Old farrier

A good pair of boots and a small light game bag with some water in it hopefully you are fit as it can get very demanding as far as gun and cartridges go with the one you shoot best with that gives you a good pattern cartridges put half in a plastic bag to keep them safe as your sure to get into a peat bog at some point there’s a few agents that’ll cater for you or. Possibly a good pointer club maybe give you a little advice on the best moors

More chance of death from tar and creasote on a telegraph pole now for what it’s worth I’m beginning to think that you are a anti in the wrong job a fox in the hen house answer some of the questions and prove me wrong the impact of lead on game birds compared to the impact af predation farming practices and habitat loss is virtually insignificant please remember that we the game shooting community/industry breed import and release millions of game birds each year

Pheasant and partridge don’t live on ponds they also have totally different eating habits

Indeed you have looked at it now correlation with other causes of death and mortality will show that it’s minimal has there been any evidence of other causes of deaths power lines predation wind turbines automobile impact fence line impact agriculture spray perhaps if theses were included it would be more credible science

As tc says although be aware that you can fire a lot of cartridges so take plenty top tip red ones are best 😂😂😂

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the science was bad the regulations are bad is there any sense to not being able to shoot a duck on a river but you can shoot a pheasant in the same spot along with pigeon and if you desire you can shoot clay pigeon across it all day long well is there any sense to it ?

As your a master at dodging the question you should know

I’m afraid I wouldn’t trust Basc to table anything sadly they are a corporate entity that has a need for money that shows and the bigger it gets the more it needs I do feel that Basc should address the decline of some of the wildfowl population probably by sorting out the predators along with nesting and roosting sites any research on ducks is not relevant to partridge it’s as similar as a cat and a dog they both carry things in their mouth could you please address the other questions that I asked

Thank you for finding this always helpful to refresh your memory with news from the past 😊👍

As Ive said before the historical data is not anything to base new legislation on especially as it was carried out in wetlands on wildfowl allegedly not game birds in lowland areas it didn’t pass my requirements as most of it was done by force feeding captive ducks until they died as Ive also said before there is no impact on the population of ducks to see any benefit if banning lead for wildfowling was nessecary after 25 years there should be a massive increase in quantities there isn’t as the main mortality rate is another reason why has this other reason not been mentioned studied and addressed could you also explain the implications for forestry with non lead pellets embedded into trees on both environmental grounds and the potential impact on the value of the timber in the trees with a emphasis to the research done on timber going to the sawmill

But big numbers are spectacular the fact that info was gathered dubiously doesn’t seem to meaningful as long as they get the results they need science doesn’t seem to come into play this then makes me suspicious of the gathering mechanism that was used if there data gathering exercises are used for serious purposes there should be a clear consistent and transparent method of collection before during and after with independent unbiased analysis's. Presenting the results

Possibly because some people on here actually shoot game

I’m not aware of a subsonic steel load although you could ask the manufacturer welcome to pigeon watch

Hardly a game shooter certification if you don’t shoot game I’ll wager there won’t be 8 people in a line with random targets coming over or along the line not to mention the extra adrenaline levels created on a real day by the birds the tension/excitementof a large flush beaters picker ups and random dogs i just can’t see the benefit