you 

    I consider myself to be a field sportsman and I am a 

    member of the C.A. I don't have running dogs these days but I follow hounds.

    Fair enough your not so bad after all 

  12. Unless I have missed it has any one mentioned this ?
    I am not sure if basc are actively going to fight it or just roll with it.

    https://basc.org.uk/hunting-with-dogs-scotland-bill/?fbclid=IwAR3k7sYYuYZNnQJVpAN4yl9D4PklEIPtWGmUBhGoKlO4mLbrlt5_1W7C9yI

    I know this is a predominately shooting forum but yet again lurcher work and ferreting will suffer and basically be screwed 
    To quote Basc in the article above

    "This Bill, if passed unchanged, will have minimal impact on those of us who use one or two dogs in the countryside for pest control, game shooting, wildfowling or deer stalking. "

    So a case of I am all right jack. Every single inch we give them we will never get back and they will keep driving that wedge in deeper. It will effect shooters further down the road with out doubt. But it is heading toward a country where you can't take your lurcher for a walk and catch a rabbit. It beggars belief and is absolutely disgusting. It will start in Scotland but given time England and Wales will be next.   

  13. Regardless of the rights and wrongs Nato can't go romping around the place righting wrong doings when the repercussions could be immense life wise to nato members. It has been made clear we won't tolerate them touching an inch of nato ground because that is where the line has been drawn. So that is good enough. Horrible though it is to see 

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