PeterHenry

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Good stuff BASC 👍

👍 If only the real ones appeared when you shout pull

Ah, not far at all. Do you beat / shoot anywhere locally? We have probably bumped into each other - or at least now some of the same pepole.

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No, they exfoliate on their own. They are very low maintenance animals, but also very slow growing - which means thankfully they go hand in hand with having another job.

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I skipped over that bit.

Pictures please Sounds nice regardless

True - I thought about that, but I want to make sure the colour stays as close as possible to the original

Short of finding another answer to the problem - I'm after some donor fabric for a light green canvas Brady gun / motor case. I've managed to get champagne on mine (yes, I know - please feel free to ridicule me) and it's lifted the dye from the fabric. I've then made things worse by using a wet cloth on it. Anyway, I have read that using rubbing alcohol to lift the dye, and then 'smudge' it around might work - but I am missing the dye that came off with the wet cloth - hence the need for a donor case / fabric. My case is in otherwise good condition, and previously belonged to a person of local intrest, hence not wanting to re-canvas the whole thing and loose the initials. Happy to pay scrap value + postage Best, Peter

I have a theory about this - the shorter the barell the better for snap shooting, the longer, the better for driven birds (pheseants at lest). I have guns from 26' sxs to 30" o&u, and my experience tallys with the above (for what it's worth). Although - I'm happy to admit - short barrels are better for traditional driven partridge (I haven't shot grouse, so I can't say, but I am lead to believe that short barrels are better for them also) Someone may tell me otherwise - and I will be happy to agree given they have experience - but from what have read - pheseants have got higher in the last 30 years (I'm 33). A 28 sxs takes a lot of effort to get into a high pheseant. A 30" o&u takes far less. Victorian / Edwardian guns needed long barells for pressure (and as a rule, only good things get kept) - after WW1 / the great depression and then WW2, with a lot of big estates broken up, shorter barreled guns for smaller (and walked up) shoots become the norm. The whole time, everything becomes more egalitarian and a trend is followed - hence more 'good' guns being made with 28" barrels (and Robert Churchill doing his bit for 25" barrels). Exit the 1980s and 30" o&u guns are established alongside clay shooting as a norm - it's no coincidence that (with another generation of shooters) the hight of pheseants begin to rise (and as traditional partridge shoots decreased - and not many of us have the money for grouse) guns switch from 25" /26" / 28" sxs to 30" o&u - and walked up shooting isn't so important anymore (due in part to a change in agcultural practices) - so heavy 30" + o&u's dominate that are great for on the peg and with clays. Anyway, that's my theory after a number of cans of Leffe (Brun/Bruin)...

All ex prime ministers are offered it, but its only offered in order. So until call-me-Tony accepts his, Gordon won't be offered his, etc. It's a formality, but it stings to know its going to happen....

Very nice. I've got a feeling I nearly bid on that case on ebay - or one similar.

I agree with the title, but as I haven't read the article, my insight must end there

As said, a Subject Access Request / Data Subject Access Resquest (SAR / DSAR) is the way to go (both the sane thing btw) Your medical records are your personal information - your GP cannot legally refuse to provide them to either yourself or another party that you designate. If you do have trouble, the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is who you want to refer them to.

My father's father use to poach (tickle) trout. When I was at boarding school, a couple of friends got caught poaching phesents from the woods around the place. One of them from a very respectable family. He now runs runs a shoot. I've got to be honest, I have little time for poaching - I've never done it, and the amount of time and effort I put into feeding wild birds along hedgerows and on flight ponds, it really winds me up when I catch someone and their whippet on one of my trail cams... I do enjoy hearing the stories though I will also add, that one of the house masters (again from a very respectable family) who ran the school clay trap and rifle range, still kept his father's folding stock .410....

Guilty as charged.... I hang my head.

It's a remarkable coincidence that you have chosen this moment for such a change of heart - and I look forward to your first constructive post.

In that case I agree - strange bedfellows indeed. I did know about his stance pre appointment to Natural England, but had - possibly mistakenly - presumed that he had taken up his role with a more charitable governing for all approach. But perhaps not.... I still hold that it's better to foster good general terms with someone you disagree with in principle - perhaps even more so in this case. I very much believe in dialogue between parties. Ah, I see what you are trying to say. I think sadly that more government oversite of our sport (and everything else) is the way things are going. That's the problem with Parliments - they have to be seen to do things to make themselves look busy.... but in the mean time, I don't think a stab at self regulation is a bad thing to do. Fellside put it very eloquently when he talked about a green wave. My view is the destruction of the environment is going to be at the forefront of everyone's mind for a very long time, that gives (as we have seen) governments carte blanche to do what they *need* to fix it. Hence untold meddling in all aspects of everything. Sadly I can't see things going any other way any time soon, so we need to do what best we can to carve out a niche for our sport in this new world.

My understanding - and I am, genuinely, happy to be proved wrong on this point - is that the general licences are longer and more complicated as a direct result to them being made watertight. Owing to our continued adherence to the Birds Directive, and the subsequent Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, to be considered legal the General Licences had to be far more specific in relation to what would be shot and when. Obviously, they also had to be usable in practice - which is why we are where we are, and they are tempered with reasonableness clauses. That's just the way it is with a lot of law.

I know he has links to the Green Party as well - and - if I was the person charged with picking someone to head up Natural England, it would not have been him. What you say about the dropping of general licences may be true - but I won't presume to infer the reasoning. Although I am not disputing that they were dropped awfully quickly. That aside, the old general licences look to have been a weak spot just waiting for someone to exploit - more of a political smudge bought in to appese the (predecessor of the) EU and people who shot. Like any smudge, no one cared until it was noticed by someone who wanted to tidy it up. Regardless, the GL's were sorted out, and they now do conform to the law, while for the large part allowing us to continue as before - so I will give him marks for that. The badger cull is still going on - as far as I am aware - so marks to him on that also. I know when he was appointed in 2019 there were fears that it would be like Chris Packham at the wheel, but those fears - as of 2022 - remain largely unfounded as far as I can tell. Edit - I know that this is digressing again, and is not specifically in relation to your point, but I'd just like to point out that BASC can either be incredibly standoffish about things and achieve nothing, or they can build bridges and achive something. BASC are not the American NRA - and despite some pepole wanting them to act like it, won't, because they know it would be entirely futile and counterproductive..

I won't dispute the first part - but they are an important department from the perspective of the pigeon shooter - and one we have to deal with. I won't comment on the second half - but I don't see how basc could ever merge with it, unless I have missed your point?