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Exactly right our Dave has done a pretty good job on this. I think we all would like to see it stamped out (apart from the avoiders) but it is so difficult to do.

I remember the original leaflet from Government (Ted Heath I think?) suggesting we should join.

Inspired by some of the talk of knives and the winnie&bezza suggestion about a knife thread I thought I would kick one off. Here is my total rather pitiful collection. I started with the Opinel but it kept getting clogged up with bird detritus so moved onto the open folder its easier to clean. For me they are tools that I use most days have a good chance of being lost (although to date i haven't). They have to be easy to lock to save my fingers which the Opinel complete with bird detritus definitely isn't.

My former wife joined a scheme much to my displeasure. She said I had lost more on shares than she was risking. One night she came home with £45k and put it on the table. There was so such a pile of cash including about £5000 in Scotish £100 notes that we bought a safe to stuff it in and it wouldn't fit. It went into a few carrier bags and shoe boxes. Paid for a nice holiday in St Lucia and an extension on the house.

Perseverance paid off. You did better than me I looked at a couple of farms having had calls about crows on the barley, but decided against. Then off to a strawberry farm with a barley field but plenty there but thought it might be better in the morning.

Let me know how you get on. I am thinking of one for mine.I want to get some use out of it but my air rifle is so much sweeter at the mo.

Yes a big welcome back and looking forward to hearing about you and your boy bagging some more.

Cheers Matt. I would like to calibrate it to see what its doing with the lighter and heavier pellets. Daystate say its a 40fpe rifle but without a chrono you don't really know. My refill bottle has just gone out of test and i refilled it before i did. The chap in the dive shop said I would need a new pressure guage when its tested else it will fail (its a little bent). he checked the pressure on the guage at 180bar and then tried both the guage on the refill machine and a new guage against it for comparison. They all gave different readings which does not fill me with confidence when filling the rifle. Now I am going by the colour guage on the side of the rifle which I dont think is the best.

Thx for this it makes interesting reading. SME's play a big role. It must be the window cleaners

I wish my window cleaner was £5. Last week it was £25 and when they do the roof its £30. Not bad for 20mins work. Still he does have to pay tax on that.

When I bought the Ranger a number of people told me I would have to use heavy pellets to keep the MV down and retain accuracy. I have been running it with 15.6 grain pellets and its been spot on. Today I dropped a crow at 95m dead where it stood. The pellet went clean through the birds upper chest. I did have a great rest to take the shot but the accuracy and trigger on this rifle is superb. Its easily out shooting my cz 455 .22lr although I think thats mostly down to the trigger.

Of course we could and then pay the tariff barrier payments on top to sell to the EU. The EU subsidy limits were set by agreement so that we don't have to have tariff barriers within Europe across all industries.

Surely you expect to pay extra? (waist about 36/38" as far as I'm admitting )

Too true. As you say its not just the wealthy its the cash job's that go through to avoid vat and tax and it all mounts up.

I have to stand up for our Dave (thats a first and it hurts me to say it) on this one but he has done more to try to clamp down on this stuff than most. Particularly working with our EU neighbours to try and close some of the gaps. Not enough I would say but more than most. What we need is more money going to the Revenue so that they can get a grip of this stuff and simplify the whole tax process in between. I cant understand why we cant make M Fonseca an illegal organisation on the back of this for supporting money laundering. I guess we have to wait for the US to take action.

Great result. My first night out with the Dave G was on rats. I had to remember I had the air rifle the illumination is truly amazing. A well made pice of gear and great for me as I want to swap it between rifles. Look out rabbits.

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Cracking day as allways. If thats not a great day I hope at least some of my days will be this bad

Its a 2012 hl2 2.5 140bhp mk7. Its said to be fairly basic but it has electric windows, remote locking, heated mirrors, air con, power heat and a locking rear diff. To my mind not bad and with DAB i can get good reception for 5live .

This was my bird table this morning, usual collection of finches and other motley birds throwing food everywhere and a pair of ducks and a pheasant clearing up after them. No laughing at the picture quality its not a patch on most i see on here.

Great shooting lads and thx for posting.

My seeland jacket has just given up after 18months! I have bought a shooter king jacket which looks to be great and a gortex type Army desert Camo jacket £25 for a trip to Africa. Shooter king impressed as there is plenty of information about the specification of the product not just saying its good. It also looks pretty smart. The desert camo coat is amazing value.

20m thats going to take a lot of shells.

Having had my last pup run over outside the house (on the quiet road) and ordering another dog we started to look at fence security. I would like to be able to let the dog out the back to wander safely around the garden. We live in the country on a quiet farm road the front boundry is 140m of hedge with some wire sheep fencing but overall pretty porous. to the right side we have drainage ditch with a stock proof fence. To the left we have a porous hedge for 25m then a stock proof fence running up the field. The back of the house is open to fields and I have agreed with the farmer to put in a stock proof fence so that to the back the garden will be secure. The front and sides will not be. I was looking today to install stock fence in front and sides but i will need at least 200m and need to put in gates. It will also look a bit ugly in front of the domestic front lawn and privet and not be a simple thing to do. I have also given some thought to just having a smaller secure area but if i am working around the place I would like the dog to be with me and not tied up.I started to look at the buried wire and collar alert systems as a simpler solution. Does anyone have any experience of these systems? Any other ideas would be very welcome.

She looks great. There is no rush with these things.