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Depends on the lease length, agreed mileage, car price, and a myriad of other factors. Could be anywhere from 3p per mile on a Dacia to £1 or more for something ridiculously high end

Hope the dog is doing better, and glad to have been able to give you a location for the fox earth !

I fid myself in general agreement with what's already been posted. In your position, I'd probably go for a PCP air rifle for rabbits, and a Section 2 (SGC, not FAC) 12 bore shotgun for fox. You could quite feasibly get an O/U shotgun rather than a semi-auto - if you miss with the first shot then the fox is going to be out of range for the second, never mind the fourth or fifth shot ! A 12 bore firing a 3 inch Eley Alphamax BB cartridge will drop a fox at 30-40 yards every single time. The biggest trick is letting the fox come in - if you're quiet and still then they'll get within 10 yards of you before they wonder if something isn't right.

I've tried voice release once at a clay ground in Northumberland, and found it to be horribly inconsistent. I did use a foot pedal release at a ground in Lancs a few years ago that was quite nice

A 9V square battery and wire wool is even better

I make my own feather sticks for BBQ lighting, they're surprisingly effective. All you need is kindling and a good knife - or even a small hatchet

You can normally get the Stihl stuff on a 250m reel from most tool hire places. Far better quality than the cheapo DIY brands

BASC's privacy policy is pretty clear, and pretty obvious to find from their home page : https://basc.org.uk/basc-privacy-policy/ If you want your information, or it to be deleted by them, why not just ask them to do it, instead of imagining some monster conspiracy theory about obstacles they might put in your way ?

People tend to use banter a bit strongly. But in all practicality, that is something that people have been caught out over - a gun cabinet in the loft is a classic example. Get in from a day out, tired and cold. Put gun (in slip) somewhere out of the way while you have dinner and a bath to warm up, and before you know it you're dozing off on the sofa, gone to bed and the next morning the gun is still where it was the evening before. It's got to be out of sight of a casual visitor to the house, but still accessible. So in a cupboard or wardrobe is fine. You don't need to go the whole nine yards and make a secret panel in the back of a wardrobe for it.

I would disagree. Good quality antigue furniture in particular seems to be highly popular right now - especially anything small and practical. Miniature dressers, good quality cricket tables, oak chairs, spice racks, have made a huge comeback, to name but a few. My dad is in the trade (sort-of, he's 84 and has retired 3 times already !), I'd be happy to ask his opinion on anything you wanted a pic of, or even give my opinion of it if you wanted, you pick things up through just being around that stuff for so long. I'm not in the trade, I work in the NHS

As someone has already said, your contract (and thus any warranty claim) are against the shop you bought the gun from. The shop may wish to claim from the importer, but that's their problem, not yours. I'd suggest you speak to the shop and tell them you expect them to sort it out

I've got a Webley + Scott bolt action 410, which I think cost me the princely sum of £50. On the end of that I've got the hushpower detachable moderator (currently £120, when I got mine I seem to recall they were £90) from these guys : http://hushpower.co.uk/Gunroom/SG_Hushpower.htm Remove the foresight bead, fit the moderator, and you're good to go. Whilst it's not as quiet as the full-length shrouded guns, if you shoot it from 50 yards away then most people don't notice it. Thing with these is you don't need to download cartridges to take advantage of the gun - yes, if you put a slower subsonic cartridge through it then you'll make it really stealthy, but the moderator does 90% of that anyway. Take it any quieter and you're down to air rifle levels of noise.

My initial post was in response to the post from 'lakeside1000', where he mentioned about other predators taking poults, etc. I can't see it being anything to do with the filming - everyone local just avoided the area, and the chick that died was found to have been struck by a wind turbine !

Oh, I agree. but the perception of risk can be greater than the reality of said risk. But, as I said, speculation on my part. I hope they catch the culprit (there are cameras all over the place up there, both overt and covert), and they get their day in the harsh glare of publicity in a courtroom

Agreed, here's hoping that the birds establish in the new nest and can rear a brood I live about 15 miles from the Brenig, and spent 5 years there and at the Alwen working as a ranger. I'm mystified as to what (if any) shoot would view the ospreys as a danger. The birds have got a massive lake literally on the edge of the nest. The Alwen (2 miles away) is also stocked from the Brenig fish farm, and a number of other lakes and reservoirs on the top of the moors. I'm a member of a shoot on the edge of the moors (about 5 miles as the osprey flies from the Brenig, and have never seen, nor heard from someone else that has seen, any of the ospreys in the area - they've got such a plentiful food supply by just falling out of the nest that they'd have no need to try getting a rabbit or poult from a few miles away. I do wonder if the same can be said for sheep farmers in the area - late lambing season that high up, and I suppose a smaller, young lamb would certainly be of a carriable weight for an osprey. But I will freely admit that's speculation on my part

Looks like you had a good day out there Tom, all the kids matching hats look good ! At least that hill is nice and dry right now, makes getting up and down it less twitchy !

I believe that the law states that any modification to the barrel means it is no longer legally in-proof - as such, you would be selling a firearm out-of-proof. But, as I also said, I've never asked if a gun was re-proofed, or been asked about it on a gun I was selling.

As you say, technically the gun needs to be re-proofed if you want to sell it in the future. Not sure I've ever known anyone to ask (and I've certainly never asked) if that has been done

I would be very careful about removing trees. All trees are protected by TPOs if over a certain size, you could find yourself with large fines. The requirement for social housing depends on area and the local Council policy. Some councils it's 25% of housing, some it's 10%, some it's 25%, but only kicks in with a development over 6 houses, it really is very variable across the country. Basically, as others have said, you really need a planning consultant. Oh, have an informal chat with your planning department too. You might be surprised how helpful they can be.

I'd say Yukon Photon too Put something like a set of Warne QD mounts and rings on, and you can switch from normal scope to NV in 60 seconds or less, with no zeroing required. I used to do a single check shot to confirm, but don't bother any more, repeatability is perfect

I think you'll find that the motorbike in question hadn't been on the road, MOT'd, or SORN'ed for a decade or most likely considerably longer. If there hasn't been any record of it existing, then sooner or later it's going to fall off databases and be assumed to be scrapped. So it's not surprising if things need to be checked out before they will 'bring back to life' an old vehicle of some sort. DVLA have, in my experience over the last decade, been brilliantly helpful whenever I've had a question or reason to call them to check something To the OP : the 'rule' for continuous tax / SORN is to protect people from dodgy numberplates being brought out from long=rusted heaps. Whilst DVLA might enforce the rule, they also state that they reserve the right to demand to inspect the donor vehicle to ensure that it exists - I've only known that to happen on one occasion, where a car had been exported and then imported, and they wanted to ensure it was the same car. Basically, I'd suggest dropping DVLA an email and asking the question - though bear in mind that if you're asking if a vehicle that you're looking at buying has been taxed / SORN for the last 5 years, then they won't tell you (the thin end of data protection)

I would imagine that's a perfect way of coming off the motorbike repeatedly, and if you've got a rucksack full of logs on your back, sooner or later (probably sooner) you're going to break something serious. If it's downhill as much as you indicate, would a 2-wheel bogey, fat-tyred wheelbarrow, or even a dragline be easier - and safer !

Ok, but (and bear with me here) If you do (for example), 10k miles per annum. A petrol (non-turbo) will do 30mpg. That works out to roughly £1820 per annum in fuel costs A diesel will be more like 40mpg, and that works out at £1370 per annum in fuel costs. So the petrol will cost somewhere between £400 and £500 more to run a year. But the petrol car will be cheaper to buy, will not have that very expensive DPF to go wrong, will not suffer injector or glow plug problems, will not have the DMF on the clutch which is another notorious fault on these - and all of those are horribly expensive to fix. If we were in 'normal' times and you lived locally, I'd offer to take you out for a run in ours, it's really a bit of a hoot to drive

I'll ask the question, why diesel preferred ? If it's not going to be doing decent mileages, then a modern diesel with a DPF is a recipe for continuing expense and problems - more so at the age and budget you're looking at. If you're not doing big miles, then a Forester petrol might not be the worst thing - our 2012 / 62 plate 2.0 petrol Forester averages about 30mpg (a bit less if towing or on the fields, obviously) - it's got 104k on the clock, and still goes brilliantly. The only thing I'd say if looking at the Subaru is to get a good test drive - personally I think that the CVT automatic is horrible to drive, and I wouldn't even consider it unless it was a manual, but that's a very personal subjective choice

If it is land that could potentially be of use as a ransom strip, then the general rule is that it's worth 25-33% of the value of the development land. If I was selling such a piece of land at a cheap rate (i.e. at less than above), I'd want a considerable clawback arrangement in place in the deeds, lasting 30 years or so. Basically, something on the lines of "If this land is sold in the next 30 years, it is agreed that 50% of the increase in value shall be immediately payable to Mrs Jones or her legal beneficiaries or their descendants"