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  1. Brook Taverner may suit you if you are a traditional gentleman. https://www.brooktaverner.co.uk/ Measure yourself, work out the size, order and try on. Return if you don't like it. Alternately try Vinted for decent second hand clothes.
  2. Find someone to mentor. Nothing like seeing something through fresh eyes to make you less jaded.
  3. Tell us, please, for the benefit of us constant students even if the OP knows. I'm now wondering if my Baikal has a selector of which I was unaware!
  4. I've given up and I am trying one of the new composite alternatives. So far very happy. Did the pancakes very well yesterday.
  5. I've been banned from acquiring more guns until I get rid of some, but thank you for thinking of me. I would have loved a Grant and Son!
  6. Cambs firearms were always the fastest responding FEOs of any but they've been merged with other counties so now we struggle along like everyone else. They have also stopped allowing you to write "loan" on a shotgun transfer, it has to be "sold" or "given", which I think is a legal issue.
  7. Really kicky side by sides shot by wimps at skeet. I would!
  8. My condolences, Scully, on the loss of your friend.
  9. That would be nice, if we were all starting from the same place. Two individuals may be on an equal footing regardless of sex. However when looking at any class of people we need to be aware of the disadvantages. When women have been told for their entire lives - explicitly and also indirectly- that guns are for men, guns are not for you, the "women's shooting" movement was incredibly successful at increasing take up. And what happened to those women who took up shooting because of it? They moved into competition and game shooting and didn't need things to be wrapped in pink and labelled "women" to know they could do things. Barriers were truly broken down for them - for us, I was one of them. I see women I knew at the start of their shooting experiences now winning county titles and occasionally shooting for their Country. At the bottom of it all are two things, representation and mentorship. You can't be it if you can't see it, and that applied to everyone. And mentorship can come from anywhere - I have had some wonderful mentorship from male shooters as well as some top class women shooters. I see not reason to bring the alphabet soup of gender into shooting . It's cheap virtual signalling and completely unnecessary. You'd be better of tackling the homophobic "banter" that keeps people away rather than encouraging men to perform their fetishes at shooting grounds - autogynophiles are at statistical higher risk of violence anyway so not ideal licence holders.
  10. Can't get through to BASC on the members line so have written. To have my paid representative actually working against me as a certificate holder and a sportsperson is just too much. If the "voice of the countryside" can't grasp that a steer is not a heifer then we are doomed.
  11. It was the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club era that shifted the percentage of shotgun licence holders from 4.5% to 6% and that was freaking years ago. I had to file a FOI request for that data back in 2013 or maybe 2014.
  12. Ha! What did jingoism ever bring the populace?
  13. Please! Do they really think people will queue up to be cannon fodder? We spent a hundred years trying to recover from the disgusting waste of human life that was the First World War. Would you trust the establishment that they will value the lives of their soldiers? At least when they are professional soldiers they are expensive to loose.
  14. My 7 year old was big but couldn't hold up a double barrelled .410 or 28G. Shame, would have been nice to try. Got a .410 single barrel and a 12G single barrel to begin with. Nice people give them away.
  15. Nice! Usually takes me a day of sitting around to not achieve that 😄
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